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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 4 in...
- 1623 Death of English composer William BYRD.
- 1694 Birth of Louis Claude DAQUIN in Paris. Composer of Le Coucou and
other harpsichord pieces.d - 15 JUN 1772
- 1776 In Philadelphia PA, a revolutionary tribunal announces a desire to
break away from British authority by preparing a "Declaration of
Independence" providing a foundation of "The United States of America"
Hear: 'Yankee Doodle' in "A Montevideo", the Sym No 2 of Louis Moreau
Gottschalk. (kuat CD # 2143...12'09"
- 1826 Birth of American Song composer Stephen Collins FOSTER in
Lawrenceville, (Pittsburgh) PA d- 13 JAN 1864.
- 1831 FP of America with words by Samuel Francis Smith. At Park Street
Church, Boston.
- 1863 Birth of American soprano Emma JUCH.
- 1876 In Philadelphia, for American centennial celebration the city paid R.
Wagner $5,000 for rights to use music from Lohengrin at the World Fair
there.
- 1889 Birth of Russian-American pianist Samuel CHOTZINOFF.
- Birth of English Baritone and teacher Roy HENDERSON. d-2000.
- 1903 Birth of Belgian composer, organist and teacher Flor PEETERS. d-
1986.
- 1911 Birth of American oboist and conductor Mitch MILLER.
- 1923 In London, FP Vaughan Williams English Folk Song Suite for Military
Band.
- 1948 Birth of American soprano Clamma DALE in Chester, PA.
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