Around 2015, New Jersey-born composer Joel Zigman had been pigeonholed as the social-justice guy trying to reform an academic classical-music program at the University of Texas at Austin. His politics ...

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The 1980s were a truly remarkable time. Big hair, shoulder pads and Patrick Swayze ruled the roost and synthesisers were the soundtrack of choice. The whole era is ripe for nostalgic backward glances, ...