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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 2 in...
- 1834 Birth of Bohemian soprano Teresa STOLZ in Kosteletz.
- 1835 Birth of music educator (Russian Musical Society, 1860 and Moscow
Conservatory) Nicolas RUBINSTEIN.
- 1846 In Paris, debut of pianist Camille Staint-Seans. Becomes major
French composer.
- 1857 Birth of English composer and conductor Sir Edward William ELGAR in Broadheath.
Enigma Variations; oratorio The Dream of
Gerontius. d-
23 FEB 1934.
- 1858 Birth of American organist and composer Harry Rowe SHELLEY.
- 1863 Birth of German composer and conductor Felix WEINGARTNER in
Dalmatia. d- 1942.
- 1896 In Paris, at the Salle Pleyel, Saint-Seans introduces his Piano
Concerto No 5 at a concert commemoration his debut 50 years earlier.
- 1908 Birth of American radio announcer (NBC) and classical concert host, Ben GRAUER.
d - 31 MAY 1977.
- Birth of English composer Professor Robin
Orr.
- 1935 Birth of composer Samuel JONES.
- 1938 Marriage of Lily Pons to conductor Andre Kostelanitz. (Later
divorced).
- 1944 Birth of American popular music composer Marvin HAMLISCH.
- 1946 Birth of Danish soprano Inge NIELSEN.
- 1947 Birth of English conductor Mark ELDER.
- 1949 Birth of American tenor Neil SHICOFF in NYC.
- 1955 Birth of French pianist Michel DALBERTO.
- 1953 FP Sir William Walton's Coronation Te Deum, Composed for the coronation
of 27-year-old Queen Elizabeth II, in London, on this day.
- 1987 Death of Spanish guitarist Andres Segovia at age 94.
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