György Kurtág, the eminent composer and Hungarian national treasure, has reached a rare milestone yet shows little interest in retirement.

He sang and co-wrote some of the definitive teenage anthems of the 1950s and early ’60s, including “Breaking Up Is Hard to Do,” and then reinvented his career in the ’70s.

Kolkata: More than 1,200 listeners sat spellbound as Sangeetacharya Amiya Ranjan Bandyopdhyay stepped onstage on Feb 21 — his 100th birthday — and reiterated that age is just a number. The hall filled ...

Sedaka, who died Feb. 27, was a classical piano prodigy whose hits in the late '50s and early '60s included "Calendar Girl" and "Breaking up is Hard to Do." Originally broadcast in 2007.

Released in March 1976, the “Happy Days” theme hit No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 in June of that year. It also ranked at No.

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At Thursday’s BCMG/CBSO concert anticipating Kurtág’s 100th birthday next week, Paul Griffiths told how the 30-year-old composer – nursing a creative block – visited a Paris psychiatrist and was ...

The Finnish composer Jean Sibelius died at the impressively old age of 91. His close contemporary Richard Strauss also notched up an estimable 85 years, despite a life that was often fraught with ...