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Ivan Hewett explores the bizarre sounds and strange life of Luigi Nono, [photo] one of Italy's 'champagne socialists' All the world thinks of Venice as pre-eminently a feast for the eyes; what is not so well known is that Venice also has its own unique, alluring sound-scape. Luigi Nono: a notoriously prickly character There's the muted outdoor one of lapping waves, the fog-horns of distant boats, and the strange aural perspectives from sounds reflecting off water...
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1930 Birth of American harpsichordist Igor KIPNIS in Berlin. Died -CT 23 JAN 2002. One of the founding members of the MUSIClassicalist.
DECCA CELEBRATES THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF West Side Story WITH A NEW RECORDING FEATURING ITALIAN TENOR VITTORIO AND INTERNATIONAL SINGING SENSATION HAYLEY WESTENRA WITH MUSIC COMPOSED BY LEONARD BERNSTEIN 
The John D. And Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has announced 24 "Genius Grants" of $500,000 each. Robert Siegel talks with four of the winners: spider silk biologist Cheryl Hayashi; Yoky Matsuoka, leader in the field of neurorobotics; Dr. Linda Cooper, who studied how race, ethnicity and gender influence the doctor/patient relationship; and classically trained vocalist Dawn Upshaw [photo]. 
1898 Birth of American composer and pianist George GERSHWIN in Brooklyn, NY. aka Jacob Gershovitz. d-LA, CA, 11 JUL 1937. 
Wednesday [26 SEP 2007] marks the 50th anniversary of the first staging of the Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim and Arthur Laurents musical West Side Story. It's been performed globally and translated into languages as diverse as Czech and Korean. 
Anna Netrebko and Nathan Gunn are both hugely successful singers with the kind of camera-melting good looks that many pop idols would kill for. But you're not likely to see them on MTV. That's because Gunn and Netrebko, both 36, are opera stars, who happen to get as much attention for their pulchritude as they do for their vocal prowess...
1907 FP of Jean Sibelius' Third Symphony, in Helsinki. Composer conducting. The Symphony No. 3 in C Major Op. 52 by Sibelius is a good-natured, triumphant, and deceptively simplistic piece written in 1907. The first performance was given by the Helsinki Philharmonic Society conducted by the composer on 25 September 1907. The first recording was made by Robert Kajanus with the London Symphony Orchestra for the HMV label in January 1934...
RALEIGH - It's usually Robert Ward in the audience, listening to musicians play what he has written. But on his 90th birthday, the roles were reversed. Close to 300 admirers -- many of them the Triangle's most accomplished musicians and opera singers -- rose to their feet in an ovation and an operatic round of "Happy Birthday" while the Pulitzer Prize-winning composer had the stage all to himself. 