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Friday, November 20
Meredith Monk ... MUSIC PLAYED ON TODAY'S PROGRAM: Meredith Monk (b. 1942): Atlas Meredith Monk Ensemble; Wayne Hankin, cond. ECM 1491 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: On Meredith Monk ALSO ON THIS DATE: Births: 1873—American composer Daniel Gregory Mason, in Brookline, Massachusetts; 1942—American composer and singer Meredith (Jane) Monk, in Lima, Peru; Deaths: 1518—French-Flemish composer Pierre de la Rue, age ca. 66, in Courtrai (Kortrijk); 1758—Swedish composer Johan Helmich Roman, age, near Kalmar; 1894—Russian composer Anton Rubinstein, age 64, in age 64; Peterhof (now Petrodvorets), near St. Petersburg (Julian date: Nov. 8); 1927—Swedish composer Wilhelm Stenhammar, age 56, in Stockholm; 1950—Italian opera composer Francesco Cilea, age 84, in d'Varazze, near Savona; Premieres: 1805 — Beethoven: opera "Fidelio" (1st version, with the "Leonore" Overture No. 2), in Vienna at the Theater an der Wien; 1866 — Brahms: String Sextet in G, Op. 36, in Zürich, Swizterland (European premiere); The Brahms biographer and scholar Jan Swafford says the work's world premiere public performance occurred a few days earlier in Boston, at a concert by the Mendelssohn Quintet Club on November 11 that same year; 1889 — Mahler: Symphony No. 1, by the Budapest Philharmonic, with the composer conducting; 1891 — Loeffler: “Les Veilees d l’Ukraine” Suite, by the Boston Symphony, Arthur Nikisch conducting; 1911 — Mahler: "Das Lied von der Erde"(posthumously) in Munich, conductor Bruno Walter; 1925 — Copland: "Music for the Theatre," by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Serge Koussevitzky conducting; 1949 — Vaughan Williams: "An Oxford Elegy," in Dorking; 1952 — Roy Harris: Symphony No. 7 (first version), by the Chicago Symphony, with Rafael Kubelik conducting; 1964 — Shostakovich: String Quartets Nos. 9 and 10, in Moscow, by the Beethoven Quartet; 1986 — Michael Torke: “Green,” by the Milwaukee Symphony, Lukas Foss conducting; 1987 — John Harbison: String Quartet No. 2, at Jordan Hall in Boston, by the Emerson String Quartet;  More from this week... Buy music played this week...More from previous weeks:  See complete archiveComposers Datebook is produced by American Public Media in association with the American Composers Forum with support from the The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. |
