Composer Jeff Walton switches on his computer to illustrate a work in progress, the soundtrack for a spy thriller. The screen lights up to show a waiting room in a Mideast airport. As a man stashes a ...

On the weekend of October 18-19, events celebrating the hundredth anniversary of the birth of English composer William Walton will take place at several venues at Yale University. The celebration ...

Jeff Walton has composed music for more than 40 film and television productions, such as Curse of the Puppet Master (1998), The Brotherhood (2001), and Super Shark (2011). While he may not be a ...

William Walton, composer of ‘Crown Imperial’, imported up to 2,000 prescription pills each year with the help of the Home Office, newly published documents reveal. The documents, which have remained ...

Behind today’s indie-rock curtain, crossover classical bands like Clogs have been shattering musical barriers by orchestrating instrumental arrangements for rock nerds. Over the course of four albums ...

British Composer Sir William Walton, 58, is an orderly man who prefers to leave no compositional form neglected. Accordingly, he has written at least “one of everything” during his career: a symphony, ...

Cedar Walton's contemporaries were and are some of the greatest, most innovative jazz musicians in that music's history. Walton, a pianist who moved to New York City in the mid-1950s, walked the ...

Bad news arrived last week while I was out of town—the death of the pianist and composer Cedar Walton, at the age of seventy-nine. His name has always been a watermark of quality, and of particular ...

In 1911 the flowing locks of Germany’s Romantic music were attacked by a plague of dandruff—Kulturbolschewismus (deliberate tune-deafness). In 1934 Adolf Hitler cured the patient by cutting off the ...

Cedar Walton, one of the top jazz pianists to emerge in the aftermath of bebop, died Monday morning at his home in Brooklyn, N.Y., according to his wife, Martha. Walton was 79. The pianist and ...