It's KBAQ's "This week in classical music" -- an update on what's happening in the classical music world... I'm Randy Kinkel.

Cellist and Conductor Mstislav Rostropovich has been released from a Moscow Hospital. He was released Tuesday and is reportedly feeling "well", according to his press secretary. The 79-year-old musician was hospitalized last month for unspecified reasons.

Composer Sebastian Currier has been awareded the 2007 Grawemeyer prize for Music Composition for his quintet "Static", a 2003 work for cello, flute clarinet violin and piano. The award includes a cash prize of $200,000 and is given to any composition in a large musical genre by a living composer based anywhere in the world that has received it's premiere in the last five years. The award was announced last Thursday in Carnegie hall.In addition to his compositional activities, Sebastian Currier is an assistant professor of music at Columbia University.

Conductor Andreas Delfs has been named principal conductor of the Honolulu Symphony, signing a three-year contract. The German-born Delfs is expected to make his debut in the islands August 25th. Delfs is currently musical director of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra.

A couple of New American operas Had premieres last week, Anthony Davis, who composed the operas "X: The Life and Times Of Malcolm X", and "Amistad", as well as music for the broadway production of "Angels In America", premiered his new opera, "Wakonda's Dream" in Omaha. "Wakonda" is about a Native American Family amid the dislocation of the Ponca Indians and the civil-rights trial of Standing Bear in 1879. John Adams new work, "A Flowering Tree", which premiered at Davies Symphony hall, is based on a 2000 year old south Indian Folk Tale of a girl who can turn herself into a flowering tree.

For more information on these and other items and events, go to the KBAQ website at KBAQ.org... be listening every week at this time for another update, and join me at noon every weekday for the Mozart Buffet, an hour of music by Mozart and his contemporaries. I'm Randy Kinkel, for KBAQ's "This week in Classical Music" on 89.5 KBAQ Phoenix, a service of Rio Salado College and Arizona State University.

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