William Kraft at 87 conducting Heinrich Schütz's "St. John Passion" at a Monday Evening Concert in the Zipper Concert Hall at the Colburn School in Los Angeles on March 28, 2011. (Anne Cusack / Los ...

A mainstay of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, he also composed music that elevated overlooked instruments like the timpani. By Javier C. Hernández Lamenting the abundance of what he called “rat-a-tat, ...

Until recently, the oldest entertainment program known to survive on color videotape was NBC’s An Evening with Fred Astaire, broadcast live on October 17, 1958. But now, a rare color videotape of the ...

William Kraft, a percussionist, composer, conductor and educator who played a long and indispensable role in making Los Angeles a world capital of new music, died Saturday at USC Verdugo Hills ...