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Hello and Good Morning,
Hope everyone had a great Earth Day and did a little bit (or hopefully, a lot) to help the cause. We're going to try and keep it on our minds everyday and try to help in a lot of different ways ie. use less power, take shorter showers, recycle, you know, all that little stuff that really helps in the long run. Watched an incredible show yesterday on the Orca whales around the world with Jacques Cousteau's brother, AMAZING! Our world is in some bad state and we better get our asses in gear to help this situation or their seriously won't be food to eat or water to drink. Anyway, We hope we all try our very best to help the world everyday, everyhour, and that also means playing and making music. Good for the Soul and the Earth. Thanks very much for dropping in today and please enjoy our site. SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT, The DR JH-10 (Jeff Healey) Tite- Fit 10-56 are available on the site. A great all purpose handmade string set in a .010 to .056 guage. Try a couple of sets today, they feel and sound fantastic, and don't forget to order up some of your other favourites like Elixir, Hannabach, Savarez, SIT or Thomastik. Remember, at www.globalstrings.com you get great strings at great prices. That's all for today. Here's the news and All the Best.
Today in Music History
1775 - Opera "Il Re Pastore" is produced (Salzburg)
1881 - Gilbert and Sullivan's opera "Patience" produced in London
1896 - Premier of motion pictures (Koster and Bial's Music Hall, NYC)
1939 - 1st performance of Bela Bartok's 2nd Concerto for violin
1988 - Pink Floyd's album Dark Side of the Moon leaves the charts for its first time after spending a record of 741 consecutive weeks (over 14 years) on the Billboard 200.
Births in Music
1891 - Sergey Sergeyevich Prokofiev, Ukraine, composer (Peter and the Wolf)
1936 - Roy Orbison, Vernon Tx, singer/guitarist (Pretty Woman)
1464 - Robert Fayrfax, composer
1623 - Jan Adam Reincken, composer
1649 - Andreas Kneller, composer
1715 - Johann Friedrich Doles, composer
1735 - Ildephons Haas, composer
1747 - Alexandre-Auguste Robineau, composer
1756 - Alexander Reinagle, composer
1809 - Eugene-Prosper Prevost, composer
1857 - Ruggiero Leoncavallo, Italian composer (d. 1919)
1877 - Arthur Farwell, composer
1881 - Otakar Sini, composer
1882 - Albert Coates, St Petersburg, Russia, conductor/composer (Eagle)
1890 - Donald Nichols Tweedy, composer
1857 - Ruggiero Leoncavallo, Italian composer (d. 1919)
1900 - Ary Verhaar, composer
1900 - Henry Barraud, composer
1908 - Frederick Hawkins, dancer
1913 - Jan Meyerowitz, composer
1919 - Talivaldis Kenins, composer
1920 - Louis Barron, composer
1923 - Nathan "Dambuza" Mdledle, singer
1924 - Arthur Frackenpohl, Irving NJ, composer (Natural Superiority of Music)
1924 - Bobby Rosengarden, American jazz drummer (d. 2007)
1927 - Russell Smith, composer
1935 - Bunky Green, American musician
1939 - Ray Peterson, Denton Tx, singer (Tell Laura I Love Her)
1941 - Jacqueline Boyer, French singer
1943 - Hugh Davies, composer
1947 - Saskia, [Trudy van den Berg], singer (S and Serge, Spinning Wheel)
1947 - Glenn Cornick, British musician (Jethro Tull)
1949 - David Cross, British violinist (King Crimson)
1952 - Narada, [Michael Walden], Mich, American musician and producer (Don't Want Nobody Else)
1955 - Captain Sensible, rocker
1957 - Kenji Kawai, Japanese composer
1958 - Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson, Icelandic music composer
1960 - Steve Clark, Hillsborough England, rock guitarist (Def Leppard)
1964 - Gen, [Simon Matthews], English pop drummer (Jesus Jones-Zeroes and Ones)
1967 - Brent Muscat, rocker (Faster Pussycat-Wake Me When It's Over)
1970 - Dennis Bayne Culp, American singer/songwriter
1972 - Patricia Manterola, Mexican singer
1974 - Carlos Dengler, American musician (Interpol)
1975 - Jón Þór Birgisson, Icelandic musician and singer (Sigur Rós)
1979 - Lauri Ylönen, Finnish singer (The Rasmus)
Deaths in Music
1670 - Loreto Vittori, composer, dies at 69
1691 - Jean-Henri D'Anglebert, composer
1728 - Tomas de Torrejon y Velasco, composer, dies at 83
1732 - Cajetan Kolberer, composer, dies at 63
1742 - Mihael Omerza, composer, dies at 62
1762 - Johann Samuel Endler, composer, dies at 67
1812 - Franz Sebastian Haindl, composer, dies at 85
1847 - Erik Gustaf Geijer, composer, dies at 64
1885 - William Henry Holmes, composer, dies at 73
1897 - Clement Harris, composer, dies at 25
1905 - Karel Komzak, composer, dies at 54
1925 - Andre Caplet, French composer (Le miroir de Jesus), dies at 45
1943 - Frederic baron d'Erlanger, French composer/banker, dies at 74
1946 - Jesus Castillo, composer, dies at 68
1952 - Elisabeth Schumann, singer
1969 - Krzystzof Komeda, composer, dies at 37
1980 - Jane Froman, US singer (JF's USA Canteen), dies at 72
1984 - Red Garland, American jazz pianist (b. 1923)
1986 - Harold Arlen, [Hyman Arluck], US composer, murdered at 81
1991 - Johnny Thunders, American musician (b. 1952)
1995 - Lonesome Sundown, blues singer/guitarist, dies at 66
Today in the News
- United States presidential election, 2008: Television networks and Associated Press project New York Senator Hillary Clinton as the winner of the Pennsylvania Democratic primary, 2008. (The New York Times)
- Costa Rica rejects an application for political asylum by former Colombian Senator Mario Uribe following orders for Uribe's arrest on charges of ties with paramilitary groups. Uribe is then arrested. (AP via Google News)
News on this Day in History
1597 - Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor is first performed, with Queen Elizabeth I of England in attendance.
1616 - Funeral of Miguel de Cervantes, who died on April 22.
1635 - First public school in the United States, Boston Latin School, is founded in Boston, Massachusetts.
1827 - William Rowan Hamilton presents his Theory of systems of rays.
1867 - William Lincoln patents the zoetrope, a machine which shows animated pictures by mounting a strip of drawings in a wheel.
1955 - The Canadian Labour Congress is formed by the merger of the Trades and Labour Congress of Canada and the Canadian Congress of Labour.
Holidays and Observances
- UNESCO International Day of the Book in honor of the death of both William Shakespeare and Miguel de Cervantes on April 23, 1616.
- Turkey - National Sovereignty and Children's Day (1920)
- Feast Day of Saint George:
Patron saint and National Day of England
Patron saint and National Day of Catalonia
- Saint Adalbert of Prague
- Saint Gerard (d. 1138)
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