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Good Morning One and All
Thanks for dropping into globalstrings, we're glad you could come. Besides the DR strings, we've just received a full shipment of Dean Markley Blue Steel strings nice and fresh so you may want to jump on a few packs of those right now. We've also got a nice selection of the new Curt Mangan strings also, try a few packs today in acoustic and/or electric. They play pretty well. Check out all the other great strings for your guitars, basses, mandolins, violins, etc. by DR, Elixir, Ernie Ball, Hannabach, John Pearse, Savarez, SIT, Thomastik and more. If there's anything else we can do just give a shout and we'll be happy to help. We hope spring is showing itself in your area of the country today and that you have a great day. Please enjoy the news of the day. All the best.
Today in Music History
1859 - 1st performance of John Brahms' 1st Serenade for orchestra
1896 - The opera "Andrea Chenier" is produced (Milan)
1924 - WGN-AM in Chicago IL begins radio transmissions
1930 - 1st performance of Walter Piston's Suite for orchestra (Boston)
1964 - 1st pirate radio station near England (Radio Caroline)
1974 - Rock group Raspberries breakup
Births in Music
1915 - Jay Livingston, composer (Buttons and Bows, Mona Lisa, Tammy)
1942 - Brian Jones, [Lewis B Hopkin], English guitarist/multi-instrumentalist (Rolling Stones)
1955 - Reba McEntire, McAlester Ok, country singer (Can't Even Get the Blues)
1603 - Stephan Otto, composer
1621 - Heinrich Schwemmer, composer
1643 - Jose Solana, composer
1737 - Francesco Zannetti, composer
1741 - Johann Andre, composer
1766 - Joseph Weigl, Austria composer/conductor (Emmeline)
1779 - Angelo Maria Benincori, composer
1817 - Mariano Soriano Fuertes y Piqueras, composer
1868 - Wojciech Gawronski, composer
1871 - Willem Mengelberg, Dutch conductor (d. 1951)
1880 - Rosina Lhevinne, Kiev Ukraine, pianist/prof (Juiliard Grad School)
1883 - William H Harris, composer
1885 - Marc-Jean-Baptiste Delmas, composer
1886 - Jaroslav Novotny, composer
1887 - Rudolf F W Boskaljon, Curacao, musician/composer
1890 - Paul Whiteman, Denver Co, orch leader (Paul Whiteman's TV Teen Club)
1900 - Achille Longo, composer
1902 - Paul Godwin, [Goldfein], Polish/Dutch violinist
1902 - Jaromír Vejvoda, Czech composer (d. 1988)
1903 - Rudolf Serkin, Eger Bohemia, pianist (Marlboro Sch of Music)
1907 - Herbert "Herb" Hall, clarinetist/saxophonist
1919 - Jacob Avshalomov, Tsingtao China, composer (Sinfonietta, The Oregon)
1922 - Felice Chiusano, Italian singer (d. 1990)
1926 - Francis Burt, composer
1928 - Jose Luis de Delas, composer
1930 - Robert Ashley, American composer
1930 - Elizabeth Bainbridge, English opera singer
1933 - Tete Montoliu, Catalonian jazz pianist (d. 1997)
1934 - Siegfried Thiele, composer
1941 - Alf Clausen, Minneapolis Mn, orch leader (Mary, Simpsons)
1942 - Samuel Ramey, American opera singer
1945 - Chuck Portz, Santa Monica Ca, bassist (Turtles-Happy Together)
1946 - Richard Sussman, rocker
1948 - John Evans, (Aka Evan) rock drummer (Jethro Tull)
1949 - Milan Williams, US keyboardist (Commodores-Three Times a Lady)
1962 - Ged Grimes, [Danny Wilson], rocker (Mary's Prayer)
1968 - Jon Lee, British drummer (d. 2002)
1969 - Salt, singer (Salt 'n' Pepa-Shake Ya Thang)
1969 - Rodney Atkins, American country music singer-songwriter
1971 - Mr. Cheeks, American rapper
1973 - Matt Nathanson, American singer-songwriter
1976 - David Keuning, American guitar player (The Killers)
1977 - Angelo Garcia, Brooklyn NY, singer (Menudo-Cannonball)
1986 - J-Kwon, American rapper
1989 - Afrikan Boy, a Nigerian rapper
Deaths in Music
1687 - Constantine Huygens, diplomat/poet/composer (Bluebottles), dies at 90
1818 - Giuseppe Antonio Capuzzi, composer, dies at 62
1847 - Mariano Rodriguiz de Ledesma, composer, dies at 67
1856 - Pyotr Ivanovich Turchaninov, composer, dies at 76
1860 - Johann Ludwig Bohner, composer, dies at 73
1877 - Vincenzo Fioravanti, composer, dies at 77
1880 - Achille Peri, composer, dies at 67
1881 - Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky, Russian composer, dies at 42
1885 - Fredrick Vilhelm Ludvig Norman, composer, dies at 53
1907 - Pavel Ivanovich Blaramberg, composer, dies at 65
1910 - Edouard [Judas] Colonne, French violinist/conductor
1914 - Hanus Trnecek, composer, dies at 55
1927 - Karl Prohaska, composer, dies at 57
1928 - Giuseppe Ferrata, composer, dies at 63
1943 - Sergei Vasilievitch Rachmaninov, Russian composer/pianist, dies at 69
1947 - Rudolph Hermann Simonsen, composer, dies at 57
1949 - Grigoras Dinicu, Romanian composer and violinist , dies at 59
1956 - Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup, vocalist, dies of a heart attack
1958 - William C Handy, US conductor/composer (St Louis Blues), dies at 84
1963 - Alec A Templeton, composer/pianist (Alec Templeton Time), dies at 52
1971 - Felix Wolfes, composer, dies at 78
1974 - Dorothy Fields, US singer (Way you Look Tonight), dies at 68
1975 - Renzo Massarani, composer, dies at 77
1976 - Arthur Crudup, American blues singer and guitarist (b. 1905)
1978 - Dino Ciani, Italian pianist (d. 1941)
1980 - Dick Haymes, Argentine-born singer and actor (b. 1918)
1984 - Carmen Dragon, American conductor, composer and arranger (b. 1914)
1987 - Maria Augusta Trapp, singer (Trapp Family Singers), dies at 82
1999 - Freaky Tah, American rapper (Lost Boyz) (b. 1971)
2001 - Moe Koffman, Canadian musician (b. 1928)
2003 - Rusty Draper, American country and pop singer (b. 1923)
2005 - Dame Moura Lympany, British pianist (b. 1916)
2006 - Proinsias Ó Maonaigh, Irish musician (b. 1922)
News from Today in History
845 - Paris is sacked by Viking raiders, probably under Ragnar Lodbrok, who collects a huge ransom in exchange for leaving.
1871 - The Paris Commune is formally established in Paris.
1910 - Henri Fabre becomes the first person to fly a seaplane, the Fabre Hydravion, after taking off from a water runway near Martigues, France.
1930 - Constantinople and Angora change their names to Istanbul and Ankara.
1969 - Greek poet and Nobel Prize laureate Giorgos Seferis makes a famous statement on the BBC World Service opposing the junta in Greece.
Holidays and Observances
- Slovakia, Czech Republic - Teachers' Day.
- Saint Castor
- Saint Gontram (d. 592)
- Saint Priscus
- Saint Sixtus III
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