Sioux City Symphony will open the season with works by the black composer | Weekend
Chances are you've never heard the classical music of Florence Price.This is largely due to the fact that Price (1887-1953) lived in an era when men were dominant both as classical musicians and as composers.Another reason…
The composer who was once nicknamed “the Beethoven of Japan” – and how it all came…
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Mamoru Samuragochi admits not having written his own compositions.
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Tyler Bates replaced as composer
There is an unlikely Guardian team this time around.Picture: Marvel studiosM. Night Shyamalan is already ready to tease his next project. Jason Blum reveals plans for even more Universal monsters rework. David Gordon Green teases how the!-->!-->…
Jessie Montgomery, CSO Mead Composer in Residence
In April, violinist and composer Jessie Montgomery was named the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's new composer-in-residence. Montgomery will split her time between New York and Chicago throughout her residency, which began July 1 and…
Georgia Youth Symphony Orchestra to present a composition by young composer Marietta
The Georgia Youth Symphony Orchestra will create a composition by Marietta's teenage composer Will Weaver.
The concert will take place on October 17, 2021 at the Bailey Center for the Performing Arts at Kennesaw State University.…
Meet “Nature Boy” composer Eden Ahbez, the LA outdoorsman who changed jazz history
The song "Nature Boy" was a number one hit for Nat King Cole in 1948, selling 1 million copies that year. Since then, the song has been performed and recorded by hundreds of artists from jazz and other genres, including Frank Sinatra, John…
Top 10 Songs Written By Shane McAnally
Shane McAnally is one of the most prolific and talented songwriters working in country music today. If you (somehow) haven't heard his name, you have absoutely Heard his work: Frequent collaborator of Kacey Musgraves, Kenny Chesney, Brandy…
5 questions to Anna Clyne (composer)
Born in london Anna clyne is a GRAMMY nominated acoustic and electro-acoustic music composer. Since her stint as Mead's composer-in-residence for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (2010-2015), Clyne has been one of the most acclaimed and…
VC COMPETITION | Win 1 of 5 packs of signed female composers + Free entry to the “Symposium…
To help celebrate today's United Nations' International Day of the Girl, The string of the violin, in collaboration with our good friends from Dallas Symphony Orchestra, is giving away five composer packs this week in addition to…
Pianist and composer Conrad Tao performs at Meany Hall in October
Conrad Tao. Photo by Brantley Gutierrez.
New York magazine described pianist and composer Conrad Tao as "the kind of musician who shapes the future of classical music". He previously performed with the Seattle Symphony, but…