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"Michael Colgrass: Music Maverick" is a documentary in progress about Pulitzer Prize--winning composer Michael Colgrass. In this excerpt, he talks ...

Composer Michael Colgrass invited over a few friends one night to tell them stories from 'Adventures of an American Composer,' his book of personal...

Composer Michael Colgrass was playing drums in his own swing band in small-town Brookfield, Ill., when a fan approached him after a gig — and said ...

In 1951, composer Michael Colgrass was a jazz drummer who dismissed his classical music studies — until a teacher encouraged him to try writing his...

Phoenix Jewish Community Choir Concert - May 23, 2010

Cantor Peter Halpern

John Massaro, Conductor

Dan Kurek, piano

Michael Colgrass was a percussionist with the Joffrey Ballet in 1966 when lawyers walked into a rehearsal and pulled Ravel's G Major Piano Concerto...

Michael Colgrass played percussion on the classic Stravinsky Conducts Stravinsky recording of The Rite of Spring for Columbia Records in 1961. Like...