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    Sir Harrison Birtwistle CH (15 July 1934 – 18 April 2022) was an English composer of contemporary classical music best known for his operas, often based...
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    October 2013 starring Ian McDiarmid as Calum MacLeod. The composer Sir Harrison Birtwistle lived on Raasay from 1975 to 1983. His Duets for Storab, takes its...
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  • Oresteia: translation for National Theatre production with music by Harrison Birtwistle, filmed for Channel Four television. (October 1983) The Big H: musical...
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    repertoire, with a particular focus on British composers, such as Harrison Birtwistle, Benjamin Britten, Edward Elgar and Michael Tippett, He conducted...
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  • Ghanaian football player Harrison Bader (born 1994), American baseball player Harrison Barnes (born 1992), NBA player Harrison Birtwistle (1934–2022), British...
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    contemporary music called the New Music Manchester with fellow students Harrison Birtwistle, Alexander Goehr, Elgar Howarth and John Ogdon. Davies's compositions...
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  • alto saxophone, jazz drum kit, woodwinds, brass and percussion by Harrison Birtwistle. It was written in 1995 and premiered as part of the Last Night of...
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    Alexander Zhurbin (1975) The Mask of Orpheus, an opera by composer Harrison Birtwistle and librettist Peter Zinovieff (1986) Orpheus, a song by English...
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  • Gordon Birtwistle (born 1943), British Liberal Democrat politician Harrison Birtwistle (1934–2022), British contemporary composer Iris Birtwistle (1918–2006)...
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    and string orchestra (1975) Harrison Birtwistle, An Interrupted Endless Melody, for oboe and piano (1991) Harrison Birtwistle, Pulse Sampler, for oboe and...
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  • Wellington. Famous academy alumni include Sir Simon Rattle, Sir Harrison Birtwistle, Sir Elton John and Annie Lennox. The academy provides undergraduate...
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    Harrison Birtwistle: Man, Mind, Music. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-0-8014-8672-2. Cross, Jonathan. 2001. "Birtwistle, Sir Harrison"....
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  • Sciarrino, James Clarke, Michael Finnissy, Jeroen Speak, Konrad Boehmer, Harrison Birtwistle and Betsy Jolas. Hodges still plays classical repertoire occasionally...
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    1998, British composer Harrison Birtwistle wrote the piano piece "Harrison's clocks" that contains musical depictions of Harrison's various clocks. Composer...
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  • academic (b. 1927) 2019 – Lyra McKee, Irish journalist (b. 1990) 2022 – Harrison Birtwistle, British composer (b. 1934) 2024 – Crandell Addington, American Hall...
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    by Jacopo Peri, Monteverdi, Charpentier, Gluck, Yevstigney Fomin, Harrison Birtwistle, and Matthew Aucoin. Euridice (1600), an opera by Jacopo Peri, the...
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    a list of compositions by Harrison Birtwistle (1934–2022), a British composer of contemporary classical music. Birtwistle's music was published by Universal...
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    revival. A few modern composers, among them Thomas Adès, Bill Sweeney, Harrison Birtwistle, Alan Hacker, Hannes Pohlit and Franklin Stover, have written works...
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    Enfers (1858) Igor Stravinsky's ballet Orpheus (1948) Two operas by Harrison Birtwistle: The Mask of Orpheus (1973–1984) and The Corridor (2009) Rainer Maria...
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    The Mask of Orpheus (category Operas by Harrison Birtwistle)
    The Mask of Orpheus is an opera with music by Harrison Birtwistle, electronic music realised by Barry Anderson and a libretto by Peter Zinovieff. It was...
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  • demolished in June 2016. 14 March – Earth Dances for orchestra by Harrison Birtwistle is performed for the first time, at the Royal Festival Hall, London...
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  • Curlew River (1964). Other composers, including Hans Werner Henze, Harrison Birtwistle, Thomas Adès, George Benjamin, William Walton, and Philip Glass have...
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  • Luis de Victoria Requiem (1605) (Kyrie) 11 Mar 2000 Penelope Farmer Harrison Birtwistle Earth Dances (conclusion) Boulez Complainte du lézard amoureux (from...
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  • The Manchester School is principally identified with the composers Harrison Birtwistle, Peter Maxwell Davies and Alexander Goehr, and together with the...
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    The Minotaur (opera) (category Operas by Harrison Birtwistle)
    Minotaur is an opera in two acts, with 13 scenes by English composer Harrison Birtwistle to a libretto by poet David Harsent, commissioned by the Royal Opera...
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    well. Stravinsky also influenced composers like Elliott Carter, Harrison Birtwistle, and John Tavener. Included among his students are Robert Craft,...
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  • in 2008 to celebrate the ensemble's 40th birthday. The works are: Harrison Birtwistle: Duet 3 (supported by Nick & Claire Prettejohn) Mark Bowden: Parable...
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    earliest digital sampling was done on that system during 1971–1972 for Harrison Birtwistle's "Chronometer" released in 1975. The first commercially available...
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    Songbook – NMC Records Harrison Birtwistle, Angel Fighter – NMC Records Olga Neuwirth, Lost Highway – Kairos Records Harrison Birtwistle, Orpheus Elegies –...
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    Particularly notable among them is the 1991 opera Gawain, with music by Harrison Birtwistle and a libretto by David Harsent. Gawain furthermore appeared in a...
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