The work was first performed in Germany in two thousand to mark two hundred fifty years since the death of the composer Johann Sebastian Bach.

VOA: special.2010.07.19

"Something happened post-World War Two where a divide occurred between the audience and the composer.

VOA: special.2010.07.19

Many performers who have recorded traditional material have listed themselves as the composer.

VOA: special.2010.01.25

Goldmark had taught the composer George Gershwin.

VOA: special.2009.06.21

And some of the composers have these jazzy licks, and there's one composer that has very atmospheric avant garde sound.

VOA: standard.2010.07.01

His idea for the original drawing came from a piece of music by the English composer Ralph Vaughn-Williams.

VOA: special.2009.09.02

This song by the Brazilian composer Antonio Carlos Jobim first became famous in the early nineteen sixties.

VOA: special.2009.04.24

Cellist Yo-Yo Ma, violinist Itzhak Perlman, pianist Gabriela Montero and clarinetist Anthony McGill will play a work written by composer John Williams for the event.

VOA: special.2009.01.16

The book is based on a children's opera by the Jewish Czech composer Hans Krasa.

VOA: special.2009.10.05

The author notes that Alan Lomax apparently claimed composer credit on about eight hundred songs.

VOA: special.2010.01.25

"Every composer is different. I always get my notes at the piano, first and foremost.

VOA: special.2010.07.19

In nineteen eighty-three she became the first female composer to win a Pulitzer Prize.

VOA: special.2010.07.12

Mario Ritter tells us more. The Dallas Opera in Texas and four other opera companies hired American composer Jake Heggie to write the opera "Moby Dick."

VOA: special.2010.06.11

Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg was one of the people who praised George Gershwin.

VOA: special.2009.02.15