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The Pulitzer-winning, Kanye-collaborating composer began her career with a creative blank check, but she's spent much of the past decade moving sideways. Her latest trick: reinventing as a songwriter.

Known for his idiosyncratic, wide-ranging style and the radical politics of his early years, Louis Andriessen had a profound impact on modern music as an uncompromising creator and prominent teacher.

A visionary who died young and alone in 1990, Eastman is making a slow but richly deserved comeback thanks to a curious younger generation. A new interpretation of his 1974 work Femenine is out now.

Maverick jazz composer Anthony Braxton was set to spend his 75th birthday performing at events around the world, but then... well, you know. He has two new boxed sets out this month.

Herrmann composed some of the best-known film music ever written — especially the scores he wrote for Alfred Hitchcock. Now a new CD shows another side of Herrmann that's equally memorable.

San Antonio composer Nathan Felix was inspired by the story of Fernando Luis Ribas-Dominicci, whose fighter was shot down off the coast of Libya in 1986. TPR's Barry Brake speaks with Felix about his work, which will premiere online.

NPR says Balmorhea's music "evokes imagery of brilliant landscapes and quiet pastoral scenes." TPR's Barry Brake has this interview with the Texas duo, whose new album is called "The Wind."

Composing music is a solitary process, but performing these award-winning pieces means getting people in the same room, even if it's a virtual one.

A simple piece that composer Malek Jandali wrote in 2011 became inextricable from the early protests in Syria. For a decade now, that connection has informed and invigorated his life and work.

Aretha Franklin liked how Kris Bowers played piano at a competition in 2011. It was his big break — a fact that he says was with him while he scored a upcoming biopic about the late Queen of Soul.