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In a statement to Entertainment Weekly, writer and composer Richard O'Brien, who co-wrote the musical and film, remembered the actor as "a wonderful man by nature who was also a wonderful performer".

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026

Salonen was an unknown 26-year-old Finnish composer and conductor when he made his U.S. debut conducting the L.A.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

Time marched on, and in 1996, when the two-time Oscar winner was directing his first feature, “August,” he asked composer George Fenton if he would score the film.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026

It was immortalized by the composer Johann Strauss II as “The Blue Danube,” but the views from today’s cruise-ship windows are heavy on the grey-brown hues of dried-up riverbeds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

Tchaikovsky, though, was the first Russian composer to achieve meaningful fame outside Russia.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

In that note, Mr. Batiste also connects Mozart with Monk, citing how the two composers combined “melodic simplicity with staggering complexity” to “challenge convention while achieving universal appeal.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

Besides Berlioz, the lineup featured works by composers from the 18th to early 20th centuries, such as Franz Joseph Haydn and Paul Dukas, that have long been in the public domain.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026

The regulator quickly confirmed that the works were by composers who really were dead and no fees were required.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026

Yet despite several of these being substantial works by some of our most noted and venturesome composers, few bicentennial commissions have survived.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026

But limiting themselves to a small number of chords did not mean that the composers of the second half of the eighteenth century wrote simple music.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall