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YouTube has become a valuable source of historic recordings. There are several channels that are worthwhile checking out. If you combine them with a YouTube-to-MP3 conversion site, you can burn your own CDs, with pretty decent 128 kbps sound quality. Here are some channels: http://www.youtube.com/user/WatchBlueSkies: uploads from East German LPs from the 60s through 80s, not re-isseud on CD

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The Hague based Residentie Orkest will perform Dmitri Shostakovitch's Symphony No. 10 at the Lowlands popfestival in August 2011. And the Royal Concertgebouworkest has unveiled its 2011/12 programs, including the modern AAA series, which is aimed at drawing a new and young crowd. There will be a few world premieres, but focus is still on the first half of the 20th century. Included are Edgard

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Listen to Luc Brewaeys' new Double Concerto for Horn and Flute, premiered January 9, 2010.

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There's an LSO podcast devoted to Stravinsky's Le Scare du Printemps on the Boosey & Hawkes website. It can also be found here on the LSO website.

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Agent faces jail for stealing £½m from Queen's composerFrom: London Evening Standard, Paul Cheston, 21.10.09The former agent of the Master of the Queen's Music was today facing jail for swindling more than half a million pounds from the composer's account after allegedly becoming a gambling addict.Michael Arnold, 76, admitted taking £522,333 from his lifelong friend, renowned composer Sir Peter

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From: SF Classical Music ExaminerBy: Stephen SmoliarDate: October 6, 9:12 AMPerhaps the most important lesson from the Gustav Mahler: Origins and Legaciesprograms that Michael Tilson Thomas prepared with the San Francisco Symphony involved the significant role that listening experiences can play in the act of composition. Thus, when confronted with "new music," such as the works that the San

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Peter Eötvös newest compositions:Seven, a violin concerto: UK premiere at the Proms by Akiko Suwanai and the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Susanna Mälkki (musicOMH, Financial Times, Telegraph, This Is London, Times).Levitation, for two clarinets, accordion and strings: World premiere February 13, 2008, at the Festival de Música de Canarias by its dedicatees, Sabine and Wolfgang Meyer, and

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Toshio Hosokawa has been commissioned by pharmaceutical company Roche to write a new piece, to be performed at the 2010 Lucerne Festival. This will be the fifth Roche Commission (Hays Pharma, Nieuwsbank, Roche).

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Pierre-Laurent Aimard and the Cleveland Orchestra, conducted by Franz Welser-Möst, gave the first performance of George Benjamin's new piano-and-orchestra piece 'Duet' in Lucerne (Financial Times, Guardian).

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At the Lucerne Festival 2008 George Benjamin will be Composer-in-Residence and will see the first performance of his new Piano Concerto on August 30 (Guardian). In September, it will be played in Cleveland (Ohio.com).

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Cheltenham Festival: Air With Variations to be premiered (Red Orbit).SFS Conductors on the Podium: first US performance of 'Three Asteroids: The Torino Scale, Juno, Ceres' (SFBG).Covent Garden has commissioned an opera for 2010, based on the life of Anna Nicole Smith, to a libretto by Richard Thomas (Guardian, Playbill).Proms 2008, July 20: The Torino Scale will see its UK premiere (Bloomberg).A

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Cheltenham Festival 2008: World premiere of a new Piano Quartet (Telegraph) and British premiere of a new Vilion Sonata (SoGlos.com).Prince Charles' 60th Birthday (November 14 2008): TV concert, with commissioned piece (Telegraph).Member of the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome (Scotsman).How he lost GBP 500,000 (Daily Mail).

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In their monthly Newsletter, Dacapo Records unveil pictures of Per Nørgård's Symphony N0. 7 rehearsals. The label is recording the piece, even though the first public performance isn't until January 29, 2009.For comparison, here are some samples from his Symphony No. 6.

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By Peter CulshawFrom The Telegraph - 07/07/2007I'm sitting in Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho's flat in Paris, which, like her music, is sparsely decorated with occasional flashes of unexpected colour. Now 53, she is recalling with some disbelief an article she read when she was a 20-year-old student in Helsinki."It had various composers explaining why women could not be composers - that their

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By Keith BruceFrom The Herald - June 29 2007The influence of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies was, naturally, all over the work from the St Magnus Composer's Course showcased at the cathedral on Wednesday lunchtime. Of the works created over the past week, the most popular among the large audience who turned out to hear them was by RSAMD graduate in traditional music James Ross, but all the work was of a

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By Amy ParkerFrom The Herald - June 28 2007This afternoon's concert, as part of the Academy's Summerfest series, gave us the first complete performance of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies's The Birds, a four-movement song cycle replete with evocative images of Hebridean landscapes. Kenneth Steven's words painted pictures of places rich in colour and texture, whose Arcadian contentment was disrupted only

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By George HallFrom The Guardian - Wednesday June 20, 2007Mark-Anthony Turnage's new work About Water is a kind of a song-cycle comprising folk songs, spirituals and standards, intertwined with new tunes by Turnage and jazz singer Barb Jungr, and interspersed with instrumental interludes.If its premiere with the London Sinfonietta under Stefan Asbury is anything to go by, 70 minutes is too long

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By Keith BruceFrom The Herald - June 20 2007The Master of the Queen's Music may now be well into his seventies, but Sir Peter Maxwell Davies is not much given to reminiscing. Apart from anything else, he doesn't have the time, as we shall see. Nonetheless, on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the festival he founded on Orkney, "Max", as he is universally known, can be persuaded to look back

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By Bernard HollandFrom the New York Times - June 19, 2007The Emerson String Quartet ended its long and busy residency at Carnegie Hall on Sunday night fittingly, with Beethoven’s farewell to the medium but also with a new piece by Kaija Saariaho. In the last three weeks the Emerson has coached and presented young ensembles and itself gone through the Beethoven repertory onstage, adding other

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By Michael RoddyFrom Reuters - Mon Jun 18, 2007Composer Thomas Ades has scored the pounding beat of a dance club for orchestra, got a soprano to sing a breathtaking 17 high E's in her first minute onstage and ended a concerto by slamming down a piano lid.Just don't call him the "wunderkind of British music" anymore. On March 1, the Londoner whose prodigious talent has taken the music world by

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By Ben DowellFrom The Guardian - Sunday June 17, 2007One is a painfully short Essex boy who went to Oxford, became one of the foremost satirists of his generation and had four marriages and numerous glamorous girlfriends before his untimely death in 2002.The other is one of Britain's most respected composers who now lives in quiet isolation on the remote Orkney island of Sanday and is the Master

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By Anthony TommasiniFrom the New York Times - June 13, 2007All four of the resident orchestras at the Royal Festival Hall — the London Philharmonic, the Philharmonia Orchestra, the London Sinfonietta and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment — took part in the grand and substantive gala concert on Monday night to reinaugurate the hall after a major two-year, $234 million renovation. The

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By Vivien SchweitzerFrom PlaybillArts.com - 22 May 2007Michael Arnold, a longtime friend of composer Peter Maxwell Davies and the husband of Davies's manager, has been arrested in connection with the possible embezzlement of £500,000 from the composer's bank accounts. The 73-year-old Arnold was arrested and questioned in London last week about money missing from Davies's business account. He was

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By Robert BealeFrom Manchester Evening News - 7/ 5/2007The Manchester cello festival, founded by Ralph Kirshbaum over 20 years ago, has become an extraordinary gathering, not only of young enthusiasts (and there many of them) but also of the world’s great virtuosi. Indeed it seems as if hardly any these days dare not be present. And the death of Mstislav Rostropovich – who was to have been

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By Chris PaslesFrom the Los Angeles Times - May 6, 2007Armenian composer Tigran Mansurian may not be a household name. But in his homeland, in Armenian diaspora communities, and in Europe's new music circles, he is regarded as Armenia's greatest living composer. Recently, he's been getting even wider notice.The tastemaking German label ECM has issued four CDs of his music ("Monodia" was nominated

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By Alan CooperFrom The Herald - June 23 2007The winner of the University of Aberdeen Music Prize 2007 was, like the first prizewinner in 2005, a young composer from South Korea. Woojun Lee wins a cash prize of £5000. More valuable still for a young composer, he receives a commission from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra for a new work to be premiered in the Music Hall next year.This prize is

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By Allan KozinFrom the New York Times - April 27, 2007Mstislav Rostropovich, a cellist and conductor who was renowned not only as one of the great instrumentalists of the 20th century, but also as an outspoken champion of artistic freedom in Russia during the final decades of the Cold War, died in Moscow on Friday. He lived in Paris, with homes in Moscow, St. Petersburg, London and Lausanne,

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By Kenneth WaltonFrom The Scotsman - Thu 19 Apr 2007The Scottish Chamber Orchestra (SCO) is to add a fresh dimension to the Edinburgh concert scene next season with a brand new series of rush-hour concerts called CL@SIX, to be held on a single Tuesday each month in the centrally located St Cuthbert's Parish Church. It's one of several neat mini-packages outlined in yesterday's launch of the

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By Vivien SchweitzerFrom PlaybillArts.com - April 19, 2007For John Adams, it seems, one Chamber Symphony isn't enough. This fall, taking a cue from Frankenstein movies, he follows up his 1993 score with Son of Chamber Symphony, whose world premiere will be a high point in the 2007-08 season of Stanford Lively Arts, the performing arts series at Stanford University in California's Silicon

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By Sir Peter Maxwell DaviesThe Guardian - Tuesday April 10, 2007Keynote speech for the Incorporated Society of Musicians annual conference, April 12, 2007.In De Divisione Naturae, written in the 9th century, Erigena, more popularly known as John the Scot, wrote: "musica innata est quaedam communis secundam seipsam delectatio" - that is, "music, by its very nature, is a delight to everyone". In

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From Classical-Composers.org - 19 March 2007The “Yun Isang Peace Foundation” has announced that it will buy the home in Berlin where Isang Yun lived. They plan to turn it into a memorial venue called “Yun Isang House”.The goal of the foundation is to turn the house into a base for Asian and European musical exchanges. It is scheduled to open at the end of this year or maybe early next year.

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Joshua Kosman, Chronicle Music CriticFrom SFGate.com - Saturday, February 24, 2007Like some fairy tale spring that never runs dry, the eloquence and freshness of Mozart's music continue to inspire composers two and a half centuries after his death.The latest opus to draw on those strains is "A Flowering Tree," John Adams' new opera of love and redemption that gets its U.S. premiere beginning

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By Jeremy Eichler, Globe StaffFrom Boston.com - February 23, 2007I have never actually witnessed the atmospheric wonder known as the Northern Lights, but with its bright bursts of color against a vast arctic sky, it must be similar to the music of Kaija Saariaho. This excellent Finnish composer is a master of sonic iridescence, a creator of blazing nightscapes for orchestra. One of her earlier

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By Jeremy Eichler, Globe StaffFrom Boston.com - February 17, 2007When the BSO turned 125 last season, the orchestra celebrated with a raft of commissions. The completed works have been trickling in, and the coming weeks will bring premieres of pieces by Kaija Saariaho and Gunther Schuller. This week, the orchestra, under James Levine, is unveiling Charles Wuorinen's Eighth Symphony ("

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"I'm not going through this again in a hurry", says composer-conductor after New York concerto premièreBy Vesa Sirén in New York CityFrom HELSINGIN SANOMAT - Friday 27.4.2007Esa-Pekka Salonen is threatened with a new experience in New York: a day off! "It will be the first since August", says the Finn, who has just put himself through the mill in composing - and then conducting - a new piano

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By Vivien SchweitzerFrom PlaybillArts.com - 31 Jan 2007London's Southbank Centre has unveiled the lineup for its first season in the renovated and acoustically improved Royal Festival Hall.Following two years of refurbishments costing a total of £111 million, the RFH will reopen on June 8 with a 48-hour celebration featuring professional and amateur musicians, from choirs to marching bands.On

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By Vivien SchweitzerFrom PlaybillArts.com - 30 Jan 2007Hans Graf will mark his seventh season as music director of the Houston Symphony with such leading soloists as Evelyn Glennie, Martha Argerich and Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg; the world premiere of a trombone concerto; and a semi-staged performance of A Midsummer Night’s Dream with Mendelssohn's complete incidental music.The season opens on

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By Vivien SchweitzerFrom PlaybillArts.com - 24 Jan 2007Pianists Martha Argerich, Murray Perahia and Marc-André Hamelin; violinists Midori and Anne-Sophie Mutter; conductors Colin Davis, Osmo Vänskä and William Christie; singers Dmitri Hvorostovsky and Joyce DiDonato; the Russian National, Budapest Festival and London Symphony Orchestras — these are among the many stars set to appear during

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Philip Hensher on the trouble with classical music and child prodigiesWednesday January 24, 2007 - The GuardianThe London Symphony Orchestra is not best known for its interest in new music. So when the LSO records the Fifth Symphony of a contemporary composer, you would be right in thinking there was something unusual about it - even before seeing the oddly fresh face of the composer on the CD

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By Vivien SchweitzerFrom PlaybillArts.com - 22 Jan 2007Christoph Eschenbach will mark his last season as music director of the Philadelphia Orchestra with premieres, homages to the upcoming Bernstein and Messiaen anniversaries, and a performance of Mahler's gargantuan "Symphony of a Thousand."Given Eschenbach's impending departure — announced last October and reportedly due to tension with the

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By Vivien SchweitzerFrom PlaybillArts.com - 21 Dec 2006Swiss conductor Michel Tabachnik, 64, was acquitted for the second time yesterday of his alleged role in the mass suicides of members of a doomsday cult in the mid-1990s, report the Canadian Press and Associated Press.A French appeals court in Grenoble upheld Tabachnik's 2001 acquittal by a lower court; the new trial reportedly produced no

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By Vivien SchweitzerJanuary 12, 2007From PlaybillArts.comRamon Humet, a 38-year-old composer from Barcelona, has won the Olivier Messiaen Prize, the top award in the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal's new composition competition. The results were announced immediately following the finals concert on Wednesday (January 10) at the Théâtre Maisonneuve in Montreal's Place des Arts, where the OSM,

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Orkney council blocks ceremonyHell’s Angel lined up to take serviceBy David ListerFrom The Times - January 06, 2007It was never likely to match the glamour of Sir Elton John and David Furnish, but the gay wedding of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Master of the Queen’s Music, and his long-term partner was expected to be every bit as sensational.In probably the most bizarre event planned for the remote

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'Crouching Tiger' Composer Ready for MetBy Martin SteinbergFrom SFGate.com - Tuesday, December 19, 2006He collected folk songs in villages in his native China, then planted rice during the Cultural Revolution. Later, he played music on the streets of New York to buy food.Now, composer Tan Dun is making his Metropolitan Opera debut."The First Emperor," starring Placido Domingo in the title role of

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London Sinfonietta / Knussen, Queen Elizabeth HallBy Keith Potter - 14 December 2006There was music by Hans Werner Henze in both these concerts. Under Oliver Knussen, the London Sinfonietta offered Kammerkonzert 05, the latest of several revisions to his First Symphony of 1947. An awkward combination of Hindemithian earnestness, some rewardingly unforced lyricism and a little naughty

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Transforming AdrianaThis month, the New York Philharmonic presents the world premiere of Adriana Songs, Kaija Saariaho’s song cycle adapted from her highly praised opera, Adriana Mater.By ARLO McKINNON - December 2006Adriana Mater, Kaija Saariaho's second opera, is set in a war zone in an unspecified country at an unspecified time (although at the work's premiere, most reviewers indicated that

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Transforming AdrianaThis month, the New York Philharmonic presents the world premiere of Adriana Songs, Kaija Saariaho’s song cycle adapted from her highly praised opera, Adriana Mater.By ARLO McKINNON - December 2006Adriana Mater, Kaija Saariaho's second opera, is set in a war zone in an unspecified country at an unspecified time (although at the work's premiere, most reviewers indicated that

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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2101-2465707,00.htmlEarlier that afternoon, in the Town Hall, Thomas Zehetmair had conducted the Northern Sinfonia in beautifully played tributes to Ligeti. Then, joined by the soprano Patricia Rozario and violist Ruth Kilius, they gave the first performance of Farness, John Casken’s somewhat over-written, over-heated setting of three slight poems by Carol

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British composer's 20-year opera quest ends with Paris premiereBy Angelique ChrisafisFrom the Guardian, Saturday November 25, 2006He has been dubbed a British Mozart, a child prodigy who began composing at the age of nine and at 20 became the youngest composer to have a work performed at the Proms.But George Benjamin, one of Britain's most enigmatic and important contemporary composers, has

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World premiere of King's composer's first operaFrom Huliq.com - 22 November, 2006Into the Little Hill, composed by George Benjamin, the internationally renowned composer and conductor and Henry Purcell Professor of Composition at King's, premieres in Paris tonight (22 November). The opera marks the centrepiece of a retrospective of Professor Benjamin's works by the 35th Festival d'Automne.The

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By Lynne WalkerFrom The Independent - 22 November 2006Huddersfield's Contemporary Music Festival has had a sticky time of late with this, the 29th festival, curated by the third consecutive director in as many years. But its future now looks more certain under the artistic leadership of Graham McKenzie. The highlights of the 50 or so events this year included a retrospective of the music of

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What Would Debussy Do? Three Composers Have IdeasBy Anthony TommasiniFrom the New York Times - November 20, 2006In 1915 Debussy began a project to compose six sonatas for diverse instruments. Ill with cancer, he lived to complete only three of them: the eclectically scored and delicate Sonata for Flute, Viola and Harp; the restless and deceptively humorous Sonata for Cello and Piano; and the

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Musica Viva returns to its roots in 'Made in Germany'By Jeremy EichlerFrom boston.com (The Boston Globe) - November 20, 2006Music Viva's concert on Friday night was aptly titled "Made in Germany." It was the first of two German-themed programs, but the title also had a reflexive ring to it, since the ensemble's own name was, in a way, made in Germany as well. When Richard Pittman founded the

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Mutter still takes her music seriouslyBy David PerkinsFrom boston.com (The Boston Globe) - November 14, 2006Every so often, Anne-Sophie Mutter says, someone finds a quote she gave an interviewer a decade ago about retiring early, and she has to explain herself all over again.Since she is among the world's great violinists, one of the few with the big, round tone of such old masters as Zino

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Covering Feldman, Garland and the BeatlesBy Mark SwedFrom calendarlive.com (LA Times) - November 14, 2006Aki Takahashi, who made a rare Los Angeles appearance at REDCAT on Sunday night, is an elegant pianist with an incandescent tone and the patience of a saint. When she brings into being an exquisite, weightless chord and allows it to slowly die out, radiant overtones linger amazingly long in

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Soprano's Bare Breasts Fail to Save Friedkin's Munich `Salome'By Shirley ApthorpFrom Bloomberg.com - Oct. 30, 2006By the time her stepfather Herodes starts sucking Salome's naked breasts, it is clear that nothing will save William Friedkin's Munich staging of the 1905 Richard Strauss opera about the petulant veiled princess.Director Friedkin, better known in cinema circles ('The Exorcist', '12

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Conductor faces cult death trialFrom BBC News - Tuesday, 24 October 2006A Franco-Swiss orchestra conductor has gone on trial in France for the second time over alleged involvement in the deaths of members of a doomsday cult.Michel Tabachnik was cleared by a French court in 2001, but prosecutors appealed against the verdict. The 64 year old is being charged over the deaths of 16 people who were

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By Alfred HicklingFrom the Guardian - Monday October 23, 2006You don't expect decent summers in Orkney. But, according to Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, this year was particularly atrocious. He was sitting in his local inn one evening when the first shaft of sunlight broke through: the whole village immediately danced in celebration.Maxwell Davies knew he had to capture the moment, and the result

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'I had to write it'From the Guardian - Thursday October 19, 2006Oliver Knussen tells Tom Service why he read 1,700 Emily Dickinson poems in order to compose a requiem for his former wife SueComposer Oliver Knussen lives in what might well be Britain's most musically auspicious spot. His home is a rambling house in Snape, Suffolk, just up the road from where Benjamin Britten lived in Aldeburgh,

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By Jay NordlingerFrom NYSun.com - October 17, 2006Elliott Carter has many friends in the music world — friends among performers — but he has no better one than James Levine. Mr. Levine programs him about as much as he does Mozart. And, in fact, Mr. Levine had both Carter and Mozart on his program Sunday afternoon. This was a concert of the Met Chamber Ensemble.Earlier this year, Mr. Carter

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By Brian BrooksFrom indiewire.com - October 17, 2006(...) Other planned LJ films include a political thriller about famous Korean composer Isang Yun who was charged with leading a North Korean spy ring and later tortured by South Korea's intelligence service (being developed with Germany's Pandora Film). (...) "This may be the first feature film that is shot in North Korea," said Lee about the "

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Written with the stars in mindA composer, an author and some heavenly voices combine for an anthem to the spirit of AustraliaBy Angela BennieFrom SMH.com.au - October 16, 2006There are not many Australian composers who can boast a reputed audience of 3 billion people for a performance of their work, but Ross Edwards can.His was the music that heralded in the dawn and the new millennium, performed

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By Rowena SmithFrom The Guardian - Tuesday October 10, 2006Like Paul Hindemith, that other violist-turned-composer before her, Sally Beamish has a special affinity for her instrument. Under the Wing of the Rock, commissioned by the Scottish Ensemble for Lawrence Power, is effectively her third viola concerto, though it differs from her previous works in being scored for a 12-strong string group

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Trusting in the mysterious processEarly in his career, Ross Edwards worried the music would dry up if he took a break, but now he can wait for the eureka moment.By Matthew WestwoodFrom The Australian - October 12, 2006Chasing the muse can be a soul-destroying business for a composer. All that lying in bed at night, swatting at musical ideas like so many mosquitos in a stuffy room. Ross Edwards

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By Vivien SchweitzerFrom PlaybillArts.com - 12 Oct 2006Five candidates have been announced for the finals of the Montreal Symphony's first International Composition Prize: Britain's Luke Stoneham, France's Raphaël Cendo, Ramon Humet and Eneko Vadillo Pérez of Spain, and Canada's Paul Frehner.The competition has thus far been held behind closed doors, but the public is invited to the finals on

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Tribute to a modest man with the common touchBy Kenneth WaltonFrom Scotsman.com - Mon 11 Sep 2006'Some composers blaze trails; others go along behind clearing the path and trying to encourage that direction - I'm one of those composers." These words, by John Bevan Baker, sum up the modest and honest integrity of a composer who lived a quiet life in Scotland up to his death 12 years ago. And were

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Tv-kanaal met louter klassieke muziekDoor Remmelt Otten, Elske SchoutenBron: NRC, 07-09-06Nederland krijgt een televisiezender met alleen maar klassieke muziek. Het gaat om een zogenoemd digitaal kanaal dat alleen te zien zal zijn tegen betaling: in een pluspakket van een kabelabonnement of via internettelevisie. De zender wordt opgezet door RTL, het grootste Nederlandse televisiebedrijf, dat op

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Warner Music may have stopped making new recordings, there is a plethora of online CD ordering available.1. ComposersThe MaxOpus Newsletter (August 31) presents 10 additional recordings to the phenomenal database of over 100 pieces now. Peter Maxwell Davies rules!The Internationale Isang Yun Gesellschaft issues CDs, which number 5 at this moment.2. PerformersThe Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra (RCO

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The First Look at ‘The First Emperor’By Anthony TommasiniFrom the New York Times - September 10, 2006There is nothing more exciting than the premiere of a new work that seems destined to stick with you from the moment it starts.I may forever associate the 2005-6 season with the premiere of Peter Lieberson’s “Neruda Songs,” commissioned by James Levine and the Boston Symphony Orchestra and

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Midwestern SynergyBy Bernard HollandFrom the New York Times - September 10, 2006Of the few weeds that crop up in the well-mowed lawn that is the New York Philharmonic’s coming season, one of the more welcome is native to the Midwest. David Robertson, taking a week off from his music director’s job at the St. Louis Symphony, will conduct music by Kaija Saariaho, Debussy and Sibelius (Dec. 14 to 16

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Peace Concerts to Commemorate Isang Yun’s BirthdayBy Cathy Rose A. GarciaFrom The Korea Times - 09-06-2006A series of 'world peace' concerts commemorating the 89th birthday of the late Korean composer Yun Isang will be held in Korea, Japan, Germany and North Korea over the next two months.The Isang Yun World Peace Concert 2006, organized by the Isang Yun Peace Foundation, will kick off at the

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Top Quebec composer dies of liver cancer at 80From Canada.com (Ottawa Citizen) - September 6, 2006Clermont Pepin, an influential Quebec composer of the 20th century, died Saturday in Montreal at 80. His widow, violinist Mildred Goodman, said the cause was liver cancer.Born in St-Georges-de-Beauce, Mr. Pepin received his music education in Montreal (with Arthur Letondal and Claude Champagne),

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By Ben HogwoodFrom MusicOMH.com - September 3, 2006Jiri Belohlavek's first full season as chief conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra shows promise in a series of concerts that reaffirms the ensemble’s commitment to contemporary music, whilst exploring some familiar masterworks.In the course of seven concerts Belohlavek will also conduct music by compatriots Janácek, Dvorák and Eben. A busy

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Cleveland Orchestra Opens European Festival TourBy Matthew WestphalFrom PlaybillArts.com - 31 Aug 2006Franz Welser-Möst and the Cleveland Orchestra open a two-week European festival tour tonight with their first performance ever in the tiny Alpine principality of Liechtenstein."It's the first tour where at the beginning and end of a tour I can sleep in my own bed," Welser-Möst told the Cleveland

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By George HallFrom The Guardian - Wednesday August 30, 2006It's surprising to see a composer of whom Pierre Boulez approves being championed by an outfit that more regularly specialises in light music, but the latest piece by Dai Fujikura was premiered in the BBC Concert Orchestra's Prom under its new principal guest conductor, Charles Hazlewood.Crushing Twister developed from a chance encounter

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At Mostly Mozart, Mostly Magnus, in a Concerto and Chamber Pieces By Allan KozinnFrom the New York Times - August 24, 2006Contemporary music, of all things, ruled the evening in a pair of Mostly Mozart programs on Tuesday. In the main concert, at Avery Fisher Hall, Louis Langrée led the orchestra in two Mozart overtures and a piano concerto, but the main draw was the premiere of a hefty new

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Swiss composer Wildberger dead at 84From The Australian - August 25, 2006Jacques Wildberger, widely considered the most important Swiss composer of the 20th century, died aged 84, fellow composer Heinz Hollinger said today.Wildberger was born in Basel on January 3, 1922. He died yesterday at his home in Riehen, in the Basel canton, Hollinger said.In 1944 the composer joined the Swiss Party of

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New angels help opera evolveBy David Patrick StearnsFrom Philly.com (Philadelphia Inquirer) - Wed, Aug. 23, 2006Typically, when a great American play is turned into a potentially great American opera, the news is trumpeted from the skies, or at least from one of the big-city opera houses. Not with Our Town - Ned Rorem's opera version of the classic Thornton Wilder play - whose quieter, more

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Paula Robison to Premiere New Flute Work by Michael Tilson ThomasBy Vivien SchweitzerFrom PlaybillArts.com - 18 Aug 2006Flutist Paula Robison and pianist Ken Noda will give the world premiere of Michael Tilson Thomas's Notturno on September 15 at Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall in New York.The rest of the program covers 19th- and 20th-century works for flute with and without accompaniment:

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Lament for fame's first victimBy Matthew WestwoodFrom The Australian - August 18, 2006The English poet Rupert Brooke would almost be forgotten today were it not for his famous verse, written in the first year of World War I, about a "corner of a foreign field/ That is for ever England".Now an opera has been written about Brooke by an Australian librettist and composer. The Hive, by Sam Sejavka

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Don't be fooled by all the lightnessBy Mark SwedFrom calendarlive.com (LA Times) - August 10, 2006"When I think of SummerFest, I think of parties," the lightweight New York composer Bruce Adolphe is quoted as saying in an article celebrating the 20th anniversary of the La Jolla chamber music festival in this summer's program book."The festival," he continues, "has more parties than any other

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From BBC.co.uk - Wednesday, 2 August 2006The final section of Sir Edward Elgar's most famous series of music has been completed and will be heard for the first time at a Proms concert. The sixth instalment of the Worcestershire composer's Pomp And Circumstance Marches has been finished by Elgar expert Anthony Payne.Bits of Elgar's work on the section were found in the library of the Royal School

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By James ChuteFrom SignOnSanDiego - July 30, 2006Take the music of Robert Schumann. Add the works of Berg, some early Schoenberg and, for good measure, Mozart. Put it in a blender . . .“And you pretty much get Leon's music,” said Daniel Phillips, violinist with the Orion String Quartet. The Orion will premiere Leon Kirchner's Fourth String Quartet next Sunday at the La Jolla Music Society's

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Shadowy start, brilliant climaxBy Barry MillingtonFrom ThisIsLondon.co.uk (Evening Standard) - 28 July 2006In view of criticisms of Proms programming this year, it is a pleasure to be able to report that last night's concert by the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra was an imaginatively conceived affair. It even featured two women soloists - though admittedly a soprano is something of a desideratum in

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Stillness and energy crying out for danceBy Matthew RyeFrom the Telegraph - 25/07/2006George Benjamin's fastidious approach to his craft and resulting slow rate of composition mean that premieres of new works from his pen aren't exactly two a penny.Dance Figures is his first large-scale work since Palimpsests of 2002 and received its first UK performance at last night's Prom a little over a year

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Music for the monarchBy Geoffrey NorrisFrom Telegraph.co.uk - 20/07/2006The Queen's presence at last night's Prom signalled a celebration for her 80th birthday that began with a new pièce d'occasion by the Master of the Queen's Music, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies.Modestly entitled A Little Birthday Music, it steered a prudent course away from the knotty arguments that Davies has pursued in some of

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The firebrand still burnsFrom Telegraph.co.uk - 13/07/2006Once a rebellious avant-gardist, Peter Maxwell Davies has just written a piece to mark the Queen's 80th birthday. But he remains fearlessly outspoken, Geoffrey Norris findsIn his younger days, Peter Maxwell Davies was the enfant terrible of modern music, challenging our sensibilities and pushing back the boundaries of what was possible in

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The firebrand still burnsBy Geoffrey NorrisFrom The Telegraph - 13/07/2006Once a rebellious avant-gardist, Peter Maxwell Davies has just written a piece to mark the Queen's 80th birthday. But he remains fearlessly outspoken.In his younger days, Peter Maxwell Davies was the enfant terrible of modern music, challenging our sensibilities and pushing back the boundaries of what was possible in terms

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The Norwegian composer has written his second work 'Concerning King' for the popular quartetFrom SoundGenerator.com - 06.7.06The Norwegian experimental composer Rolf Wallin has written a second work for the Arditti Quartet. "Concerning King" receives its world premiere in Stuttgart on July 15, 2006 as part of the ISCM World New Music Days festival. The piece is based on speeches by Martin Luther

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By Andrew ClementsFrom the Guardian - Saturday July 8, 2006A new piece for solo harp may not seem the most enticing of prospects, but one of the marks of a great composer is the ability to transcend any medium and create something totally new and unexpected. Harrison Birtwistle describes his harp piece Crowd as a study on resonance, and has taken the title from the old English word for a plucked

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By Richard MorrisonFrom the Times - July 07, 2006On a steamy evening the prospect of hearing Das Lied von der Erde crashing round the marbled walls of the Pittville Pump Room was not wholly alluring. But this Cheltenham Festival concert had so many curiosities that the trainspotter lurking deep inside me felt obliged to tick them off his personal “been there, heard that” list.For a start, this

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By Lynne WalkerFrom the Independent - 06 July 2006Martyn Brabbins clearly has a soft spot for Scotland and its culture. He first went to work with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra 15 years ago and not only carved a reputation as an extremely able conductor with a clear head and an even clearer beat, but also as a champion of the country's creative talent. Now in his second year as artistic

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