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Pronunciation! Before we can get to the extraordinary man whose beneficence built Americaâs premiere concert hall and brought Tchaikovsky to New York in order to break it in, we must deal with a sticky issue of pronunciation. Andrew Carnegieâs surname is pronounced Car-NEH-gie, with an accent on the second syllable. Likewise, the Car-NEH-gie Corporation of…
Francis Poulenc (1899-1963) in Paris, circa 1955 We mark the death on January 30, 1963 â exactly sixty years ago today â of the French composer and pianist Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc, in Paris. A Parisian from head to toe, he was born in the tres chic 8th arrondisement in that magnificent city on January…
[caption id="attachment_502" align="alignright" width="300"] Gary Oldman as a dead ringer for the 38 year-old Beethoven from "Immortal Beloved"[/caption]Suggestion number three for getting and keeping our kids interested in music: movies and videos. We are visual creatures, and while I am generally not in favor of increasing screen time in our childrenâs lives, there are some…
On June 10, 1865 â 154 years ago today - Richard Wagnerâs magnificent music drama Tristan und Isolde received its premiere in Munich under the baton of Hans von BĂŒlow (with whose wife, Cosima, Wagner was carrying on an affair). Ludwig and Malvina Schnorr von Carolsfeld as Tristan and Isolde at the first performance of…
Before we get to the actual date-related topic for today, I beg your indulgence, as I need to tell you a story. Itâs a story that most of you know, at least in part. Again, indulge me. A partial reunion of the stars of The Godfather films I and II in 2017, on the 45th…
Don Ellis (left) and Hank Levy, circa 1971 It is possible to know too much. A wine aficionado has no taste for a $14.00 bottle of Pinot. A modern dance devotee would not deign to attend a square dance. A cocktail shaker enthusiast wonât look twice at a mass-marketed chrome shaker from the 1930s. This…
[caption id="attachment_2049" align="alignright" width="234"] Richard Wagner photographed in Paris in 1861[/caption]156 years ago today â on March 13, 1861 - Richard Wagner's opera TannhĂ€user was first performed in Paris at the ThĂ©Ăątre Imperial de l'OpĂ©ra. The Paris production of TannhĂ€user remains one of the greatest operatic flops of all time: a scheduled ten-performance run that…
Scott Joplin On April 1, 1917 â 102 years ago today - the American composer and pianist Scott Joplin died at the Manhattan State Hospital on New York Cityâs Wardâs Island, which straddles the Harlem River and the East River between Manhattan and Queens. He was 48 years old. During the course of his compositional…
Members of Pussy Riot âperformâ at the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow on February 21, 2012 On February 21, 2012 â ten years ago today â five members of the Russian feminist punk rock group Pussy Riot staged an unauthorized performance on the soleas [so-LAY-us] of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in…
(What, you donât âlikeâ my title? Please, donât get testes about it.) Carlo Broschi, âFarinelliâ (1705-1782) in 1734 by Bartolomeo Nazari We note the death on September 16, 1782 â 237 years ago today â of one of the greatest opera singers to have ever lived, the celebrated Italian castrato Carlo Maria Michelangelo Nicola Broschi,…
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