The round Sumer is icumen in (c1300) demonstrates the ground-breaking skills of English composers, as do fragments from Worcester Cathedral. The Old Hall manuscript (c1410 - 1450) shows the first ...

What do a 26-year-old pianist from Kazakhstan and a 74-year-old Jamaican-born British composer have in common? Plenty, as it turns out. Eleanor Alberga has written a new piano concerto for Alim ...

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912) was a British composer who studied at the Royal College of Music and had early success at Gloucester Festival with his 1898 ‘Ballade in A Minor’. Named after the ...

British composer Eleanor Alberga’s remark is typical of many who came of age during the 1970s. Even today there are many who struggle to think of a composer in anything other than the terms she ...

Many regard Purcell as the greatest English composer of all time. That is arguable; but considering his importance in the history of British music, it’s ironic that so little is known about his short ...

George Gershwin has written 48 shows including Half-Past Eight (Composer), La, La, Lucille (Composer), La-La-Lucille! (Composer), Morris Gest's "Midnight Whirl" (Composer), George White's Scandals ...