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Oscar-winning composer John Williams has joined a new academy: the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The academy announced Thursday that Williams was among 19 inductees voted into the honorary society for musicians, authors, artists and architects that was founded in 1898. Members over time have ranged from Mark Twain and Toni Morrison to Leonard Bernstein and Alice Neel. Others elected this year include another prominent film composer, Terence Blanchard, the jazz musician who has provided scores for many Spike Lee films, prize-winning novelist Alice McDermott and the multimedia artist Mat...

Oscar-winning composer John Williams has joined a new academy: the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Improvising around Iyer compositions and numbers by Stevie Wonder, Roscoe Mitchell and more, these musicians foreground openness and receptivity

Release Day Picks this week highlight new albums by J Mascis, Lee “Scratch” Perry and Vijay Iyer.

The 39-year-old flutist-saxophonist-composer has created a formidable body of work that has as much affinity with modern classical composers as with jazz luminaries.