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July 15-21, 2002
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Monday, July 15
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Tuesday, July 16
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Wednesday, July 17
Peter Schickele and P.D.Q. Bach ... ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: On composer Peter Schickele and P.D.Q. Bach ALSO ON THIS DATE: Births: 1832—Swedish composer August Söderman, in Stockholm 1875 —English composer, pianist, and music scholar Sir Donald Tovey, in Eton 1935—American composer and musical satirist Peter Schickele, in Ames, Iowa; He "discovered" and performed the music of P.D.Q Bach (1807-1742?) Deaths: 1937 —French composer and conductor Gabriel Pierné, age 73, in Ploujean, Brittany 1967—Jazz saxophonist John Coltrane, age 40, in Huntington, Long Island (New York Premieres: 1717 — Handel: "Water Music" on the river Thames, during a royal barge trip from Whitehall to Chelsea (Gregorian date: July 28) 1927 — Milhaud: opera "L'enlèvement d'Europe" (The Rape of Europa), in Baden-Baden at the Stadthalle 1975 — Sallinen: opera, "The Horseman" at the Savonlinna Opera Festival in Finland 1983 — Sir Lenox Berkeley: Cello Concerto, in Manchester. Other: 1877 —Otto Dessoff conducts the Vienna Philharmonic on its first concert tour to Salzburg, as part of a three-day "Salzburger Musikfest" (Salzburg Music Festival) on July 17-19; The orchestra would return to Salzburg in 1879, 1891, 1901, 1904, 1906, and 1910, for special concerts, and in 1925 the annual "Salzburg Festival" was established, with the Vienna Philharmonic as the Festival's prominent participant
Thursday, July 18
Pauline Viardot-Garcia, Superwoman ... MUSIC PLAYED ON TODAY'S PROGRAM: Pauline Viardot-Garcia (1821 - 1910): Cinderella Sandrine Piau, soprano; Nicholas Kok, piano Opera Rara 212 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: On Pauline Viardot-Garcia ALSO ON THIS DATE: Births: 1670—Italian opera composer Giovanni Bononcini, in Modena; In 1720 he joined the Royal Academy of Music in London, where one faction favored Bononcini's works over those by Handel 1821 —French mezzo-soprano PaulineViardot-Garcia; She arranged some of Chopin's mazurkas as songs and performed them with the composer in concert; She also wrote an opera, "La Derniére Sorcière," that was performed in Weimar in 1869, and a chamber opera version of "Cendrillon (Cinderella)" which was performed privately in 1904 1872 —Czech composer Julius Fucik, in Prague; A student of Dvorák's, he composed the famous "circus" march, "Entrance of the Gladiators"; 1894 —Dutch-born American composer Bernard Wagenaar, in Arnhem; He was the son of the Dutch composer Johan Wagenaar (1862-1941); He came to the U.S. in 1920, was a violinist with the New York Philharmonic from 1921-23, and in 1927 became a composition teacher at the Juilliard Graduate School 1933—Canadian composer R. Murray Schafrer, in Sarnia, Ontario 1954—American composer Tobias Picker, in New York Deaths: 1949—Czech composer Vitezslav Novák, age 78, in Skutec, Slovakia Premieres: 1713 — Handel: "Utrecht Te Deum," in London (Julian date: July 7) 1791 — Cherubini: opera, "Lodoiska, in Paris 1920 — Miaskovsky: Symphony No. 5, in Moscow 1972 — Panufnik: Violin Concerto, in London, with Yehudi Menuhin as soloist 1976 — Stockhausen: multi-media work "Sirius," in Washington, D.C., at the Smithsonian Institute 1984 — Sallinen: String Quartet No. 5 ("Pieces of Mosaic"), at the Kuhmo Festival in Finland, by the Kronos Quartet
Friday, July 19
Olympic music by Richard Strauss and John Williams ... MUSIC PLAYED ON TODAY'S PROGRAM: Richard Strauss (1864 - 1949): Olympic Hymn The Locke Brass Consort; James Stobart, cond. Chandos 8419 & John Williams (b. 1932): Summon the Heroes Boston Pops; John Williams, cond. Sony 89364 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Richard Strauss timeline and a video of the opening ceremonies of the 1936 Olympics ALSO ON THIS DATE: Births: 1906—Norwegian composer Klaus Egge, in Gransherad, Telemark 1913—American composer and pianist Peggy Stuart-Coolidge in Swampscott, Mass.; 1952—English composer Dominic Muldowney, in Southhampton 1965—Scottish composer and percussionist Evelyn Glennie, in Aberdeen Deaths: 1730—French composer and flutist Jean-Baptiste Loeillet, age 49, in London Premieres: 1924 — Webern: Six Bagatelles, Op. 9, for string quartet , in Donauschingen (Germany), by the Amar Quartet 1973 — Penderecki: Symphony No. 1 in Peterborough Cathedral by the London Symphony, conducted by the composer 1976 — Richard Wernick: "Visions of Terror and Wonder" for mezzo-soprano and orchestra, at the Aspen Music Festival in Colorado; This work won the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1977 1996 — John Williams "Summon the Heroes," a six-minute theme for the 1996 Summer Olympics, commissioned by the Atlanta Olympic Organizing Committee Other: 1942 —Arturo Toscanini conducts the American premiere of Shostakovich's Symphony No. 7 ("Leningrad") on a NBC Symphony broadcast; The world premiere performance by the Bolshoi Theater Orchestra had occurred on March 1, 1942, in Kuybishe, the wartime seat of the Soviet government
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