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He studied hard, and just about managed to earn a living as a teacher, but failed in his efforts to start a career as a concert pianist. ...LINK to complete news story Wednesday, 3 August 2005 Topic: COMPOSER In Defense of (So-Called) 'Vanity' Projects Lorin Maazel handpicked a creative team [for the production of his opera 1984] in ways that other composers often cannot ... artists [who] garner top dollar everywhere and have no reason to play along with an enterprise they don't believe in." ...LINK to complete ANDANTE story Topic: COMPOSER The eccentric standard-bearer of the European avant-garde, composer Karlheinz Stockhausen, is to make a rare appearance in England this autumn, his first since 2001. ...LINK to complete news story Saturday, 30 July 2005 Topic: COMPOSER President Ilham Aliyev issued a decree on Thursday conferring renowned composer and the people’s artist of Azerbaijan. Vasif Adigezalov received the “Istiglal” (Independence) order, the country’s highest award, for his contribution to the development of Azerbaijan’s national music. ...LINK to complete news story Friday, 29 July 2005 Topic: COMPOSER Andrew Clements on the epic work that showed Luciano Berio at his best ...LINK to complete news story Wednesday, 27 July 2005 Topic: COMPOSER Goldberg Magazine joins the rest of the music community, especially the English one, to celebrate in 2005 the 500th anniversary of the birth of Thomas Tallis (ca. 1505, Leicestershire - 23.11.1585, Greenwich, England), considered to be "the Father of English Church Music". To commemorate this anniversary and to highlight the work of this important XVIth century English composer, the main, in depth article for issue N? 35 of the Goldberg Magazine (August 2005) will be all about Thomas Tallis. The article has been written by Alistair Dixon, Chairman of the Renaissance Society and Director of the ensemble Chapelle du Roi, a well known specialist in the work of this English composer. As always, in the Goldberg Magazine, the article will be accompanied by a careful selection of recommended discography. This article on Tallis is not the only highlight of issue number 35 of our magazine, which includes other essays, interviews and news. More information at ...LINK to complete news story Wednesday, 20 July 2005 Topic: COMPOSER The St. Andrew Foundation has decided to award Mikis Theodorakis the St. Andrew Prize. Theodorakis is arguably Greece's most famous contemporary composer. The Russian cultural foundation will award him the prize for his efforts to empower people spiritually and to promote peace and harmony between nations. ...LINK to complete news story Monday, 18 July 2005 Topic: COMPOSER Chorus of approval as composer steps out of the shadows Composer Ross Edwards is used to creating for a niche market. But he hopes winning the best orchestral work of the year at last night's Classical Music Awards for his Concerto for Guitar and Strings will bring classical music to a broader audience. ...LINK to complete news story Wednesday, 13 July 2005 Topic: COMPOSER Following the collaboration of veteran composer, Lalo Schifrin, and pianist Jeffrey Biegel in a recording of Schifrin's 'Concerto no. 2 'The Americas'' with the Bayerischer Rundfunk in Germany, with Schifrin conducting, the two artists have discussed a new concerto project for the 2008-09 season. ...LINK to complete news story Topic: COMPOSER New York born Composer Carl Davis, famed for his film and TV scores, has been appointed an honorary CBE by the Queen of England. ...LINK to complete news story Monday, 11 July 2005 Topic: COMPOSER Taught by his father Alessandro Scarlatti, Domenico was appointed composer and organist at the Royal Chapel at Naples in 1701, aged just 16. Two years later his first operas, Ottavia restituita al trono and Il Giustino were performed in the same city. He continued his studies with Gasparini, moving to Venice to do so in 1705, and in 1709 to Rome. ...LINK to complete BIOGRAPHY Sunday, 10 July 2005 Topic: COMPOSER Given Bruckner's tendency to revise and cut his symphonies, whether eagerly or grudgingly, on the advice of presumably well-meaning colleagues, which version of a given symphony represents his original, final or otherwise definitive wishes? ...LINK to complete news story Saturday, 9 July 2005 Topic: COMPOSER When Gustav Holst composed his most popular work, ''The Planets," from 1914 to 1916, Pluto had not yet been discovered. Pluto swam into Clyde Tombaugh's telescope in 1930, but Holst displayed no interest in composing an additional movement for his suite. ...LINK to complete news story Topic: COMPOSER Victoria, Tomas Luis de The greatest Spanish Renaissance composer, Victoria also ranks alongside Palestrina as one of the greatest European composers of church music. ...LINK to complete news story Friday, 8 July 2005 Topic: COMPOSER Composer Franz Schubert – whose piano music fuels theAthenaeum Music & Arts Library's upcoming festival – was so nearsighted that he sometimes wore his glasses to bed because he was afraid he would misplace them. He was so short (about 5 feet, 2 inches) and round that he was nicknamed "Schwammerl," which means mushroom. ...LINK to complete news story Newer | Latest | Older All SubjectsActing-LEAudio & Video-APAuditions, Scenes & Monologues-LEBaroque Music-APBiography-APBiography-LEConductors-APDance-LEFilm-LEGeneral Music-APGreat Composers-APGuides-LEInstruments-APMusic History-APMusic-LEOpera & Vocal-APPerformance-APPiano & Keyboard-APPlays-LETheater-LETraditional Music-APWomen in Music-APWorld Music-AP