August 23: Names and Notes in Music

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AUGUST 23

Births and Deaths

• Died 1899: Dwight Hamilton Baldwin, piano maker and founder, born 1821 [Baldwin Piano Company]
• Born 1901: Michael Bartlett, tenor, died-??
• Died 1962: Irving Fine, composer/teacher, born 12-03-1914
• Died 1960: Oscar Hammerstein, lyricist, born 07-12-1895 [Rodgers & Hammerstein]
• Born 1907: Ludwig Hoelscher, cellist, died 05-08-1996 [cello partner frequently to pianist Elly Ney]
• Born 1900: Ernst Krenek, composer, died 12-22-1991
• Born 1905: Constant Lambert, composer, died 08-21-1951
• Born 1903: William Primrose, violist, died 05-01-1982
• Died 1944: Nikolai Roslavetz, composer/pianist, born 01-05-1881
• Died 1937: Albert Roussel, composer, born 04-05-1869
• Born 1935: Loren Rush, composer
• Born 1909: Adolf Scherbaum, trumpeter, died 08-02-2000
• Born 1894: Sholom Secunda, composer, died 07-13-1974

Musical Quote for Today

"English sopranos sound as if they subsisted on seaweed ... English tenors sound like yawning giraffes."
—Sir Thomas Beecham, conductor

[oisfetz]

Primrose was a good violinist who play the viola. That's why he sounds not like a violist, but as a violinist, even when he played the viola. A pity that his wonderful string quartet last so short time. First violin was Shumsky; a luxury