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Famous Composers and the Stories Their Music Still Tells

From opera houses to film trailers, the tools long-dead composers invented still carry narrative weight on screen and stage.

Ismail Okafor

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A recurring film cue never plays to a fresh audience. Each return carries everything the listener already knows.

Deshawn Carter

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Ticketing, touring economics and festival deals, read with the scepticism the headlines usually leave out.

Ismail Okafor

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Two or three notes can name a character, flag an object, and track a plot turn — all below the level of conscious attention.

Ismail Okafor

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Licensing, arrangement, and the quiet craft of making someone else's song sound like your own.

Ismail Okafor

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Tony Gilroy cast his composers like actors — and the structure of 'Behemoth!' turns that choice into the film's argument.

Ismail Okafor