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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

Birthdays:
– Moritz Hauptmann
– 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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– Giovanni Giovenale Ancina (9 Oct)
– Jan Adams (Johann Adam) Reinken (8 Oct)
– Richard Englefield (8 Oct)
– John Arrigo-Nelson (8 Oct)
– Arthur Butterworth (8 Oct)
– George Butterworth (8 Oct)
– Luís Carvalho (8 Oct)
– Thomas Alexandrovich de Hartmann (2 Oct)
– Josef Antonín Gurecký (2 Oct)

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Born: 19 December 1947 — Asnières — France

Died:

• Debout sur le Solei opus 8; Chat de résurrection pour orgue sur le ‘Miserere’ de Jacques Leclercq; Primère: 10 April 1991, Church of Saint-Eustach, Paris, organ: Michel Bourcier
• Asmarâ opus9 Melt’ ân pour chœur mixte a cappella. Sur le psaume VIII éthiopien; Primère: 14 Feb. 1992, Aix-les-Bains; Michel Piquemal Vocal Ensemble
• Qsar Ghilâne; Poème symphonique op.18; Primère: 30 Sept. 2003, Théâtre des Champs-Elysèes, Paris. Ensemble orchestral de Paris conducted by John Nelson. Commissioned for the 25th birthday of the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris.

• 1947: Born in Asnières on 19 December
• 1966: Baccalauréat in experimental sciences
• 1967: University studies: Natural sciences, Literary Arabie, Ethnomusicology
• 1971–1975: Paris Conservatory, classes of Olivier Messiaen and Pierre Schaeffer as well as studies with Antoine Duhamel
• 1971–1979: 4 field trips to North Africa, Niger and the Ivory Coast
• 1978: Lili Boulanger Composition Prize
• 1979–1981: In residence in the Villa Medici, Rome
• 1981–1986: 4 field trips to Kenya
• 1981–1982: Taught composition and West African music at Kenyatta University College, Nairobi, Kenya
• 1983–1985: In residence at the Casa Velazquez, Madrid and in Palma, Majorca
• 1982–1997: 8field trips to Israel, Martinique, Polynesia, North Africa, Egypt…
• 1985: Georges Wildenstein Prize, Institut de France; Appointed teacher of analyses for traditional oral music at the Lyons Conservatory
• 1989: Grand Prix Musical de la Ville de Paris for his overall output
• 1990: Grand Prix Musical of the Fondation Prince Pierre de Monaco for Asun (Assoun, formerly Requiem de la Vierge), op. 7
• 1991: Grand Prix for Symphonic Music from the SACEM
• 1993: René Dumesnil Prize from the Académie des Beaux-Arts
• 1995: Elected member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts, Institut de France
• 1995-1997: Composer in residence with the Orchestre National de Lyon
• 2000: Field trip to Madagascar
• 2000–2002: Composer in residence with the Orchestre National des Pays de Loire
• 2002: Field trip to Sahara

• http://www.jeanlouisflorentz.org

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