Births on June 9

Charles Wuorinen

Born on June 9, 1938

Charles Wuorinen, American composer and educator

Charles Peter Wuorinen ( ; June 9, 1938 – March 11, 2020) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer of contemporary classical music based in New York City. He performed his works and other 20th-century music as pianist and conductor.

He composed more than 270 works, including orchestral music, chamber music, solo instrumental and vocal works, and operas such as Brokeback Mountain. Salman Rushdie and Annie Proulx have collaborated with him. Wuorinen's work has been called serialist, but he came to disparage that term as meaningless. His Time's Encomium, his only purely electronic piece, received the Pulitzer Prize for Music. Wuorinen also taught at several institutions, including Columbia University and Manhattan School of Music.

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Events on 1938

18 Feb

Nanking Massacre
Second Sino-Japanese War: During the Nanking Massacre the Nanking Safety Zone International Committee is renamed "Nanking International Rescue Committee" and the safety zone in place for refugees falls apart.
12 Mar

Austria
Anschluss: German troops occupy and absorb Austria.
23 Sep

Munich Agreement
Mobilization of the Czechoslovak army in response to the Munich Agreement.
30 Sep

Munich Agreement
Britain, France, Germany and Italy sign the Munich Agreement, allowing Germany to occupy the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
30 Oct

The War of the Worlds (radio drama)
Orson Welles broadcasts his radio play of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds, causing anxiety in some of the audience in the United States.

Births on June 9

Charles Wuorinen

Born on June 9, 1938

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Events on 1938

Nanking Massacre

Austria

Munich Agreement

Munich Agreement

The War of the Worlds (radio drama)