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6/23/2009Sir Peter Maxwell Davies has disclosed today that he is writing a comic opera about the MPs' expenses scandal, which may feature duck houses and moats.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturenews/5602200/MPs-expenses-Queens-composer-Sir-Peter-Maxwell-Davies-to-write-opera.html
Boulez wins $500,000 Kyoto prize
6/19/2009Boulez is one of the winners of this year's Kyoto Prize for “contributions to the scientific, cultural and spiritual betterment of mankind,” awarded annually by the Inamori Foundation in Japan. The foundation recognized Mr. Boulez for his contributions to the musical field of serialism, and for his “controlled chance” compositions and his work as director of IRCAM.
Huddersfield Festival details announced
6/17/2009Highlights of the 2009 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (HCMF), which takes place from Friday, November 21 – Sunday, November 29, 2009, have been announced by the Festival’s Artistic Director, Graham McKenzie.
They include in-depth explorations of the work of two leading voices in European music – the British composer Jonathan Harvey and Portugal’s most celebrated living composer, Emmanuel Nunes.
The festival’s opening concert (Friday, November 21) is to be given by the renowned Arditti Quartet with the Hilliard Ensemble, and includes the UK premiere of Et Lux, a new requiem by the German composer Wolfgang Rihm.
Maxwell Davies in the Guardian
6/16/2009My advice to a young musician? Take no notice of people like me says Peter Maxwell Davies in a question and answer session in today's guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2009/jun/16/peter-maxwell-davies-composer
Philip Glass discusses modern music with Nico Muhly
5/22/2009As he prepares for a London appearance this weekend, Philip Glass discusses the state of modern music with fellow composer Nico Muhly
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/may/22/philip-glass-nico-muhly
Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky at Cannes
5/21/2009Stravinsky – the man and the music – takes centre screen at the Cannes Film Festival in May, with the premiere of Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky selected as the festival’s finale.
The new biopic explores the relationship between the haute couture icon and the Russian composer. Central to the film is The Rite of Spring: Chanel is mesmerised by the scandalous premiere in 1913, and seven years later is introduced by Diaghilev to Stravinsky, now a penniless émigré living in Paris with his family. She invites them to stay at her new villa in Garches and, as the composer works on retouches of The Rite of Spring for a Paris revival, a mutual attraction gathers force.
Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky is based on the novel Coco & Igor by Chris Greenhalgh and directed by Jan Kounen. Mads Mikkelsen, whose credits include Le Chiffre in the Bond movie Casino Royale, stars as the composer and Coco Chanel is played by Anna Mouglalis, the actress and model associated with Karl Lagerfeld and the Chanel fashion house
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Pauline Oliveros Wins The William Schuman Award
5/20/2009Columbia University School of the Arts has announced it plans to honor composer Pauline Oliveros with the William Schuman Award in a ceremony and concert on Saturday, March 27, 2010. The award has been given periodically over the past twenty-eight years with previous winners including Schuman, David Diamond, Gunther Schuller, Milton Babbitt, Hugo Weisgall, Steve Reich, and, most recently in 2006, John Zorn.
The award is an unrestricted grant of $50,000 and is one of the largest to an American composer.
Nicholas Maw dies
5/20/2009Nicholas Maw, one of Britain's leading composers, whose works include Odyssey and the opera Sophie's Choice, has died in Washington DC, where he lived for the past 24 years, at the age of 73.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts_and_culture/8058194.stm
Gabriel Jackson appointed BBC Singers' Associate Composer
5/16/2009The BBC Singers has announced that Gabriel Jackson is to become its new Associate Composer starting from 2010. Jackson will be the third composer to take up the position, following in the footsteps of Judith Bingham, who has held the post since 2005, and Edward Cowie, who became the first BBC Singers Associate Composer in 2002.
A rising star on the choral music scene, Gabriel Jackson’s music is performed by choirs all over the world. He already has a strong relationship with the BBC Singers, who have been performing his music for over a decade. His first commission for the group was Cecilia Virgo which it premiered in Canterbury Cathedral in October 2000.
Abreu and Gabriel win Swedish Polar Music Prize
5/13/2009The rock musician Peter Gabriel and the conductor and composer Jose Antonio Abreu were both named winners of the Swedish Polar Music Prize. Gabriel was honored for his “outward-looking and boundary-busting artistry,” while Abreu was recognized for founding the Sistema music education program in Venezuela, which “has given hundreds of thousands the tools to leave poverty.” The winners were chosen by the Swedish Royal Academy of Music and will each receive about $128,000 when they formally accept the prize from King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden at a ceremony in Stockholm on Aug. 31
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