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Knussen

(ˈnʌsən)
n
(Biography) (Stuart) Oliver. born 1952, British composer and conductor. His works include the opera Where the Wild Things Are (1981) and three symphonies
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Smart programming to complement it with Oliver Knussen's The Way to Castle Yonder which similarly evokes mystery and magic albeit in a different musical idiom.
The vitality continued with Knussen's The Way to Castle Yonder and Weinberg's Symphony No 3, Op 45.
The full programme features Howell's Lamia, Elgar's Cello Concerto, Knussen's The Way to Castle Yonder and Weinberg's Symphony No.
She has worked closely with major composers of our time, such as Elliott Carter, Charles Wuorinen, David Del Tredici, Milton Babbitt, Shulamit Ran, Oliver Knussen, Kaija Saariaho, Gyorgy Kurtag, Joseph Schwantner, and Pierre Boulez.
| The Edge Theatre & Arts Centre, Chorlton / edgetheatre.co.uk / 0161 282 9776 / Thursday, February 8, 4pm and 6.30pm / PS5 Classical / The Halle The theme of mortality runs through the four excellent works performed by The Halle this week: Oliver Knussen's The Way to Castle Yonder, Stravinsky's Petrushka, Mussorgsky's Songs and Dances of Death and Mahler's Totenfeier.
Knussen, "The role of coping in adjustment to phantom limb pain," Pain, vol.
According to the research of Knussen and Yule (2008), recycling habit has moderated the relationship of attitude-intention and made a significant contribution to the variance of intention to recycle.
MUSIC Tamsin Waley-Cohen Tamsin will perform a new work called Reflection written especially for her by composer Oliver Knussen, commissioned by Symphony Hall in memory of Lyndon Jenkins, who served as its music adviser from 2004 - 2014.
Featured artists include: Pierre Boulez and the Ensemble InterContemporain, Marianne Pousseur, the Schoenberg Quartet, London Symphony Orchestra, Oliver Knussen and Michael Tilson Thomas.
Instead, Tassie shared his manuscript with conductors who recently performed Myaskovsky symphonies: Oliver Knussen and Vladimir Jurowski recommend the book on its back cover; Leon Botstein--admittedly also a musicologist, but not a Myaskovsky scholar--contributed a foreword.
I've played it for conductors like Sir Simon Rattle, Oliver Knussen, and Sir Mark Elder, and they have always seemed pleased with the musical results.
51, 58-60 (2008) (describing a survey that found past behavior to be a strong predictor of likely future environmental behavior); Christina Knussen, Fred Yule, Julie MacKenzie & Mark Wells, An Analysis of Intentions to Recycle Household Waste: The Roles of Past Behavior, Perceived Habit, and Perceived Lack of Facilities, 24 J.