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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
from CLASSICalmanac.com
on June 23 in...
- 1685 Birth of Italian singer Anto BERNACCHI in Bologna.
- 1824 Birth of German pianist, composer, conductor and teacher Carl REINEKE
d- 10 MAR 1910.
- 1832 Birth of Italian tenor and singing teacher Giovanni SBRIGLIA in
Naples.
- 1837 Birth of American composer Ernest GUIRAUD in New Orleans.
- 1851 Birth of American organist and composer Clarence EDDY.
- 1852 Birth of Italian-French pianist Raoul PUGNO in Paris.
- 1855 Birth of English song composer Maude Valerie WHITE.
- 1864 Birth of American music writer Philip H. GOEPP.
- 1877 Birth of American composer Blair FAIRCHILD. First American to have
an opera performed at Paris Opera. Dame libellule 1921.
- 1887 Birth of American teacher and conductor John Finley WILLIAMSON who
founded the Westminster Choir School.
- 1890 Birth of American pianist, composer and choral conductor William J.
REDDICK.
- 1892 Birth of Polish pianist and teacher Mieczyslaw HORZOWSKI in
Lwow. A pupil of Leschetizky, he played joint recitals with
Casals. He
taught at Philadelphia's Curtis Institute of Music for most of his long
life. He died there in 1993 (age 101).
- 1908 Birth of Finnish conductor Jussi JALAS. Sibelius' son-in-law, born in Jyvaskyla.
- 1922 Birth of American composer and jazz pianist Francis
THRONE in Bay Shore, New York. The grandson of The Complete Opera Book author
Gustave Kobbe',
- 1943 Birth of American conductor and pianist James LEVINE Cincinnati,
OH.
- 1948 Birth of English composer Nigel OSBORNE in Manchester.
- 1950 Birth of British conductor Nicholas CLEOBURY.
- 1956 Birth of American soprano Sylvia McNAIR in Mansfield, OH.
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