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August 17-23, 2009
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Monday, August 17
Honegger's Symphonies ... MUSIC PLAYED ON TODAY'S PROGRAM: Arthur Honegger (1892 - 1955): Symphonies Nos. 2 & 3 Oslo Philharmonic; Mariss Jansons, cond. EMI 55122 & Arthur Honegger (1892 - 1955): Symphony No. 4 (Deliciae basiliensis) Lausanne Chamber Orchestra; Jesus Lopez-Cobos, cond. Virgin 91486 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: On Honegger More on Honegger ALSO ON THIS DATE: Births: 1903—American composer and pianist Abram Chasins, in New York City; 1928—American composer T.J. (Thomas Jefferson) Anderson, in Coatesville, Pa.; 1943—English composer Edward Cowie, in Birmingham; Deaths: 1786—Frederick the Great, King of Prussia, flute player and amateur composer, age 74, in Potsdam; 1958—French composer Florent Schmitt, age 87, in Neuilly-sur-Seine; 1961—French-born American composer and harpist Carlos Salzedo, age 76, in Waterville, Maine; 1973—French composer Jean Barraque, in Paris; 1981—American composer Robert Russell Bennett, age 87, in New York City; 1983—American lyricist Ira Gershwin, age 86, in Beverly Hills, Calif.; Premieres: 1876 — First complete performance of Richard Wagner's "Ring" cycle concludes at Bayreuth with a performance of "Götterdämmerung" (The Twilight of the Gods); 1937 — John Ireland: "A London Overture" at a Proms Concert conducted by Sir Henry Wood; 1946 — Honegger: "Symphonie Liturgique" (No. 3) in Zürich, conducted by Charles Munch, to whom the work is dedicated; 1953 — von Einem: opera "Der Prozess" (The Trial), at the Salzburg Festival in Austria; This opera is based on the novel by Franz Kafka; 1955 — Werner Egk: opera "Irische Legende" (Irish Legend), at the Salzburg Festival in Austria; 1974 — Penderecki: "Magnificat," for bass solo, chorus, and orchestra, in Salzburg, Austria; Other: 1928—Swedish composer Kurt Atterberg wins $10,000 Schubert Centenary Prize offered by Columbia Phonograph Company of New York for his Symphony in C; 1957—During lecture at the Tanglewood Festival, American composer Gunther Schuller coins the phrase "third stream" to describe a type of composition in which elements of jazz are organized within a classical musical structure.
Tuesday, August 18
Monteverdi (and Henze) in Salzburg ... MUSIC PLAYED ON TODAY'S PROGRAM: Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) arr. Hans Werner Henze: Ulysses' Homecoming soloists; Vienna Radio Symphony; Jeffrey Tate, cond. Orfeo 528 003 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: On Monteverdi More on Monteverdi On Henze More on Henze ALSO ON THIS DATE: Births: 1750—Italian opera composer Antonio Salieri, in Legnago (near Verona); 1849—French composer Benjamin Godard, in Paris; 1893—Canadian composer and conductor Sir Ernest MacMillan, in Mimico, Ontario; Deaths: 1942—Austrian composer Erwin Schulhoff, age 48, in a German concentration camp in Wülzburg; Premieres: 1820 — Schubert: opera "Die Zauberharfe" (The Magic Harp) in Vienna; 1912 — Schreker: opera "Der ferne Klang" (The Distant Sound), in Frankfurt at the Opernhaus; 1938 — Britten: Piano Concerto, with the composer as soloist, at a Proms Concert conducted by Sir Henry Wood; 1956 — Henry Brant: "On the Nature of Things," for spatially grouped instruments and strings, in Bennington, Vt.; 1966 — Ulysseys Kay: "Markings" (dedicated to the late Secretary General of the United Nations, Dag Hammarskjöld), at the Meadow Brook Music Festival in Rochester, Michigan; Other: 1906—Gustav Mahler conducts the first of two performances of Mozart's opera "The Marriage of Figaro" in Salzburg, Austria, during a Mozart Festival that also included Mozart's "Cosi fan tutte" conducted by Richard Strauss.
Wednesday, August 19
John Howell Morrison ... MUSIC PLAYED ON TODAY'S PROGRAM: John Howell Morrison (b. 1956): Hard Weather Makes Good Wood Intergalactic Contemporary Ensemble innova 584 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: On John Howell Morrison ALSO ON THIS DATE: Births: 1813—American composer and journalist, William Henry Fry, in Philadelphia (see also August 10); 1881—Rumanian composer, violinist, and conductor Georges Enesco (Enescu), in Liveni-Virnaz; Deaths: 1929—Russian ballet impressario Sergei Diaghilev, age 57, in Venice; Premieres: 1952 — Ginastera: ballet "Estancia," in Buenos Aires; 1957 — Bernstein: musical "West Side Story," as a trial run in Washington, D.C. at the National Theater, choreography and direction by Jerome Robbins, conducted by Max Goberman; The show opened in New York City at the Winter Garden on September 26, 1957; 1961 — Peggy Glanville-Hicks: opera "Nausicaa," in Athens, Greece; 1988 — Lutoslawski: Piano Concerto, at the Salzburg Festival in Austria; Other: 1990—At Tanglewood, Leonard Bernstein conducts the Boston Symphony in Britten's "Three Sea Interludes" from "Peter Grimes" and Beethoven's Symphony No. 7 at his last concert appearance before his death; On the same program, Carl St. Clair conducted a performance of Bernstein's "Arias and Barcarolles" (as orchestrated by Bright Sheng); The Bernstein-led performances from this concert have been issued on compact disc on the Deutsche Grammophon label.
Thursday, August 20
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Friday, August 21
Lili Boulanger ... MUSIC PLAYED ON TODAY'S PROGRAM: Lili Boulanger (1893 - 1918): D'un matin de printemps Olivier Charlier, violin; Emile Naoumoff, piano Marco Polo 8.223636 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: On Nadia and Lili Boulanger ALSO ON THIS DATE: Births: 1893—French composer Lili Boulanger, in Paris; She was the younger sister of Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979), the famous French composition teacher; 1927—German composer Willhelm Killmayer, in Munich; Deaths: 1951—British composer and writer Constant Lambert, age 45, in London; Premieres: 1966 — Creston: "Pavane Variations" at the La Jolla Music Festival in California; Other: 1800—The U.S. Marine Band presented its first public concert in Washington, DC, "on a hill overlooking the Potomac," near the future site of the Lincoln Memorial.
Saturday, August 22
A Tippett Triple ... MUSIC PLAYED ON TODAY'S PROGRAM: Sir Michael Tippett (1905 - 1998): Triple Concerto Kovacic-Caussé- Baillie Trio; BBC Philharmonic; Sir Michael Tippett, cond. Nimbus 5301 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: On Sir Michael Tippett ALSO ON THIS DATE: Births: 1827—Austrian composer Josef Strauss, in Vienna; He was the son of Johann Strauss I and the younger brother of Johann Strauss, II.; 1862—French composer Claude Debussy, in St.Germain-en-Laye; 1928—German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen, in Mödrath (near Cologne); Premieres: 1968 — Birtwistle: opera "Punch and Judy," at the Edinburgh Festival in Scotland; 1980 — Tippett: Triple Concerto, for violin, viola, cello and orchestra, in London by the London Symphony, Sir Colin Davis conducting; 1982 — Peter Maxwell Davies: "Image, Reflection, Shadow" at the Lucerne Festival in Switzerland; Other: 1741—Handel begins work on his famous oratorio, "Messiah," which he finished scoring on September 14 (Gregorian dates: Sept. 2 to 25); The entire work was composed in a period of 24 days; 2002 —An opera by the Iranian-Armenian composer Loris Cheknavariyan based on the Persian epic "Rostam and Sohrab" is staged in Teheran to mark the 1000th anniversary of the birth of poet Abol-Qasem Ferdowsi, on whose epic the opera was based; The performance, at Teheran's Milad Hall, featured 125 Austrian musicians and singers; This marked the first occasion that a Western-style opera was staged in Iran since the 1979 Islamic revolution.
Sunday, August 23
Prokofiev in Pavlovsk ... MUSIC PLAYED ON TODAY'S PROGRAM: Sergei Prokofiev (1892 - 1953): Piano Concerto No. 2 Alexander Toradze, piano; Kirov Orchestra; Valery Gergiev, cond. Philips 462 048 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: On Prokofiev ALSO ON THIS DATE: Births: 1854—German pianist and composer of Polish descent Moritz Moszkowski, in Brelau; 1900—Austrian-born American composer Ernst Krenek, in Vienna; 1905—English composer, conductor and writer Constant Lambert, in London; Deaths: 1937—French composer Albert Roussel, age 68, in Royan; 1960—American lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II, age 65, in Doylestown, Pa.; 1962—American composer Irving Fine, age 47, in Boston; Premieres: 1735 — Rameau, opera-ballet "Les Indes galantes," in Paris; 1906 — R. Vaughan-Williams: "Norfolk Rhapsody," in London; 1913 — Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 2 (first version), at Pavlovsk, conducted by A.P. Aslanov with the composer as soloist (Gregorian date: Sept. 5); A second version of this concerto premiered in Paris on May 8, 1924, conducted by Serge Koussevitzky, again with the composer a soloist; 1964 — Stravinsky: "Abraham and Isaac" (dedicated to the people and the state of Israel), in Jerusalem by the Israel Festival Orchestra conducted by Robert Craft; Other: 1934—The Berkshire Symphonic Festival in founded in Stockbridge, Mass., by American composer and conductor Henry Hadley, with the participation of the New York Philharmonic; The Festival later became associated with the Boston Symphony under Serge Koussevitzky. |
