1 ('In Memoriam Roger Sessions'), at the Dorothy Taubman Piano Institute in Amherst, Mass.It still has a ways to go to catch up to Google, but still, over the years, it has impressively grown, laying in around 580 million monthly active users (in 2022). premiere of thiswork (performed by a male-only choir) at Chichester Cathedral in Englandġ988 - John Harbison: Piano Sonata No. 6, 9 and 11, in Rio de Janeiro, conducted by the composerġ945 - Antheil: 'Heroes of Today,' by the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski conductingġ965 - Bernstein: 'Chichester Psalms' at Philharmonic Hall (now Avery Fisher Hall) by the New York Philharmonic conducted by the composer, with The Camerata Singers and boy alto John Bogart On July 31, 1965, Bernstein attended the U.K. Naxos 8.555241 On This Day Birthsġ921 - American composer Jack Beeson, in Muncie, Indianaġ934 - English composer Harrison Birtwistle, in Accrington, Lancashireġ949 - English composer John Casken, in Barnsleyġ789 - French composer and harpsichordist Jacques Duphly, age 74, in Parisġ857 - Austrian composer and piano teacher Carl Czerny, age 66, in Viennaġ959 - Swiss-born American composer Ernest Bloch, age 78, in Portland, Oregonġ852 - Spohr: opera 'Faust' (2nd version in Italian), in London at Covent Gardenġ942 - Villa-Lobos: 'Chôros' Nos. 9 Hong Kong Philharmonic Kenneth Schermerhorn, conductor. Heitor Villa Lobos (1887 - 1959) Choros No. Originally the word “choro” meant improvised music by Brazilian street musicians, but Villa-Lobos always used the word in its plural form to describe over a dozen of his instrumental works. 11 for piano and orchestra lasts some 65 minutes and is one of his most ambitious works. Slonimsky did have a way with words, and certainly had fun compiling his mammoth (and highly readable) reference work.įor his part, Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos was equally diligent, so much so that he claimed he couldn’t always remember everything that he had written. 11, exhaling the rhythms, the perfumes and the colors of the Brazilian scene, with tropical birds exotically chanting in the woodwinds against the measured beats of jungle drums.” “Heitor Villa-Lobos conducts in Rio de Janeiro the first performances of three of his orchestral Choros: No. Here, for example, is Slonimsky’s entry for July 15, 1942: For decades Nicolas Slonimsky, the Russian-born American composer, conductor, and witty musical lexicographer, compiled a reference work titled “Music Since 1900.” It’s a year-by-year, month-by-month, day-by-day chronicle of musical events he deemed significant, interesting, or simply amusing.

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