A composer who also loved the sound of silence
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With the death last week of Elmer Bernstein, following so soon after the deaths of Jerry Goldsmith and David Raksin, two of the fellow Hollywood composers he most admired, an era ends.
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The Belgian choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker's treatment of Mozart's concert arias is a refreshing blend of the pure and the brazen.
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British composer Colin Matthews has more reason than most to mourn the
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Arts & entertainment: Rock music had always played a crucial role in Sean O'Hagan's life. As his passion for the genre faded, could classical music fill the void?
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An obscure composerâs grand plan to transform a bridge into an orchestra is slowly taking place upstate.
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Composer Daniel Bernard Roumain has clearly encouraged the students of the orchestra's Young Composers Program to let the music they love influence the music they write.
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A few composers are seeing new possibilities for percussion concertos. At least four such pieces are scheduled in the US over the next month.
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The music composer was in the US for his concert.
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Talking and playing the piano Tuesday, Jeffrey Swann offered six composers, none of whose music really had much to say to any music around it.
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LOS ANGELES: Academy Award-winning composer Elmer Bernstein, who penned scores for blockbusters ranging from To Kill a Mockingbird and The Magnificent Seven to Ghostbusters has died at the age of 82.
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The orchestra offered a sublime program of Schubert and Bruckner, a weird but instructive all-Bartok program and a collection of Wagnerâs greatest hits over the weekend.
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The Oscar-winning composer Elmer Bernstein died in his sleep yesterday at the age of 82. Renowned for his epic, jazzy film scores, he composed the soundtracks for a host of classic Hollywood films, including To Kill a Mockingbird and The Man With the ...
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Kristjan Jarviâs ensemble supported and furthered the eveningâs explorations of world music with a robust and often free-blowing sound.
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The music of director Saran's new film sounds good.
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Droll, perceptive comments from composer Sir Harrison Birtwistle set up the experience of hearing his complex instrumental and vocal works.
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Composer Gian Carlo Menotti, the founder of the Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto, died Thursday at a hospital in Monaco, his son said. He was 95.
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With more than 300 film scores to his credit, Ennio Morricone is one of the most prolific--and maybe the best--film composers who ever lived.