Happy Victoria Day Weekend,
A beeeauuutiful day here in Wee Fergus, certainly hoping it's the same where you are. Think I'm gonna sit outside and do a bit o playin'. Love to do that on a day like this (or any day for that matter). Welcome to www.globalstrings.com. Your source for instrument strings. If you need guitar or bass or mandolin, violin or even uke strings we've got 'em. We do our best to keep the prices low and the service quick. All the greats you love are here - Dean Markley, DR, Elixir, Hannabach, John Pearse, Savarez, S.I.T., Thomastik-Infeld and lots more. Have questions about strings? shoot 'em off to us and we'll do our best to find an answer. Strings are what we do. Hope you get to play a bit today and All the Best. We look forward to shipping your order and having you become a regular customer.
Today in Music History
1961 - Henzes opera "Elegy for Young Lovers," premieres in Schwetzingen
1967 - BBC bans Beatle's "A Day in the Life" (drug references)
1980 - Drummer Peter Criss quits Kiss
1992 - Rap singer raps 597 syllables in under 60 seconds
Births in Music
1952 - Warren Cann, Victoria, Canada, rock drummer (Ultravox)
1547 - Melchior Bischoff, composer
1554 - Paulo Bellasio, Italian composer
1754 - Hans Gram, composer
1812 - Gustav Adolf Mankell, composer
1850 - Eaton Faning, composer
1876 - John Owen Jones, composer
1889 - Felix Arndt, composer
1890 - Beniamino Gigli, Italy, tenor (Enzo-La Gioconde)
1903 - Jerzy Fitelberg, composer
1913 - Ion Dumitrescu, composer
1917 - Enyss Djemil, composer
1920 - Betty Driver, English singer and actress
1925 - Chester Ludgin, American baritone (d. 2003)
1926 - Vic Ames, rocker (Ames Brothers)
1927 - David Frederick Barlow, composer
1927 - Walter Aschaffenburg, composer
1932 - Bob Florence, American jazz pianist, composer, arranger (d. 2008)
1940 - Shorty Long, soul singer/pianist (Here Comes the Judge)
1942 - Paula, [Jill Jackson], Tx, singer (Hey Paula)
1943 - Tison Street, composer
1943 - Al Bano, Italian singer
1944 - Boudouin de Groot, Dutch singer (Good night mister president)
1944 - Cipa Dichter, Rio de Janeiro Brazil, pianist/wife of Misha Dichter
1944 - Joe Cocker, Sheffield Eng, rock vocalist (Little Help From My Friends)
1946 - Cher, American singer
1954 - Guy Hoffman, American musician (Violent Femmes)
1954 - James Henderson, country singer (Black Oak Arkansas)
1955 - Steve George, rock keyboardist (Mr Mister)
1955 - Zbigniew Preisner, Polish film composer
1958 - Jane Wiedlin, Wisc, singer/guitarist (GoGos, Fur, Rush Hour)
1959 - Israel Kamakawiwo'ole, American singer (d. 1997)
1960 - Chuck Brodsky, American musician
1960 - John Cowsill, rock vocalist (Cowsills-Hair)
1960 - Susan Cowsill, Newport RI, rock vocalist (Cowsills-We Can Fly)
1961 - Kit Clarke, rocker (Danny Wilson-Mary's Prayer)
1961 - Nick Heyward, guitar/vocals (Haircut 100-Favourite Shirts)
1972 - Busta Rhymes, American singer and rapper
1973 - Elsa Lunghini, French singer and actress
1986 - LaLa Brown, American singer (d. 2007)
Deaths in Music
1650 - Francesco Sacrati, composer, dies at 44
1751 - Domingo Miguel Bernaube Terradellas, composer, dies at 38
1782 - Carlo Giovanni Testori, composer, dies at 68
1782 - Christoph Gottlieb Schroter, composer, dies at 82
1896 - Clara Josephine Wieck Schumann, German composer/pianist, dies at 76
1900 - Gustav Heinrich Graben-Hoffman, composer, dies at 80
1909 - Ernest Hogan, blackface comedian and musician (b. 1859)
1910 - Jean-Baptiste Theodore Weckerlin, composer, dies at 88
1975 - Jacques Stehman, composer, dies at 62
1978 - Bjarne Brustad, Norwegian composer (b. 1895)
1986 - Bernard Naylor, composer, dies at 78
1991 - Julian Orbon De Soto, composer, dies at 65
2000 - Jean Pierre Rampal, French flutist (b. 1922)
2001 - Renato Carosone, Italian musician (b. 1920)
One Year ago Today
- The SPLA attacks Sudanese goverment soldiers at Abyei, a disputed town at the border of South Sudan. (BBC News)
- Burma commences a three day period of mourning for victims of Cyclone Nargis and allows entry to foreign aid workers from neighboring countries. (AP via Google News)
- United States presidential election, 2008: Voters in Oregon and Kentucky go to the polls to vote in primary elections. (The New York Times)
- A 24-hour strike by employees of the National Railway Company of Belgium ends rail services in Belgium and to France, Germany and the Netherlands. (AFP)
- Ma Ying-jeou is sworn in as the President of the Republic of China (Taiwan) with Liu Chao-shiuan as his Premier. (BBC News)
- Suspected Sunni insurgents attack a minibus carrying police recruits near the border of Iraq and Syria killing 11 people. (AP via Google News)
- Edward Leigh's attempt to outlaw the creation of human-animal hybrid embryos in the United Kingdom is defeated by 336 votes to 176 in the British House of Commons. (BBC News)
- In United States v. Williams, the Supreme Court of the United States upholds a law making it a crime to send messages over the Internet offering or seeking child pornography even when no such pornography exists. (Los Angeles Times)
- A two-week conference in Dublin, aiming to create an international treaty banning cluster bombs, opens today. (RTÉ)
- Some 6,000 people have fled a wave of attacks on foreigners in South Africa, which has left at least 13 dead, aid workers say. (BBC News)
News from this Day in History
1570 - Cartographer Abraham Ortelius issues the first modern atlas.
1609 - Shakespeare's Sonnets are first published in London, perhaps illicitly, by the publisher Thomas Thorpe.
1873 - Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive a U.S. patent for blue jeans with copper rivets.
1891 - History of cinema: The first public display of Thomas Edison's prototype kinetoscope (shown at Edison's Laboratory for a convention of the National Federation of Women's Clubs).
1916 - The Saturday Evening Post publishes its first cover with a Norman Rockwell painting ("Boy with Baby Carriage").
1920 - Montreal, Quebec radio station XWA broadcasts the first regularly scheduled radio programming in North America.
1927 - At 07:52 Charles Lindbergh takes off from Roosevelt Field in Long Island, New York, on the world's first solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean, touching down at Le Bourget Field in Paris at 22:22 the next day.
1932 - Amelia Earhart takes off from Newfoundland to begin the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean by a female pilot, landing in Ireland the next day.
1980 - In a referendum in Quebec, the population rejects by a 60% vote the proposal from its government to move towards independence from Canada.
Holidays and Observances
- National Day in Cameroon
- East Timor National Day.
Saints in the Roman Catholic Church:
- Saint Bernardine of Siena
- Saint Lucifer
- Saint Austregisilus
- Saint Ivo of Chartres
- Abercius and Helena
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