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Sunday, August 17, 2008
Composer Elliott Carter at 99
Entertainment |
August 17, 2008
ON THE morning I visited Elliott Carter last month, he was staying in a red cottage in this quaint village in the Berkshires. Read more
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
In harmony as maestro and rabbi
California | Local |
January 23, 2008
Moshe Cotel thought he was leaving music behind when he forsook a successful career as a composer and high-ranking conservatory professor in order, in his mid-50s, to become a rabbi. Read more
Friday, December 28, 2007
Vienna honors yet another composer
Entertainment |
December 28, 2007
VIENNA – Beethoven, Brahms, Mozart – Korngold? Read more
Wednesday, December 5, 2007
PITCH PERFECT
News |
December 5, 2007
THE composer Igor Stravinsky once described film music in terms of its “wallpaper function.” Read more
Sunday, September 30, 2007
Sibelius’ brilliant yet interrupted career
Entertainment |
September 30, 2007
It’s a bit startling to realize that Jean Sibelius has been dead
for only 50 years, for he is a figure who seems like part of a deeper past. Read more
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Johnny Mercer wrote, but did you know he sang?
Entertainment |
September 18, 2007
Johnny Mercer is one of the most celebrated lyricists in American
pop music, and it’s no wonder when you consider just a fraction of
his more than 1,000 songs: “One for My Baby (And One More for the
Road),” “Come Rain or Come Shine,” “You Must Have Been a Beautiful
Baby,” “That Old Black Magic,” “Moon River” and “Blues in the Night.” Read more
Thursday, August 16, 2007
Iranian composer takes Rumi’s poetry to new heights
News |
August 16, 2007
The words “Rumi” and “Disney” may not seem to belong in the same sentence – or even the same location. Read more
Sunday, July 22, 2007
WRITERS’ BLOCK
Entertainment |
July 22, 2007
STACKS of scores and CDs pile up on the desk of Chad Smith, the Los
Angeles Philharmonic’s vice president of artistic planning. Read more
Sunday, July 8, 2007
A musical vision that really took hold
Entertainment |
July 8, 2007
FOR a while after “Hairspray” opened on Broadway, composer Marc
Shaiman and his co-lyricist and life partner, Scott Wittman, would
sneak into an empty box at the Neil Simon Theatre as the show was
revving up for its infectious finale. Read more
Friday, June 1, 2007
Composer’s life is a dance of notes
Entertainment |
June 1, 2007
For composer Thomas Pasatieri, “allegro” – an indication for a fast,
lively tempo – isn’t just a musical term. Read more
Sunday, May 20, 2007
A new pose: relative stability
Entertainment |
May 20, 2007
SITTING in a chair on the rooftop pool deck of his West Hollywood
hotel, Rufus Wainwright looks like a prince enthroned above the city
where he once caroused and created. Read more
Friday, May 4, 2007
Kazakhstan make benefit of `Borat’ composer Cohen
Entertainment |
May 4, 2007
The government of Kazakhstan wasn’t happy with “Borat: Cultural
Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan,”
the film in which Sacha Baron Cohen played a fictional journalist
from that country who poked fun at Americans. Read more
Friday, April 20, 2007
What stirs deep inside
Entertainment |
April 20, 2007
Armenian composer Tigran Mansurian may not be a household name. Read more
Ideas still drench Legrand, 75
Entertainment |
April 20, 2007
At a recent club performance, Michel Legrand decided to have a little
fun by “destroying” his familiar tune “I Will Wait for You,” the
theme from a Jacques Demy film that turned Catherine Deneuve into a
star and earned the French pianist-composer his first Oscar nominations. Read more
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Also
Business |
April 18, 2007
Sony/ATV Music Publishing said it bought the catalog of award-winning
songwriters Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, including such hits as
“Hound Dog” and “Jailhouse Rock.” Read more
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Late pianist’s husband admits to plagiarism
Entertainment |
February 27, 2007
A confessional letter from the widower of little-known British
pianist Joyce Hatto would seem to confirm that multiple recordings
credited to Hatto, who died last year at age 77, were plagiarized. Read more
Sunday, February 25, 2007
A genius for the wild, high-low mix
Entertainment |
February 25, 2007
TONIGHT, the Italian composer Ennio Morricone will receive an
honorary Oscar. Read more
Sunday, February 11, 2007
Harrison tried hard to settle this score
Entertainment |
February 11, 2007
COMPOSERS quite often pull frayed scores out of their desk drawers,
but for Lou Harrison, tinkering with his opera “Young Caesar” was a
four-decade journey that continued even after he died. Read more
Wednesday, February 7, 2007
Ferneyhough wins music prize
Entertainment |
February 7, 2007
British composer Brian Ferneyhough has won the International Ernst
von Siemens music prize, one of the most prestigious awards in
classical music. Read more
Sunday, February 4, 2007
He’s up, up, up for an Oscar
Entertainment |
February 4, 2007
FOR the film version of “Dreamgirls,” the musical’s composer, Henry
Krieger, along with producers the Underdogs – Harvey Mason Jr. Read more
