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Titolo: Wolf Prize in Music for 2000

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
December 14, 1999
PRESS RELEASE
NOTED COMPOSER PIERRE BOULEZ OF FRANCE AND CONDUCTOR RICCARDO MUTI OF ITALY
WILL SHARE THE WOLF PRIZE IN MUSIC FOR THE YEAR 2000
Jerusalem -  Two outstanding figures in the world of music, Pierre Boulez
and Riccardo Muti, will share the $100,000 Wolf Prize in the Arts for 2000,
it was announced today.
   Maestro Pierre Boulez,  74,  is cited as "one of the most creative
personalities in the realm of music."  The Wolf Prize jury stated that "he
is simultaneously a great composer, an outstanding conductor, a philosopher
of music and a distinguished teacher. Considered a prominent  contemporary
figure combining the creator and the investigator, he has gone a long way in
the investigation of the acoustical limits of sound, as well as its
influence on people."
   Boulez is the creator and director of the IRCAM (Institute de Recherche
et de Coordination Acoustique/Musique) at the Pompidou Centre in Paris where
investigators from the world over are intent on deciphering the codes that
link music to human beings.
   Maestro Riccardo Muti, 58,  is "one of the most outstanding conductors of
our time" it was said. "His musical charisma brings excitement to concert
halls and opera houses.  His creative activities have found expression
beyond the boundaries of the domain of music. Muti constitutes one of the
most important links in the chain of development of the image of the
conductor, whose interpretation of the masterpieces of symphonic music and
opera enriches the contemporary world of music", it was stated.
   Principal Conductor of the Scala Philharmonic Orchestra since 1987,
Maestro Muti was appointed Conductor Laureate of the Philharmonic Orchestra
in  London,  and Musical Director and Conductor Laureate of the Philadelphia
Orchestra. He is a regular guest conductor  of the
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Berlin Philharmonic and the Viennese Philharmonic. His Mozart opera
performances have become an important tradition at the Salzburg Festival
over the years.  He was awarded this year the honorary doctorate by the
Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.
AWARDS TO BE PRESENTED IN JERUSALEM IN MAY 2000
   The Israel-based Wolf Foundation  was established by the late German-born
inventor, diplomat and philanthropist Dr. Ricardo Wolf. A resident of Cuba
for many years, he became Fidel Castro's ambassador to Israel, a country in
which he lived until his dead in 1981. Five annual Wolf Prizes have been
awarded since 1978, to outstanding scientists and artists, "for achievements
in the interest of mankind and friendly relations among peoples,
irrespective of nationality, race, color, religion, sex, or political view."
The prizes, of $100,000 in each area, are given every year in four out of
five scientific fields, in rotation: Agriculture, Chemistry, Mathematics,
Medicine and Physics. In the Arts, the Prize rotates among Architecture,
Music, Painting and Sculpture.  Until now, a total of 186 scientists and
artists from 19 countries have been  honored.
   Previous Wolf Prize Laureates in Music include among others, composers
Olivier Messiaen, Krzysztof Penderecki,  Luciano Berio and Gyorgy Ligeti.
   The 2000 Wolf Prizes will be conferred by the President of the State of
Israel, Mr. Ezer Weizman, at a special ceremony, at the Knesset (parliament)
in Jerusalem, on Sunday, May 21, 2000.
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--
Yaron Gruder
Director General
The Wolf Foundation
Phone: 
+972-9-9557120
Fax:       
+972-9-9541253
Email:   
wolf...@netvision.net.il
Site:      
www.aquanet.co.il/wolf/

 WILL SHARE THE WOLF PRIZE IN MUSIC FOR THE YEAR 2000
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_/  Institut für Experimentelle Mathematik / Universität Essen
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
December 14, 1999
PRESS RELEASE
NOTED COMPOSER PIERRE BOULEZ OF FRANCE AND CONDUCTOR RICCARDO MUTI OF ITALY
WILL SHARE THE WOLF PRIZE IN MUSIC FOR THE YEAR 2000
Jerusalem -  Two outstanding figures in the world of music, Pierre Boulez
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Berlin Philharmonic and the Viennese Philharmonic. His Mozart opera
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