composer
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Fenton also scored more films for British director Ken Loach than any other composer.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
Then in the evening, in a separately ticketed event, Disney Hall welcomes film composer extraordinaire Michael Giacchino for a double feature.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
Like Clara, Brahms, too, had been financially strapped and made slow, fitful progress as a composer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
The actor plays the legendary composer during a late-in-life meeting with the king of Prussia in a play by Oliver Cotton at Washington’s Shakespeare Theatre Company.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
By the nineteenth century, though, a dotted rhythm was only played if the composer had specified it with a dot in the notation.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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Celebrated composers, from Monteverdi to Handel, Gluck and even Mozart, have written prominent roles with high male voices in mind.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
Industry editors, sound mixers, visual effects artists and composers had said such a credit was necessary to lure jobs back from overseas.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
Artists like Bandalos Chinos, Alex Anwandter and Zoé are really great composers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 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
In the century leading up to Dunstaple’s time, composers layered notes on top of each other but chose only from a very limited number of possible combinations.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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