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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

– Tue 7 Oct: Simon Mulligan performs an all-Chopin recital on Chopin's Pleyel piano Hatchlands House, Surrey, UK
– Fri 10 Oct: Italian Music Curtiss Hall in the Fine Arts Building, 430 S. Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL, USA
– Sun 12 Oct: Stern Showcase Recital Palace Theater 61 Atlantic Street, Stamford CT 06901
– Sun 12 Oct: Birthday Tribute to Luciano Pavarotti Ventura College Theater,Ventura, California, USA
– Wed 15 Oct: Iron Rain Finlandia Hall, Helsinki, Finland

Birthdays:
– William Billings
– Max Keller
– Wilhelm Bernhard Molique
– Felix Draeseke
– Marcello Abbado
Dying days:
– Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry
– Wouter Paap
– Hermann Schröder (1)
– Harold Truscott
– Arthur Victor Berger
Events:
– (1909) Nikolay Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov: Premiere of The Golden Cockerel, in Moscow, Russia.
– (1964) Humphrey Searle: Premiere of Symphony no. 5, in Manchester, England.
– (1981) Aribert Reimann: Premiere of Die Vogelscheuchen, in Berlin, Germany.
– (2001) Peter Wallin: First performances of "Symphony No. 4" & "After the punch", in Esbjerg, Denmark.

– Thomas Alexandrovich de Hartmann (2 Oct)
– Josef Antonín Gurecký (2 Oct)
– Albert William Ketèlbey (2 Oct)
– Franz von Holstein (2 Oct)
– August Harder (2 Oct)
– Henri Hardouin (2 Oct)
– Henry Harington (2 Oct)
– George Ivanovich Gurdjieff (2 Oct)
– Václav Matyáš Gurecký (2 Oct)
– Guillaume IX d’Aquitaine (1 Oct)

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Born: 1934 — Russia

Died:

There is only one disc available by him on Olympia, Catalogue No. 486. The disc contains Symphonies No. 20 & 23.

Roel Groen <Groenzvbcybercomm.nl> adds the following:
A new CD appeared:
Decca 452 850-2
Symphony #22 "Let it be"
Symphony #23 "I am Jesus"
Performed by the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
conductor: Vladimir Ashkenazy

The six symphonies, 18 to 23, composed between 1976 and 1980, together form a cycle on themes from the Apocalypse with the collective title "Let it be". The other four symphonies in this cycle are called:
(18) "To He who loves us";
(19) "Blood of the Lamb";
(20) "Blessed areb the dead";
(21) "The Great City"
A friend suggested he should change the titles of his symphonies in order to try to break the ban by the Sovjet authorities. Following this suggestion eventually some of his symphonies were played. Symphony no. 19 got the name "Born for victory", no. 23 "Risen from the ashes", while the complete cycle was renamed to "Poem of Victory".

Max & Celestine <MaxCelswlink.net> add the following: There are now 2 discs of Karamanov’s music available. I purchased from Tower Records a great CD from Marco Polo #8.223796 containing the following:

• Symphony #3 (40:10)
  1. Andantino (17:37)
  2. Moderato (5:38)
  3. Andantino (7:55)
  4. Allegro (8:58)
• Piano Concerto #3 "Ave Maria" (33:23)
  1. Allegretto (12:29)
  2. Largo (6:16)
  3. Andantino (14:37)

Vladimir Viardo, Piano
Moscow Symphony Orchestra
Antonio de Almeida, Conductor

The Symphony #3 is absolutely wild. It starts with pleasant and tranquil string passages and changes into Pettersson-like clashes of conflict in the orchestra. The Piano Concerto #3 is a little more conservative and accessible in nature, but very enjoyable nonetheless (reminiscent of Rachmaninoff).

He was a co-student with Alfred Schnittke. Schnittke considered him "the most the talented student composer" at the Moscow Conservatory. Shostakovich called him "one of the most original and unique composers of our time."

• If you need more information you can contact Karamanov Society in England: (0) 1234 750843 - fax (0) 1234 751881.

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