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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

– 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
– 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)

Birthdays:
– Angelo Mariani
– Robert Nathaniel Dett
– Jan van Vlijmen
Dying days:
– Franz Christoph Neubauer
– Samuel Wesley
– Anton Bruckner
– Léon Boëllmann
Events:
– (1830) Frédéric François Chopin: Premiere of piano concerto no. 1 in e minor op. 11, in Warsaw, Poland, with Chopin at the piano.
– (1897) Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin: Premiere of piano concerto in f sharp minor op. 20, in Odessa, Ukraine.
– (1952) Sergey Prokofiev: Premiere of Symphony no. 7, in Moscow, Russia.
– (1953) Olivier Messiaen: Premiere of Réveil des Oseaux, in Donaueschingen, Germany.

– Sergio Fidemraizer (10 Oct)
– 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: 10 June 1945 — Adelaide — Australia

Died:

An eclectic composer, with two main areas of interest: the life, work and ideas of Lewis Carroll (e.g. the full-length choral work "Boojum!" and the chamber work "Snark-Hunting") and the plight of the people of East Timor (e.g. "A Luta Continua" for baritone, girls choir & orchestra). He is a pioneer of audio-visual composition in Australia, and regularly tours doing concerts of audio-visual pieces such as "Welcome to the Hotel Turismo", for cello & computer, "Weapons of Mass Distortion", for clarinet & computer, and "Papua Merdeka", for bass clarinet & computer.

Martin Wesley-Smith studied composition at the University of Adelaide, South Australia, with Peter Tahourdin, Peter Maxwell Davies, Sandor Veress & Jindrich Feld. He did post-graduate studies at the University of York in England (supervisor: Richard Orton). Taught composition, computer music etc at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music from 1974 to 2000. Wesley-Smith now lives in Kangaroo Valley (two hours south of Sydney), where he composes, puts on concerts, and tends ducks.

• http://www.shoalhaven.net.au/~mwsmith

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