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Anniversaries
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Births: Confucius, philosopher, 551 BC; Alessandro Farnese,
Duke of Parma, general and diplomat, 1545; Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
Hegel, philosopher, 1770; Hermann Kipper, music teacher, critic and
composer, 1826; Heinrich Urban, composer, 1837; Umberto Giordano,
composer, 1867; Karl Haushofer, soldier and geographer, 1869;
Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser, novelist, 1871; Karl Bosch,
industrial chemist, 1874; Lloyd Cassel Douglas, novelist, 1877; The
Hon Charles Stewart Rolls, motor manufacturer...
Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles from HighBeam Research
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Guest Conductor; A brooding composer, awash in family mysteries.
The Washington Post
; THE CELLO PLAYER By Michael Kruger. Translated from the German by Andrew Shields. Harcourt. 200 pp. $23. If your Weltanschauung leans toward the jaded, the ambivalent and the unresolved, then you may well admire The Cello Player, by the German poet-novelist-publisher Michael Kruger. It is a story
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 "Futures (Cedar Falls, Iowa)")
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Composer and Clarity. (evaluation)
Futures (Cedar Falls, Iowa)
; Composer and Clarity If you gave Oscars to system developers, Composer would surely be nominated for Best Supporting Role. Composer along with its companion charting package, Clarity, offer what justly could be called a new generation of system design software. Designed to run in the Microsoft
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Perles of wisdom from top composer
Chicago Sun-Times
; The reality a composer must accept is that as far as the world is concerned, his music doesn't really exist until somebody plays it. And even when it is played, it may not duplicate the composer's vision, the sounds he heard in his imagination when he set his notes on paper. That may be the fault
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Composer Rides Island's Folk Current
The Washington Post
; Every composer must confront musical modernism at some point in his or her career. The Puerto Rican composer Roberto Sierra, whose new choral work, "Missa Latina," will receive its world premiere Thursday at the Kennedy Center, moved past that forbidding style after some encouragement from the most
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Dassault Systemes Rolls Out 3DVIA Composer Product Line
Wireless News
; Wireless News 12-02-2007 Dassault Systemes Rolls Out 3DVIA Composer Product Line WIRELESS NEWS-December 2, 2007-Dassault Systemes Rolls Out 3DVIA Composer Product Line (C)2007 10Meters - http://www.10meters.com Dassault Systmes (DS), a provider of ...
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Composer Mauricio Kagel continues to break the rules
The Boston Globe
; "I am very grateful," says Mauricio Kagel, smiling, "that I am not the very first composer." Now 66, Kagel has been writing music for nearly 50 years; with each new work he reinvents his own position in relation to his predecessors. "The metier of composer," Kagel says, "is more valuable because of
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 "The Independent (London, England)")
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HEROES & VILLAINS: Douglas Kennedy on Dmitri Shostakovich; The best-selling novelist (below) on a musical hero of the Cold War.(Features)
The Independent (London, England)
; Byline: Douglas Kennedy THERE ARE composers whom you resist at first - perhaps because you're too young and unschooled in life's immense contradictions to understand their sound world or maybe because, in plainer language, you simply don't get them. During my twenties, I certainly didn't get the
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Honoring the commissioned composer
The American Music Teacher
; ... materials. Provide publicity after the premiere performance. Be sure to acknowledge the premiere performance by sending pictures and news releases to area newspapers, radio and television stations. The state newsletter should contain a report on the first performance ...
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Witold Lutoslawski, 81, Noted Polish Composer
Chicago Sun-Times
; WARSAW World-renowned Polish composer Witold Lutoslawski, whose work once was banned by the Communist government, has died at age 81. Mr. Lutoslawski died Monday evening in Warsaw, where he studied piano and composition and later rose to the front rank of contemporary composers. "A great composer
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Maw makes his choice; eSophie"s" composer sides with tradition.(ARTS & CULTURE)
The Washington Times
; Byline: T.L. Ponick, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES Nicholas Maw may very well be the greatest contemporary composer most concertgoers have never heard of. Defying the dominant academic tradition throughout most of his career, he has composed a body of listenable, tuneful music - contemporary to
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