In composing a song to play for 1,000 years, the variables of technology, societal upheaval, and public understanding cannot be overlooked. “Longplayer Live” in 2009 (photo by Cormac Heron/Flickr) In ...

Masterful music composer Andrea Bellucci has traversed a journey with transformative turning points and significant achievements. Rooted in a long-standing passion for classical music, Bellucci ...

Nashville is built on co-writes. While other genres might herald artists composing a song from start to finish alone, Music City acknowledges the merits of collaboration. While many artists like to ...

POETS are not required to write epics to establish prestige for themselves, nor must painters do frescoes. Serious composers, on the other hand, are expected as a matter of course to demonstrate their ...

We keep hearing that Artificial Intelligence is a threat to the creative arts. So we put ChatGPT to the test to see if it can write a decent song. When Pop Culture Happy Hour host Stephen Thompson ...

All week this week, we've been exploring the process of composing for film. It's a series we're calling Scoring the Screen. (SOUNDBITE OF MONTAGE OF FILM SCORES) SIEGEL: One question we are asking ...

"Accessible" can be a dirty word in contemporary classical music. For decades, composers have outfitted their works with gnarly tangles of complexity, and heaven forbid if there's a tune you can hum.