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Friday, February 10
Maslanka's Symphony No. 4 ... MUSIC PLAYED ON TODAY'S PROGRAM: David Maslanka (b. 1943): Symphony No. 4 Dallas Wind Symphony; Jerry Junkin, cond. Reference Recordings RR-108 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: On Maslanka ALSO ON THIS DATE: Births: 1908—Canadian composer and pianist Jean Coulthard, in Vancouver; 1929—American film score composer Jerry Goldsmith; 1939—American composer Barbara Kolb, in Hartford, Conn.; Premieres: 1744 — Handel: oratorio “Semele,” in London at the Covent Garden Theater (Gregorian date: Feb. 21); 1749 — Handel: oratorio “Susanna” in London at the Covent Garden Theater (Gregorian date: Feb. 21); 1794 — Haydn: Symphony No. 99, conducted by the composer, at the King's Theatre in London; 1812 — Beethoven: public premieres of "The Ruins of Athens" and "King Stephen" Overture and Incidental Music, as part of a production at the opening of a new theater in Pest, Hungary (see also Feb. 9); 1860 — Brahms: Serenade No. 2 in A, Op. 16, in Hamburg, with the composer conducting; 1878 — Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4, in Moscow (Gregorian date: Feb. 22); 1881 — Offenbach: opera "The Tales of Hoffmann," posthumously, in Paris at the Opéra Comique; 1882 — Rimsky-Korsakov: opera “The Snow Maiden” (first version), in St. Petersburg, Napravnik conducting (Julian date: Jan. 29); 1896 — Walter Damrosch: opera "The Scarlet Letter," in Boston; 1903 — Rachmaninoff: Piano Preludes Nos. 1, 2, and 5, from Op. 23 and “Variations on a Theme of Chopin” (Gregorian date: Feb. 23); 1927 — Krenek: "jazz" opera "Jonny spielt auf" (Johnny Strikes Up the Band), in Leipzig at the Stadttheater; 1934 — Howard Hanson: opera "Merry Mount," (staged premiere) at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, Tulio Serafin conducting; 1949 — Antheil: Symphony No. 6, by the San Francisco Symphony, Pierre Monteux conducting; 1950 — William Schuman: Violin Concerto, by Isaac Stern with the Boston Symphony with Charles Munch conducting and Isaac Stern the soloist; 1961 — Piston: Symphony No. 7, by the Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy conducting; This work was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1961; 1966 — Richard Rodney Bennett: Symphony No. 1, in London; 1976 — Ulysses Kay: "Southern Harmony," by the North Carolina Symphony; 1995 — Daniel Asia: Piano Concerto, by the Grand Rapids (Mich.) Symphony, conducted by Carl St. Clair, with André-Michel Schub the soloist; 2001 — Pierre Jalbert: "L'amour infini," (Infinite Love), by the Albany Symphony, David Alan Miller conducting; Other: 1859 —First documented complete American performance of Handel's oratorio "Israel in Egypt," at Boston's Melodeon, by the Handel and Haydn Society, Carl Zerrahn conducting; Selections from this work had been performed previously in New York and Boston; The Feb. 19 edition of Dwight's Journal enthused: "Israel at last! The great work, occasionally nibbled at, attacked in fragments, in fits of resolution few and far between, was finally essayed in earnest; and after eight more rehearsals, the giant Handel's greatest work, with the sole exception of the 'Messiah' . . . was offered to the public, and the public wouldn't have it . . . the hall was only two-thirds full"; 1921—Charles Ives hears Igor Stravinsky's "The Firebird" Ballet Suite at an all-Russian program by the New York Symphony at Carnegie Hall; Also on the program were works of Glinka, Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov and Rachmaninoff (with Rachmaninoff as piano soloist); Walter Damrosch conducted.  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. |
