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 ...

That was Ella Fitzgerald with “Over The Rainbow,” the winner of ... that fostered some of the most well-known songs in all of American popular music. One of their earliest was a song ...

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.

Warning: This article contains spoilers for Wicked.Wicked is a masterful movie musical adaptation that boasts its own ...

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.’ ...