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Friday, January 27

American composer Paul Creston

SYNOPSIS:
Creston's Saxophone Concerto ...

MUSIC PLAYED ON TODAY'S PROGRAM:
Paul Creston (1906 – 1985):
Saxophone Concerto, Op. 26
James Abato, saxophone;
Hollywood Bowl Symphony;
Leopold Stokowski, cond.
Archival broadcast recording
(August 26, 1945)

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
On Paul Creston

ALSO ON THIS DATE:
Births:
1756—Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, in Salzburg;
1806—Spanish composer Juan Crisostomo Arriage, in Rigoitia;
1823—French composer Edouard Lalo, in Lille;
1885—American composer Jerome Kern, in New York City;

Deaths:
1901—Italian opera composer Giuseppe Verdi, age 87, in Milan;

Premieres:
1726 — Bach: Sacred Cantata No. 72 ("Alles nur nach Gottes Willen") performed on the 3rd Sunday after Epiphany as part of Bach's third annual Sacred Cantata cycle in Leipzig (1725/27);
1733 — Handel: opera "Orlando" in London at the King's Theater in the Haymarket(Gregorian date: Feb. 7);
1844 — Erkel: opera "Hunyady László," considered the first national Hungarian opera, in Budapest;
1849 — Verdi: opera "La battaglia di Legnano" (The Battle of Legnano), in Rome at the Teatro Argentina;
1874 — Mussorgsky: opera "Boris Godunov", in St. Petersburg (Gregorian date: Feb. 8);
1944 — Paul Creston: Saxophone Concerto, in New York;
1947 — Stravinsky: Concerto in D, in Basle (Switzerland), by the Basle Chamber Orchestra conducted by Paul Sacher (who commissioned the work);
1955 — Tippett: opera "The Midsummer Marriage," in London at the Royal Opera House, with John Pritchard conducting (and soprano Joan Sutherland in the cast);
1967 — Leon Kirchner: Quartet No. 3 for strings and electronic tape, in New York City, by the Beaux Arts Quartet; This work was awarded the 1967 Pulitzer Prize for Music;
1991 — Off-Broadway premiere of Sondheim: musical "Assassins."

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