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 ...

Late composer Alvin Lucier died in 2021, but his brain is still creating music as part of an Australian art installation called Revivification. How is this possible? It all comes down to a sample of ...

Sir Karl Jenkins is the first living composer to top the Classic FM Hall of Fame with mass for peace.

Most often, we only see the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the work of composers and songwriters—the fame, the fans, the autograph sessions. But how exactly do they write music and songs? What is ...

Composer Mark Orton brings scores for "Abril," "A Simple Machine," and "Our Mr. Matsura" to Portland Panorama 2026, plus a ...

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 ...

The road up to Night Temple was dark and steep enough to take your breath away. But a few days before Christmas, a string quartet hauled its instruments up the hairpin stone pathway, into a Franklin ...

It was right here in this house," Kevin Puts says of the phone call that changed his life. We're sitting in the kitchen of his rangy Arts and Crafts home in a leafy corner of Yonkers, New York. It's ...

Delphine von Schauroth (1813–1887) was spectacularly famous in the early 19th century. The German virtuoso pianist and composer was hailed as a musical genius by critics for her powerful and inventive ...