Monday, March 13, 2017

Today's Birthdays

Michael Blavet (1700-1768)
Hugo Wolf (1860-1903)
Alec Rowley (1892-1958)
Irène Joachim (1913-2001)
Jane Rhodes (1929-2011)
Alberto Ponce (1935)
Lionel Friend (1945)
Julia Migenes (1949
Wolfgang Rihm (1952)
Anthony Powers (1953)
Moses Hogan (1957-2003)
Terence Blanchard (1962)

and

Janet Flanner (1892-1978)
George Seferis (1900-1971)

and from the Composers Datebook:

On this day in 1845, Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in e, Op. 64, was premiered by the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra conducted by Niels Gade, with Ferdinand David the soloist.

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