There's the ebullient and exotic play-within-a-play of A Night at the Chinese Opera, there are dark fairytales, such as the Ludwig Tieck-inspired Blond Eckbert, the Scottish folk stories and supernatural yarns of The Vanishing Bridegroom, and an opera she composed for television in 2005, Armida, about conflict in the Middle East.
He called "Calypso Blues", written by Nat King Cole and Don George, "an artfully simple welding of idioms" and another song she composed, "Scandal in the Family", "standard Trinidad calypso stuff" and reported that her performance of it "rocked the house".
Dippold was writing for "Parks and Recreation" when she composed "The Heat" with the hopes of selling it to a Hollywood production company.
LAURIE SPIEGEL The New York composer Laurie Spiegel created her electronic music at Bell Labs in the 1970s; inspired by John Fahey, Bach and 14th-century motets (she played bluegrass and baroque guitar on the side), she composed rhythmic and agreeably spacey pieces using analog synthesizers and a computer that took up a whole room.
For you youngsters out there, your Baby Boomer and GenX parents can tell you about King and the 1971 blockbuster album of hits she composed and sang called Tapestry.
She composed and sang her own songs, and, together with her story-telling partner, Nick Cokkinos, performed for audiences throughout the northeast.
She sang; she danced; she wrote stories and plays; she acted; she composed incidental music.
The dance she composed and recorded in response went entirely unmentioned.
This notebook contains a draft of 20 minutes of music she composed and produced for a film about Boston's Park Street Church, where she is a member.
MH 8.48pm BST And here's an exclusive video of Anna performing Blackout for Guardian Music and also explaining how she composed the song.
