Scroll over, Beethoven! Music-lover David Hockney uses iPad to create this eye-catching tribute to legendary composer David Hockney painted Ludwig van Beethoven to celebrate his 250th birthday His drew the panting with a stylus on his iPad screen at his home in France A time-lapse video shows his technique of building up layers of colour and … Read more
Composer, 49, behind the Who Wants to be a Millionaire? theme music is charged with arson after blaze at his £1m west London home Composer Matthew Strachan is accused of setting fire to his west London home Strachan appeared at magistrates court where he was given unconditional bail Case was referred to the crown court … Read more
The live-music leg of the BBC Proms kicked off with a composition ‘exploring themes of identity’ by a renowned Black British composer. The world premiere of Hannah Kendall’s five-minute Tuxedo: Vasco ‘de’ Gama opened the programme on BBC Two tonight at the Royal Albert Hall. Kendall sat in the audience as her spine-tingling Basquiat-inspired composition … Read more
The Hollywood composer who wrote music for the classic film The Good, The Bad and The Ugly has died at the age of 91. Ennio Morricone, whose scores for movies such as ‘The Good, the Bad and the Ugly’, ‘The Mission’ and ‘Cinema Paradiso’ made him one of the world’s most famous and prolific screen … Read more