Topic: COMPOSER
Austria has been preparing for a jubilee year of concerts and celebrations to mark Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's 250th birthday. ...LINK to complete news story
Friday, 23 December 2005
Topic: COMPOSER
John Rutter is the world's most-performed choral composer, and he has a special affection for Christmas. Michael Church watches him working, at his medieval cottage near Cambridge
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Gardner Read Now Playing: Gifted US composer still awaiting evaluation Topic: COMPOSER Gardner Read, who has died aged 92, combined careers as a composer, author and one of the most highly regarded American musical educators of his day. For more than 30 years he was professor of composition at Boston University, and its composer-in-residence for more than 25 years. The author of several standard textbooks on musical notation and technique, he composed 150 major works, all of which demonstrate formidable technique and craftsmanship. His big orchestral canvases are especially notable for their exotic, and often graphic, colour. ...LINK to complete news story
Thursday, 22 December 2005
Topic: COMPOSER
Daniel Asia, Tucson composer and music professor at the University of Arizona, has sold his music archive to Yale University's Sterling Music Library.
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Wednesday, 21 December 2005
Huge birthday bash set for Mozart's 250th Topic: COMPOSER
Roll over, Beethoven. Beat it, Brahms. Mozart is back with a vengeance,
though he'd probably flip his powdered wig if he could see the fuss
being made over his 250th birthday. On Jan. 27, the day the composer was born in 1756, New York's Metropolitan Opera will present a revival of last season's new Julie Taymor production of "The Magic Flute" and the New York Philharmonic will debut a three-week "Magic of Mozart" tribute.
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Lyrical travels by Finland's classical master Topic: COMPOSER Einojuhani Rautavaara is a big deal in Europe, but the Finnish composer began to make noise on this side of the Atlantic only when musicians here started taking an interest. The Philadelphia Orchestra commissioned his Symphony No. 8 in 1999, and Elmar Oliveira has been playing the Violin Concerto everywhere he can, with performances in Winnipeg (where Rautavaara's music was featured at the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra's new-music festival in 2002), Toronto and Ottawa. ...LINK to complete news story
Topic: COMPOSER Most people these days don't think of Carlos Chavez as a radical composer, yet it was the visionary John Cage who asked Chavez to write a piece for Cage's percussion ensemble. The result, the Toccata for percussion, is one of Chavez's best-known works (along with the Sinfonia India).
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Tuesday, 13 December 2005
Topic: COMPOSER
Harrison Birtwistle took home two prizes at the third British Composer Awards last week in London. ...LINK to complete news story
Topic: COMPOSER
The massive Sibelius web site now has an English version. It opened on December 7, the day before the Great Finn's 140th anniversary. ...LINK to complete site
Saturday, 10 December 2005
Topic: COMPOSER Diaries written by Finnish composer Jean Sibelius between
1909 to 1944 have been published for the first time, reports Agence France-Presse, citing the FNB news agency. ...LINK to complete news story
Wednesday, 7 December 2005
Topic: COMPOSER
Scientists have determined that fragments of Ludwig van Beethoven's skull contain large amount of lead, confirming the theory that lead poisoning was the cause of the composer's years of illness and presumably of his death. ...LINK to complete news story
Tuesday, 29 November 2005
Topic: COMPOSER
Composer Gunther Schuller will receive the Library of Congress's Living Legend Award at a ceremony in Washington next month, the library announced. ...LINK to complete news story
Topic: COMPOSER
Harrison Birtwistle, Michael Nyman, and John Tavener are among the composers on the shortlist for the British Composer Awards ...LINK to complete news story
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