One of the noteworthy undertakings of Curious Flights, the ambitious fledgling concert series created by clarinetist Brenden Guy, has been its initiative to bring little-known contemporary English ...

Today marks the 150th birthday of one of England's most revered composers, Ralph Vaughan Williams, who is also widely beloved beyond Britain. A folksong expert who logged long trips collecting ...

Harrison Birtwistle, an English composer famed for his rigorous artistic vision, sonic audacity and deeply theatrical expression has died at age 87. His death was confirmed Monday by his longtime ...

Cast and crew breathing and vocalizing together. Banging giant metal plates in a London warehouse. Inventing impressionistic vocal colors for the Elizabethan era. Hiring a 90-piece orchestra to ...

Malcolm Arnold, the prolific British composer who won an Academy Award for his musical score for David Lean’s World War II prisoner-of-war epic “The Bridge on the River Kwai,” has died. He was 84.