Norwegian pianist Rune Alver carefully unfolded the brittle sheet music and began ... the team behind all the songs in Wizard of Oz, including “Over the Rainbow.” Years later, Arlen recalled ...

Today’s popular songs have multiple co-writers, each of whom might have a different music publisher. When a track includes a sample or interpolation of another composition, those works ...

Music critics—myself included—have spent ... This song, which uses Israel Kamakawiwo’ole’s “Somewhere Over the Rainbow,” pushes the art of sampling to an absurdist extreme.

winning one for “Over the Rainbow”; and was one of the most prolific, successful and admired writers of popular songs in American history. Though he was unquestionably in the same elite class ...

The sheet music was dated 1910, and The Wizard of Oz premiered nearly 30 years later. But the melody hung there (“Somewhere over ... all of the songs that you know, except ‘Rainbow.’ ...