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Composers Datebook™ is a daily two-minute program designed to inform, engage, and entertain listeners with timely information about composers of the past and present. Each program notes sign...
Synopsis On today’s date in 1938, a musical soirée was held at Dumbarton Oaks, a magnificent house on the crest of a wooded valley in Washi...
Synopsis On today’s date in 1937, the NBC radio network was carrying a live broadcast from the Cincinnati May Festival of a new oratorio The...
Synopsis Do you believe in angels? It seems Finnish composer Einojuhanni Rautavaara did — and produced a number of orchestral pieces with ev...
Synopsis As far as anniversary gifts go, the one Dutch conductor Willem Mengelberg received in 1920 was pretty spectacular. To celebrate his...
Synopsis Benjamin Britten was the most famous English opera composer of the 20th century, but ironically his first opera, Paul Bunyan , had...
Synopsis On today's date in 1953, at New York’s 92nd Street YMCA, the Walden String Quartet tackled the difficult String Quartet No. 1 by Am...
Synopsis On today's date in 1953, at New York’s 92nd Street YMCA, the Walden String Quartet tackled the difficult String Quartet No. 1 by Am...
Synopsis Today marks the anniversary of the first performance of the best-known work of Swiss-born American composer, Ernest Bloch, whose He...
Synopsis The marimba is a percussion instrument of tuned bars, usually made of wood, arranged like the keys of a piano. These bars are struc...
Synopsis For American conductor and composer Bernard Herrmann, 1940 was a busy year. On the East Coast, he had been appointed chief conducto...
Synopsis At New York’s Alice Tully Hall on today’s date in 2003, the Avalon Quartet gave the first complete performance of a new four-moveme...
Synopsis On today’s date in 1784, Italian violinist Regina Strinasacchi gave a concert in Vienna and had the good sense to commission a new...
Synopsis On today’s date in 1865, the hottest ticket in Paris was for the premiere of Giacomo Meyerbeer’s long-awaited grand opera L’Africai...
Synopsis Today’s date in 1945 marks the birthday in Pittsburgh of great American playwright August Wilson. He chronicled the experiences of...
Synopsis On today’s date in 2002, Mariss Jansons led the Pittsburg Symphony in the premiere performance of the Symphony No. 2 written by 32-...
Synopsis On today’s date in 1841 an all-Beethoven concert was given at the Salle Erard to raise funds for the proposed Beethoven monument in...
Synopsis During the last 20 years of his life, avant-garde German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen concentrated on completing an ambitious cyc...
Synopsis During his stay in America, Czech composer Antonín Dvořák became convinced that distinctive American music could be based on two so...
Synopsis At London’s St. James’s Hall on today’s date in 1885, Czech composer Antonín Dvořák conducted the London Philharmonic Society’s orc...
Synopsis In 1863, the price of The New York Times was three cents, and many plunked down their pennies to read front-page news about “the re...
Synopsis On today’s date in 1928, French musician and inventor Maurice Martenot gave the first public demonstration of a new electronic inst...
Synopsis Alban Berg’s Violin Concerto was first performed in Barcelona, Spain, on today’s date in 1936, at the opening concert of the Intern...
Synopsis The month of April in the year 1800 was an especially busy one for Ludwig van Beethoven. On the second of April at his first big or...
Synopsis Early in April in the year 1845, 15-year old American pianist Louis Moreau Gottschalk performed at the Salle Pleyel in Paris. On th...
Synopsis For the 1958-59 season of the New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein, the orchestra’s newly-appointed music director, was eager t...
Synopsis Over the centuries, a wide range of composers have created musical settings of the Latin mass, but one of the more unusual and dist...
Synopsis On today’s date in 1789, Mozart was in Dresden, performing his new piano concerto at the Royal Saxon Court. Mozart was pretty good...
Synopsis Over the centuries, many composers have set verses from the Bible’s Book of Psalms to music, often in response to times of turmoil...
Synopsis On today’s date in 1892, the Adamowski Quartet gave a concert in Boston that included two movements from a string quartet by 32-yea...
Synopsis On today’s date in 1930, Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra gave the first staged presentation in America of Igor Str...
Synopsis On today’s date in 1959, the Duke University Band under Paul Bryan gave the premiere performance of a new work they had commissione...
Synopsis On today’s date in 1938, radio listeners across North America tuned to the NBC network to hear the first American performance of th...
Synopsis It’s usually new music that gets terrible reviews, but scanning old newspapers, you’ll find that occasionally old music gets panned...
Synopsis From 1951 to the time of his death in 1976, Texas-born conductor Victor Alesandro led the San Antonio Symphony. Alessandro was a fi...
Synopsis Carlos Salzedo, the most influential harpist of the 20th century, was born in Arcachon, France, on today’s date in 1885. He transfo...
Synopsis The “waltz king” Johann Strauss Jr. was 45 before he tried his hand at writing an operetta, urged on by the management of Vienna’s...
Synopsis Today we offer a special “Gong Show” edition of the Composer’s Datebook. On today’s date in 1791, at the height of the French Revol...
Synopsis In the 19th century, much like today, New Yorkers looking for musical entertainment had a lot to choose from. For example, on today...
Synopsis On today’s date in 1961, American composer Wallingford Riegger died in New York City, a month shy of what would have been his 76th...
Synopsis On this date in 1747, London concert-goers gathered in response to a newspaper announcement , which read, “At the Theatre-Royal in...
Synopsis On today’s date in 1837, Princess Cristina Belgiojoso-Trivulzio, scored the social coup of the season at her Parisian salon. Ostens...
Synopsis In 2002, film director Godfrey Reggio released his latest movie. Naqoyqatsi — the Hopi word for “life as war” — was Reggio’s third...
Synopsis Ok, if you say, “band music,” most people think “marching bands; sporting events.” So if someone tells you there is a band work tit...
Synopsis In Beethoven’s day, there were no independent symphonic orchestras in Vienna, so when Ludwig van wanted to put on an orchestral con...
Synopsis One of the preeminent figures in 20th century Japanese concert music was composer Toshiro Mayuzumi, born in Yokohama in 1929. The r...
Synopsis She’s been called a “British Gershwin” but perhaps a “British Poulenc” might more accurately describe the genial and graceful music...
Synopsis It’s all a matter of timing. In 1942, the Soviet Union was America’s wartime ally, and the Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich made...
Synopsis Dealing with the death of loved ones is never easy, but sometimes music can help — especially if music plays a role in the lives of...
Synopsis Any composer who sets out to write a violin concerto knows their new work will be measured against the famous concertos of the past...
Synopsis The Boston Symphony premiered a new symphony on today’s date in 1984 — a commission for its Centenary Celebrations. It was the Symp...