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Wednesday, July 15
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Ernest Bloch
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Ernest Bloch (1880 – 1959): America
Seattle Symphony; Gerard Schwarz, cond.
Delos 3135

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On Ernest Bloch

ALSO ON THIS DATE:
Births:
1921—American composer Jack Beeson, in Muncie, Indiana
1934—English composer Harrison Birtwistle, in Accrington, Lancashire
1949—English composer John Casken, in Barnsley

Deaths:
1789—French composer and harpsichordist Jacques Duphly, age 74, in Paris
1857 —Austrian composer and piano teacher Carl Czerny, age 66, in Vienna
1959 —Swiss-born American composer Ernest Bloch, age 78, in Portland, Oregon

Premieres:
1852 — Spohr: opera "Faust" (2nd version in Italian), in London at Covent Garden
1942 — Villa-Lobos: "Chôros" Nos. 6, 9 and 11, in Rio de Janeiro, conducted by the composer
1945 — Antheil: "Heroes of Today," by the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski conducting
1965 — Bernstein: "Chichester Psalms" at Philharmonic Hall (now Avery Fisher Hall) by the New York Philharmonic conducted by the composer, with The Camerata Singers and boy alto John Bogart; On July 31, 1965, Bernstein attended the U.K. premiere of this work (performed by a male-only choir) at Chichester Cathedral in England
1988 — John Harbison: Piano Sonata No. 1 ("In Memoriam Roger Sessions"), at the Dorothy Taubman Piano Institute in Amherst, Mass., by pianist Robert Shannon


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