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Strings
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Strings is written by and for players and teachers of bowed stringed instruments. Each issue features lively interviews with such luminaries as Itzhak Perlman, Edgar Meyer, and Yo-Yo Ma. Plus, it's filled with music to play, from long-forgotten pieces to new works.
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today in classical music
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on July 17 in...
- 1717 On Thames River, FP of Handel's Water Music.
- 1830 Birth of Hungarian violinist Eduard REMENYI (Hoffmann) who introduced
Brahms to Hungarian folk music.
- 1831 Birth of German soprano Therese TIETJENS in Hamburg.
- 1832 Birth of Swedish conductor, choral director and song composer August
SODERMANN in Stockholm.
- 1868 Birth of Danish composer and teacher Thorvald OTTERSTROM.
- 1870 Birth of Czech composer and conductor Ludvik CELANSKY in Vienna.
(Czech Philharmonic, Prague).
- 1875 Birth of English pianist, music scholar and composer Sir Donald
TOVEY. d- 1940.
- 1876 Birth of Italian composer Vittorio GNECCHI.
- 1916 ('18?) Birth of American soprano Elenor STEBER in Wheeling, WV.
- 1932 Birth of composer Wojcich KIBAR.
- 1935 Birth of American composer-satirist Peter SCHICKELE, aka PDQ Bach,in
Iowa.
- 1946 Birth of English pianist Michael Roll.
- 1960 Birth of American soprano Dawn UPSHAW.
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