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Wednesday, July 15
Bloch in America ... MUSIC PLAYED ON TODAY'S PROGRAM: Ernest Bloch (1880 – 1959): America Seattle Symphony; Gerard Schwarz, cond. Delos 3135 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: 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  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. |
