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Wednesday, October 15
Britten for young persons ... MUSIC PLAYED ON TODAY'S PROGRAM: Benjamin Britten (1913 – 1976): The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; André Previn, cond,. Telarc 80460 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: On Benjamin Britten More on Britten ALSO ON THIS DATE: Births: 1775—Finnish-born Swedish composer Bernhard Crusell, in Nystad (Uusikaupunki), Finland; 1844—German philosopher and occasional composer Friedrich Nietzsche, in Röcken, near Lützen; 1905—Swedish composer Dag Wirén, in Noraberg, Oerebro; Deaths: 1900—Czech composer Zdenek Fibich, age 49, in Prague; 1964—American composer Cole Porter, age 73, in Santa Monica, California; Premieres: 1780 — Haydn: opera "La Fedelta premiata," at Esterházy; 1886 — Mussorgsky: "A Night on Bald Mountain," posthumously, in a re-orchestration by Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov, in St. Petersburg, by the Russian Symphony conducted by Rimsky-Korsakov (Gregorian date: Oct. 27); 1886 — Dvorák: oratorio "St. Ludmilla," Op. 71, at the Leeds Festival in England; 1905 — Debussy: "La Mer," at a Lamoureux Concert in Paris, conducted by Chevillard;. 1933 — Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No. 1, by the Leningrad Philharmonic conducted by Fritz Stiedry, with the composer as piano soloist, and the trumpet solos played by Alexander Shmidt; 1938 — R. Strauss: opera, "Daphne," in Dresden at the State Opera, karl Boehm conducting, with vocal soloists Margarete Teschemacher (Daphne), Torsten Ralf (Apollo), Helena Jung (Gaea), and Martin Kremer (Leukippos); 1943 — Britten: "Serenade" for tenor, horn, and strings, in London; 1943 — Lukas Foss: “The Prairie,” by the Boston Symphony, Serge Koussevitzky conducting; 1946 — first concert performance of Britten: "Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra (Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Henry Purcell)", in Liverpool; This music was written for an education film entitled "The Instruments of the Orchestra," which was first shown on November 29, 1946; 1955 — Xenakis: "Metastasis" for 61 instruments, in Donaueschingen, Germany; 1981 — Robert Starer: Violin Concerto, by the Boston Symphony, Seiji Ozawa conducting, with Itzhak Perlman as soloist; 1985 — Christopher Rouse: “Lares Hercii” for violin and harpsichord, in Rochester, N.Y., by Charles Castleman (violin) and Arthur Haas (harpsichord); 1988 — Conlon Nancarrow: String Quartet No. 3, in Cologne, Germany, by the Arditti Quartet; 1997 — Peter Maxwell Davies: "The Jacobite Rising," in Glasgow, with the composer conducting soloists and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Chorus; 2003 — Peter Maxwell Davies: "Naxos Quartet" No. 3, at Wigmore Hall, London, by the Maggini Quartet; Other: 1738— London music publisher John Walsh the younger issues Handel's Organ Concertos, Op. 4 (see Julian date: Oct. 4); 1739—Handel completes in London his Concerto Grosso in g, Op. 6, no. 6 (Gregorian date: Oct. 26); 1739—Handel completes in London his Concerto Grosso in F, Op. 6, no. 2 (see Julian date: Oct. 4); 1844—Johann Strauss, Jr., age 18, conducts his own orchestra for the first time, at Dommayer's Casino in Hietzing (just outside Vienna); 1956—Leonard Bernstein named co-principal conductor of the New York Philharmonic (with Dimitri Mitropoulos). |
Wednesday, October 15, 2014
Composers Datebook
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