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Wednesday, May 16
Tower's "Concerto for Orchestra" ... MUSIC PLAYED ON TODAY'S PROGRAM: Joan Tower (b. 1938): Concerto for Orchestra Colorado Symphony; Marin Alsop, cond. Koch 7469 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: On Joan Tower A 1987 interview with Tower ALSO ON THIS DATE: Births: 1931American composer Donald James Martino, in Plainfield, N.J.; Deaths: 1910Russian composer Mily Balakirev (Gregorian date: May 29); Premieres: 1726 Handel: opera "Alessandro" (Julian date: May 5); 1889 Massenet: opera "Esclarmonde" at the Paris Opéra; 1948 Quincy Porter: Viola Concerto, in New York City; 1948 Wallingford Rieger: Symphony No. 3, in New York City; 1966 Ralph Shapey: "Rituals," in Chicago; 1966 Villa-Lobos: Sinfonia No. 9, by the Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy conducting; 1969 Cage: "HPSCHD," for amplified harpsichord and 51 tapes, in Urbana, Ill.; 1971 Britten: opera "Owen Wingrave," as a telecast on BBC-TV in England and NET (National Educational Television) in the United States; 1972 Jaocb Druckman: "Windows" for orchestra, by the Chicago Symphony; This work was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1972; 1974 Bernstein: ballet "Dybbuk," by the New York City Ballet at Lincoln Center, with choreography by Jerome Robbins and the composer conducting; 1991 Joan Tower: "Concerto for Orchestra," by the St. Louis Symphony, Leonard Slatkin conducting; Other: 1792The Teatro la Fenice ("The Phoenix") opens in Venice; 1888Emile Berliner gives the first public display of his invention, the flat gramophone disk, at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia. 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. |