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Friday, January 27
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: 1756Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, in Salzburg; 1806Spanish composer Juan Crisostomo Arriage, in Rigoitia; 1823French composer Edouard Lalo, in Lille; 1885American composer Jerome Kern, in New York City; Deaths: 1901Italian 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." More from previous weeks: Composers Datebook is produced by American Public Media in association with the American Composers Forum with support from the The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. |