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We mark the premiere performance on April 25, 1926 â 96 years ago today â of Giacomo Pucciniâs twelfth and final opera, Turandot. The premiere took place at Milanâs storied La Scala opera house and was conducted by Pucciniâs friend (and occasional nemesis!) Arturo Toscanini (1867-1957). At the time of the premiere, Puccini himself had…
According to âThis Day in Music.comâ, on August 31, 2006 â 14 years ago today â the Times of London ran an article on the sometimes outright whacko-crazy demands made by rock stars when on tour. Today weâll live vicariously through a few of these rockers and see what sort of extravagance we too could…
Advertising postcard picturing Wagner (with his father-in-law Franz Liszt directly behind him) greeting Kaiser Wilhelm I at the inaugural Bayreuth Festival in 1876 The Giving of Gifts It is appropriate that today, on St. Valentineâs Day, we celebrate a piece of music given as a gift of love from a husband to his wife: Richard…
Jan Woloniecki We ponder - for a bit â the nature of hobbies: those avocational pursuits that run the gamut from harmless amusement to life-dominating passions. I will confess up front that I am a collector, and so Iâve got a certain insight into this hobby-thing that a non-collector/non-hobbyist will not have. My first wife,…
I am aware that Valentineâs Day is already 5 days past, but darned if the romantic warm ânâ fuzzies arenât still lingering with me like a rash from poison oak. As such, I will be excused for offering up what I will admit is a belated, but nevertheless Valentineâs Day-related post. Gratitude We should all…
On this day in 1928, Maurice Ravelâs one-movement orchestra work BolĂ©ro received its premiere at the Opera Comique in Paris with Ravel conducting. (Various sources variously describe the premiere as having taken place on November 20, November 21, and November 22! We are splitting the difference and going with the 21st.) BolĂ©ro was commissioned by…
This is the second of three posts celebrating the Spanish director Carlos Sauraâs spectacular âFlamenco Trilogyâ, his set of three movies in which the stories are told primarily through flamenco music and dance. My Dr. Bob Prescribes post for March 8 of this year addressed the first of these movies, Bodas de Sangre (âBlood Weddingâ)…
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) in 1903 On March 18, 1902 â 117 years ago today â Arnold Schoenbergâs Verklarte Nacht (meaning Transfigured Night) for string sextet received its premiere in his native city of Vienna. Considered today to be Schoenbergâs first âmajorâ work, the music prompted what are euphemistically called âdisruptionsâ (meaning catcalls and hisses) and…
John Milton Cage (September 5, 1912 to August 12, 1992) On August 12, 1992 â 27 years ago today â the American composer, inventor, philosopher, facilitator, agent provocateur, shaman, clown, and guru, John Cage died in New York City at the age of 79. Background. My May 14, 2019 Dr. Bob Prescribes post (which can…
Cole Porter Today we mark the death of the songwriter and bon vivant par excellence Cole Albert Porter. He was born on June 9, 1891, and died at the age of 73 on October 15, 1964: 54 years ago today. We begin with what is, I think, is a great story. In September of 1939,…
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