Announcements.

This section offers news briefs related to music and other events. Swedish soprano Nina Stemme has withdrawn from her debut role a the Royal Opera House as Amelai Grimaldi in "Simon Boccanegra." Kennet Valley Arts Trust has found a local investor prepared to finance the new cinema and arts center to be named Riverbank, after ten years of campaigning. Meanwhile, the International Computer Music Association has extended the deadline for submission of papers, compositions and installations for the 2008 conference to be held in Belfast, Northern Ireland.