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His father was a book publisher in the city, and the young Robert grew up under the dual influences of music and literature that were later to so influence his compositions. ...LINK Saturday, 27 May 2006 Topic: COMPOSER Harrison Birtwistle has won his second accolade from the British Academy of Composers and Songwriters in less than a year, scooping the Ivors Classical Music Award at a ceremony at London’s Grosvenor House Hotel. Birtwistle, who picked up two prizes at the British Composer Awards in December, used his acceptance speech at this year’s Ivor Novello Awards to slam the assembled rock and pop musicians for playing their music too loud....LINK Friday, 26 May 2006 Topic: COMPOSER All Things Considered, May 26, 2006 Osvaldo Golijov has become one of the hottest contemporary classical composers by melding different musical genres, from folk to electronic, into his own personal style. He has written string quartets, song cycles, orchestral works and an oratorio, but now the Argentinean-born composer has written an opera: Ainadamar....LINK Wednesday, 17 May 2006 Topic: COMPOSER Oklahoma City University’s Wind Philharmonic will perform a 30-minute concert of the music of Ron Nelson before the band composer receives an honorary doctorate at the May 6 undergraduate commencement for the Class of 2006. ...LINK to complete story Tuesday, 9 May 2006 Topic: COMPOSER Yehudi Wyner won this year`s Pulitzer Prize in music for his piano concerto, 'Chiavi in Mano,' published by Associated Music Publishers. The concerto was commissioned by the Boston Symphony Orchestra and had its world premiere there in February 2005, with soloist Robert Levin. ...LINK to complete story Sunday, 30 April 2006 Topic: COMPOSER MOZART: Special Report...London, Guardian Friday, 28 April 2006 Topic: COMPOSER Now in his 78th year, the composer Karlheinz Stockhausen has been slipping into arcane and mystical paths that not everyone is tempted to follow; little of his recent work has been heard here. ...LINK to complete story Tuesday, 18 April 2006 Yehudi Wyner Wins 2006 Pulitzer Prize Topic: COMPOSER Boston Symphony commission declared top music composition... ...LINK to complete story Sunday, 16 April 2006 Topic: COMPOSER THE relationship of music and drama, note and word, is a central quandary in opera. Which comes first? Richard Wagner, in his writings and stagings both, insisted on treating singing as a kind of heightened speech. He was not immune to beautiful tone, but it was not his main concern. For the first "Ring of the Nibelungs," at his 1876 Bayreuth Festival, his last advice to his singers included the charge: "Distinctness! The big notes will take care of themselves; the little notes and the text are the chief things." ...LINK to complete story Saturday, 15 April 2006 Topic: COMPOSER In what is thought to be a world first, a Darwin music expert says he believes the great composer Johann Sebastian Bach may not have written some of his most famous works. Charles Darwin University Associate Professor Martin Jarvis says some of the works believed for centuries to have come from the hand of Bach were actually written by the composer's second wife. ...LINK to complete story Tuesday, 11 April 2006 Topic: COMPOSER The American Music Center will present composer Milton Babbit with its Founder's Award at its annual meeting on May 1, the new-music organization announced. ...LINK to complete story Thursday, 6 April 2006 Topic: COMPOSER Composer Karel Husa will be awarded an honorary doctorate at a concert featuring several of his works performed by UCA’s Wind Ensemble ...LINK to complete story Tuesday, 4 April 2006 Topic: COMPOSER VIENNA, Austria - For centuries, historians have portrayed Mozart as poor, but new documents suggest the composer was not nearly as hard-up for cash as many have believed. ...LINK to complete story Saturday, 1 April 2006 Now Playing: Bartok Heir Threatens to Quash Major Production Topic: COMPOSER Budapest Opera triple bill, honoring composer's 125th birthday, endangered for choice of director... 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