FILE - Composer Harrison Birtwistle, from Britain, congratulates Conductor Pierre Boulez from France and the Lucerne Festival Academy Orchestra, on Thursday, Sept 16, 2004, at the Lucerne Festival in ...

Harrison Birtwistle, who has died aged 87, was that surprising thing, a deeply English composer who was also internationally renowned as a great modernist. His modernism was of a very particular kind, ...

Harrison Birtwistle, an English composer famed for his rigorous artistic vision, sonic audacity and deeply theatrical expression has died at age 87. His death was confirmed Monday by his longtime ...

His labyrinthine, theatrical works placed him in the first rank of 20th-century English composers, though his music was often tagged as “difficult.” By David Allen Harrison Birtwistle, whose intensely ...

Harrison Birtwistle's music has always drawn on the rituals and stories of English folk. But is the bucolic Latitude festival ready for disembowelling and murder? Harrison Birtwistle's mythic musical ...

Percussionist Joseph Pereira performs William Kraft's "Encounters I" on Tuesday during an L.A. Phil Green Umbrella concert at Disney Hall. (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times) When Harrison Birtwistle ...

The groundbreaking British composer Harrison Birtwistle, who won international acclaim for his 1972 composition The Triumph of Time and 2008 opera The Minotaur, has died aged 87. Birtwistle’s ...

London operagoers are in for a slew of Harrison Birtwistle operas over the next couple of months. 40 years after it was first produced, we shall see not one but two productions of Punch and Judy on ...

Modern music virtuoso and one of Britain’s greatest contemporary composers Sir Harrison Birtwistle has died. He was 87. Birtwistle’s publisher Boosey & Hawkes said in a statement that the composer ...

LONDON — Harrison Birtwistle, the creator of daringly experimental modern music who was recognized as one of Britain’s greatest contemporary composers, died Monday at his home in Mere, southwest ...