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I'm just back from a concert celebrating the 85th Birthday of Harold Shapero, and I just wanted to mention the fact of his birthday to a possibly wider audience. Shapero wrote some sort of legendary (and really pretty good) pieces in his earlier days (The Three "Amateur" Piano Sonatas, The Four Hand Sonata, and the Symphony of Classical Orchestra)(all of them available these days on recording) and not much since then. But he's a wonderful musician and a very dear man. So Happy Birthday to him.
posted by Rodney Lister
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