WASHINGTON — Composer Philip Glass announced Tuesday that he is withdrawing his symphony from the Kennedy Center, pointing to the arts center's values and leadership. "After thoughtful consideration, ...

The Performer-Composer Master of Music (MM) degree at The New School’s College of Performing Arts is designed for musicians whose passion lies at the intersection of composition, performance, and ...

Operagoers were intoxicated by his frothy comic masterpieces – but at the moment of Rossini's greatest success, the Italian composer stopped writing them. Rossini was one of classical music’s great ...

BBC Radio 3's Composer Of The Week is a guide to composers and their music. The podcast is compiled from the week's programmes and published on Friday, it is only available in the UK.

One of the most prolific and influential composers of our age, Philip Glass has become an icon and figurehead in the arts. At its core, Glass describes his music as having “repetitive structures.” ...

Some of music's greatest composers departed this world in a variety ways as dramatic, tragic, or downright bizarre as their art. While we often imagine these towering figures dying peacefully at their ...

He was one of the greatest composers of the Romantic, or indeed of any era. Make no mistake, Frédéric Chopin had a huge influence on classical music - and on piano repertoire in particular. Born in ...