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January: 10 days at La
Zarzuela Theatre, Madrid, for rehearsals, and world stage premiere on the 19th,
of The Duenna by Gerhard, in the new version by DD.
Nicholas Payne, Head of Opera North (Leeds), attends the highly successful
premiere, and declares, there and then, that Opera North will mount its own
production at the start of the 1992-93 season. The UK premiere will be on 17
September.
February: D attends
the opening of The Duenna at the Liceu in Barcelona, where he completes
the liner notes for the imminent Nonesuch release of Górecki's
Third Symphony.
21-22 March: In
Stuttgart for final meetings with Kim Kowalke and representatives of
Universal Edition (Jörg Stenzl, Marion von Hartlieb), Schott-Mainz (Peter
Hanser Strecker) and European American Music (Ronald Freed) regarding plans for
The Kurt Weill Edition. Attends the premiere on 22 March of the
production by Ruth Berghaus of Mahagonny. After the performance
volunteers to review it, instead of merely signing a petition circulated by the
Intendant, Klaus Zehelein. (The review is published in the European edition of
The Times on 22 May 1992.)
27 March: To
Manchester for the premiere of the Violin Concerto by Robin Holloway.
1 April: DD Gives six
months' notice to Boosey & Hawkes. 
15 April: In New York
for Górecki's debut there: a major performance on the 13th of his
Beatus Vir, and the launch of the Nonesuch CD of the Third Symphony
(Symphony of Sorrowful Songs). Subsequently, chairs the Press Conference
in Brussels at which Nonesuch introduces the composer and launches the CD in
Benelux territories. The success of the recording is immediate, and becomes
phenomenal.
July: at a pre-Prom
talk DD introduces Gerhard's Don Quixote in the definitive 1949 version,
which is about to receive its first concert performance, with Simon Rattle
conducting the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.
September:
Correspondence with the composer Denis ApIvor leads to their first
meeting at his home near Brighton. In London, and later in Leeds, collaboration
with Helena Kaut-Howson, Director of Opera North's production of
The Duenna (UK stage premiere, 17 September). Proceeds to New
York for the Carnegie Hall premiere on the 20th of his Weill arrangement,
Trains Bound for Glory.
1 October: Leaves
Boosey & Hawkes after 17 years. His work for the South Bank Centre,
London in connection with the projected 'Alternative Vienna' Festival
continues on a new footing, as does his work for Largo Records Cologne.
The latter will have become a full-time commitment within a year.
22-25 October:
Britten/Weill Weekend at Snape Maltings (Aldeburgh), planned by
Donald Mitchell in collaboration with D. Britten-Pears School perform
The Threepenny Opera, conducted by Steuart Bedford, with Christopher
Shaw as principal coach. Other major events include a concert by the BBC
Symphony Orchestra under Sir Andrew Davies (Sinfonia da Requiem, and
Weill 2nd Symphony + Violin Concerto with Ernst Kovacic), and a double-bill
featuring substantial excerpts from Weill's Knickerbocker Holiday (1938)
and Britten's Paul Bunyan (1941), with Angelina Reaux and HK Gruber as
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