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Sunday, July 5
Chamber works by Zwilich and Paulus ... MUSIC PLAYED ON TODAY'S PROGRAM: Ellen Taaffe Zwilich (b. 1939): Clarinet Quintet David Shifrin, cl; Ida and Ani Kavafian, vn; Paul Neubauer, vla; Fred Sherry, vcl Delos 3183 & Stephen Paulus (b. 1949): Partita Appassionata Troy Gardner, violin; Jill Dawe, piano innova 539 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: On Ellen Taaffe Zwilich On Stephen Paulus ALSO ON THIS DATE: Births: 1878English composer and pianist Josef Holbrooke, in Croydon 1895English composer Gordon Jacob, in London 1897German-born Israeli composer Paul Ben-Haim (originally Frankenburger), in Munich 1918 American composer George Rochberg, in Paterson, N.J. 1926American composer and teacher Kenneth Gaburo, in Somerville, N.J. Deaths: 1992Argentinian composer and bandonion virtuoso Astor Piazolla, age 71, in Buenos Aires Premieres: 1931 R. Vaughan Williams: ballet, "Job (A Masque for Dancing)," in London 1990 Ellen Taaffe Zwilich: Clarinet Quintet, at a Chamber Music Northwest concert in Portland, Ore. featuring clarinetist David Shifrin 1996 Stephen Paulus: "Partita Appassionata," for violin and piano, by William Preucil and Arthur Rowe, at the Seattle Chamber Music Festival 2000 Leslie Bassett: Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Orchestra, during a World Saxophone Congress at Pierre Mercure Hall, Montreal, with soloist Clifford Leaman, and the Orchestre Symphonique de Laval, Louis Lavigueur, conducting; Other: 1877Polish harpsichordist Wanda Landowska is born in Warsaw 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. |