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The composer  Michio Mamiya, winner of a grand prix at the 1974 Salzburg Festival with his opera Narukami, has died at the age of 95. He was most widely known for composing anime cartoon films. […]

The death has been announced in Kassel, Germany, of Claire van Kampen, playwright, director and composer, who served as an expert on Tudor Music in the BBC’s Wolf Hall series, starring her husband Sir Mark […]

Many readers will remember John Adams’ inspired setting of the John Donne poem in Doctor Atomic. Well, here’s another. It’s by a British composer, Joanna Marsh, who lives in Dubai.   The post More than […]