John Barry, the Academy Award-winning film composer whose idiosyncratic and iconic compositions over the course of a lifetime in the movies -- including some of the best known James Bond music and the ...

Mike Thompson has always been drawn to music as a centering force in his life. Whether he is writing or producing, he knows he is doing what he was born to do. Mike has always loved creating; and ...

Fleeing the rise of the Third Reich, composer Arnold Schoenberg landed in the United States as that most American of arrivals: a refugee. Settling with his family in southern California and teaching ...

Karol Szymanowski spent his childhood years on an estate in Tymoszówka, Ukraine. His musical, wealthy family was one of the many to relocate there after the partitions of Poland. In 1889, with his ...

Werner Richard Heymann was the most famous film composer in Germany and France until 1933. His music was everywhere. You could hear it from the orchestra pits of the great theatre stages and on the ...

Tim Page is a professor of music and journalism at the University of Southern California. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 1997 for his writings about music for the Washington Post. An ideal ...