composer

The urban aesthetic was augmented with a bluesy, funky score by composer Jim Lang, inspired by Thelonious Monk, Vince Guaraldi and Beck.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

George Fenton, another key Blue Planet composer who'd worked on other BBC nature documentaries, as well as classic films such as Gandhi and Groundhog Day, died this week at the age of 76.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

“Concealment of his own life,” Mr. Worthen writes of Brahms, was something the composer actively desired.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

Frederick was a modestly talented flutist and composer, although here, as written by Mr. Cotton and played by Stephen Hagan, he’s mostly a full-time amoral tyrant and part-time self-important fop.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

As a whole it is a vast, miraculous musical jigsaw, never since matched by any composer.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

Through constant touring and “tireless promotion of composers we assume were always famous,” Ms. Fritz writes, Clara shaped the musical canon according to her own exquisite ear and sophisticated taste.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

The new incentive is aimed at bringing back jobs for the industry’s editors, sound mixers, composers and visual effects artists.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026

Astaire considered himself a dancer first, but composers prized his singing—its flawless rhythm, clear diction and emotional restraint, a plain manner that let melody and lyrics speak for themselves.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

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

Everywhere you look in the 1880s, outside Bayreuth, you see composers carrying on as if nothing had happened.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall