Neal Morse, progressive rock composer, wrote a song called Leviathan for his 2008 album Lifeline.

NO rock composer has crossed the lines between popular and serious music with anything near the results that Gershwin achieved.

This assumes that the rock-star composers' intentions are honorable, and although many assume otherwise, I can't see what questionable motives these rock composers might have.

But it also has a stylistic rootlessness that has plagued several other classical works by rock composers.

The rock composer Pete Townshend recently declared that "ghettoized communities are where all great music comes from."

Three new albums suggest that New York's rock composers are eager to make the most of minimalism.

Willoughby is now known as one of Australia's leading Aboriginal rock composers and performers.

A rock composer can enjoy far more cultural impact, and cash flow, via music video and the arena circuit.

Many pop and rock composers compose their songs on a guitar or piano.

But I consider myself a standard-bearer of Western European art music, not a rock composer.