What a glorious Day,
Did not expect to wake up to that much snow. WOW.
Wanted to let you all know that we'll be holidaying for a few days. Orders will be shipped out next Thursday, March 17th A.M.. Have a great week everyone.
Good morning. Thanks for dropping in to www.globalstrings.com, Please browse through our catalogue and order up the strings you like. We've got DR, Ernie Ball, Elixir, Hannabach, John Pearse, Savarez, SIT, Thomastik-Infeld and more for the Canadian player. Be it guitar, bass, mandolin or violin, we've got what you need and we'll save you money as well as time. So, whatever string instrument you play, you and your wallet will be happy to get your strings here at globalstrings. We've also got a few new kinds of DR's and John Pearse coming in. Stay tuned and All the Best.
Todays News in History
1851 - Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Rigoletto," premieres in Venice
1867 - Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Don Carlos," premieres in Paris
1959 - Teddy Scholten wins Eurovision Song festival with "A Little Bit"
1967 - Pink Floyd releases their 1st song (Arnold Layne)
1968 - Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 12th string quartet
1968 - Anti-Zionist Clandestine Radio Voice of El Assifa starts transmitting
1974 - Rhino Store gives people $5 to take home Danny Bonaduce's Album
1991 - Janet Jackson signs $40M 3 album deal with Virgin records
1997 - Beatle McCartney knighted Sir Paul by Queen
Births in Music
1908 - Lawrence Welk, Strasburg ND, orch leader (Lawrence Welk Show)
1913 - John Jacob Weinzweig, Toronto, Canada, composer (Enchanted Hill)
1945 - Mark Stein, vocalist/organist (Vanilla Fudge-You Keep Me Hanging On)
1950 - Bobby McFerrin, singer (Don't Worry Be Happy-Grammy 1989)
1953 - Bernie LaBarge, Canadian musician
1961 - Bruce Watson, Ontario, Canada, rock guitarist (Big Country-Wonderland)
1654 - Heinrich Georg Neuss, composer
1683 - Giovanni Veneziano, composer
1781 - Anthony Philip Heinrich, composer
1812 - William Vincent Wallace, composer
1827 - Septimus Winner, composer
1876 - Carl Ruggles, Marion, Mass, composer (Evocations)
1879 - Justus Hermann Wetzel, composer
1897 - Henry Dixon Cowell, Menlo Park Calif, composer (New Musical Resources)
1906 - Aasan Ferit Alnar, composer
1909 - Ljubica Maric, composer
1912 - Xavier Montsalvatge, Spanish composer (El gato con botas)
1919 - Mercer Ellington, son of Duke Ellington/bandleader
1921 - Astor Piazzolla, Argentina composer (Tango Nuevo)
1922 - Thom Kelling, Dutch singer/guitarist (Programa de Manha)
1926 - Ilhan Mimaroglu, Turkish musician and composer
1929 - Francisco Bernardo Pulgar Vidal, composer
1932 - Leroy Jenkins, American composer and violinist (d. 2007)
1934 - Joep Straesser, composer (Blossom songs, Ramasasiri)
1939 - Flaco Jiménez, American musician
1940 - Alberto Cortez, Argentinian singer
1944 - Ric Rothwell, drummer (Mindbenders-Games of Love)
1945 - Harvey Mandel, rock guitarist (Drei Amerikanische LP's)
1947 - Tristan Murail, French composer
1948 - George Kooymans, Dutch guitarist/singer (Golden Earring)
1955 - Nina Hagen, German singer
1957 - Cheryl Lynn, American singer
1961 - Mike Percy, rocker (Dead or Alive-Spin Me Round)
1964 - Vinnie Paul, American drummer (Pantera)
1968 - Lisa Loeb, American singer-songwriter
1969 - Soraya, Colombian-American singer (d. 2006)
1979 - Benji Madden, American guitarist (Good Charlotte)
1979 - Joel Madden, American singer (Good Charlotte)
1981 - Russell Lissack, English musician (Bloc Party)
1981 - LeToya Luckett, American singer (ex-Destiny's Child)
1981 - Paul Wall, American rapper
Deaths in Music
1602 - Emilio de' Cavalieri, Italian composer
1607 - Giovanni Maria Nanino, Italian composer
1772 - George Reuter, composer, dies at 63
1807 - Anton Eberl, composer, dies at 41
1826 - Gervais-Francois Couperin, composer, dies at 66
1833 - Fridolin Weber, composer, dies at 71
1897 - Berthold Tours, composer, dies at 58
1908 - Peter Milne, composer, dies at 83
1919 - Harald Fryklof, composer, dies at 36
1925 - Andreas Hallen, composer, dies at 78
1937 - Paul Scheinpflug, composer, dies at 61
1941 - Walford Davies, British organist/composer, dies at 71
1947 - Victor Hely-Hutchinson, composer, dies at 45
1949 - Juan Lamonte de Grignon, composer, dies at 76
1956 - Sergey Nikiforovich Vasilenko, Russian opera composer, dies at 83
1959 - Haydn Wood, composer, dies at 76
1967 - Geraldine Farrar, soprano/actress (Such Sweet Compulsion), dies at 85
1975 - Philip Bezanson, composer, dies at 59
1975 - Sammy Spear, orch leader (Dom Deluise Show), dies at 65
1978 - Claude François, French singer (b. 1939)
1984 - Kostas Roukounas, Greek rembetiko singer and song writer (b. 1903)
1986 - Sonny Terry, American blues musician/harmonica/singer (b. 1911)
2007 - Betty Hutton, American actress and singer (b. 1921)
Todays News
- Cricket Australia and the Pakistan Cricket Board announce that the tour of Pakistan by the Australia national cricket team has been postponed due to security issues. (Melbourne Age)
- The Space Shuttle Endeavour launches from Kennedy Space Center on the STS-123 mission to the International Space Station. (NASA.gov)
- Governor of New York Eliot Spitzer admits to using the services of an international online prostitution ring. (The New York Times)
- Yahoo! tops the list in the first attempt to quantify the data collected from Web users for Internet marketing. (The New York Times)
- Sri Lanka go to the polls for local government elections after being held by the Tamil Tigers for ten years. (BBC)
Other News Bits in History
1702 - The first regular English-language newspaper, The Daily Courant, is published in London.
1845 - British baker Henry Jones invents self-raising flour.
1848 - Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine and Robert Baldwin become the first Prime Ministers of the Province of Canada to be democratically elected under a system of responsible government.
1897 - A meteorite enters the earth's atmosphere and explodes over New Martinsville, West Virginia. The debris causes damage but no human injuries are reported.
1927 - In New York City, Samuel Roxy Rothafel opens the Roxy Theatre.
1999 - Infosys becomes the first Indian company listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange.
2006 - Michelle Bachelet is inaugurated as first female president of Chile.
Holidays and Observances
United States - Johnny Appleseed Day.
Lithuania - Reestablishment of Lithuania's Independence.
Lesotho - Moshoeshoe Day.
Zambia - Youth Day.
Saint Vindician
Blessed John Righi
Saint Alberta
Saint Aurea
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