The American composer conducts the L.A. Philharmonic's New Music group in a concert celebrating his 60th birthday.
Here I like a recording of music by Morton Lauridsen, an American composer quite popular with American groups.
That would include Mr. Spiegelman, who said he immediately saw the value in an Arab-American composer adapting a Jewish author's memoir.
What we know him for in this country is his work as a very North American composer of film and television scores.
Sometimes the two intersect: In this studio session, they play Billy Strayhorn's "Take the 'A' Train, " but in an arrangement by the contemporary American composer Paul Chihara.
And when the band appeared on Soundcheck after our celebration of Leonard Bernstein's 90th birthday, Burns talked at length (off-mic) about the great American composer and conductor.
It's very important to hear the voice of an Arab-American composer, and to understand that music really does bridge the gap and increase our understanding of our fellow human beings.
The project recently passed phase two with the concert presented here, as Orpheus gave the first performance of Muse, a new piece by American composer, Christopher Theofanidis based on Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 3.
New York (CNN) -- Broadway's bright glow will dim for a moment on Wednesday in memory of the late Marvin Hamlisch, a prolific American composer who died this week after a more than four-decade long career that spanned film, music, television and theater.
Obama finished his whirlwind of meetings with tea at Buckingham Palace with the British monarch and her husband, Prince Philip, where, according to media reports, the president gave the queen a fully loaded, engraved iPod and a rare, signed songbook from American composer Richard Rodgers.
This year, the organisers will continue to support up-and-coming talent, with young Parisian techno DJ Bambounou playing alongside American electro composer and performer Dan Deacon.
Enter George Antheil, an American avant-garde composer whose works were known for using unorthodox instruments such as player-pianos, airplane propellers and sirens.
And John Fulljames directs "American Lulu, " composer Olga Neuwirth's New Orleans jazz reworking of the first two acts of Alban Berg's opera, with a third act entirely her own (Sept. 14-24).
Quincy Jones. (Applause.) The 2010 National Medal of Arts to Quincy Jones for his extraordinary contributions to American music as a musician, composer, record producer, and arranger.
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Ricky Ian Gordon is composing "Intimate Apparel, " with Lynn Nottage adapting her 2003 play about an African-American seamstress in 1905 New York, and composer Jeanine Tesori and Tony Kushner are working to expand "A Blizzard on Marblehead Neck, " their one-act opera based on Eugene and Carlotta O'Neill that opened at Cooperstown's Glimmerglass Opera in August 2011.
Collected over 40 years by American physicist Don Gurnett, these sounds have recently been arranged by composer Terry Riley into what may be the very first space concerto.
On December 8th his odyssey reaches an emotional apotheosis when he conducts the work with the New York Philharmonic at the Lincoln Centre's Avery Fisher Hall 100 years to the night after the composer, with the same orchestra, gave the piece its American premiere.
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