Today's Birthdays

Francesco Fanciulli (1853-1915)

Isaac Albéniz (1860-1909)

Rudolf Tobias (1873-1918)

Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957)

Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001)

Helmuth Rilling (1933)

Michael Berkley (1948)

Linda Esther Gray (1948)

Melissa Etheridge (1961) 



and



G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936)

Oswald Spengler (1880-1936)

John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)

Steven Levitt (1967)



and 



from the Composers Datebook:



On this day in 1913, Stravinsky's "Le Sacre du printemps" (The Rite of Spring) received its premiere performance in Paris, by Diaghilev's Ballet Russe, Pierre Monteux conducting.