The Hollywood Reporter

Composer makes Grateful Dead classic

It may be the longest, strangest trip the Grateful Dead's music has endured -- a performance by a symphony orchestra under the baton of a classical composer. By The Associated Press It may be the ...
Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)

Chloe Flower fuses classical and contemporary music in a style coined 'popsical'

American pianist and composer Chloe Flower is on a mission to get young people into classical music. She’s doing it by ...
NPR

Composer Anna Clyne, a radical melodist with a painter's eye

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 ...
Yahoo

Are film scores the ruin of the classical music industry – or its salvation?

Watch out – the film music boys (and girls) are coming for a concert hall near you. Next spring brings the first-ever Soundtrack Festival dedicated to Television and Games Music to London. Meanwhile, ...
Chicago Tribune

A look at today’s classical music composers

When thinking of classical music, thoughts often first turn to long dead composers. But new classical music is constantly being written — from Jacqueline Kennedy commissioning American composer ...
Los Angeles Times

‘Meet the Composer’ podcaster Nadia Sirota’s triumphant return as the maven of classical music makers

In the 1980s, while other kids plastered their bedroom walls with posters of Michael Jordan suspended in air mid-dunk or the dreamboats from New Kids on the Block showing off well-coiffed manes, Nadia ...
WWNO

Edmond Dédé: The Classical Composer You've Never Heard Of

I crashed an opera rehearsal the other day. A large group of vocalists, young, old, black, white, Hispanic, Asian, all the genders, belted out in long rows surrounding a piano. They were preparing for ...
America Magazine

Where is God in classical music? Start by looking for the good, the true and the beautiful.

Michael Kurek is an classical music composer and professor at Vanderbilt University. Born in 1955, Professor Kurek earned his doctorate in composition from the University of Michigan and is a past ...
BroadwayWorld

ABC Classic Announces the 'Classic 100: Composer Countdown'

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. The Classic 100, Australia's favourite classical music countdown, is asking ...
NPR

On Thanksgiving: Classical Composers Are Not Always Thankful

Music commentator Miles Hoffman talks about the things some famous classical composers were not thankful for. Composers have also felt as though the world should be thankful for them. Over the years, ...
WQXR

How Do Classical Composers Use Folk Music?

Well before the advent of the drum machine or even the piano, there was folk music. These rich musical traditions have been inspiring composers of art music for centuries. Let's whet our musical ...