The music world was rocked early in the year by the news that Billy Bass, a founding member of Parliament-Funkadelic, had died. Bass died on Jan. 31, three days after his 75th birthday. According to ...

LOS ANGELES -- Legendary composer John Williams, one of the most celebrated figures in film music history, was honored Wednesday with a performing arts center named after him at his alma mater, North ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At 94 years old, legendary composer John Williams still holds one of the most talked-about records in Hollywood: the highest ...

All four members of the award-winning Calidore String Quartet teach at the University of Delaware. The quartet worked with John Williams, the epic composer-conductor behind scores in "Star Wars," ...

On this day (March 9) in 1920, Jerry Byrd was born in Lima, Ohio. He is best remembered as a master of the steel guitar. As a studio musician, he played with some of the biggest names in classic ...

John Hammond, the Grammy‑winning blues singer and guitarist whose prolific career honored the Delta blues across six decades, died on Saturday at age 83. His death was confirmed by musician and ...

Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla conducts the Philharmonic with Emanuel Ax at the piano as they perform John Williams’s first piano concerto. Photo: Fadi Kheir At 94, John Williams has spent a long lifetime ...

Greiving argues that Williams, along with “populist” filmmakers George Lucas and Steven Spielberg, helped resuscitate the lush orchestral sound demoted after the studio system’s collapse in the ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) — Empire Live in Albany will be hosting a performance by electric guitar virtuoso Buckethead. The concert is slated for May 12 at 8 p.m. Known for his unmistakable white mask and ...

Steven Spielberg has become one of the rare few to achieve the elusive EGOT. On Sunday, the screenwriter, director and producer was inducted into the elite cohort when he won his first Grammy Award, ...

This week, Paste is dedicating its editorial coverage to the wild and wonderful world of guitars. From January 26 through February 2, we will be publishing essays, lists, and reviews about the albums, ...

At nearly 94 years old, Hollywood composer and Boston Pops conductor laureate John Williams is still making music — and not only for the silver screen. Beginning Thursday, Jan. 22 the Boston Symphony ...