John Cage stands large in 20th century history as one of the leading figures of the post-war avant-garde. As a composer he was an utterly original master of the form, his experimental attitude best ...

“Shaker Loops” … “Hoodoo Zephyr” … “Short Ride in a Fast Machine” — the titles alone of John Adams’ musical compositions suggest he’d make a lively, witty prose writer. That proves to be the case in ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- For nearly two centuries, the life and character of Franz Schubert, one of the most brilliant, accomplished and popular of the European classical composers, have been variously ...

First full-length biography of composer Arthur Schwartz. Covers his work on Broadway and in Hollywood with lyricists Howard Dietz, Dorothy Fields, Oscar Hammerstein II, Frank Loesser, Johnny Mercer ...

Werner Richard Heymann was the most famous film composer in Germany and France until 1933. His music was everywhere. You could hear it from the orchestra pits of the great theatre stages and on the ...

A cultured, musical family from Puerto Rico settled in Rutherford in the mid-1920s. The family patriarch was Fernando Callejo Ferrer, a cultural icon whose legacy will be celebrated this year in his ...

Three words from Richard Rodgers’ early 1960s Broadway tune “The Sweetest Sounds” provide the downbeat title for this engrossing biography, which sets out to tell what author Meryle Secrest calls “a ...

The semi-circular desk in the studio where Waco composer Kurt Kaiser once worked is largely cleared, the piano gone and what author Terry York described as “an avalanche of paper” reduced and tamed. A ...

Fleeing the rise of the Third Reich, composer Arnold Schoenberg landed in the United States as that most American of arrivals: a refugee. Settling with his family in southern California and teaching ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...