John Barry was a composer of great talent. He emerged on the musical scene with his group, the John Barry 7. Between 1962 and 1992, John Barry underwent a musical transformation. He found a voice ...

Yet when the album Ready When You Are, J.B. appeared in 1970, its liner notes said “he’s invisible most of the time.” Although he had recently appeared briefly in the film Deadfall, Barry was ...

The following year, he did the same for Japanese poetry. But his film music resonates most as it was heard by the widest audience. While it is clear Tariverdiev (1931–1996) is a major figure in ...

Very few composers can be said to have created a new style of film music,” says David Arnold. “John Barry single-handedly created the spy genre.” Arnold, who recently completed scoring “Quantum of ...

John Barry. Photograph copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts/Corbis. The film composer John Barry died yesterday at the age of 77. I had the privilege of interviewing him a few years ago for a profile, ...

John Barry's music was an essential ingredient in the James Bond's success, and his scores for 11 films in the spy thriller franchise left 007 viewers shaken and stirred. Barry, the Academy Award ...

When Sydney Pollack started editing “Out of Africa,” he assembled a temporary score that consisted entirely of excerpts from earlier scores by John Barry: “Somewhere in Time,” “Robin and Marian,” even ...

The five-time Oscar winner also created the soundtracks for "Midnight Cowboy," "Dances With Wolves," "Out of Africa" and "Born Free." By Mimi Turner LONDON — John Barry, a five-time Oscar-winning ...

Woodstock concert promoter Michael Lang plans to stage a Broadway musical about the famous festival and is targeting the Great White Way's 2009-10 season. But don't expect any show-tune treatments of ...