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

VOA: special.2009.09.02

It was very popular. The composer earned a good living from the sales of the sheet music.

VOA: special.2010.01.24

Years later, he admitted that he had no idea that George Gershwin was such a successful composer.

VOA: special.2010.03.07

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

VOA: special.2009.04.24

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

VOA: special.2010.07.19

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

VOA: special.2009.10.05

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

Vijay Iyer is a jazz pianist, composer,producer and bandleader who has received much critical praise.

VOA: special.2010.10.01

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

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

Another composer,Jerome Kern, once said of Irving Berlin: "He has no place in American music.

VOA: special.2009.12.20

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

They include saxophonists Boney James and Dave Koz and pianist and composer Joe Sample.

VOA: special.2010.08.02

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

VOA: special.2010.07.12

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

VOA: special.2010.01.25

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

VOA: special.2009.02.15

They are probably performed more often than any other serious American composer.

VOA: special.2009.02.15

In Helsinki, Finland she sang for the famous Finnish composer Jean Sibelius.

VOA: special.2009.01.25