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England has lost an opera giant recently. Harrison Birtwistle, an influential English composer, passed away at 87 years old. #HarrisonBirtwistle #TheMinotaur -
Jude Kelly's U.K. Southbank Centre Announce 2014-15 Season with Birtwistle Birthday, Anna Clyne and Barenboim Playing Schubert
The Southbank Centre is seen as an arbiter of London cultural taste, especially latterly under the leadership of Jude Kelly. And after 2013-14's season, themed after the Alex Ross book The Rest Is Noise (a brilliant conceit), there is considerable interest in her follow-up. -
Birtwistle, Adès, Turnage...Oliver Knussen: Who Will Replace Sir Peter Maxwell Davies as Master of the Queen's Music?
Who is first in line for the high-profile job you can't apply for? The U.K.'s Sunday Telegraph has some ideas, as does Classicalite's James Inverne. -
Sir Harrison Birtwistle Breaks Record at British Composer Awards
Sir Harrison Birtwistle is no stranger to prizes. But being given the Instrumental solo gong at the British Composer Awards is a first even for him - it places him as the most honored composer in the history of those awards. He won the award for Gigue Machine, for solo piano...
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