Japanese musician and film composer Ryuichi Sakamoto died during a battle with cancer on March 28, according to recording company Avex. Sakamoto was initially diagnosed with throat cancer in 2014, and ...

There was a time not long ago in the classical music world when melody was considered passé. Young composers making their way through academia were encouraged to leave hummable tunes behind in favor ...

Randy Edelman‘s fame largely rests on his impressive roster of film scores—everything from his Golden Globe-nominated “Last of the Mohicans” to such big-grossing comedies as “Beethoven” and “The Mask, ...

Michael Brook has collaborated with some of the most influential filmmakers and musicians of the last 40 years without ever threatening to become a household name. When I spoke to the inventor and ...

The realization came as a shock to Héloïse Luzzati. How could she have spent the better part of three decades playing music without every studying a piece composed by a woman? As her gigs dried up at ...