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Anniversaries
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Births: Horace Walpole, fourth Earl of Orford, writer, 1717;
Samuel Rutherford Crockett, novelist, 1860; Georges Claude, inventor
of the neon light, 1870; Sir Alan (A.P.) Patrick Herbert, writer and
MP, 1890; Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, novelist, 1896; Howard Walter
Florey, Baron Florey, pathologist, 1898; Konstantin Chernenko, Soviet
leader, 1911; Sir Andrzej Panufnik, composer and conductor, 1914; Dr
Manfred Worner, secretary- general of Nato, 1934.
Deaths: William Lawes, composer...
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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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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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Webern's Atonal Recall; Boulez Sets Record Straight on Composer
The Washington Post
; Fifty-five years ago this September, the Austrian composer Anton von Webern stepped into the autumn night outside the little town of Mittersill, Austria, and lit a cigar. No one knows quite what happened next, but he found himself on the wrong end of a GI's gun, and a few hours later he was dead.
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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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John Corigliano's Touch of the Poet; Composer Adds a Stanza to His Wide-Ranging Works With 'Dylan Thomas Trilogy'
The Washington Post
; The clarinet squealed high and loud, resounding throughout the darkened recesses of New York's Avery Fisher Hall like klezmer gone mad. Composer John Corigliano, who was on hand to help rehearse his 22- year-old Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra, smiled in wonder. "This guy is so good," he
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