LONDON (AP) - Peter Maxwell Davies, an experimental, socially radical composer who served as Queen Elizabeth II's official master of music, has died. He was 81. Davies' management company, Intermusica ...

We join the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet in concert to hear two short pieces. First, the quartet plays a wistful piece of music Peter Maxwell Davies wrote as a kind of protest when construction of a ...

On a midsummer day on Saturday, June 21, 1980, in a Victorian Hotel on the Orkney Islands, resident composer Peter Maxwell Davies and actress Eleanor Bron performed the composer’s newest piece — The ...

We're in concert in Atlanta to sample some music that is deeply connected with the place its composer lives. Peter Maxwell Davies has lived in the Orkney Islands since 1970 and the place has inspired ...

First came the voice of the enfant terrible, the dense modernist waves of his rebellious phase. Then came the accessible voice of the Master of the Queen's Music, the paleo-conservative, folk-weaving ...

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LONDON (AP) – Peter Maxwell Davies, an experimental, socially radical composer who served as Queen Elizabeth II’s official master of music, has died. He was 81. Davies’ management company, Intermusica ...

British composer Sir Peter Maxwell Davies has died aged 81. Renowned for his avant-garde and modern works, Davies was a former Master of the Queen's Music, a post considered the musical equivalent of ...

Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, co mposer and former Master of the Queen's Music has died, his management has said. Sir Peter, 81, died at his home in Orkney, Scotland, on Monday after suffering from ...

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From expressionistic early pieces to picturesque later music inspired by his remote island home, the celebrated musician left a broad, vibrant... Prolific and multifaceted British composer and ...