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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 June 17 in...
- 1806 Birth of German tympanist Ernst PFUNDT. Under Mendelssohn at Leipzig
Gewandhaus and inventor of the pedal kettledrum.
1818 Birth of French composer, conductor and organist Charles GOUNOD, in
Paris.
d- 18 OCT 1893.
- 1848 Birth of French baritone Victor MAUREL. d- 1923.
- 1880 Birth of American music writer Carl Van VECHTEN.
- 1882 Birth of Russian-American composer Igor STRAVINSKY in Oranienbaum,
Russia. Son of bass singer Feodor Stravinsky of St. Petersburg Opera. d-
6 APR 1971.
- 1886 Birth of Scottish-American baritone Fraser GEORGE in Dundee.
- 1894 Birth of Russian-American pianist Pierre LUBOSHUTZ in Odessa.
- 1895 Birth of Yugoslavian composer and teacher Slavko OSTERC.
- 1903 In Chicago, FP of Victor Herbert's Babes In Toyland.
- 1908 FP of Stravinsky's Fireworks for marriage of Rimsky-Korsakov's
daughter to Maxmillian Steinberg.
- 1910 Birth of American composer H. Owen Reed in Odessa Mo. c2831 PT Green
Valley AZ resident.
- 1912 Birth of American composer Don GILLIS in Cameron, Missouri.
- 1914 Finnish composer Jean Sibelius awarded Mus.D. by Yale University.
- 1916 Birth of Finnish composer Einar ENGLUND.
- 1919 Birth of Russian composer Galina USTROLSKAYA.
- 1924 Birth of English conductor Sir
Edward
DOWNS.
- 1932 ('31?)Birth of American mezzo-soprano Mignon DUNN in Memphis, TN
- 1933 Birth of French violinist Christian FERRAS. d- 1982.
- 1958 Birth of American countertenor Derek Lee RAGIN.
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