August 20: Names and Notes in Music
Posted: Sun Aug 21, 2005 10:45 pm
AUGUST 20
Births and Deaths
"Don't forget: Before you drink the love potion, you're a baritone. After that, you're a tenor."
—Gustav Mahler, conductor/composer
to the tenor singing Wagner's Tristan
Births and Deaths
- Born 1930: Mario Bernardi, conductor
- Born 1888: Eric Blom, musicologist/critic/author, died 04-11-1959
- Born 1941: Anne Evans, soprano
- Died 2000: Nancy Evans, mezzo-soprano, born 03-19-1915
- Born 1907: Anatole Fistoulari, conductor, died 08-21-1995
- Died 1963: Mabel Garrison, soprano, born 04-24-1886
- Died 1990: Maurice Gendron, cellist, born 12-26-1920
- Died 1920: Etelka Gerster, soprano, born 06-25-1855
- Died 1935: Otakar Ostrcil, composer, born 02-25-1879
- Died 1611: Thomas Luis Victoria, composer, born 1548
- Died 1927: Fannie Bloomfield-Zeisler, pianist, born 07-16-1863
"Don't forget: Before you drink the love potion, you're a baritone. After that, you're a tenor."
—Gustav Mahler, conductor/composer
to the tenor singing Wagner's Tristan