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– Thu 24 Jul: DI ALTRI ASTRI for Sax alto and Piano (Premiere) Sala Colitto,Termoli,Italy
– Sat 26 Jul: Koorconcert, Tiramisu zomerkoor Lutherse Kerk, Maastricht, Netherlands
– Sun 27 Jul: Lines and Waves in Blue Deep for 5 accordions (wp) Tenri Cultural Institute, New York, USA
– Mon 28 Jul: Trio Stravinskij: contaminations from jazz, music-hall, cabaret and American folklore Astronomical Observatory, Loiano, Italy
– Tue 29 Jul: Trio Stravinskij: contaminations from jazz, music-hall, cabaret and American folklore Church in Piazza Giovanni XIII, Tolè di Vergato, 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:
– Elliott Goldkind
– Wilfred Josephs
– Robert John Farnon
– Ernest Bloch
– Paolino Vassallo
Dying days:
– Alan Rawsthorne
– Max von Schillings
– Léon Walpot
– Padre Davide da Bergamo Felice Moretti
– Johann Gottfried Eckard
Events:
– (1964) Alberto Ginastera: Premiere of Don Rodrigo, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
– (1938) Richard Strauss: Premiere of Friedenstag, in Munich, Germany.
– (1828) Nicoló Paganini: Premiere of violin concerto no. 3 in E major, in Vienna, Austria.

– Pierre Even (18 Jul)
– Clara Schumann (17 Jul)
– Barney Childs (17 Jul)
– István Anhalt (17 Jul)
– Lowell Dijkstra (17 Jul)
– Lisa Ragsdale (17 Jul)
– Amy Scurria (16 Jul)
– Diana Rotaru (16 Jul)
– Benedictus Buns (16 Jul)
– Johannes Brahms (15 Jul)

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– Wolfgang Amadeus (Amadé) Mozart [2372]
– Antonio Vivaldi [2335]
– Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky [1798]
– Ludwig van Beethoven [1172]
– Johann Sebastian Bach [1141]
– Johann Nepomuk Hummel [1103]
– Johannes Brahms [1075]
– Antonio Salieri [1075]
– Gustav Mahler [1070]
– Georges Bizet [1041]

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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