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Robert Starer
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Robert Starer
Composer
Thursday, April 26, 2001
Kingston, N.Y. -- Robert Starer, a composer of operas, ballets and
orchestral works, died Sunday. He was 77.
Starer wrote several pieces for the stage, including the ballets
"Samson Agonistes" in 1961, "Phaedra" in 1962 and "The Lady of the
House of Sleep" in 1978. He also wrote the opera "Pantagleize," ...
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Obituary: Robert Starer
The Independent - London
; THERE CAN'T have been many RAF pilots in the Second World War who came to the task from pre-war Vienna via Jerusalem, and fewer still who went on to become leading composers. But that dislocated background may have helped give Robert Starer the clear-sighted anti- sentimentality that makes his
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Harmony of Prose; Robert Starer and the Autobiography of a Composer
The Washington Post
; ... be piqued if he becomes more noted for his words than his music, but one must be grateful for good news in whatever form it arrives. The good news about "Continuo" is that it is an exemplary memoir; one scarcely needs to be a student of contemporary ...
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Obituaries: Robert Starer
Opera News
; ROBERT STARER, Vienna, Austria, January 8, 1924 - Kingston, New York, April22, 2001 The composer began his musical education at thirteen, at the State Academy of Music in Vienna. After the annexation of Austria by Hitler, Starer continued his studies at the Palestine Conservatory in Jerusalem and
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A MUSICIAN'S UP-TEMPO ESSAYS
The Boston Globe
; CONTINUO. A Life in Music, by Robert Starer. Random House. 206 pp. $16.95. Illustrated. The composer Robert Starer has led a colorful life. Born in Vienna, he studied at the State Academy of Music there. One day in 1938 a Brownshirt came in and announced that all Jewish students were expelled and
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COMPANY FEUD GETS 1ST DAY IN COURT.(BUSINESS)
The Virginian Pilot
; Byline: MARC DAVIS, STAFF WRITER NORFOLK -- For three years, R. Alan Fuentes has promised to make life miserable for his rival, Robert L. Starer, the man he accuses of stealing his Virginia Beach company, Computer Dynamics Inc. For three years, Fuentes has tried to force a showdown with Starer, to
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