Surprisingly, David Benoit’s favorite character in the “Peanuts” comic strip is not Schroeder, the obsessive, classical-piano-playing prodigy who loves Ludwig van Beethoven and scorns Lucy.

Benoit said he recorded almost all of the piano solos for “The Peanuts Movie,” which is in theaters, during a daylong session this past summer at 20th Century Fox’s Newman Scoring Stage.

Well! Here comes ol’ Charlie Brown!” says one of the children as Charlie saunters past. “Good ol’ Charlie Brown. … How I hate ...

Hard as it may be to believe now, the "Linus and Lucy" theme was not yet firmly established as the primary Peanuts theme— it was not included in the soundtrack of the preceding special Charlie Brown's ...

Vince Guaraldi, the Grammy-winning jazz pianist who accidentally found fame via his music for the animated “Peanuts” TV specials, is the subject of a new documentary making the rounds on the ...

Vince Guaraldi had his own style of jazz by the time he ran into the Peanuts gang. His cheerful piano, plucky bass and steady, easy-does-it brush drumming with slight Latin overtones were mellow ...

Vince Guaraldi at the Piano Derrick Bang 390 pages ISBN: 978-0-7864-5902-5 McFarland Books 2012 Based on Derrick Bang's encyclopedic biography of pianist Vince Guaraldi, you can draw two perhaps ...

If you thought it wasn't possible to hold Charles Schulz's brilliant "Peanuts" comics in any higher esteem, think again. Today's NY Times describes how scholars are pointing out that the strip's ...

Tune up your piano, Schroeder: Apple TV+ has set its first original Peanuts musical. Snoopy Presents: A Summer Musical is the first new Peanuts musical special in 35 years. Ben Folds (of Ben Folds ...

Ben Folds returns to write music for Charlie Brown, Snoopy and the gang. By Tony Maglio Tune up your piano, Schroeder: Apple TV+ has set its first original Peanuts musical. This summer, Charlie ...