Births and Deaths
- Died 1930: Leopold Auer, violinist/teacher, born 06-07-1845 [teacher of Heifetz, Milstein, Elman, etc.]
- Born 1921: Jack (Hamilton) Beeson, composer
- Born 1934: Harrison Birtwistle, composer
- Died 1959: Ernest Bloch, composer, born 07-24-1880
- Born 1933: Julian Bream, guitarist
- Died 1782: Carlo ("Farinelli") Broschi, castrato, born 01-24-1705
- Born 1895: Eddy Brown, violinist, died 06-14-1974
- Died 1857: Carl Czerny, composer/pianist, born 02-21-1791
- Born 1928: Bracha Eden, duo-pianist/pianist [Eden & Tamir piano duo]
- Born 1872: Alfred Hertz, conductor, died 04-17-1942
- Died 1990: Oleg Kagan, violinist, born 11-21-1946 [husband of cellist Natalia Gutman; violin partner to pianist Sviatoslav Richter]
- Died 2001: Denes Koromzay, violist/violinist, born-?? [aged 88]
- Died 1959: Angelica Pandolfini, soprano, born 08-21-1871
- Died 2000: Louis Quilico, baritone, born 01-14-1925
- Died 1960: Lawrence Tibbett [Tibbet], baritone, born 11-16-1896
- Died 2004: Yoko Watanabe, soprano, born 07-12-1953
- Died 1999: Beveridge Webster, pianist/teacher, born 05-30-1908 [possible death 06-30-1999]
"We often feel sad in the presence of music without words; and often more than that in the presence of music without music."
—Mark Twain
