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.

Now, for the first time, this lost music – composed by prisoners – will be heard again, thanks to the extraordinary efforts of British composer Leo Geyer. The Lost Music of Auschwitz follows ...

Saudi Arabia has asked Oscar-winning composer Hans Zimmer to work on a new version of its national anthem, a senior official said, as the conservative kingdom steps up an image makeover.

composer and playwright who made arrangements of Tudor-era music for the BBC TV series Wolf Hall, introduced Shakespearean-era instruments to Broadway theatres and wrote Farinelli and the King ...

And I wasn’t the only one. My very good colleague the composer Judith Bingham, we were exact contemporaries at the academy. She had a very similar experience, because, like me, she didn’t come ...

A musical tribute was paid to saint-composer Thyagaraja at his adhishtanam on the banks of river Cauvery at Thiruvaiyaru, Thanjavur, on Saturday (January 18, 2025). Prominent Carnatic musicians ...

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By Carly Thomas Associate Editor Claire van Kampen, a theater director, composer and wife of actor Mark Rylance, died Saturday morning. She was 71. Van Kampen died in Kassel, Germany ...

Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for Tony Awards Productions Claire van Kampen, a composer of music for plays and television dramas, as well as a director, writer and frequent collaborator of her ...

Songwriter and composer Stéphane Venne, one of Quebec’s most influential musical artists of the 20th century, died Friday in Saint-Hyacinthe. He was 83. His wife, Marie Dumais, said in a phone ...

One orchestra at Auschwitz was led by Alma Rosé, niece of the Austrian composer Gustav Mahler, who used her position as director of the orchestra to buy her self time. 80 years since the Holocaust, a ...