Harry Ransom CenterThe University of Texas at Austin

Media Advisory — February 25, 2009

Performance of Music Composed By Anthony Burgess To Be Webcast

EVENT: The Harry Ransom Center hosts a "Music from the Collections" event with Alan Roughley, executive director of the International Anthony Burgess Foundation, and pianist Dianne O'Hara as they read and perform works by Anthony Burgess.

WHEN: 7 p.m. (C.S.T.) on February 26.

WHERE: Harry Ransom Center, 21st and Guadalupe streets.

BACKGROUND: Readings include segments of "A Clockwork Orange," "This Man and Music," "Nothing Like the Sun" and more. The musical performance will feature "Preludes 1-6," "Tango," "Rhapsody" and "2 Preludes and Fugues," among others.

This program will be webcast at www.hrc.utexas.edu/webcast.

Few people realize the author of "A Clockwork Orange" was also an accomplished and respected modern composer and visual artist. The Ransom Center holds a significant collection of Burgess materials, including manuscripts of some of the works to be performed. Learn more about the Burgess materials at www.hrc.utexas.edu/research/fa/burgess.hp.html.

Seating is free, but limited. The event is co-sponsored by the International Anthony Burgess Foundation.

More information on the Ransom Center's music collections can be found at www.hrc.utexas.edu/collections/guide/music.

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