Wednesday, October 6, 2021

Today's Birthdays

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William Bradbury (1816-1868) Jenny Lind (1820-1887) Julia Culp (1880-1970) Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937) Maria Jeritza (1887-1982) Edwi...
Tuesday, October 5, 2021

Today's Birthdays

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Cyril Bradley Rootham (1875-1938) Jürgen Jürgens (1925-1994) John Downey (1927-2004) Iwan Edwards (1937) Ken Noda (1962) and Denis D...
Monday, October 4, 2021

Today's Birthdays

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Fanny Tacchinardi‑Persiani (1812-1867) Alain Daniélou (1907-1994) Alain Lombard (1940) Richard Wilson (1941) John Aler (1949) Fransico ...
Sunday, October 3, 2021

Today's Birthdays

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Antoine Dauvergne (1713-1797) Stanisław Skrowaczewski (1923-2017) Steve Reich (1936) and Emily Post (1873-1960) Thomas Wolfe (1900-19...
Saturday, October 2, 2021

Today's Birthdays

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Frantisek Tuma (1704-1774) Henry Février (1875-1957) Leroy Shield (1893-1962) Francis Jackson (1917) Mary Jeanne van Appledorn (1927-201...
Friday, October 1, 2021

Second volume of piano pieces by Gary Noland published

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Portland composer Gary Noland's COLLECTED PIANO WORKS: Volume 2 (also 286 pages) is now available to pre-order from Amazon at:  https://...

Today's Birthdays

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J. Friedrich Eduard Sobolewski (1808-1872) Henry Clay Work (1832-1884) Paul Dukas (1865-1935) Vladimir Horowitz (1904-1989) Sylvano Buss...
Thursday, September 30, 2021

Portland Opera announces Damien Geter as its interim music director

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BTW: I interviewed Geter just a few months ago for this article in Classical Voice North America . Take a look at the last sentence in the a...

Today's Birthdays

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Johann Svendsen (1840-1911) Sir Charles V. Stanford (1852-1924) Václav Smetáček (1906-1986) David Oistrakh (1908-1974) Dame Julie Andrew...
Wednesday, September 29, 2021

Violin virtuoso Fullana provides mesmerizing Saint-Saëns to open Vancouver Symphony season

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Guest artist Francisco Fullana delivered an outstanding performance of Saint-Saëns’ Violin Concerto No. 3 in B minor in the Newmark Theatre ...

Today's Birthdays

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Jacques-Martin Hottetere (1674-1763) Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska (1829/1834–1861) Joaquin Nin (y Castellanos) (1879-1949) Gene Autry (19...
Tuesday, September 28, 2021

Article about the new acoustical solution in The Schnitz published in The Oregonian

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The Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall has undergone an significant acoustical upgrade that is quite impressive. The Oregonian just published the...

Today's Birthdays

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Johann Mattheson (1681-1764) Florent Schmitt (1870-1958) Vivian Fine (1913-2000) Rudolf Barshai (1924-2010) Edward Applebaum (1937) Cat...
Monday, September 27, 2021

Today's Birthdays

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Cyril Scott (1879-1970) Vincent Youmans (1898-1946) Jean Berger (1909-2002) Igor Kipnis (1930-2002) Dame Josephine Barstow (1940) Misha...
Sunday, September 26, 2021

Today's Birthdays

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Alfred Cortot (1877-1962) Charles Munch (1891-1968) George Gershwin (1898-1937) Yvonne Levering (1905-2006) Fritz Wunderlich (1930-1966)...
Saturday, September 25, 2021

Today's Birthdays

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Johann Nikolaus Hanff (1663-1711) Jean-Phillippe Rameau (1683-1764) Léon Boëllmann (1862-1897) Roberto Gerhard (1896-1970) Dmitri Shosta...
Friday, September 24, 2021

Preview of Vancouver Symphony opener in The Columbian newspaper

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My preview of the Vancouver Symphony's first concert of the season was published in The Columbian newspaper today. The online version wa...

Today's Birthdays

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Blind Lemon Jefferson (1893-1929) Sir Andrzej Panufnik (1914-1991) Vaclav Nelhybel (1919-1996) Cornell MacNeil (1922-2011) Alfredo Kraus...
Thursday, September 23, 2021

Today's Birthdays

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Jacques Féréol Mazas (1782-1849) William Levi Dawson (1899-1990) Jarmila Novotná (1907-1994) Soulima Stravinsky (1910-1994) Alexander Ar...
Wednesday, September 22, 2021

Today's Birthdays

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Arthur Pryor (1870-1942) Mikolajus Ciurlionis (1875-1911) Henryk Szeryng (1918-1988) William O. Smith (1926-2020) Hugh Bean (1929-2003) ...