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– Philip Glass gets commission from NYC Opera 30 Sep 2008
– Mauricio Kagel dies in Cologne at 76 19 Sep 2008
– New Mozart tune found in France 18 Sep 2008
– Nathan Currier wins International Sackler Award 18 Sep 2008

– Wed 15 Oct: Iron Rain Finlandia Hall, Helsinki, Finland
– Wed 15 Oct: Opera For Piano Mannes College of Music, Manhattan, New York City, USA
– Thu 16 Oct: thingNY does Berio Secret Project Robot, Brooklyn, NY (USA)
– Thu 16 Oct: Outsound and The Luggage Store Gallery New Music Series Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
– Fri 17 Oct: 23rd Annual Concert of Sacred Choral Music Cathedral of the Holy Angels, Gary, Indiana, USA

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– Elisabeth Kuyper
– Peter van Anrooy
– Enrique de Marchena
Dying days:
– Louis Ferdinand Prince von Preußen
– Rudolf Mengelberg
– Arthur Vincent Lourié
– Rebecca Clarke
Events:
– (1836) Adolphe-Charles Adam: Premiere of Le Postillon de Longjumeau, in Paris, France.
– (1908) Max Reger: Premiere of violin concerto in A major op. 101, in Leipzig, Germany.
– (1917) Modest Moussorgsky: Premiere of Sorochintsy Fair, in St. Petersburg, Russia.
– (1968) Gustaf Allan Pettersson: Premiere of Symphony no. 7, in Stockholm, Sweden.
– (1982) Leonard Bernstein: Premiere of Candide (new version), in New York, USA.

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– Thomas Alexandrovich de Hartmann (2 Oct)
– Josef Antonín Gurecký (2 Oct)

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Born: 28 October 1936 — New York — USA

Died:

Known as composer for films and television.

Films

(those marked with * are early silent films, to which Carl Davis added music):

1. Ben Hur* (film : 1925 ; music : ?)
2. Napoleon * (1927 ; 1980)
3. City Lights
4. Intolerance * (1915 ; ?)
5. The French Lieutenant’s Woman
6. The Crowd * (1928 ; 1981)
7. The Wind * (1928 ; 1983)
8. The Flesh & the Devil (1926 ; 1982)
9. Show People (1928 ; 1982)
10. Broken Blossoms (1919 ; 1983)
11. The Thief of Bagdad (1929 ; 1984)
12. The Big Parade (1925 ; 1985)
13. Greed (1924 ; 1986)
14. Old Heidelberg (1928 ; ?)
15. The Trial
16. Scandal (1989)
17. Champions(1982)
18. The Rainbow
19. Widow’s Peak
20. Anne Frank Remembered
21. The Mayor of Casterbridge
22. The Black Velvet Gown
23. Frankenstein unbound (1990)
24. Fire & Ice
25. The Last Night of the Poms
26. A Simple Man
27. Home Sweet Home
28. They never slept
29. The Bofors Gun
30. Ashenden
31. The Far Pavilions
32. Sakharov
33. The Pied Piper
34. Echoes that remain
35. Praise Marx and pass the ammunition
36. Up Pompeii
37. Up the Chastity Belt
38. What became of Jack and Jill
39. Rentadick
40. The Lovers
41. The Nation Health
42. King David
43. The Girl in a Swing

Television

1. A Year in Provence
2. The World at War
3. Pride and Prejudice (1995)
4. Our Mutual Friend
5. The Naked Civil Servant
6. Hotel du Lac
7. That was the week that was (1961)
8. Hollywood (1980)
9. Silents
10. Fame in the 20th Century
11. Destination America (1988)
12. The Snow Goose
13. Oppenheimer
14. Christmas Carol
15. The Right Prospectus
16. Mad Jack
17. The World of Coppard
18. Edward II
19. The Arrangement
20. The Grievance
21. Hells Angels
22. Arturo Ui
23. Catholics
24. The Merchant of Venice
25. The Pickwick Paper
26. Prince Regent
27. Late Starter
28. The Day the Universe changed
29. Oscar
30. Why Lockerbie
31. The Secret Life of Ian Fleming
32. The Accountant
33. Somewhere to run
34. Silas Marner
35. Winston Churchill - The Wilderness Years
36. The Last Romantics
37. Separate but Equal (parts I & II)
38. The Crucifer of Blood
39. Covington Cross
40. A Very Polish Practice

Oratorium

1. Liverpool (1991)

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