The Pacific Palisades fire has burned down the inventory of the exclusive publisher of the works of musical pioneer Arnold Schoenberg, inventor of the 12-tone technique.Among the most significant ...

Meyer Kupferman, a prolific composer whose music embraced both jazz and 12-tone techniques, died Nov. 26 near Rhinebeck, N.Y. He was 77 and lived in Rhinebeck. The cause was heart failure, said ...