Beautiful , Clever, Lyrical, Playful, Subtle

Banal, Bubblicious, Cartoonish, Catastrophe, Expansive, Fantastic, Feminist, Lyrical, Medieval era, Monumental, Sincere, Social realism

The eminent English composer (and arranger), William (Turner) Walton, born to a musical family, was a chorister at Christ Church Cathedral at Oxford, and later studied at the university. He left Oxford without a degree, and from 1920 lived with the Sitwell family in London. The three Sitwells sibling

20th-century music, Lyrical

If you got tongue from David Bowie, it might change your life. It certainly brought one Japanese pop star-actor-composer-musician into the limelight. In "Merry Christmas, Mister Lawrence," the slow-motion screen kiss between Bowie and Ryuichi Sakamoto was a turning point in his career. Of course, it

20th-century music, Abstract electronica, Ambient, Eclectic, Layered, Lyrical, Psychedelic