Births and Deaths
- Born 1963: Roberto Alagna, tenor [husband of soprano Angela Gheorghiu]
- Died 1983: Daniele A. Amfitheatrof, composer/conductor [films], born 10-29-1901
- Born 1845: Leopold Auer, violinist/teacher, died 07-15-1930 [teacher of Heifetz, Milstein, Elman, and others]
- Died 1980: Richard Bonelli [Bunn], baritone, born 02-06-1894
- Born 1908: Margherita Carosio, soprano, died 01-15-2005
- Born 1907: Mario Fillepeschi, tenor, died 12-25-1979
- Died 1950: Gertrude Forstel, soprano, born 12-21-1880
- Born 1924: Dolores Gray, singer-??, died 09-26-2002
- Born 1942: Lance G. Hill, CMG co-director
- Born 1940: Alfreda Hodgson, contralto, died 04-16-1992
- Born 1937: Neeme Järvi, conductor
- Born 1941: Jaime Laredo, violinist/conductor [husband of cellist Sharon Robinson; former husband of pianist Ruth Meckler Laredo]
- Born 1934: Samuel Lipman, pianist/teacher, died 12-17-1994
- Born 1917: Dean Martin, pop singer, died 12-25-1995
- Born 1967: Olli Mustonen, pianist/composer
- Died 1813: Maria Hester Reynolds Park, pianist/teacher/composer, born 09-29-1760
- Born 1892: Carmella Ponselle [Ponzillo], mezzo-soprano, died 06-13-1977 [sister of soprano Rosa Ponselle]
- Born 1905: Arnoldo Rebello, pianist/teacher, died 05-08-1984
- Born 1903: Margaret Ritchie, soprano, died 02-07-1969
- Born 1873: (Sir) Landon Ronald [Landon Ronald Russell], pianist/conductor/accompanist, died 08-14-1938
- Died 1998: William Schwann, musicographer/record cataloguer, born 05-13-1913
- Born 1872: Leonid Sobinov, tenor, died 10-14-1934
- Born 1897: George Szell, conductor/pianist, died 07-30-1970
"A freshly tuned piano is one of the great joys of life!" [or]
"You can't tuna fish, but you can tune a piano!"
What happened on this day in music history?
Soprano Marcella Sembrich made her first appearance on the operatic stage in Athens, Greece in Bellini's opera I Puritani in 1877,
—Lance G. Hill
