On the weekend of October 18-19, events celebrating the hundredth anniversary of the birth of English composer William Walton will take place at several venues at Yale University. The celebration ...

I have a hunch that music-lovers all over the world, who consider themselves well-versed in the kind of twentieth-century music that does not offend them, have not heard of the English composer Gerald ...

The Ivors Academy launches a campaign alongside a number of composers. By Sophie Williams A number of leading British composers have joined The Ivors Academy’s call to “End Ghostwriting” in a campaign ...

Jonathan Harvey, a British modernist composer whose operas and other works reflected a deep engagement with spirituality, has died at age 73. Faber Music, which published many of Harvey’s compositions ...

British composer John Tavener, whose austere choral and orchestral works reflected his religious journey from West to East, died Tuesday. He was 69. Tavener’s publisher, Chester Music, said he died at ...

Harrison Birtwistle, an English composer famed for his rigorous artistic vision, sonic audacity and deeply theatrical expression has died at age 87. His death was confirmed Monday by his longtime ...

Nicholas Maw, a British composer who bucked the fads of modern classical music to return to more traditional melody and who brought William Styron’s wrenching novel “Sophie’s Choice” to the opera ...

On today’s Crew Call we talk with The English composer Federico Jusid, who came into Hollywood’s spotlight after the industry caught his score on the Oscar winning 2009 foreign film, The Secret in ...