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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 26 in...
- 1782 Birth of Irish composer, teacher and pianist John FIELD in Dublin.
His
nocturnes influenced Chopin. d-Moscow, 23 JAN 1837. ((c3733))
- 1791 Birth of composer Franz Xaver MOZART in Vienna. Composer and teacher
and son of W.A. d-Carlesbad, Austria 29 JUL 1844.
- 1812 Birth of English clergyman and composer Joseph Philip
KNIGHT.
- 1856 Birth of dramatist, music critic and music writer George Bernard SHAW
in Dublin. d- 2 NOV 1950.
- 1863 Birth of Latvian composer and teacher Joseph WIHTOL. Founded Riga
Conservatory. d- 24 APR 1948.
- 1866 Birth of Italian opera composer Francesco CILEA.
- 1874 Birth of Russian-American conductor and double-bass player Serge
KOUSSEVITZKY in Vishny Volotchok. (1924, conductor of Boston Symphony Orchestra). He
founded the Berkshire Music Center at Tanglewood, MA in 1940. d - NYC, 1951.
- 1876 Birth of American composer, conductor and pianist Ernest
SCHELLING.
- 1882 At Bayreuth, FP of Wagner's Parsifal with Hermann Levi conducting.
- 1887 Birth of composer and conductor Leif HALVORSEN in
Christiania.
- 1888 Marriage of violinist Mme Norman-Neruda to English pianist
and
conductor Sir Charles Halle.
- 1900 Birth of French pianist Jacques Fevrier. died 1979.
- 1904 Birth of English musicologist and critic Jack Allan
WESTRUP. Author
of a popular book on Henry Purcell.
- 1921 Birth of American oboist John DeLANCIE.
- 1928 Birth of Polish composer Tadeusz BAIRD. d- 1981.
- 1928 Birrth of English conductor Bryden Thomson d-1991.
Succeeded Neeme Jarvi as director of Scottish National Orchestra in 1988.
- 1929 Birth of Bulgarian-French pianist Alexis WEISSENBERG.
- 1934 Birth of English composer Anthony GILBERT.
- 1949 Birth of Irish composer Kevin VOLANS.
Thanks to Alan-KUAT-FM and Howard-WOMR-FM
for their contributions.
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