July 19: Names and Notes in Music

[Lance]

JULY 19

Births and Deaths

• Born 1935: Gerd Albrecht, conductor
• Born 1907: Gunter Bialas, composer, died-??
• Born 1896: Paul Boepple, choral conductor, died 12-21-1970
• Died 1981: Louis Cheslock, composer, born 09-25-1898
• Died 1994: Rudolf Firkusny, pianist, born 02-11-1912
• Born 1877: Dinh Gilly, baritone, died 05-19-1940
• Born 1965: Evelyn Glennie, percussionist
• Died 1993: Szymon Goldberg, violinist/counductor, born 06-01-1909
• Died 1987: Nicholas Harsányi, conductor, born 12-17-1913
• Born 1944: Lorin Hollander, pianist
• Born 1905: Louis Kentner, pianist/teacher, died 09-22-1987 [married into the Menuhin family]
• Died 2000: Harry Legge, conductor, born 04-24-1914
• Born 1920: Robert Mann, violinist/conductor
• Born 1898: Paul Müller, composer, died-??
• Born 1905: Boyd Neel, conductor, died 09-30-1981
• Died 1994: Alice Peerce, wife of tenor Jan Peerce [Mrs. Jacob Pincus Perlemuth], born-??
• Died 1954: Jean Roger-Ducasse, composer, born 04-18-1873
• Born 1887: Walter Rummel, pianist/teacher/composer, died 05-02-1953
• Died 1988: John W. Schaum, piano pedagogue, born 01-27-1905
• Born 1935: Peter Schreier, tenor/conductor [possible bith: 07-29-1935]
• Born 1947: Gerard Schwarz, trumpeter/conductor
• Born 1924: Amy Shuard, soprano, died 04-18-1975

Musical Quote for Today

"It once took two and a half hours to make me up as Elizabeth I in her sixties and only a half-hour to turn me into a seventeen-year-old Manon. Now, it's the other way round ... That's the way the cookie crumbles."
—Beverly Sills, soprano

[oisfetz]

Ketner was a very fine pianist, almost forgotten now. I have Liszt's Rhapsodies by him and are excelent. He was president of the Liszt society for a time. His partner with Menuhin in the Beet.sonatas is splendid.

[Lance]

Ketner was a very fine pianist, almost forgotten now. I have Liszt's Rhapsodies by him and are excelent. He was president of the Liszt society for a time. His partner with Menuhin in the Beet.sonatas is splendid.

Indeed, those Beethoven Violin Sonatas on EMI are wonderful to have back in the catalogue, along with EMI's recording of the Bach Sonatas. Another treasure is APR's (Appian) recording of the "pioneering" Liszt recordings transferred from 78s. Also, both versions of Kentner's Liapunov Transcendental Etudes is available. A commanding pianist, for sure!