Thursday, February 28, 2019

Today's Birthdays

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John Alden Carpenter (1876-1951) Sergueï Bortkiewicz (1877-1952) Guiomar Novaes (1895-1979) Geraldine Farrar (1882-1967) Roman Maciejews...
Wednesday, February 27, 2019

Today's Birthdays

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Sir Hubert Parry (1848-1918) Lotte Lehmann (1888-1976) Marian Anderson (1897-1993) Elizabeth Welch (1904-2003) Viktor Kalabis (1923-2006...
Tuesday, February 26, 2019

Blind pianist wows crowd at Vancouver Symphony concert

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Ignasi Cambra amazed Vancouver Symphony patrons with an exceptional performance of Beethoven’s Third Piano Concerto on Saturday afternoon (F...

Today's Birthdays

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Anton (Antoine) Reicha (1770-1836) Alfred Bachelet (1864-1944) Emmy Destinn (1878-1930) Frank Bridge (1879-1941) Witold Rowicki (1914-19...
Monday, February 25, 2019

Today's Birthdays

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Armand-Louis Couperin (1727-1789) Antoine Reicha (1770-1836) Enrico Caruso (1873-1921) Dame Myra Hess (1890-1965) Victor Silvester (1900...
Sunday, February 24, 2019

Today's Birthdays

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Antoine Boësset (1587-1643) Samuel Wesley (1766-1837) Arrigo Boito (1842-1918) Luigi Denza (1846-1922) Arnold Dolmetsch (1858-1940) Mic...
Saturday, February 23, 2019

Concert preview with blind piano virtuoso in The Columbian newspaper

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My concert preview of this weekend's Vancouver Symphony concert with blind pianist Ignasi Cambra appeared in Friday's issue of The C...

Today's Birthdays

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John Blow (1649-1708) George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) Sir Hugh Roberton (1874-1952) Albert Sammons (1886-1957) Dave Apollon (1897-197...
Friday, February 22, 2019

Today's Birthdays

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Niels Wilhelm Gade (1817-1890) York Bowen (1884-1961) Benno Moiseiwitsch (1890-1963) Joseph Kerman (1924-2014) George Zukerman (1927) S...
Thursday, February 21, 2019

Music gives voice to silent films in VSO chamber event

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During the silent film era (1895-1930), it was common for movie theaters to provide live music accompaniment while the film was shown. Most ...

Today's Birthdays

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Carl Czerny (1791-1857) Leo Delibes (1836-1891) Charles Marie Widor (1844-1945) Kenneth Alford (1881-1945) Nina Simone (1933-2003) Elen...
Wednesday, February 20, 2019

Today's Birthdays

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Johann Peter Salomon (1749-1815) Charles‑Auguste de Bériot (1802-1870) Mary Garden (1874-1967) Robert McBride (1911-2007) Ruth Gipps (19...
Tuesday, February 19, 2019

Today's Birthdays

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Luigi Boccherini (1743-1805) Louis Aubert (1877-1968)) Arthur Shepherd (1880-1958) Grace Williams (1906-1977) Stan Kenton (1912-1979) T...
Monday, February 18, 2019

Today's Birthdays

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Giovanni Battista Vitali (1632-1692) Pietro Giovanni Guarneri (1655-1720) Gustave Schirmer, Jr. (1864-1907) Marchel Landowski (1915-1999)...
Sunday, February 17, 2019

Oregon Symphony with Simone Lamsma give intense and superb concert

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Outside the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall on Saturday (February 9), it was winter coat weather with temperatures below freezing, but inside ...

Today's Birthdays

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Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713) Henri Vieuxtemps (1820-1881) Sr. Edward German (1862-1936) Leevi Madetoja (1887-1947) Andres Segovia (1893...
Saturday, February 16, 2019

Today's Birthdays

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Charles Avison (1709-1770) Willem Kes (1856-1934) Selim Palmgren (1878-1951) Maria Korchinska (1895-1979) Alec Wilder (1907-1980) Machi...
Friday, February 15, 2019

Today's Birthdays

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Michael Praetorius (1571-1621) Jean‑François Lesueur (1760-1837) Friedrich Ernst Fesca (1789-1826) Heinrich Engelhard Steinway (1797-1871...
Thursday, February 14, 2019

Today's Birthdays

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Pietro Francesco Cavalli (1602-1676) Alexander Dargomizhsky (1813-1869) Ignaz Friedman (1882-1948) Jack Benny (1894-1974) Wyn Morris (19...
Wednesday, February 13, 2019

Today's Birthdays

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Fernando Sor (1778-1839) Leopold Godowsky (1870-1938) Feodor Chaliapin (1873-1938) Tennessee Ernie Ford (1919-1991) Eileen Farrell (1920...