For Debbie Wiseman, her career has always been about composing rather than the money - Matt Crossick Debbie Wiseman was performing in bars and clubs before her music career really took off. Now an ...
An absurdist satire, a horror story, science-fiction, a historical drama, a black comedy: this year’s Oscar-nominated ...
Any composer's relationship to music is intense, but Sarah Kirkland Snider, whose debut opera, Hildegard, receives its world premiere at the LA Opera this week, ratchets that intensity up to a higher, ...
Movie scores have the power to elevate the performances onscreen, enhancing the emotion of the moment, whether that be fear, sadness, or joy. Without composers, movies leave audiences with piecemeal ...
Pianist and composer Chloe Flower is returning with a brand new album of seasonal music, She Composed: The Holidays. Available on November 7th via Flower’s label Popsical Music Group, She Composed ...
There was a time not long ago in the classical music world when melody was considered passé. Young composers making their way through academia were encouraged to leave hummable tunes behind in favor ...
MOVIE. AND WHAT GOOD IS A MOVIE WITHOUT A SOUNDTRACK? FOR MORE THAN THREE DECADES, JIM JOHNSTON COMPOSED THE ENTRANCE MUSIC FOR THE BIGGEST NAMES IN WWE. AND ACCORDING TO THE HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE ...
Most composers would never consider going into video games after a pair of back-to-back Oscar wins, but Gustavo Santaolalla isn’t most composers. For the 73-year-old musician/producer, the medium is ...
Texas musician Scott Bradley was never widely known outside of the studio, but his music was the heart of some of the most iconic American cultural icons of the twentieth century, most notably, the ...
CHICAGO (CBS) -- When you think of the intersection of science and music, you might think of Tom Lehrer's "The Elements" – that song consisting of creatively-reordered recitation of all the elements ...
Bienen and Communication senior Mya Vandegrift’s “Pythia” premieres as a fusion of opera and musical theatre Thursday. As Communication junior and producer Nora James Eikner describes, the performance ...
Jean Barraqué is a 33-year-old French composer who detests daylight, the concertgoing public (“Asses! Imbeciles!”) and his own music. His ambition in life, he explains, is “to live 60 years, more or ...