Mr. Wartofsky (left) 40, is a composer for musical theater and an associate professor at Berklee College of Music in Boston.
She also revealed a distinctive melodic talent as a composer for her first husband, piano virtuoso Paul Bley.
Among the fans of Medal of Honor were J. J. Abrams and his partner, Bryan Burk, who, in 2001, were looking for a composer for "Alias," a trippy espionage show that had just been bought by ABC.
Cook studied architecture for a few years, before becoming a composer for children's television and TV adverts, as well as playing in brooding post-Britpop band Aereogramme.
One of them is the musician Alan Palomo, a composer for Neon Indian, a band that relies heavily on electronic sounds made with synthesizers and other technology and who performed at the New York event in late June.
He has made that belief the basis of a thriving career as a soloist, as an ensemble player and as a composer for the accordion.
He draws on his experiences as a performer (he started out in 1969 as a Texas A&M Singing Cadet), a composer for Disney ("A Bug's Life Sing-Along" earned a Grammy nomination) and a songwriter (he has written for the Russian-American comedian Yakov Smirnoff) to give an insider's perspective on the business of intellectual property rights.
Jessica Grace Wing, a composer for the theater and a filmmaker whose new musical, "Lost," is scheduled to open next week at the New York International Fringe Festival, died at her home in Brooklyn on July 19.
MET ORCHESTRA James Levine's return to conducting should be in full swing by the time he and the Met Orchestra go to Carnegie Hall for a program of Mahler, a composer for whom he has shown a remarkable affinity: the cycle "Songs of a Wayfarer," with the charismatic baritone Peter Mattei, and the brooding Symphony No. 7. Dec. 22.
