The programme, chosen by Freedman, included works from Ravel, Schubert, Dvorák and Spohr and half-a-dozen two-minute birthday pieces commissioned from composer friends – Michael Berkeley, Harrison Birtwistle, Peter Maxwell Davies, Simon Holt, Colin Matthews, David Matthews and Mark-Anthony Turnage.
This gave a framework, as well as blazing intensity, to the programme chosen by Daniel Barenboim for his prodigal return to Wigmore Hall last Wednesday after an absence of 40 years.
Since the Obama administration largely shut down the CIA's rendition programme, choosing instead to dispose of its enemies in drone attacks, those individuals who are being nominated for killing have been discussed at a weekly counter-terrorism meeting at the White House situation room that has become known as Terror Tuesday.
The second stage of selecting 20 households within the cluster was done randomly, using a known list of all households within the cluster (collected by a community health worker) and a computer programme choosing 20 randomly selected households from the list.
Either side of this weekend, though, there are two rare examples of programmes choosing their own moment to go.
In fact, it is essential that, in order to ensure the correct choice of vaccine and the programmes to be implemented, the administration gives priority to the economic efficiency of the potential vaccines to be used – this would guarantee the suitability of the vaccination programmes chosen.
The programme – Choosing to Die – was presented by the author Terry Pratchett, who has Alzheimer's disease.
On "Desert Island Discs", a BBC radio programme, he chose only recordings conducted by his close friend Riccardo Muti.There is irony in the timing of his death.
The Great Leader not only oversees the country's nuclear programme, but chose the colour of the paintwork in the dormitories of the Pyongyang textile factory (pink), the guide there says proudly.
As a former winner of the Yuri Bashmet competition in Moscow, Nils Monkemeyer's place in the viola's apostolic succession is assured, and the programme he chose for his Wigmore recital was designed to show how composers have been drawn to it.
