PARIS -- Georges Moustaki, an Egyptian-born composer, singer and poet who wrote songs for Edith Piaf and other French stars, has died at age 79.
Mari...
Today is the birthday of the famous and controversial German composer, Richard Wagner. Known for his numerous operas (as well as his anti-Semitic view...
Today is the birthday of Italian baroque composer, Antonio Vivaldi. The master of concertos, famous for creating the violin masterpiece, "The Four Sea...
You can get a taste of what's turning on classical music in Seattle at the Walt Disney Concert Hall this weekend when Ludovic Morlot, the Seattle Symphony's sexy young music director, conducts the Los Angeles Philharmonic in Mozart, Beethoven and Henri Dutilleux.
During Hurricane Sandy, there were pieces of metal siding being blown down the street outside, clanging around in the wind. And the trees were shaking violently. But in my warm studio, I was at peace and composing up a storm of my own.
The family of Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg is demanding the return of a long lost family treasure -- a signed photograph of fellow classical mu...
YouTube music master Kurt Hugo Schneider stops by the What's Trending studio to chat about the brand new Awesomeness TV series Runaways and answer fans' questions about his favorite covers and dream collaborations.
Kathryn Findlay is the Principal Director of Ushida Findlay Architects. Gaining prominence in the nineties, the practice is known for its use of exper...
I would write the saddest opera of all time, then find the greatest voices in the world to perform it with the best orchestra in a perfect hall with the most appreciative, music-loving audience.
Many may only know Schmidt's theater work but he has also composed extensively for the concert hall, studio, dance, and film and has found full-time work in sound design for theater and dance for many years.
Joel Goldsmith, the famed composer behind both "Star Trek" and "Stargate," died Saturday after a long battle with cancer, Variety reports. He was 54.
...
OSLO, Norway -- German composer and music director Heiner Goebbels has won the International Ibsen Award for creating new insights in theater that hav...
It's as if someone plugged an amplifier into a Mark Rothko painting -- color, texture, space are decontextualized and presented in striking elemental form.
Life doesn't always take a straight and narrow path; it often chooses a circular route, so let's start in the middle of the story and see where we end up.
We first met French Contemporary Artist CharlElie Couture at the French Embassy in New York for the Wynton Marsalis ceremony in the fall of 2009. He ...