Monday, June 30, 2025

Today's Birthdays

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Georg Anton Benda (1722-1795) Laszlo Lajtha (1892-1963) John Duke (1899-1984) Lena Horne (1917-2010) James Loughran (1931-2024) Giles S...
Sunday, June 29, 2025

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Aarre Merikanto (1893-1958) Nelson Eddy (1901-1967) Leroy Anderson (1908-1975) Frank Loesser (1910-1969) Bernard Hermann (1911-1975) Ra...
Saturday, June 28, 2025

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Napoléon Coste (1805-1883) Joseph Joachim (1831-1907) Richard Rodgers (1902-1979) Arnold Shaw (1909-1989) Sergiu Celibidache (1912-1996)...

Experanza spalding helps the Metropolitan Youth Symphony to celebrate 50 years of music making

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My review and report of the MYS season closer is now published in Oregon ArtsWatch here .
Friday, June 27, 2025

Today's Birthdays

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Friedrich Silcher (1789-1860) Toti Dal Monte (1893-1975) Karel Reiner (1910-1979) George Walker (1922-2018) Ruth Schönthal (1924-2006) ...
Thursday, June 26, 2025

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Big Bill Broonzy (1893-1958) Hugues Cuénod (1902-2010) Wolfgang Windgassen (1914-1974) Giuseppe Taddei (1916-2010) Syd Lawrence (1923-19...
Wednesday, June 25, 2025

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Gustave Charpentier (1860-1956) Arthur Tracy (1899-1997) Bill Russo (1928-2003) Kurt Schwertsik (1935) Carly Simon (1945) and Antoni...
Tuesday, June 24, 2025

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Harry Partch (1901-1974) Pierre Fournier (1906-1986) Milton Katims (1909-2006) Denis Dowling (1910-1984) Terry Riley (1935) and Ambr...
Monday, June 23, 2025

Today's Birthdays

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Carl Reinecke (1824-1910) Mieczyslaw Horszowski (1892-1993) George Russell (1923-2009) Adam Faith (1940-2003) James Levine (1943-2021) ...
Sunday, June 22, 2025

Review: Oregon Symphony's Mahler 3 delivers the goods

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My review of Oregon Symphony's season closer is now up on Oregon Arts Watch here .

Today's Birthdays

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Francesco Manfredini (1684-1762) Étienne Nicolas Méhul (1763-1817) Frank Heino Damrosch (1859-1937) Jennie Tourel (1900-1973) Walter Lei...
Friday, June 20, 2025

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Joseph Martin Kraus (1756-1792) Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880) Wilfred Pelletier (1896-1982) Chet Atkins (1924-2001) Eric Dolphy (1928-19...
Thursday, June 19, 2025

Today's Birthdays

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François Rebel (1701-1775) Johann Wenzel Stamitz (1717-1757) Carl Zeller (1842-1898) Alfredo Catalani (1854-1893) Sergei Taneyev (1856-1...
Wednesday, June 18, 2025

Today's Birthdays

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Antonio Maria Bononcini (1677-1726) Ignaz Pleyel (1757-1831) David Popper (1843-1913) Sir George Thalben-Ball (1896-1987) Edward Steuerm...
Tuesday, June 17, 2025

Report from the League of American Orchestras conference and Utah Symphony review

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Last week, I visited Salt Lake City where the League of American Orchestras held their annual conference. My report from the conference and ...

Today's Birthdays

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John Wesley (1703-1791) Charles Gounod (1818-1893) Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) Hermann Reutter (1900-1985) Einar Englund (1916-1999) Ga...
Monday, June 16, 2025

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Niccolò Vito Piccinni (1728-1800) Helen Traubel (1899-1972) Willi Boskovsky (1909-1990) Sergiu Comissiona (1928-2005) Lucia Dlugoszewski...
Sunday, June 15, 2025

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Franz Danzi (1763-1826) Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) Ernestine Schumann‑Heink (1861-1936) Guy Ropartz (1864-1955) Robert Russell Bennett (18...
Saturday, June 14, 2025

Today's Birthdays

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Antonio Sacchini (1730-1786) Simon Mayr (1763-1845) Nicolai Rubinstein (1835-1881) John McCormack (1884-1945) Heddle Nash (1894-1961) R...
Friday, June 13, 2025

Today's Birthdays

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Anton (Antonín) Wranitzky (1761-1820) Anton Eberl (1766-1807) Elisabeth Schumann (1888-1952) Carlos Chavez (1899-1978) Alan Civil (1929-...