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There has been considerable controversy surrounding the announcement that composer and music critic Anthony Payne plans to complete Sir Edward Elgar's Third Symphony. Some observers feel that this project goes against Elgar's dying wish, which was that nobody should make any changes to this unfinished music. Others feel that Payne is justified in going ahead, especially as full facsimiles of more than one third of Elgar's surviving sketches were published less than three years after his death in any case. Payne is regarded as well qualified for the task.
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Johm Gay wrote the Beggar's Opera originally to be sung unaccompanied but only a few days before its premiere in 1728, after a terrible dress rehearsal, Christoph Pepusch was called in to orchestrate it. It became the success of the year. Apart from the overture, Pepusch's music is now lost. It was re-scored in 1928 by Kurt Weill to produce The Threepenny Opera and now the composer Ilona Sekacz has produced a brand new musical version. It is a play about every aspect of morality, namely sexual, social, political and personal.
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Russian musicians Dmitri Smirnov and his wife Elena Firsova who are visiting England, have had many invitations of work from the music establishment. Their original visa has been extended to a three year residency prompting homesickness in Firsova who admits that the feelings are allied to her creativity. After their individual premieres in London, they will have a short composer in residency at St John's Cambridge before possibly going to the Dartington Trust and also to Keele University.
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