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Harrison Birtwistle calls for 4 temple blocks in his 2008 opera The Minotaur, Magnus Lindberg calls for 5 in Seht die Sonne and Pierre Boulez for one in Notations I-IV.
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* 1934 – Harrison Birtwistle, English composer
More recently Sir Harrison Birtwistle has emerged as one of Britain's most significant contemporary composers from his first opera Punch and Judy to his most recent critical success in The Minotaur.
* Punch and Judy inspired an opera of the same name by Harrison Birtwistle in 1967.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight was adapted into an opera called Gawain by Harrison Birtwistle, first performed in 1991.
* July 15 – Harrison Birtwistle, British composer
As an homage to Schoenberg, the English composers Peter Maxwell Davies and Harrison Birtwistle founded The Pierrot Players in 1967 ; they performed under that name until 1970.
In 2009, a suite of new spaces at Snape Maltings, including the Hoffmann Building ’ s Britten Studio and the Jerwood Kiln Studio, was opened with the premiere performance of Harrison Birtwistle ’ s The Corridor.
The centenary of Britten ’ s birth will be held between November 2012 and November 2013, and the 2013 Festival, the 66th, will feature a new production by Tim Albery of Britten ’ s opera, Peter Grimes, the complete Church Parables in Orford Church and new works by Harrison Birtwistle, Wolfgang Rihm, Judith Weir, Magnus Lindberg and Richard Rodney Bennett.
He took up a post as music adviser at the nearby Bath Academy of Art and invited young composers to his house, including Harrison Birtwistle, Peter Maxwell Davies, Alexander Goehr.
Harrison Birtwistle in 2008
Sir Harrison Paul Birtwistle CH ( born 15 July 1934 ) is a British composer.
For a comprehensive list, see List of compositions by Harrison Birtwistle.
* Adlington, R., The Music of Harrison Birtwistle ( CUP, 2000 )
* Cross, J., Harrison Birtwistle: Man, Mind, Music ( Faber & Faber, 2000 )
* Hall, M., Harrison Birtwistle ( Robson Books, 1984 )
* Hall, M., Harrison Birtwistle in Recent Years ( Robson Books, 1998 )
* Sir Harrison Birtwistle biography and works on the UE website ( publisher of his music until 1994 )
* Harrison Birtwistle ( 75th birthday )
The 2011 Proms season also featured new works by Sally Beamish, Harrison Birtwistle, Peter Maxwell Davies, Pascal Dusapin, Graham Fitkin, Thomas Larcher, Kevin Volans, Judith Weir, and Stevie Wishart.
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The Mask of Orpheus is an opera with music by Harrison Birtwistle and a libretto by Peter Zinovieff.
Category: Operas by Harrison Birtwistle
Later important additions to the catalogue include Georg Friedrich Haas, Wolfgang Rihm, Cristóbal Halffter, Robert Aitken, Richard Rodney Bennett, Harrison Birtwistle, Georges Lentz, Johannes Maria Staud, John Rea, Jay Schwartz, Arvo Pärt and Friedrich Cerha.
Former students include John Barbirolli, Harrison Birtwistle, Dennis Brain, Carol Anne Williams, Maxwell Fernie, Katherine Jenkins, Clifford Curzon, Lesley Garrett, Evelyn Glennie, Elton John, Annie Lennox, Moura Lympany, Michael Nyman, Simon Rattle, Arthur Sullivan, Eva Turner, Maxim Vengerov and Henry Wood.
Harrison and calls
Reprising her earlier administrative roles at Apple headquarters and Friar Park, O ' Dell set about contacting local musicians from the Harrisons ’ rented house in Nichols Canyon, as Harrison took the long-distance calls, hoping more than anything to secure Bob Dylan ’ s participation.
Harrison took phone calls from Bob Shannon, Mike Fitzgerald, Ed Baer and Ron Lundy.
After Denise does not return home, her father, Don ( Harrison Young ), calls the police to search for her.
This included changing the name of the short sequence to " purple submersible "; George Harrison calls her " Lisa in the Sky ", while Paul McCartney notes " no diamonds though ".
The movie King Richard and the Crusaders ( 1954 ) was based on The Talisman ( Rex Harrison, who portrayed Saladin in the film, calls it a " rotten " picture in his autobiography ).
She develops a crush on Harrison, whom she calls " Joe " even though she eventually reveals that she does in fact know his real name.
In 1997, Clearwater police received over 160 911 calls from the Fort Harrison Hotel, but they were denied entry into the hotel by Scientology security.
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Their adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion retained his social commentary and added appropriate songs for the characters of Henry Higgins and Liza Doolittle, played originally by Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews.
When brought to the screen in 1964, the movie version would win eight Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Actor for Rex Harrison.
He would sometimes write songs with someone in mind, for instance, " I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face " from My Fair Lady was written with Rex Harrison in mind to complement his very limited vocal range.
The creation of architect Wallace K. Harrison, the proposal called for a ' comprehensive community ' consisting of housing, social infrastructure and light industry.
The term clade was introduced in 1958 by Julian Huxley after having been coined by Lucien Cuénot in 1940, cladistic by Cain and Harrison in 1960, and cladist ( for an adherent of Hennig's school ) by Mayr in 1965.
Cromwell, aided by Thomas Harrison, forcibly dismissed the Rump on 20 April 1653, for reasons that are unclear.
Michael Gambon played John Harrison, and Jeremy Irons played Rupert Gould, who restored Harrison's timepieces for posterity in the mid-20th century.
Despite this reputation, during his career, he oversaw more performances honored with the Academy Award for Best Actor than any other director: James Stewart in The Philadelphia Story ( 1940 ), Ronald Colman in A Double Life ( 1947 ), and Rex Harrison in My Fair Lady ( 1964 ).
The British Royal Society of Chemistry claims that British scientist Edward Harrison developed the first practical gas mask for mass production, a claim supported by a thank-you note written by Winston Churchill.
Dr. Hamilton Wright, testified at a hearing for the Harrison Act.
In United States v. Doremus, 249 U. S. 86 ( 1919 ), the Supreme Court ruled that the Harrison Act was constitutional, and in Webb v. United States, 249 U. S. 96, 99 ( 1919 ) that physicians could not prescribe narcotics solely for maintenance.
Congress responded by tightening up the Harrison Act-the importation of heroin for any purpose was banned in 1924.
During the season Manning and Marvin Harrison broke the NFL record for touchdowns by a quarterback and receiver tandem.
Adams sat for the earliest confirmed photograph still in existence of a U. S. president in 1843, although other sources contend that William Henry Harrison had posed even earlier for his portrait, in 1841.
Kosiński wrote his novel Pin Ball ( 1982 ) for his friend George Harrison, having conceived of the idea for the book at least ten years before writing it.
Novels such as " Half Life " by Shelley Jackson and " Light " by M. John Harrison have received the James Tiptree, Jr. award for incorporating themes of fantasy and sexuality.
* 2002: Light by M. John Harrison and " Stories for Men " by John Kessel
Following Harrison, the marine timekeeper was reinvented yet again by John Arnold who while basing his design on Harrison's most important principles, at the same time simplified it enough for him to produce equally accurate but far less costly marine chronometers in quantity from around 1783.
In 1730 Harrison created a description and drawings for a proposed marine clock to compete for the Longitude Prize and went to London seeking financial assistance.
He must have been impressed by Harrison, for Graham personally loaned Harrison money to build a model of his marine clock.
This was not the transatlantic voyage demanded by the Board of Longitude, but the Board was impressed enough to grant Harrison £ 500 for further development.
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