composer

The sixth annual fundraiser honored Oscar winner Charlize Theron with the Icon Award, filmmaker and composer John Carpenter with the Luminary Award and Academy Award nominee Colman Domingo with the Vantage Award.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026

Yevgeny Prigozhin, known as “Putin’s Chef” for having catered Kremlin events, leveraged high-level contacts to serve his grand ambitions for Wagner, the international mercenary force named for 19th-century German composer Richard Wagner.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

Closing the book on his own private Scottish fantasy, the composer went home to Germany, leaving behind the land that gave him, and to which he gave back, so much.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

The urban aesthetic was augmented with a bluesy, funky score by composer Jim Lang, inspired by Thelonious Monk, Vince Guaraldi and Beck.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

The composer was Claudio Monteverdi and the new style of singing gave birth to opera.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

To achieve that, she commissioned additional music from film trailer composers, including Hans Zimmer's company Bleeding Fingers.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

It also featured a new song from French electronic music artists Justice, who were revealed to be the game's original score composers.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

As score composers, they are responsible for the in-game sound and musical themes.

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

Celebrated composers, from Monteverdi to Handel, Gluck and even Mozart, have written prominent roles with high male voices in mind.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

More important to Italy’s musical enrichment than the cultural salvage from Constantinople was the importing, at vast expense, of skilled and celebrated Flemish composers.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall