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More about Reed at ...LINK to complete news story Owen adds...."Any talk about our black composers should include a couple of my students who are making waves in the classical area: Adolphus Hailstork, and Howard Brocking, at Delaware State University" Sunday, 22 January 2006 Local, world events mark composer's birth Now Playing: in CHICAGO Topic: COMPOSER Locally, Mozart will be the man of the moment from area concert halls to the airwaves in coming months. Beginning at 12:01 a.m. Friday, WFMT (98.7 FM) has scheduled the music of Mozart virtually round-the-clock to mark the 250th anniversary of his birth in Salzburg, Austria, on Jan. 27, 1756. ...LINK to complete news story Tuesday, 17 January 2006 Topic: COMPOSER 'I was losing feeling in my fingers' It started with a tingling in his hands, but when the composer Michael Berkeley was diagnosed with a rare nerve disease, he began to imagine the worst. Would he ever be able to play the piano again? ...LINK to complete news story Sunday, 15 January 2006 ANDREW THOMAS...Director: The Pre-College Division, The Juilliard School Now Playing: Composer, Pianist, Conductor, Educator Topic: COMPOSER Recently, Andy Thomas conducted the premier of ?Crane by the River Li? for orchestra of traditional Chinese instruments in Nanning China. April 2005, Simon Boyar premiered "Valse Triste," a marimba work which he commissioned from Dr. Thomas. This new solo piece is evidence that music for the marimba is evolving and that Thomas' marimba music pieces are its milestones. . ...LINK to complete news story Friday, 13 January 2006 Topic: COMPOSER A hundred years after his birth, Shostakovich is still vehemently dividing critics ...LINK to complete news story Topic: COMPOSER Most culture passes. Among the small gleaming part that does not is the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, born 250 years ago this month. "Mozart's music will always be important to human beings," says Hester Furman, music director of WQXR (96.3 FM). "He will always be heard someplace." ...LINK to complete news story Topic: COMPOSER His operas are wonderful to sing, says Ian Bostridge. But why do the tenors always get such short shrift? ...LINK to complete news story Sunday, 8 January 2006 Topic: COMPOSER For composer... Pierre Jalbert, a symphony commission offered an opportunity as large as Big Bend ...LINK to complete news story Thursday, 5 January 2006 Topic: COMPOSER The classical music world had its share of high and low notes in 2005. The new year promises grand celebrations of Mozart's 250th birthday. What more is on the horizon? New Yorker music critic Alex Ross offers his insights. ...LINK to complete news story Wednesday, 4 January 2006 Topic: COMPOSER Austria is bracing for a banner year of tourism in 2006 as the country celebrates the 250th birthday of Mozart. ...LINK to complete news story BBC Audio and Video Have scientists found Mozart's skull? Researchers said Tuesday they'll reveal the results of DNA tests in a documentary film airing this weekend on Austrian television as part of a year of celebratory events marking the composer's 250th birthday. ...LINK to complete news story Tuesday, 3 January 2006 Topic: COMPOSER It took Elliott Carter almost 50 years to find himself as a composer. Now the 97-year-old is one of the greatest of modernists - as even his fellow Americans are beginning to agree. He talks to Andrew Clements ...LINK to complete news story Topic: COMPOSER Mozart's clarinet concerto in A Major is his greatest work, according to a poll marking the 250th anniversary of his birth. ...LINK to complete news story Now Playing: Reminder Topic: COMPOSER The year 2006 will be an important one for classical music in that two important anniversaries are being celebrated: the 250th anniversary of the birth of Mozart, and the 100th anniversary of the the birth of Dmitri Shostakovich. ...LINK to complete news story Sunday, 1 January 2006 Topic: COMPOSER Hailed as the first great new composer of this century, Osvaldo Golijov draws from many cultures to produce his highly original and thrilling works, says Peter Conrad. 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