Handel's dueling divas
Synopsis On today’s date in 1727, the opera season in London ended early when rival Italian prima donnas, Francesca Cuzzoni and Faustina Bor...
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Composers Datebook
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...
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20 of 79 episodesA birthday surprise for Pinkham
Synopsis On today’s date in 1998 at King’s Chapel in Boston, a new work by American composer Daniel Pinkham received its first performance....
Chadwick and Salonen go Greek
Synopsis In the early years of the 20th century, a hauntingly beautiful piece of Grecian sculpture — a bust of the head of the goddess Aphro...
Finger finishes fourth
Synopsis LAUGH-IN was a popular TV comedy sketch program in the late 1960s and one of their recurring alliterative gag lines referred to “th...
Currier's 'Time Machines'
Synopsis When you listen to classical music like Bach or Mozart, you are taking a trip in a time machine. Or, as Shirley MacLaine might put...
Well-travelled Zwilich
Synopsis On today’s date in 1988, the New York Philharmonic gave a concert in a city then called Leningrad and in a country then called the...
Melinda Wagner's Pulitzer premiere
Synopsis On today’s date in 1998, in Purchase, New York, the Westchester Philharmonic gave the premiere performance of a new flute concerto...
Bach arrives (literally)
Synopsis On today’s date in 1723, Johann Sebastian Bach began his formal duties as the new Cantor of the St. Thomas School in Leipzig, a cit...
Stravinsky's 'Riot' of Spring?
Synopsis Today’s date marks the anniversary of one of the most famous — and notorious — premieres in the history of classical music, that of...
The Hindemith case
Synopsis On today's date in 1938, Matthias the Painter , an opera by the German composer Paul Hindemith, had its premiere performance in Zur...
David Wilde's 'The Cellist of Sarajevo'
Synopsis On today’s date in 1992, during the bloody civil wars that shattered the former Yugoslavia, a hand grenade was thrown into the mids...
John Rutter at Carnegie Hall
Synopsis For many years now MidAmerica Productions has been organizing concerts in New York City and enlisting choral ensembles from the U.S...
A belated Webern premiere
Synopsis This lush, late-Romantic score, composed in 1904, had to wait until 1962 for its premiere performance, when, on today’s date that y...
Beethoven's 'Bridgetower Sonata?
Synopsis On today’s date in 1803, violinist George Polgreen Bridgetower, 33, and pianist and composer Ludwig van Beethoven, 32, gave the fir...
Brahms the perfectionist
Synopsis Some famous composers were notorious perfectionists — and then there was Johannes Brahms, the perfectionist of perfectionists. He s...
A new patron for Richard Strauss
Synopsis German composer Richard Strauss wrote his first song at 6, and his last at 84, a year before his death in 1949. Four of his last so...
The Panufniks
Synopsis At Westminster Abbey on today’s date in 1998 a haunting new setting of the Latin mass written by British composer Roxanna Panufnik...
A Becker premiere in Saint Paul
Synopsis These days composer John J. Becker is almost totally forgotten, but back in the 1930s his name was linked with Charles Ives, Carl R...
Ursula Mamlok
Synopsis On today’s date in 2013, a new work by 90-year old German-born American composer and teacher named Ursula Mamlok received its premi...
Heggie Writes a Choral Opera
Synopsis In Costa Mesa, California, on today’s date in 2014, the Pacific Chorale premiered a new choral opera. And what exactly is a choral...
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