“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 ...

Postmedia may earn an affiliate commission from purchases made through our links on this page. Now the multilateral champ — francophone, anglophone, living or dead — is surely Claude Vivier. He is ...

JOHN KING, composer, guitarist and violist, has received commissions from the Kronos Quartet; Red {an orchestra}, Ethel; the Albany Symphony/”Dogs of Desire”, Bang On A Can All-Stars; Mannheim Ballet; ...

When considering the great classical composers of our time, the name Felix Mendelssohn gets lost amid such contemporaries as Schumann and Chopin. Although Mendelssohn's accomplishments such as his ...

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 ...