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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:
– Bernardo Pisano
– Sylvius Leopold Weiss
– D. Pedro IV
– Ralph Vaughan Williams
– Healey Willan
Dying days:
– Giovanni Battista Vitali
Events:
– (1910) Ralph Vaughan Williams: Premiere of Symphony no. 1 “A Sea Symphony”, in Leeds, England.
– (1913) Max Reger: Premiere of Vier Tondichtungen nach Arnold Böcklin, in Essen, Germany.
– (1950) Irving Berlin: Premiere of Call Me Madam, in New York, USA.
– (1971) Andrew Lloyd Webber: Premiere of Jesus Christ Superstar, in New York, USA.

– 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: 16 November 1974 — Idaho Falls — USA

Died:

• Music Is
• Lift Up Your Heads, O Ye Gates
• Mixed-Up Mother Goose
• Puer Natus Est
• Three Songs
• Stopping By Woods On a Snowy Evening
• Set Me as a Seal
• Remember Me
• Cradle Song
• The Snow
• I Love the Lord
• The American Scout

Michelle Willis is a graduate of Ricks College (now BYU-Idaho) and Boise State University. She has applied her Bachelor of Arts degree in Music Education to pen commissioned works for the Idaho Chapter of the American Choral Directors Association, the Chorister’s Guild of Boise, Fifth Wheel, and Borah High School. Her works have been performed by ensembles such as the Ricks College Concert Chorale, Meridian High School Chamber Singers, Idaho Falls High School A Cappella Choir, and Boise State University Meistersingers.

In addition to her work as a composer, Mrs. Willis participates in her community as a voice, violin, and piano teacher, and as an on-call teacher in the Jordan School District. She has served as an adjudicator for music ensembles in the Utah Valley and as an instructor in the Suzuki School of Music at Albertson College of Idaho. She has given several guest lectures on her experiences with composing.

As a youth she sang in community and public school choirs, participated in school and community musical productions, and studied piano, violin, and voice. Later studies included harp, harpsichord, and various medieval instruments.

Michelle, her husband Spencer, and their daughter Melody, enjoy books, rubber stamping, music, and the outdoors.

• http://tetonmusic.com

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