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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 22 in...
- 1611 Birth of composer Pablo BRUNA. d - 27 JUN 1679.
- 1763 Birth of French composer Etienne Henri MEHUL. d- 18 OCT 1817.
- 1830 Birth of Polish composer, pianist and teacher Theodore LESCHETIZKY.
Taught Paderewski, Gabrilowitch, Schnabel and other famous pianists.
- 1846 Birth of French instrument maker Adolph SAX in Paris. Saxophone in
1840.
- 1847 Birth of Hungarian pianist Willy THERN, who with his brother Louis
were a popular piano playing duo.
- 1859 Birth of German-American violinist, conductor and educator Frank DAMROSH in Breslau, son of
Leopold, brother of Walter . In NYC founded Institute of Musical Art.
- 1900 Birth of Russian born American Mezzo-Soprano Jennie TOUREL,
d- NYC, 23 NOV 1973.
- 1905 Birth of English composer Walter LEIGH. d - 12 JUN 1942.
- 1910 Birth of English tenor Sir Peter PEARS in Farnham, Surrey, d- 1986.
- 1911 FP of Elgars Coronation March at coronation of of King George V and
Queen Mary.
- 1925 Birth of English-German conductor Hans Hubert SCHONZELER. d - 1997.
- 1926 In Zurich, FP of William Walton's Portsmouth Point Overture at
International contemporary music festival.
- 1930 Birth of American pianist Paul Jacobs, American pianist. d-1983.
- 1932 Birth of composer Michael HORVIT.
- 1933 Birth of Czech conductor Libor PESEK.
- 1949 Birth of French violinist Pierre AMOYAL.
- 1974 Death of French composer Darius Milhaud in Geneva, age 81. b- 4 SEP
1892.
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