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Historian, Composer, Pianist, Speaker, Author
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Before we get to the central topic of todayâs post â that being a particular address in San Francisco - we would wish a most happy birthday to someone we only know by his nickname. Please: no looking ahead and peeking! Sir G. B. Hunter Memorial Hospital in Wallsend, Northumberland, England Today we wish a…
Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603) In yesterdayâs Music History Monday post, I mentioned a very few of the virtually countless sins that would cause me to be drummed out of todayâs academia. Among those I have indulged in the past â and which would undoubtedly get me into trouble in the present - would be making…
Clara Schumann in 1857, age 38 With our heads bowed and our hands on our hearts, we mark the death â 123 years ago today â of the pianist and composer Clara Wieck Schumann, who died of a stroke at the age of 76 on May 20, 1896. She was among the most outstanding pianists…
Giovanni Gabrieli (circa 1555-1612) We mark the death on August 12, 1612 - 412 years ago today - of the composer Giovanni Gabrieli. Born in Venice circa 1555, he grew up and spent his professional life in that glorious city, and died there as a result of complications from a kidney stone. Gabrieliâs magnificent, soul-stirring…
[caption id="attachment_2211" align="alignright" width="231"] Mozart circa 1780, detail from portrait by Johann Nepomuk della Croce[/caption]Conspiracy Theories Pssst! Did you know that Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld knowingly allowed Mossad to blow up the World Trade Towers and the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001? Did you know that the fluoridation of our water is a communist…
James Marshall âJimiâ Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix, 1942-1970), circa 1967 We mark the death on September 18, 1970 â 53 years ago today â of the American guitarist, singer, and songwriter James Marshall âJimiâ Hendrix, at St. Mary Abbots Hospital in London. He was born in Seattle, Washington on November 27, 1942, making him…
As readers of this blog and/or listeners to this podcast are aware, some Mondays present us with a plethora, a Motherâs Day buffet of musical topics from which to choose, while others are as dry as a perfect martini. During such days of topical feast or famine, coming up with a topic is equally challenging:…
Henry Cowell | Photo © Sidney Cowell Henry Cowell was an American iconoclast: a maverick composer who created his own most original musical language in response to a particular, uniquely âAmericanâ experience. A list of such radical American composers begins with Cowellâs personal hero and role model, Charles Ives and continues with Cowellâs own students…
Mahler (1860-1911) ca. 1896 Mahler composed the great bulk of his Symphony No. 3 during the summers of 1895 and 1896. (Mahler was a âsummer breakâ composer, who had to work around his conducting schedule.) It is a huge, sprawling, 6-movement work, roughly 100 to 105 minutes in performance. (The recommended performance, conducted by Claudio…
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