July 28: Names and Notes in Music

[Lance]

JULY 28

Births and Deaths

• Born 1925: Kenneth Alwyn, conductor
• Died 1750: Johann Sebastian Bach, born 03-21-1685
• Born 1875: Paul Bender, bass singer, died 11-25-1947
• Born 1796: Ignaz Bösendorfer, piano maker/founder, died 04-14-1859
• Died 1980: Cecil Burleigh, violinist, born 04-17-1885
• Born 1912: Eleazar de Carvalho, conductor, died 09-12-1996
• Died 1970: Saul W. Caston, trumpeter/conductor, born 08-22-1901
• Born 1923: Wen-Chung Chou, composer
• Born 1906: Gottlob Frick, tenor, died 08-18-1994
• Died 1982: Herbert Ernst Groh, tenor, born 1905
• Born 1919: Milan Horvat, conductor
• Died 1962: Franz Konwitschny, conductor, born 08-14-1901
• Born 1893: Rued Langgaard, composer, died 07-10-1952
• Died 1969: Frank Loesser, composer, born 06-29-1910 [brother to pianist/teacher Arthur Loesser]
• Born 1941: Riccardo Muti, conductor
• Died 1996: Michel Philippot, composer, born 02-02-1925
• Died 1802: Giuseppe Sarti, composer, born 12-01-1729
• Born 1843: Hermann Schröder, composer, died 01-31-1909
• Born 1874: Oley Speaks, composer/baritone, died 08-27-1948
• Died 1972: Helen Traubel, soprano, born 06-16-1889 [possible birth: 06-20-1899]
• Born 1899: Madeleine de Valmaléte, pianist, died 08-02-1899
• Died 1741: Antonio Vivaldi, composer, born 03-04-1678
• Born 1826: Carl Zerrahn, conductor, died 12-29-1909

Musical Quote for Today

"I'm Onegin
You're all set!
But with his whiskers
She said, 'Nyet!'
BURMA SHAVE"

[Corlyss_D]

Love the Burma Shave tribute!

[karlhenning]

Although the Russian beauty in my life will not permit me to shave :-)

[karlhenning]

Anyway, Onegin would have been one of those progressive Russians, who would have been clean-shaven even without the shaving billboards.

[Corlyss_D]

Although the Russian beauty in my life will not permit me to shave

You're hirsute? Cool!

[karlhenning]

That adjective overstates the case, but ....