Sir John Stainer (1840-1901)
Siegfried Wagner (1869-1930)
Aram Khachaturian (1903-1978)
Vincent Persichetti (1915-1987)
Iain Hamilton (1922-2000)
Serge Nigg (1924-2008)
Klaus Tennstedt (1926-1998)
Louis Andriessen (1939)
and
Pierre Corneille (1606-1684)
Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837)
Thomas Mann (1875-1955)
Maxine Kumin (1925-2014)
Robert Pirsig (1928-2017)
and from the Composers Datebook:
On this day in 1931, Henry Cowell's "Synchrony" received its premiere in
Paris, at the first of two concerts of modern American music with the
Orchestre Straram conducted by Nicholas Slonimsky and funded anonymously
by Charles Ives. On the same program, Slonimsky also conducted the
Orchestre Straram in the European premieres of works by Adolph Weiss
("American Life"), Ives ("Three Places in England"), Carl Ruggles ("Men
and Mountains"), and the Cuban composer Amadeo Roldan ("La
Rehambatamba").
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