Happy Cinco de Mayo,
Glad you could drop in to globalstrings on this honoured Mexican Holiday. It's a great, sunny warm day here in Southern Ontario and hopefully you can get out a bit to enjoy it. OK, let's see, sunny day, Cinco de Mayo, Spanish/Mexican/Flamenco music, maybe a cocktail - margarita perhaps. Aaaaaah! What a way to spend a day. Oh well, In the meantime, we've got work to do. (that was like a mini holiday though) Thanks for dropping into www.globalstrings.com. We hope you enjoy yourself as you check out which strings you need to order. We've got all the greats - DR, Elixir, Hannabach, John Pearse, Savarez, SIT, Thomastik-Infeld and sooo many more in all kinds of guages and for all kinds of instruments like guitar, bass, mandolin, violin. Our prices can`t be beat (because we love to save you money) and your instruments will be very happy. What could be better (besides a real holiday) than new strings from globalstrings. Your source for savings on instrument strings. (and picks and string winders and tab books). Enjoy and All the Best.
Today in Music History
1891 - The Music Hall in New York City (now known as Carnegie Hall) has its grand opening and first public performance, with Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky as the guest conductor.
1962 - West Side Story soundtrack album goes to #1 and stays #1 for 54 weeks which is more than 20 weeks longer than any other album
1992 - Country singer Tammy Wynette hospitalized with bile duct infection
Births in Music
1924 - Theo Olof, German/Neth, violinist/prodigy/concert master
1940 - Eric Burdon, rock singer (House of Rising Sun-Animals, War)
1942 - Tammy Wynette, Redbay Alabama, country singer (Stand by your Man)
1945 - Bob Seger, American Hall-of-Fame rock singer/guitarist/songwriter
1956 - Robert Marien, Quebec actor, singer and songwriter
1963 - James LaBrie, Canadian singer (Dream Theater)
1966 - Shawn Drover, Canadian drummer (Megadeth)
1984 - Wade MacNeil, Canadian guitarist (Alexisonfire)
1657 - Jacques Danican Philidor, composer
1680 - Giuseppe Porsile, composer
1715 - Daniel Dal Barba, composer
1749 - Jean-Frederic Edelmann, composer
1819 - Stanislaw Moniuszko, Polish composer
1842 - Johann Nepomuk Fuchs, composer
1846 - Federico Chueca, composer
1848 - Adalbert von Goldschmidt, composer
1854 - Antonio Smareglia, composer
1865 - Felicjan Szopski, composer
1867 - Thomas Tertius Noble, composer
1869 - Hans Erich Pfitzner, Moscow Russia, composer (Krakquer Begras)
1871 - Alberto Cametti, composer
1883 - Leopold Samuel, composer
1883 - Petar Konjovic, composer
1886 - Manuel Borguno, composer
1900 - Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt, German composer/conductor (Hassan gewinnt)
1901 - Blind Willie McTell, American singer (d. 1959)
1907 - Yoritsune Matsudaira, composer
1908 - Kurt Böhme, German bass (d. 1989)
1916 - Mutale Burkhanov, composer
1918 - Erbie Bowser, pianist
1921 - Sonja Oosterman, Dutch singer (Marketensters)
1927 - Charles Rosen, NYC, pianist/musicologist (Sonata Forms)
1932 - Aurel Stroe, composer
1934 - Ace Cannon, American saxophonist
1936 - Patrick Gowers, British composer
1938 - Johnnie Taylor, US gospel singer (I Believe in You)
1945 - Raphael, Spain, spanish singer (When the Sun Sets, Lo Meyur de Ano)
1945 - Jiri Svoboda, composer (Accumulator 1)
1948 - Bill Ward, Birmingham England, heavy metal drummer (Black Sabbath)
1948 - Frank Esier-Smith, rocker
1950 - Mary Hopkin, Welsh singer
1950 - Maggie MacNeal, Dutch singer (Mouth and MacNeal, I See a Star)
1951 - Rex Goh, rock guitarist (Air Supply)
1952 - Louis Cortelezzi, rock saxophonist (Mink DeVille)
1953 - Billy Burnette, Memphis Tn, rock guitarist (Fleetwood Mac)
1954 - Angelo Kimball, Boston Mass, rock guitarist (Face To Face)
1954 - Peter Erskine, jazz drummer (Weather Report)
1956 - Dick Kemper, Amsterdam Neth, rock vocalist/bassist (Vandenberg)
1957 - Thereza Bazaar, rocker (Dollar-Love's Gotta Hold on Me)
1959 - Ian McCullough, rock vocalist (Echo and Bunnymen-Heaven Up Here)
1962 - Jenifer McKitrick, American songwriter
1964 - Lorraine McIntosh, British pop singer (Deacon Blue-Fellow Hoodlums)
1971 - David Reilly, American singer (God Lives Underwater) (d. 2005)
1972 - Mike Dirnt, American musician (Green Day)
1972 - Devin Townsend, Canadian musician (Strapping Young Lad)
1981 - Craig David, British singer
1987 - Marija Šestić, Bosnian singer
1988 - Brooke Hogan, American singer
1988 - Skye Sweetnam, Canadian singer and songwriter
1988 - Adele, English soul singer
1989 - Chris Brown, American singer
Deaths in Music
1604 - Claudio Merulo, Italian organist/composer, dies at 71
1613 - Johann Steuerlein, composer, dies at 66
1702 - Jacob Hintze, composer, dies at 79
1831 - Friedrich Ludwig Seidel, composer, dies at 65
1837 - Niccolo Antonio Zingarelli, Italian composer/bandmaster, dies at 85
1840 - Gottlob Benedikt Bierey, composer, dies at 67
1840 - Matthaus Fischer, composer, dies at 76
1885 - Lauro Rossi, composer, dies at 73
1892 - Jan Nepomuk Skroup, composer, dies at 80
1957 - Mikhail Fabianovich Gnesin, composer, dies at 74
1960 - Sulho Ranta, composer, dies at 58
1963 - Heinrich Gebhard, composer
1972 - Rev Gary David, vocalist, dies at 76
1986 - Jon William Haussermann Jr, composer, dies at 76
1986 - Rui Coelho, composer, dies at 94
1992 - Jean-Claude Pascal, French singer (b.1927)
1995 - Thomas Eden Binkley, musician, dies at 63
2004 - Ritsuko Okazaki, Japanese singer-songwriter (b. 1959)
2006 - Naushad Ali, Indian composer (b. 1919)
Todays News from One Year ago
- Cyclone Nargis: State media in reports the death toll from the passage of the cyclone in Myanmar rises to 4,000. (CNN)
- Three people are killed and another three injured after an explosion on a Shanghai bus. (BBC)
- 86% of voters in Bolivia's richest region, Santa Cruz, support proposals for greater autonomy in a referendum. President Evo Morales condemns the referendum, calling it "illegal." (BBC)
News on this Day in History
1260 - Kublai Khan becomes ruler of the Mongol Empire.
1494 - Christopher Columbus lands on the island of Jamaica and claims it for Spain.
1809 - Mary Kies becomes the first woman awarded a U.S. patent, for a technique of weaving straw with silk and thread.
1835 - In Belgium, the first railway in continental Europe opens between Brussels and Mechelen.
1862 - Cinco de Mayo in Mexico: Troops led by Ignacio Zaragoza halt a French invasion in the Battle of Puebla.
1865 - In North Bend, Ohio (a suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio), the first train robbery in the United States takes place.
1877 - Indian Wars: Sitting Bull leads his band of Lakota into Canada to avoid harassment by the United States Army under Colonel Nelson Miles.
1925 - Afrikaans is established as an official language in South Africa.
1949 - The Council of Europe in Strasbourg is founded through the Treaty of London as the first European institution working for European integration. Since 1964, May 5 has been designated Europe Day by the Council of Europe and is celebrated since then to commemorate its founding on May 5, 1949.
1961 - The Mercury program: Mercury-Redstone 3 – Alan Shepard becomes the first American to travel into outer space, making a sub-orbital flight of 15 minutes.
Holidays and Observances
Mexico and the United States: Cinco de Mayo (1862).
International Midwives Day.
Council of Europe: Europe Day.
CPLP - Community of Portuguese-speaking countries: Day of the Lusophone.
Albania: Martyrs' Day (Albania).
Denmark: Liberation Day (1945).
Ethiopia: Liberation Day (1941).
Guyana: Indian Immigration Day (1838).
Hong Kong, Macau, South Korea and Taiwan (2006): Buddha's Birthday.
Japan: Tango no Sekku (Boy's Day) or Kodomo no hi (Children's Day).
The Netherlands: Liberation Day (1945).
Northern Territory, Australia: May Day.
South Korea: Children's Day.
Thailand: Coronation Day of King Bhumibol Adulyadej.
in the Roman Catholic Church:
Saint Angelus of Jerusalem (d. 1222)
Saint Aventinus (d. 1189)
Saint Gerontius (d. 472)
Saint Nicetius
Saint Hilary of Arles (d. 449)
Saint Pius V (1505-1572)
Blessed Edmund Ignatius Rice
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