Composer Malcolm Arnold dies
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Film score composer Sir Malcolm Arnold dies in hospital after a brief illness at the age of 84.
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A hit 1960s songwriter was wrongly reported dead after the death of a man who claimed authorship.
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Celebrated Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti, 71, has died following his operation for pancreatic cancer in July last year and hospitalisation last month, ANSA news agency reported Thursday.
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Ken Kennedy, a professor who founded the computer science department at Rice University in 1984 and eventually became one of the world's pioneers in parallel and distributed computing, died last week at 61. Computerworld's Gary Anthes remembers Kennedy.
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Tributes hail "outstanding" and "genius" composer Sir Malcolm Arnold, following his death aged 84.
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Composer Elmer Bernstein, 82, who died of undisclosed causes Aug. 18 at his home in Ojai, Calif., wrote music for more than 200 movies. He was responsible for the gritty trumpet-and-drums jazz score to &quot;The Man With the Golden Arm&quot; ...
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Oscar-winning composer Elmer Bernstein, who wrote some of Hollywood&#39;s most memorable music, including scores for &quot;The Magnificent Seven&quot; and &quot;Thoroughly Modern Millie,&quot; has died at age 82, his publicist said on ...
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Henri Salvador, the French crooner credited with inspiring the bossa nova, dies in Paris at the age of 90.
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The longtime conductor of the Crystal Cathedral Orchestra &#151; a composer and arranger who worked with Celine Dion and John Tesh &#151; shot himself to death at the soaring glass-and-steel church Friday after a nine-hour standoff that started just before a Christmas pageant was to begin.
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LOS ANGELES - Elmer Bernstein, the versatile, Oscar-winning composer who scored such movie classics as "The Ten Commandments,""The Magnificent Seven,""To Kill a Mockingbird,""The Great Escape" and "True Grit," died Wednesday. He was 82...
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Terry Melcher, a producer, composer and songwriter who worked with the Beach Boys and helped shape the '60s era California surf music sound, has died, according to his publicist. He was 62.
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Famed American composer Elmer Bernstein passed away at his home in Ojai, Calif on Aug. 18, 2004, his publicist said on Thursday. The family said Mr.
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With the death last week of Elmer Bernstein, following so soon after the deaths of Jerry Goldsmith and David Raksin, two of the fellow Hollywood composers he most admired, an era ends.
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Artie Shaw, the clarinetist, bandleader and composer who created a rich body of American music before he quit playing in his prime and walked away from show business, died Thursday in the Southern California city of Thousand Oaks.
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Kurt Waldheim, a former United Nations chief and Austrian president whose reputation was tarnished by disclosures he hid his past in Nazi Germany's officer corps, died on Thursday aged 88.
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Kurt Waldheim, a former United Nations chief and Austrian president whose reputation was tarnished by disclosures he had hidden his past in Nazi Germany's officer corps, died on Thursday aged 88.
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British jazz singer and author George  Melly died on Thursday at the age of 80, his wife Diana said in  a statement.