Births and Deaths
- Died 1960: Lucrezia Bori, soprano, born 12-24-1887
- Died 2003: Otto Edelmann, bass-baritone, born 02-05-1917
- Born 1917: Lou Silver Harrison, composer, died 02-02-2003 [died while traveling]
- Born 1805: Johann Peter Emilius Hartmann, composer, died 03-10-1900 [grandson of composer Johann Ernst Hartmann]
- Died 1978: Alexander Kipnis, bass singer, born 02-13-1891 [father of harpsichordist/musicologist Igor Kipnis]
- Born 1885: Otto Klemperer, conductor, died 07-06-1973 [father of actor Werner Klemperer]
- Born 1931: Aloys Kontarsky, pianist
- Died 1965: Nina Koshetz, soprano, born 12-30-1894
- Born 1940: Richard Kostelanetz, music critic/author [nephew of conductor André Kostelanetz]
- Died 1974: Hipolito Lazaro, tenor, born 08-13-1887
- Born 1892: Arthur Vincent Lourié, composer, died 10-12-1966
- Born 1917: Norman Luboff, choral conductor/composer/arranger, died 09-22-1987
- Born 1931: Alvin Lucier, composer
- Born 1949: Alan D. Marks, pianist, died 07-12-1995
- Died 1847: Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel, composer/pianist, born 11-14-1805 [sister of Felix Mendelssohn; died of stroke]
- Born 1936: Yevgeni Nepalo, oboist
- Born 1973: Victor Robertson, tenor ["Three Mo' Tenors"]
- Born 1884: Samuil Samosud, conductor, died 11-06-1964
- Died 1979: Thomas K. Scherman, conductor, born 02-12-1917
- Died 1998: Frank Sinatra, pop singer, born 12-12-1915
- Born 1869: Sigismund Stojowski, pianist/composer, died 11-05-1946
- Died 2000: Cesare Valletti, tenor, born 12-18-1922
"Artists, like the Greek Gods, are only revealed to one another."
—Oscar Wilde
What happened on this day in music history?
In 1938, the operatic debut of Jan Peerce took place in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
