Topic: COMPOSER
R. Murray Schafer, arguably Canada's best known classical composer, has won a lucrative performing arts prize from the Canada Council for the Arts. ...LINK to complete news story
Monday, 7 November 2005
Topic: COMPOSER The heirs of Finnish composer Jean Sibelius earned 1.5 million euros in royalties in 2004, Helsingin Sanomat reports. ...LINK to complete news story
Giacinto Scelsi (strictly speaking Count Giacinto Scelsi di Ayala Valva, 1905-88) Now Playing: A long ignored eccentric and outsider of the new music world Topic: COMPOSER Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of the Italian composer Giacinto Scelsi, (La Spezia, January 8, 1905 ? Rome, August 9, 1988), ...LINK to complete news story ...LINK to complete BIOGRAPHY ...LINK to another
Friday, 4 November 2005
Topic: COMPOSER
Olivier Messiaen left a stunning legacy, but was very secretive about his work. Given access to the composer's archives and diaries, pianist Peter Hill discovered the extraordinary man behind the music
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Sunday, 23 October 2005
Topic: COMPOSER In Scott Joplin's Treemonisha: An Opera in Three Acts, there is more to the music than meets the ear. But just what that "more" is will never be known for sure. That's because Treemonisha's original orchestra parts were lost more than 40 years ago. The one bit of published sheet music that has survived is a piano-vocal score that Joplin published at his own expense so he could sell his opera to would- be producers. ...LINK to complete news story
Tuesday, 11 October 2005
Topic: COMPOSER Arvo Part is an anomaly in the world of classical music: a successful living composer. His deeply emotive and spiritual music counts among its fans popular musicians such as Bjork and Michael Stipe of R.E.M., who describes it as "a house on fire and an infinite calm … a rare voice, much needed in an upside-down world".
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Tuesday, 4 October 2005
Topic: COMPOSER Internationally renowned composer James MacMillan visits New Zealand for the first time to conduct a concert that will bring together his own acclaimed work with that of award- winning New Zealand composer Ross Harris, in a concert exclusive to the New Zealand International Arts Festival.
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Monday, 3 October 2005
As the Philharmonic begins its salute to a 'radical' composer, the performances are exciting and engaging. Topic: COMPOSER In anticipation of an adored composer's coming 250th birthday, Mozart mania has begun infecting the classical music world. And several major orchestras in America have found an antidote: Beethoven....LINK to complete story
Amadeus on tap Topic: COMPOSER All hail the 250th anniversary
of the birth of Wolfgang Amadeus. Musicians and performers from
Sacramento to Salzburg, Austria, are preparing to do just that by performing
selected works from Mozart's hundreds of compositions.
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Topic: COMPOSER Composer Philip Glass created the theme for the new ABC television series Night Stalker... Glass's music, written for two pianos, strings, and harp, runs for 20 seconds during the opening titles and 30 seconds during the closing credits. ...LINK to complete news story
Thursday, 29 September 2005
Topic: COMPOSER John Adams is the Tiger Woods of classical music -- a marquee name, known even to people who don't really pay attention to what he does. The
Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, who lives in Berkeley, also happens to make music that is relevant. ...LINK to complete news story
Sunday, 25 September 2005
Father of English church music Thomas Tallis (who knew?) turns 500 this month. Now Playing: however date varies in sources* Topic: COMPOSER 16th-century English composer and organist THOMAS TALLIS attracted much respect in his own time. Tallis composed predominantly for the church, producing music of great technical mastery and restraint for both Protestant and Catholic monarchs, including such flashes of brilliance as the magnificent Spem in Alium. Born: ca. 1505 [*or 1514], Leicestershire, England.
Died: 23 November 1585, Greenwich, England. ...LINK to BIOGRAPHY
Can contemporary composers find (and keep) an audience? Topic: COMPOSER
Works by living composers are commissioned by well-meaning (but often skittish) presenters, premiered to great fanfare but little enthusiasm (as the sold-out audience at Sherwood Auditorium proved 40 minutes later with lukewarm applause), and then quietly dropped from the repertory. Even music composed at the turn of the last century is still often deemed too cutting-edge by today's classical-music audiences.
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Wednesday, 21 September 2005
Bartok death anniversary observed Topic: COMPOSER THE influence of the renowned Hungarian composer BELA BARTOK
(1881-1945), the 60th anniversary of whose death is marked this month, can be
found in everything from from pop, through World Music, to the
"classical" contemporary works of Phillip Glass and Steven Reich.
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Friday, 16 September 2005
Topic: COMPOSER As the 250th anniversary of Mozart's birth approaches, Proms director Nicholas Kenyon offers a personal guide to enjoying his work ...LINK to complete news story
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The heirs of Finnish composer
Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of 
In Scott Joplin's Treemonisha: An Opera in 
Arvo Part is an anomaly in the world of 
Internationally renowned composer
In anticipation of an adored composer's coming 
All hail the 250th anniversary
Composer Philip Glass created the theme for 
John Adams is the Tiger Woods of classical music -- a marquee name, known even to people who don't really pay attention to what he does. The
Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, who lives in Berkeley, also happens to make music that is relevant. 
16th-century English composer and organist
THE influence of the renowned Hungarian composer 
As the 250th anniversary of Mozart's birth 
