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– Thu 10 Jul: A Musical and Visual Tour of Scotland Macphail Theatre, Ullapool, Scotland
– Thu 10 Jul: GUBAIDULINA'S PERCEPTION - IN PARIS,COMPOSER Present Salle Cortot, Paris, France
– Wed 16 Jul: Pops in Outer Space Columbus Park,Stamford, CT
– Thu 17 Jul: Five Centuries of Great Duets East Meadow, NY, USA
– Sun 20 Jul: Workshop for Contemporary Music Termoli (CB) - Italy

– Fitkin to be Composer in Residence in London 16 Jun 2008
– Composer Hay finds back score after 35 years 30 May 2008
– Sibelius plaque unveiled in Berlin 24 Apr 2008
– Lost Bach composition found back 22 Apr 2008

Birthdays:
– Zoran Bozanic
– David Diamond
– Ingolf Dahl
– Elisabeth Lutyens
– Robert Oboussier
Dying days:
– Randall Thompson
– Oscar van Hemel
– Alexander Gedike
– Giovanni Battista Bononcini
– Johann Rudolf Ahle
Events:
– (1989) Edison Denisov: Premiere of the clarinet concerto, in Lübeck, Germany.
– (1978) Aribert Reimann: Premiere of Lear, in Munich, Germany.
– (1962) Mauricio Kagel: Premiere of Heterophonie, in Darmstadt, Germany.
– (1957) Karl Amadeus Hartmann: Premiere of Simplicius Simplicissimus (new version), in Mannheim, Germany.

– Gabriel Erkoreka (17 Jun)
– Miguel Álvarez Fernández (17 Jun)
– Edward Gonçalves Pinto (17 Jun)
– George Frederic Pinto (17 Jun)
– André Miranda (17 Jun)
– Artur Santos (17 Jun)
– Martin Wesley-Smith (17 Jun)
– Arturo Márquez (17 Jun)
– Giorgos Kyriakakis (17 Jun)
– Thomas Brendan Wilson (17 Jun)

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Born: 7 May 1936 — Winchcombe — England

Died: 13 December 1981 — London — England

Includes:

• Octet ‘59 for six woodwind, violin and double-bass (1959)
• Autumn ‘60 (orchestra of any instruments, 1960)
• Octet ‘61 (partly graphic)
• February Pieces for piano (1959-61)
• Volo Solo for any handy musical instrument (1964)
• Solo with accompaniment for 2 performers (1964)
• Sextet: The Tiger’s Mind (text piece) (1967)
• 3 Winter Potatoes for piano (1961-5)
• Treatise (1963-69), graphic score for any means of realization
• The Great Learning (1968, after Confucius; revised 1972 in the light of Mao-Tse Tung) for non-singing chorus
• The East is Red (1972)
• Arrangements of Chinese Revolutionary Songs (1972-3)
• Piano Album (1973)
• Thaelmann Variations for piano (1974)
• Boolavogue for 2 pianos

Choirboy at Canterbury Cathedral. Studied at the Royal Academy of Music, London (1953-7) and in Cologne (1957-8); assistant to Stockhausen in the scoring of the latter’s ‘Carre’. From 1961 in London worked as a graphic artist, whence the extraordinary graphic score Treatise. Some study with Goffredo Petrassi in Italy in the early 1960s. Appeared regularly as a performer of works by Stockhausen, Feldman, Cage, Wolff etc. and collaborated extensively with the pianist John Tilbury. Became involved in improvisation (with the jazz-derived AMM Ensemble) and founded the Scratch Orchestra (of trained and untrained players) in 1969. From 1971 he embraced Maoist concepts of politically-committed socialist art; published the book ‘Stockhausen serves Imperialism’ (1974); repudiated indeterminacy, turned to a more conventional (or, less elitist) musical vocabularty and wrote works implicitly or explicitly supportive of the Irish liberation struggle. He was killed when run down by a car; the circumstances have never been properly investigated.

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