George Rochberg, who died Sunday at 86, was one of the leading post-World War II American composers, credited by many with restoring traditional tonality to a respectable role in classical composition ...

among them a historian who had won a MacArthur prize. We’d all been to an art opening, and, over dinner, a painter among us was holding forth on the work we’d seen. “As you know,” he said, bringing in ...

Frederic Rzewski, the American-born composer who rejected both serialism and minimalism in his struggle to create a significant body of work over the past half-century, much of it politically themed, ...