Johann Adolph Hasse (1699-1783)
Arturo Toscanini (1867-1957)
Béla Bartók (1881-1945)
Haydn Wood (1882-1959)
Magda Olivero (1910-2014)
Cecil Taylor (1929)
Sir Elton John (1947)
and
Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964)
Gloria Steinem (1934)
and from the Composers Datebook:
On this day in 1949, Shostakovich (accompanied by KGB "handlers")
arrives in New York for his first visit to America, for the Cultural and
Scientific Conference for World Peace, held at the Waldorf-Astoria
Hotel. His anti-Western statements and criticism of Igor Stravinsky
embarrassed his American sponsors, including Aaron Copland, and later
provided political fodder for the notorious Red-hunter, Senator Joseph
McCarthy.
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