Kurt Rohde - San Francisco composer, prominent violist with numerous Bay Area orchestras and chamber-music groups, founder-director of the Left Coast Chamber Orchestra, and music professor at the University of California, Davis - has just received a 2008-2009 Rome Prize, one of the most prestigious awards in the arts and humanities. It was established more than a century ago, and chartered by an Act of Congress in 1905. Read more here: http://www.sfcv.org/2008/04/15/music-news-54/ Janos Gereben www.sfcv.org [log in to unmask] *********************************************** The CLASSICAL mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's HDMail High Deliverability Mailer for reliable, lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html