User talk:Tr3vis324/Rodney Lister

This article should not be deleted because Tr3vis324 (talk) 19:50, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
 * it does not infringe the 12 general criteria for speedy delete
 * Rodney Lister is a significant figure to musicians in the Boston area as he is a faculty member at New England Conservatory Prepatory School, a guest lecturer at Boston University, and a music tutor at Harvard University.
 * World-renowned composers such as Peter Maxwell Davies, Virgil Thomson, Milton Babbitt, Michael Finnissy and Lee Hyla have been his teachers, mentors, or students.
 * Rodney Lister deserves a wikipedia page for his contribution to music in not only the Greater Boston area but also worldwide; he is the recipient of grants, fellowships, and awards from the Berkshire Music Center at Tanglewood, the Fromm Foundation, the Koussevitzky Music Foundation, the Fires of London, the Poets’ Theatre, the Virgil Thomson Foundation, the MacDowell Colony, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and ASCAP.
 * and because I had not finished editing the page (and consequently lost my work) when speedy delete was nominated.


 * In order to qualify for an encyclopedia article, a musician must be "notable". Please read WP:BIO and WP:MUSICIAN, the relevant notability guidelines. If Rodney Lister satisfies the notability criteria, please add that information to the article. Please be sure to include reliable sources so readers, including other editors, can verify the facts in the article. — Malik Shabazz Talk/Stalk 00:02, 2 September 2010 (UTC)