The nationwide craze for workplace choirs, Gareth Malone, and singing generally is good news for composers and arrangers, for while the old standards hold their ground, every year new carols are sung – new arrangements of familiar words, or entirely new pieces.
Now, from Croatia, comes news that the composer and legal scholar Ivo Josipović has been elected president.
Some of these are juvenilia, imparting the unsurprising news that the composer at 16 was a talented, hopeful, somewhat incompetent beginner.
Gosfield, a New York-based composer with a virtuosic command of classical, pop, and avant-garde styles, began the score before "fake news" entered the lexicon.
Apparently, any scrap of music, however sketchy, by a great dead composer is bigger news than a new work by a worthy living composer.
The composer confirmed the news in an interview on the French website Radio Classique, according to Making Star Wars.
And finally, in some good news for music lovers, noted composer Zubin Mehta is likely to perform at the picturesque Shalimar Gardens in Indian-administered Kashmir on 7 September, reports the Zee News website.
Sad news: Philadelphia-based analog synth composer Charles Cohen has been arrested in suspicion of attempting sex acts with a minor, according to reports from the Philadelphia Times Herald.
It's not news to anyone that minimalist composer Philip Glass' work has inspired a lot of people in the music and art scene, but some artists who were directly influenced by his compositions decided to pay tribute to him by remixing some of his songs and putting them all together into an album.
Kissin's debut at the House of Composers, in Moscow, on June 23 , 1983 began the legend of Kissin; news of this new talent was swiftly carried to the West.
