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Births: Nicolaus Copernicus (Mikolaj Kopernik), astronomer,
1473; David Garrick, actor, 1717; Richard Cumberland, playwright,
1732; Luigi Boccherini, cellist and composer, 1743; Sir William
Fairbairn, engineer, 1789; Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, geologist,
1792; Adelina Patti, soprano, 1843; Hans Dahl, painter, 1849;
Svante August Arrhenius, physicist, 1859; Sven Anders Hedin,
explorer, 1865; Alvaro Obregon, revolutionary and president of
Mexico, 1880; Merle Oberon (Estelle Merl...
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Harold Pinter: Fighting cancer but still manages to produce a searing new play Harold Pinter has devised a new radio play for his 75th birthday. Alice Jones listens to it with the playwright, who explains why he is reworking former triumphs
Belfast Telegraph
; As he approaches his 75th birthday on Monday, Harold Pinter appears frail and gaunt, leaning heavily on a walking stick decorated, somewhat incongruously, with sparkly stickers. When we meet to celebrate the unveiling of his latest work, Voices, he tells me: "I'm exhausted, I'm at the end of my
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 "Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)")
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The star pupil of `Black Dot'? A character, and a composer.(ENTERTAINMENT)
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
; Byline: Gwendolyn Freed; Staff Writer Any composer talented enough to be championed by Aaron Jay Kernis and unpretentious enough to call Kernis an incredibly supportive guy whose music became a renewed vision for me when I was in a musical slump is a composer whose work has a good chance of ringing
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Composer with a conscience
The Northern Echo
; WHEN she was teaching, composer and musician Nicola LeFanu became aware that women were getting a raw deal in the music world. "I'd had some success and it was up to me to stand up and speak for them, " she says. "I was probably in my 30s and my pupils were starting to have their own careers. I
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Scranton composer Richard Wargo sees his dreams coming true.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
; PHILADELPHIA _ It almost seems natural for an opera composer to run an elevator to earn existence money. A composer's life, after all, is full of ups and downs. The image is not lost on Richard Wargo, the Scranton composer who is suddenly riding the up car in Philadelphia. His ``Chekov Trilogy''
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A Diamond Mine; Ensemble Compiles Demanding Composer's String Quartets
The Washington Post
; It has been said that the late Virgil Thomson's operas caught on only once the prickly composer and critic had vanished from the scene and producers no longer had to deal with him on a personal basis. One of Thomson's younger colleagues, the American composer David Diamond, is still very much with
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Lyric names Gordon Freeman composer in residence
Chicago Defender
; Lyric Opera of Chicago's Brena and Lee Freeman Sr. Composer in Residence program has named Ricky Ian Gordon as its seventh composer in Residence. Gordon, 44, is a prolific and highly talented composer whose works in music theater, opera, ballet, film and song have been performed around the world
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 "The Independent (London, England)")
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COVER STORY: Menace set to music; Harold Pinter has devised a new radio play for his 75th birthday. ALICE JONES listens to it with the playwright, who explains why he is reworking former triumphs.(Features)
The Independent (London, England)
; Byline: His life and loves: (clockwise from left) Pinter in 1970; with his first wife Vivien Merchant and their son; with his second wife, Lady Antonia Fraser, just after their wedding As he approaches his 75th birthday on Monday, Harold Pinter appears frail and gaunt, leaning heavily on a walking
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From a Popular Composer, More Than Meets the Ear
Forward
; Gelfand, Alexander Forward 02-24-2006 If you had to choose a single word to describe the contemporary Jewish music scene, "eclectic" would be a good one. The klezmer revival of the 1970s begat klezmer-jazz, which in turn begat klezmer-funk, klezmer-punk and scores of other klezmer-hyphenates, all
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MEDIA WATCH: Composer/playwright Lawrence Edward Tooks, 59, dies
New York Amsterdam News
; Abiola Sinclair New York Amsterdam News 01-20-1996 MEDIA WATCH: Composer/playwright Lawrence Edward Tooks, 59, dies. An obviously affected George Tooks came by on Thursday ...
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Flyboy; A playwright who once tried to take wing off the garage roof and a composer who loved to hide in trees are doing an all-new musical `Peter Pan.' Where? At Peter and Wendy's playhouse.(VARIETY)
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
; 1/3 Peter Pan could have been fatal for playwright Timothy Mason. As a child in the 1950s, he watched the annual TV broadcasts of the stage musical version starring Mary Martin, and believed her literally when she sang, You can fly! He started jumping off the sofa and ended up on the garage roof
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