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Concept An orchestra of laptops by Creators Dan Trueman and Perry Cook at Princeton University's faculty of music
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Happy birthday to a composer who can do everything. Mood: celebratory Topic: COMPOSER
Date of birth, 29 March 1936 in Broadstairs, Kent, England, UK. Received a knighthood in 1998, making him Sir Richard Rodney Bennett.
Geoffrey Norris salutes the remarkable career of composer Richard Rodney Bennett...
Anybody who has seen the star-studded '70s film of Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express will have heard the music of Richard Rodney Bennett.
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Sunday, 12 March 2006
Topic: COMPOSER
Writing in 1888, in the lead-up years of the Russian Revolution, Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov looked outward, setting to music the heat of Sheherazade's Arabian nights. In the Soviet Union of 1953, Dmitri Shostakovich looked inward, recording in his Tenth Symphony his response to the horrors of Joseph Stalin, who had recently died. ...LINK to complete story
Saturday, 18 February 2006
Topic: COMPOSER Richard Wagner's personal life was as dramatic as the epic romances of his operas. Ed Vulliamy on Wagner the Dutchman and his real-life Senta ...LINK to complete story
Wednesday, 8 February 2006
Topic: COMPOSER
Some information about Brazilian composer Ernesto Nazareth who lived in Rio de Janeiro from 1863 to 1934. ...LINK to complete news story
Monday, 6 February 2006
Topic: COMPOSER The truth about Shostakovich in his centenary year
Dmitry Shostakovich survived Stalin's rule by the skin of his teeth. But is his music really the Soviet propaganda that many people claim? Or is there a deeper, coded critique of the tyranny he endured? A hundred years after the composer's birth, Sholto Byrnes travels to St Petersburg in an attempt to uncover the truth ...LINK to complete news story
Friday, 3 February 2006
Topic: COMPOSER
Composers must be willing to eat, sleep and breathe with an orchestra if contemporary classical music is to survive, says Stephen McNeff. Here, he argues for a new approach
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Thursday, 2 February 2006
Topic: COMPOSER
Yao Chen is awe-struck. For the first time in his life, an orchestra just performed one of his compositions. It was not just any orchestra, either: It was the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, the only full-time professional chamber orchestra in the country and one of the best in the world. ...LINK to complete news story
Wednesday, 1 February 2006
Topic: COMPOSER
Listening to Mozart makes you a genius, apparently - shame it never worked for those cashing in on his birthday ...LINK to complete news story
Saturday, 28 January 2006
Topic: COMPOSER
As far as I’m concerned, Mozart the child genius is a perfectly wonderful thing, not as amazing as some would have it, but definitely up there with the great prodigies.
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Friday, 27 January 2006
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Sir Roger Norrington joins NPR's Fred Child in Salzburg for Mozart's birthday celebration. We hear the maestro leading the Camerata Salzburg in the Menuet from Mozart's Symphony No. 41, the "Jupiter."
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Around the world today, musicians and music lovers are celebrating the 250th anniversary of the birth of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
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250th Anniversary...About Mozart Now Playing: Born Jan. 27, 1756, in Salzburg, Austria Topic: COMPOSER
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, whose birthday we celebrate today, forever changed the world of music the day he was born in 1756. ...LINK to complete news story
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote 626 known works and is especially famous for such operas as The
Marriage of Figaro , Don Giovanni and The Magic Flute. He died in Vienna,
Austria, on Dec. 5, 1791, probably of rheumatic fever, and was buried in a
common, unmarked grave.
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Geoffrey Norris salutes the remarkable career of 
Richard Wagner's personal life was as dramatic as 
The truth about Shostakovich in his centenary year
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, whose birthday we 
