After the music ebbed away, and the crowd cheered, Mr. Reich enthusiastically hugged each of the performers, a rock star composer among devoted champions of his music.
Having a rock star composer doesn't necessarily equal success.
October 11 2010 Jeffrey Milarsky's excellent Juilliard ensemble gives a fuller portrait of this week's star composer at the Philhamonic, performing his fearsomely difficult "Joy" in a concert that begins with Stravinsky's "Symphonies of Wind Instruments" and Xenakis's "Okho".
Waitress also integrated its star composer, Sara Bareilles, a deserving Tony nominee, into its number to great effect.
The concert, conducted by Andrew Parrott, opened the Baroque band's ninth season with a focus on Jean-Baptiste Lully, the star composer of the court of Louis XIV.
Strauss's ambivalent portrait of himself as the star composer of Wilhelmine Germany has become prevalent and iconic in his own anniversary year, though this was the finest performance of the piece I've heard for some time.
This year he and the band topped the Rising Star, Big Band; Rising Star, Arranger and Rising Star, Composer categories in the DownBeat Critics' Poll and won two Jazz Journalists Association Jazz Awards.
Another of Coward's wartime projects, as writer, star, composer and co-director (alongside David Lean), was the naval film drama In Which We Serve.
No release dates (or even start dates) have been announced yet, but the play's star, composer, lyricist and writer, Lin-Manuel Miranda, is also on board to act in the movie.
One of the bona-fide star composers of the nineteen-eighties, Lang, a kind of downtown minimalist-conceptualist, has always been a curious mixture of the professional's professional and the professional enfant terrible.
