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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 4 in...
- 1091 Death of Benedictine abbot Wilhelm von Hirsau, at Hirsau in
Wurttemberg. He wrote two music treatises.
- 1770 Birth in Dartmoor England of James HEWITT pianist and music publisher in NYC and
Boston. Composed opera Tammany.
- 1811 In Munich, FP of Weber's opera Abu Hassan.
- 1829 Birth of Dutch composer Joseph Ascher who died on his birthday in
1869.
- 1891 Birth in Budapest of Erno RAPEE, in 1932 music director of Radio City
Music Hall, in 1935 conductor of the General Motors Orchestra.
- 1903 Birth of Russian conductor Evgeny MRAVINSKY. d-1988.
- 1907 Death of Norwegian pianist Agathe Backer-Grondahl.
- 1909 Birth of American composer Paul NORDOFF in Philadelphia.
- 1910 Birth of Yugoslav tenor Anton DERMOTA. d- 1989.
- 1914 In Norfolk, CN, at the Litchfield Counrty Choral festival, Sibelius
conducts FP of his 'Oceanides' with his 'Pohjola's Daughter' and The Swan
of Tuonela.
- 1917, (1918?) (1919?) Birth of Met baritone Robert MERRILL (Morris
Miller) in Brooklyn NY.
- 1922 Birth of American composer Irving BAZELON in Evanston, IL.
- 1951 Death of double bassits and conductor Serge Koussevitzky at age 76 in Boston where he conducted the BSO for 25 years.
- 1966 Birth of Italian mezzo-soprano Cecilia BARTOLI.
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