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Tag: 08.08.14
Peter Sculthorpe, Australia’s Leading Composer, Dead At 85
“For many, Sculthorpe defined what it meant to be an Australian composer and defined a uniquely Australian sound. … He would become our most acclaimed contemporary composer, admired for pieces like his 1960s series Irkanda – ‘scrub country’ – … and later work such as Kakadu (1988), Memento Mori (1993) and the Rites of Passage, originally commissioned for the opening of the Sydney Opera House.”
Robert H. Ellsworth, 85, Major Dealer Of Chinese Art
Said former Nelson-Atkins Museum director Marc Wilson, “He became the No. 1 purveyor of things Asian, especially objects, in the Western world. When it came to objects, he was unbeatable.”