Ives cast a long shadow on Mr. Vigeland's birthday program, but his music was never heard unmediated.
But he was born in Salzburg, then as now a much smaller town 200 miles away, where an equally ambitious birthday program will dominate the 2006 cultural calendar.
While the NC DMA preventive dental program included children up to the third birthday, the program required that all three components be provided in order for reimbursement to be claimed: screening, education and varnish application.
To that point, Briggs says that she and her coworkers also embrace less formal programs to help recognize and reward each other, such as their so-called "birthday angel" program where people anonymously give birthday gifts to each other.
In honor of his 90th birthday, the program will also include Dello Joio symphonic band pieces and another vocal work.
In celebration of Martin Luther King's Birthday, the program will also feature a discussion of his legacy with Taylor Branch, the author of "The King Years: Historic Moments in the Civil Rights Movement"; Joseph A. Califano Jr., the former secretary of health, education and welfare; and James Peterson, the director of Africana studies and an English professor at LeHigh University.
A recent concert at the 92nd Street Y, with a top-notch roster of musicians under the artistic direction of the cellist Fred Sherry, played an Elliott Carter birthday tribute program that included five engrossing and ingenious scores that Mr. Carter wrote this year, as well as a major work for tenor and chamber orchestra from 2010 in its premiere performance.
In honor of Stalvey's upcoming 75th birthday, several programs during the season that ended in May included his compositions: "Prevue," "A Fragment of Silence," "PLC Extract," "String Quartet 1989," "Changes," "Exordium/Genesis/Dawn" and "Pound Songs". Among his other works are "Ex Ferus" for six cellos or string sextet (1982) and "In Time and Not" for multimedia ensembles (1970).
The 1 p.m. screening will include "Pingu: The Wedding," a Claymation program from Germany, Switzerland and the Netherlands; "Baking Up Trouble," a live-action program from Iceland; "Nobeard the Pirate; Juliette's Birthday," an animated program from France.
At Eastman, he gave his last major recital in February, two days before his 90th birthday, in a program of Schubert.
