Music, the Mail, and Ephemera

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Szykneij

*This Day in Music History*
October 14, 1990

Leonard Bernstein dies of heart attack at 72

Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.  ~ Henry David Thoreau

Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. ~ Satchel Paige

Szykneij

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*This Day in Music History*

October 15, 1886
Rimsky-Korsakov's published arrangement of Modest Mussorgsky's "Night on Bald Mountain" premieres in St. Petersburg's Kononov Hall, Russia, five years after Mussorgsky's death.  This version of the work, described as a "fantasy for orchestra",  is the one that achieved lasting fame.                 


October 15, 1905
Claude Debussy's "La Mer" premieres in Paris.
Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.  ~ Henry David Thoreau

Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. ~ Satchel Paige

Szykneij

*This Day in Music History*
October 16, 1912

Arnold Schoenberg's "Pierrot Lunaire," premieres at the Berlin Choralion-Saal sung by Albertine Zehme



Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.  ~ Henry David Thoreau

Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. ~ Satchel Paige

Szykneij

*This Day in Music History*
October 17, 1849

Frederic Chopin dies of at 39.

Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.  ~ Henry David Thoreau

Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. ~ Satchel Paige

Szykneij

*This Day in Music History*
October 18, 1855

Franz Liszt's symphonic poem "Prometheus" premieres

Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.  ~ Henry David Thoreau

Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. ~ Satchel Paige

Szykneij

*This Day in Music History*
October 19

1845 - Richard Wagner's opera "Tannhäuser" premieres in Dresden
1901 - Edward Elgar's "Pomp & Circumstance March" premieres in Liverpool

Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.  ~ Henry David Thoreau

Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. ~ Satchel Paige

Szykneij

*This Day in Music History*
October 20, 1874

Charles Ives born in Danbury, Connecticut (d. 1954)

Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.  ~ Henry David Thoreau

Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. ~ Satchel Paige

Szykneij

*This Day in Music History*
October 21, 1858

Jacques Offenbach's operetta "Orpheus in the Underworld" (Orphée aux Enfers) premieres in Paris.
Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.  ~ Henry David Thoreau

Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. ~ Satchel Paige

Szykneij

*This Day in Music History*

October 22, 1725
Alessandro Scarlatti dies at 65 in Naples. He is entombed there at the church of Santa Maria di Montesanto.

October 22, 1811
Franz Liszt born in Raiding, Hungary (d. 1886)

Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.  ~ Henry David Thoreau

Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. ~ Satchel Paige

Szykneij

*This Day in Music History*
October 23, 1890

First production of the Opera "Prince Igor", performed in St. Petersburg, Russia. Written and composed by Alexander Borodin, the opera was left unfinished upon the composer's death in 1887. It was edited and completed by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Alexander Glazunov.

Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.  ~ Henry David Thoreau

Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. ~ Satchel Paige

Szykneij

*This Day in Music History*

October 24. 1818 - Felix Mendelssohn, aged 9, performs his first public concert in Berlin

October 24, 1974 - David Oistrakh dies at 66

Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.  ~ Henry David Thoreau

Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. ~ Satchel Paige

Szykneij

*This Day in Music History*
October 25, 1838

Georges Bizet born in Paris (d. 1875).

Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.  ~ Henry David Thoreau

Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. ~ Satchel Paige

Szykneij

*This Day in Music History*
October 26, 1685

Domenico Scarlatti born in Naples, Italy (d. 1757)

Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.  ~ Henry David Thoreau

Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. ~ Satchel Paige

Szykneij

*This Day in Music History*
October 27, 1782

Niccolo Paganini born in Genoa, Italy (d. 1840).

Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.  ~ Henry David Thoreau

Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. ~ Satchel Paige

Szykneij

"This Day in Music History*
October 28, 1893

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky conducts first performance of his Symphony Number Six in B minor, "Pathetique".
Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.  ~ Henry David Thoreau

Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. ~ Satchel Paige

Szykneij

*This Day in music History*
October 29, 1787

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera "Don Giovanni" premieres at the National Theater of Bohemia in Prague.

Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.  ~ Henry David Thoreau

Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. ~ Satchel Paige

Szykneij

*This Day in Music History*
October 30, 1944

Aaron Copland's ballet score "Appalachian Spring" premieres in Washington, D.C.

Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.  ~ Henry David Thoreau

Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. ~ Satchel Paige

Szykneij

*This Day in Music History*

October 31, 1724 - George Frideric Handel's opera "Tamerlano" premieres at the King's Theatre in London

October 31, 1887 - Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's orchestral work "Capriccio Espagnol" premieres in St Petersburg

Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.  ~ Henry David Thoreau

Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. ~ Satchel Paige

Szykneij

*This Day in Music History*
November 1, 1805

Alessandro Nini born in Fano, Pesaro, Italy (d. 1880)

Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.  ~ Henry David Thoreau

Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. ~ Satchel Paige

Pohjolas Daughter

Quote from: Szykneij on November 01, 2021, 03:00:01 AM
*This Day in Music History*
November 1, 1805

Alessandro Nini born in Fano, Pesaro, Italy (d. 1880)

Great photograph!

PD