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Good Morning to all you string players. Here's the article we wrote two years ago on this day. Check it out.
Hope you got a chance to watch the GRAMMYS last night. We thought it was a pretty good show. Enjoyed the Beatles tribute, Alicia Keys was great as usual and good to see so many Canadians walking the red carpet. Enjoy the news of today, on this bright, cold day.
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Todays Music History
1840 - Gaetano Donizetti's Opera "La Fille du Regiment," premieres in Paris
1843 - Opera "I Lombardi," premieres in Milan
1903 - Anton Bruckner's 9th Symphony receives its first performance in Vienna.
1916 - Baltimore Symphony Orchestra presents its 1st concert
1941 - First Gold record is presented to Glenn Miller for "Chattanooga Choo Choo".
1962 - Beatles record "Please, Please Me"
1963 - Beatles tape 10 tracks for their 1st album
1964 - Beatles 1st live appearance in US; Washington DC Coliseum
1965 - Beatle Ringo Starr marries Maureen Cox
Births in Music on this day
1935 - Gene Vincent, Norfolk Va, rock guitarist/vocalist (Be-Bop-A-Lula)
1941 - Sergio Mendes, jazz/pop musician (Brazil '66/'77/'88)
1964 - Sheryl Crow, vocalist (All I Want to Do-Grammy 1995)
1981 - Kelly Rowland, American singer
1755 - Albert Christoph Dies, German composer
1790 - Ignaz Assmayer, composer
1810 - Loisa Puget, composer
1819 - Samuel Parkman Tuckerman, American composer
1830 - Peter Arnold Heise, composer
1830 - Hans Bronsart von Schellendorf, Prussian composer
1873 - Feodor Chaliapin, Russian singer (d. 1938)
1874 - Fritz Bennicke Hart, English-born composer
1875 - Sara Wennerberg-Reuter, composer
1879 - Jean Gilbert, composer
1882 - Gheorghe Cucu, composer
1883 - Paul August von Klenau, Danish composer/conductor (Sulamith)
1887 - Ernst "Putzi" Hanfstungl, German/US pianist/politician (NSDAP)
1889 - Vladimir Mikhaylovich Deshevov, composer
1894 - Alfonso Leng, Chilean composer (d. 1974)
1895 - Viktor Nikolayevich Trambitsky, composer
1897 - Yves de La Casiniere, composer
1903 - Hans Redlich, Austrian composer
1908 - Josh White, rocker
1912 - Rudolf Firkusny, Napajedla Czechoslovakia, pianist (Julliard)
1913 - Lucio Diestro San Pedro, composer
1914 - Menelaos Pallantios, composer
1914 - Matt Dennis, Seattle Wash, vocalist (Matt Dennis Show)
1922 - Tudor Jarda, composer
1926 - Alexander Gibson, British conductor/founder (Scottish Opera)
1928 - Raoul Cita, rocker
1929 - Leonard Gregory Kastle, composer
1932 - Jerome Lowenthal, Phila, pianist/prof (Jerusalem Academy of Music)
1934 - Francesco Pennisi, composer
1935 - Bent Lorentzen, Danish composer
1938 - Willy Correa de Oliveira, composer
1939 - Gerry Goffin, American lyricist
1940 - Bobby "Boris" Pickett, rocker (Monster Mash)
1942 - Leon Haywood, US vocalist/keyboardist (It's Got to be Mellow)
1942 - Otis Clay, US gospel/RandB-singer (That's how it is)
1943 - Serge Lama, French singer
1947 - Joselito, Spanish singer
1947 - Derek Shulman, English musician
1949 - Charlie Hargrett, rock guitarist (Blackfoot)
1950 - Rochelle Fleming, US soul vocalist (First Choice, Smarty Pants)
1954 - Noriyuki Asakura, Japanese composer
1956 - H.R., American singer
1956 - Didier Lockwood, French violinist
1960 - Nick Currie, Scottish musician
1961 - Becky LeBeau, LA Calif, vocalist (Mischief)
1970 - Fredrik Thordendal, Swedish musician
1972 - Craig Jones, American musician
1973 - Ethan Iverson, jazz pianist
1973 - Varg Vikernes, Norwegian musician
1974 - D'Angelo, American singer
1977 - Mike Shinoda, American singer
1979 - Brandy [Norwood], singer (Les Miserables, Moisha)
1984 - Matt Good, American musician
1984 - Aubrey O'Day, American singer
1985 - William Beckett, American singer
Deaths in Music
1622 - Alfonso Fontanelli, composer, dies at 64
1762 - Johann Tobias Krebs, German composer, dies at 71
1797 - Antoine Dauvergne, French composer, dies at 83
1806 - Vicente Martin y Soler, composer, dies at 51
1870 - Leopold Eugen Mechura, composer, dies at 66
1882 - Gustav Schmidt, composer, dies at 65
1892 - Erik Anthon Valdemar Siboni, composer, dies at 63
1894 - Pasqual Juan Emilio Arrieta y Corera, composer, dies at 70
1903 - Henryk Szulc, composer, dies at 67
1939 - Franz Schmidt, Austrian composer, dies at 64
1945 - Al Dubin, Swiss songwriter (b. 1891)
1970 - Emil Abranyi, composer, dies at 87
1985 - Heinz Eric Roemheld, composer, dies of pneumonia at 83
1985 - Ulysses Sipmson Kay, composer, dies at 68
2006 - Jockey Shabalala, South African singer (b. 1943)
Todays News
-Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is charged by the U.S. as the mastermind of the September 11, 2001 attacks. (Sky News)
-Paintings by Paul Cezanne, Edgar Degas, Vincent Van Gogh and Claude Monet are stolen from a museum in Zürich. (AFP)
-2008 East Timor coup attempt: President of East Timor José Ramos Horta is shot and wounded in an attack at his home. Rebel leader Alfredo Reinhado, who led the attack, is killed. (ABC News Australia)(Melbourne Age)
-The Singapore Flyer, the largest observation wheel in the world (30 meters taller than London Eye), starts to turn. (The Straits Times)
Other News and Tidbits in History today
660 BCE - Traditional founding date of Japan by Emperor Jimmu.
1752 - Pennsylvania Hospital, the first hospital in the United States, opens.
1790 - Religious Society of Friends, also known as Quakers, petitions U.S. Congress for abolition of slavery.
1809 - Robert Fulton patents the steamboat.
1938 - BBC Television produces the world's first ever science fiction television program, an adaptation of a section of the Karel Capek play R.U.R., which coined the term "robot".
1990 - Nelson Mandela, a political prisoner for 27 years, is freed from Victor Verster Prison outside Cape Town, South Africa.
Holidays and Observances
Catholicism - Feast day of Our Lady of Lourdes
National Foundation Day in Japan
National Youth Day in Cameroon
National Inventors' Day in the United States
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