An influential figure in American experimental music, he was part of a group of composers who stripped music down to basic elements and used digital sounds. By Javier C. Hernández Ingram Marshall, a ...

Alan Hovhaness, an original and extraordinarily prolific American composer who embraced melody in an atonal age and drew heavily on music of the East, died Wednesday. He was 89. Mr. Hovhaness, who ...

Among composers of electronic music, there is none so mystical and dedicated as Germany’s Karlheinz Stockhausen. He talks about “expanded sense of time” and “sound-visions,” and when he sees a sumo ...

“It was very important for me that the music not pay any attention to the genre of the film,” says director Christopher Nolan of his latest collaboration with composer Hans Zimmer, whose haunting, ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Premieres of two pieces by Britain's late mystical religious composer John Tavener and a staging of the classic musical "Kiss Me Kate" were among the highlights announced on ...