APM: Composers Datebook

Rachmaninoff makes the cut

The Russian émigré composer and pianist Sergei Rachmaninoff was himself the soloist on today's...

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Moby Crumb?

On today's date in 1972, a most unusual chamber work by the American composer George Crumb had...

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Massenet's "Meditation"

A new opera by Jules Massenet had its premiere at the Paris Opera on today's date in 1894. It was...

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King Louis XIII's "Blackbird" Ballet

The thick historical novels of the 19th century French writer Alexandre Dumas, Sr. are packed...

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The Amazing Mr. Ornstein

On today's date in 1996 at the Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco, pianist Marvin Tartak gave...

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Adamo at the opera

It might seem farfetched that Katherine Hepburn, Winona Ryder and Charles Ives might have...

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Verdi's "Simon Boccanegra"

The stage directions read: "The garden of the Grimaldi Palace outside Genoa. On the left side,...

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Ruggles and Cowell anniversaries

Today's date marks the birth anniversaries of two major 20th century American composers: Carl...

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Rachmaninoff's Vespers

On today's date in 1915, the Moscow Synodal Choir gave the premiere performance of a new choral...

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Tabloid Paganini?

If "Entertainment Tonight!" were around in Paris in 1831, they would probably have offered a...

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Kernis' Violin Concerto

In Toronto on today’s date in 2017 violinist James Ehnes gave the world premiere performance of a...

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Daniel Pinkham

Some special music had its premiere at Harvard University (in Cambridge, Massachusetts) on...

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Beethoven's Op. 127

Today in 1825, one of Beethoven's late chamber works, his String Quartet in E-flat, Op. 127,...

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Barber sings Barber

Among the talented music students at Philadelphia's Curtis Institute in the late 1920s, a...

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A Hopeful Fanfare

Perhaps the fanfare is the most optimistic and hopeful of all musical forms, since it signals the...

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Richard Strauss, hero

I believe Oscar Wilde gets credit for the line, "But enough about me — what do YOU think about...

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Worthington's Dream

Recordings can be an effective calling card for composers – but the expense of recording an...

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Prokofiev's Cello Sonata

Composer Serge Prokofiev and cellist Mstislav Rostropovich first met in 1947 when Prokofiev was...

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Rorem's "Book of Hours"

Happy Leap Year! Once every four years we have the opportunity to wish the great Italian opera...

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"Tombeaux" by Ravel and Daugherty

Maurice Ravel’s orchestral suite "Le Tombeau de Couperin" was premiered in Paris this day in...

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