• Judith Weir DBE HonFRSE (born 11 May 1954) is a British composer serving as Master of the King's Music. Appointed in 2014 by Queen Elizabeth II, Weir...
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  • Judith Weir's Oboe Concerto was written from 2016 to 2018 on a joint commission from the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra...
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  • numerous times, and in 2015 performed at the Last Night of the festival. Judith Weir composed her solo piano work Day Break Shadows Flee for Grosvenor, who...
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    the west, and Mull is five miles south. In 1990 the Scottish composer Judith Weir wrote a 10-minute piece for two pianos called Ardnamurchan Point for...
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    (1893–1918); Sofia Gubaidulina (1931–); Kaija Saariaho (1952–2023); and Judith Weir (born 1954 and the first woman to hold the office of Master of the King's...
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  • the Queen's Medal for Music. After the end of Maxwell Davies' term, Judith Weir was appointed in 2014, again for a ten-year term. Reporting the appointment...
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  • produced his Salute to Thomas Merritt, Op. 98, whilst Michael Nyman and Judith Weir both brought new operas to the stage. The BBC Cardiff Singer of the World...
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    Billy Joel Visiting Composer Series with residency by Scottish composer Judith Weir" (Press release). Syracuse University. February 14, 2008. Archived from...
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  • Kaija Saariaho (died 2023), Karlheinz Stockhausen (died 2007), and Judith Weir have all made important contributions in this field: Licht, Stockhausen's...
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    commissions were performed by the orchestra before the service — those by Judith Weir; Sir Karl Jenkins; a vocal piece by Sarah Class performed by Pretty Yende;...
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    hart" is a composition for unaccompanied choir by the British composer Judith Weir, setting the first seven verses of Psalm 42 from the Book of Common Prayer...
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  • Joan Tower Ralph Vaughan Williams Heitor Villa-Lobos William Walton Judith Weir Iannis Xenakis Contemporary classical music Citations Politoske and Martin...
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  • Machine about woman.life.song. performance/ production at Carnegie Hall featuring Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Jessye Norman, Judith Weir and Toni Morrison....
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  • however, she also wrote several operas of note, including The Wreckers. Judith Weir (born 1954) Began composing full-length operas in 1987 with A Night at...
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    chamber music, and choral and orchestral pieces. He has been described by Judith Weir, Master of the Queen’s Music, as “one of Britain's most adventurous composers...
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    to the Sea by Britten and Auden, the world premieres of Concrete by Judith Weir at the Barbican and Howard Goodall's Jason and the Argonauts at the Royal...
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  • Miss Fortune (opera) (category Operas by Judith Weir)
    Miss Fortune is an opera by Judith Weir based on a Sicilian fable. On 21 July 2011, Miss Fortune premiered at the Bregenz Festival in Austria as Miss...
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    missing from Davies's business accounts. In October 2008 Arnold and his wife Judith (Davies's former agent) were charged with the theft of almost £450,000....
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    recently, Alexander Goehr, Thomas Adès, John Rutter, Julian Anderson, Judith Weir, and Maury Yeston. The university has also produced world-renowned instrumentalists...
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  • Trafigura John Ferguson Weir (1841–1926), American painter and sculptor Johnny Weir (born 1984), American figure skater Judith Weir (born 1954), British...
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    Judith of Flanders (circa 843 – 870 or later) was a Carolingian princess who became Queen of Wessex by two successive marriages and later Countess of Flanders...
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    Larsen, Marjorie Rusche, Peter Seabourne, Michael Tilson Thomas, and Judith Weir. Her composer cousin Clarence Dickinson set his first songs to six of...
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    verses from the Book of Common Prayer for choir a cappella, written by Judith Weir for the state funeral of Elizabeth II on 19 September 2022 K'ayal ta'arog...
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  • Turville Alic Halford Smith Robert Tear Leslie Valiant Herman Waldmann Judith Weir Sir David Willcocks Category:Alumni of King's College, Cambridge Category:Fellows...
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  • serenade by Mozart, premiered in 1772 Scipio's Dream, a 1992 opera by Judith Weir Scipione, a 1726 opera by Handel Scipione affricano, an opera by Francesco...
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    – words, 16th century Scots, modernised by Eleanor Parker; music by Judith Weir Third lesson from Isaiah 9: 2, 6–7 (read by a member of the King's College...
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  • is a concerto for piano and string orchestra by the British composer Judith Weir. The work was commissioned by Anthony and Mary Henfrey in celebration...
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  • Armida is an opera by British composer Judith Weir. It premiered on 25 December 2005 as a television broadcast on the UK station, Channel 4 which had...
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  • The welcome arrival of rain (category Compositions by Judith Weir)
    orchestral composition written between 2001 and 2002 by the British composer Judith Weir. It was commissioned for the centennial celebration of the Minnesota...
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  • The Vanishing Bridegroom (category Operas by Judith Weir)
    The Vanishing Bridegroom is an opera by composer Judith Weir to a libretto by the composer from work edited by J. F. Campbell of Islay. Commissioned by...
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