April 21: Names in Music

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April 21: Names in Music

Post by Lance » Fri Apr 20, 2007 2:10 pm

APRIL 21

Births and Deaths
  • Born 1933: Easley Blackwood, composer
  • Born 1871: leo Blech, conductor, died 08-24-1958
  • Died 1991: Willi Boskovsky, violinist/conductor, born 06-16-1909
  • Born 1923: Arthur Custer, composer
  • Died 1982: Ania Dorfmann, pianist, born 07-09-1899
  • Died 1982: Jean Doyen, pianist/teacher, born 03-09-1927
  • Died 1951: Olive Fremstad, soprano, born 03-14-1871
  • Died 1996: Alceo Galliera, conductor, born 05-03-1910
  • Died 1898: Louis Theodore Gouvy, composer, born 07-02-1819
  • Born 1855: Heinrich Grünfeld, cellist, died 08-26-1931
  • Died 1958: Manuel Infante, composer, born 07-29-1883
  • Born 1938: Michael Jaffe, early music performer
  • Born 1880: Estelle Liebling, soprano/teacher, died 09-25-1970 [teacher to soprano Beverly Sills]
  • Born 1920: Bruno Maderna, conductor, died 11-13-1973
  • Born 1939: John McCabe, pianist/composer
  • Died 1961: James Melton, tenor, born 01-02-1904
  • Died 1922: Alessandro Moreschi, castrato singer, born 11-11-1858
  • Died 1981: Ivor Newton, pianist/accompanist, born 12-15-1892
  • Born 1936: Lionel Rogg, organist/harpsichordist/composer
  • Born 1870: Oscar da Silva, pianist/composer, died 03-06-1958
  • Died 2002: Voker Straus, record producer/engineer [Philips], born 07-05-1936
  • Born 1899: Randall Thompson, composer, died 07-09-1984
  • Born 1917: Emanuel Vardi, violist/conductor
  • Born 1921: Sieglinde Wagner, mezzo-soprano
  • Born 1911: Leonard Warren [Varenov], baritone, died 03-04-1960 [died on Met stage in La Forza del Destino]
  • Born 1889: Efrem Zimbalist, Sr., violinist/educator, died 02-22-1985 [husband of Alma Gluck, Marie Louise Curtis Bok; father of actor Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.]
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