Composers Datebook

Pendercki's Symphony No. 6

New 'Variations on a Theme by Purcell'

Mackey's 'Lost and Found'

Bolcom's 'Five Fold Five'

The long and the short of it

Wagner's American Centennial commission

Britten's 'Cantata Academica'

Tomaso Albinoni

Claudette Sorel and Tania León

Sousa's 'Stars and Stripes Forever!' march

New York 'novelties' by Liszt et. al.

Gabriel Kahane

Maazel's 'Ring without Words'

Maxwell Davies at a wedding (with sunrise)

Alexis Alrich's Marimba Concerto

Beethoven's Second on first?

Thomson's 'Mother of Us All'

Larsen's 'Lyric' Third

Debussy's Violin Sonata

Dvorak salutes the flag

Moog moods by Carlos and Voegeli

George Walker's 'Wind Set'

Graupner (and Haydn) in Boston

Del Tredici's 'In Wartime'

Herbert's earthquake benefit

Diamond's Elegy

Nicholas Slonimsky, Date-Meister

Tchaikovsky in New York

Prokofiev and Rochberg chamber premieres

Tower's Violin Concerto

Gabriela Lena Frank's 'Three Latin American Dances'

Husa's 'Apotheosis of this Earth'

Copland's 'Hurricane' for kids

Biblical Torke

Anthony Braxton's operas

'King's Row,' Korngold and 'Star Wars'

Holst and Hammersmith

Persichetti and Leon for band

Handel's famous 'Largo'

Delibes on stage and TV

Gould at West Point

A Sondheim opening (and closing)

Carter's 'Boston Concerto'

Beethoven's First

The truth about Alkan

Dvorak's 'Rusalka'

Symphonies by Strauss

Sheng's 'Silent Temple'

Beethoven in Vienna

Haydn in Vienna