composer

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

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

Emmy-nominated composer Bear McCreary has taken a reverse road to symphonic rock.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026

Bizet’s habanera was itself an adaptation of a song, ‘El arreglito’, by the Spanish composer Sebastian de Iradier, who had visited Cuba in 1861 and been enchanted by its dances.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

The Pulitzer that Marsalis won in 1997 for his two-and-a-half-hour jazz oratorio, “Blood on the Fields,” was historic: since the jury started honoring music in 1943, they’d never recognized jazz, only classical composers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026

For his part, Noseda has done an exceptional job in championing major Black composers at home and on record.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026

At one point, an exasperated Wataka pulled out his phone to prove that the composers had been dead for generations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026

Its collection methods could use some fine-tuning, however, especially when it comes to works by long-dead composers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026

Never before had humanity so badly needed its music to share the burden of anxiety, and composers everywhere answered this plaint.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall