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Good beautiful November morning,
Here's our blog from this day two years ago. Thought it would be fun to read. Plus, We're lowering our prices on all string sets. Enjoy.
Hello Winter and Good Morning Canada,
Well, We got hit with the snow this weekend here in Southern Ontario. From rainy, mild weather one day to Ice, snow and cold the next. So glad you could drop in to www.globalstrings.com, Doesn't matter what the weather's like when you order your instrument strings from us. Acoustic, Electric guitars and basses, mandolins, banjo's and so much more. From Dean Markley, DR, Elixir, Ernie Ball to Hannabach, John Pearse, Savarez, SIT, Thomastik-Infeld and again, lots more. We ship 'em out to you fast and we save you money. You'll never buy strings at a retail store again once you get a load of our prices. Shop globalstrings like many Canadian musicians already do. We know strings and we'll make sure we get you yours. All the Best.
Today in Music History
1771 - Premiere in Milan of the opera Ascanio in Alba, composed by Wolfgang Mozart, age 15.
1839 - Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Oberte Conti Di," premieres in Milan
1842 - Opera "Linda di Chamounix" is produced (London)
1866 - Opera "Mignon" is produced (Paris)
1876 - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's patriotic Slavonic March is given its première performance in Moscow, to a warm reception by the Russian people.
1963 - John Weightman, the Headmaster of a Surrey Grammar School, banned all pupils from having Beatle haircuts saying, "this ridiculous style brings out the worst in boys physically. It makes them look like morons."
1980 - John Lennon releases "Double Fantasy" album in UK
2003 - George Michael signed a new contract with the record company he took to court in 1993. The singer re-signed to Sony in a deal that included his extensive back catalogue. Michael had failed in his court wrangle with Sony after accusing it of "professional slavery"; his contract was bought out by Virgin Records.
2003 - 21 year-old Britney Spears became the youngest singer to get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The only other performer to get a Hollywood star at her age was Little House on the Prairie actress Melissa Gilbert.
2005 - Italy's national anthem, Il Canto degli Italiani, becomes official for the first time, almost 60 years after it was provisionally chosen following the birth of the republic.
Births in Music
1938 - Gordon Lightfoot, Ontario Canada, folksinger, musician, songwriter (Sundown)
1962 - Dédé Fortin, Canadian singer (Les Colocs) (d. 2000)
1963 - Randy Black, Canadian drummer (Annihilator)
1771 - Jonathan Huntington, composer
1787 - Michele Carafa, composer
1808 - Alberich Zwyssig, composer
1816 - August Wilhelm Ambros, Austrian composer (d. 1876)
1837 - Willem Coenen, composer
1859 - Gerhard Rusenkrone Schjelderup, composer
1891 - Guido Pannain, composer
1892 - Max Deutsch, composer
1901 - Max Zehnder, composer
1901 - Raymond Chevreuille, Belgian composer
1903 - Joseph Kaminski, composer
1919 - Hershy Kay, Philadelphia Penn, composer/arranger (Olympic Hymn)
1920 - Camillo Felgen, Luxembourgish singer (d. 2005)
1925 - Charles Mackerras, Australian-born conductor
1930 - David Werner Amram, Philadelphia Pa, composer (Splendor in the Grass)
1938 - Alvaro Leon Cassuto, composer
1940 - Luke Kelly, Irish folk music singer and banjo player
1942 - Bob Gaudio, Bronx NY, rocker (Four Seasons)
1944 - Eugene Clarke, Tipton Missouri, singer and songwriter (The Byrds) (d. 1991)
1946 - Martin Barre, British guitarist (Jethro Tull)
1947 - Rod Clements, rocker
1947 - Stewkey, [Robert Antoni], rocker
1951 - Dean Paul Martin, American singer and actor (d. 1987)
1953 - Jilly Johnson, England, vocalist (Blonde on Blonde)
1953 - Dino Martin Jr, rocker
1955 - Peter Cox, rocker (Go West)
1965 - Amanda Brown, Australian musician (The Go-Betweens) and composer
1966 - Jeff Buckley, American musician (d. 1997)
1966 - Kate Ceberano, Australian singer
1966 - Richard Fortus, American guitarist (Guns N' Roses)
1967 - Ronnie Devoe, Boston, vocals (New Edition, Bell Div Devoe)
1970 - Paul Allender, British guitarist (Cradle of Filth)
1972 - Kimya Dawson, American singer
1973 - Andreas "Vintersorg" Hedlund, Swedish singer (Vintersorg)
1975 - Lord Infamous, Rapper
1980 - [Clarke] Isaac Hanson, Tulsa OK, singer (Hansons)
1981 - Sarah Harding, English singer (Girls Aloud)
Deaths in Music
1648 - Thomas Ford, English composer
1770 - Gian Francesco de Majo, composer, dies at 38
1826 - Louise Reichardt, composer, dies at 47
1856 - William Knyvett, composer, dies at 77
1862 - Alexey Nikolayevich Verstovsky, composer, dies at 63
1931 - Georgi Atanasov, composer, dies at 50
1936 - Ernestine Schumann-Heink, Austrian contralto (b. 1861)
1943 - Paul Charles Rene Landormy, composer, dies at 74
1955 - James Price Johnson, American pianist and composer, dies at 64
1959 - Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian composer/pianist/conductor, dies at 72
1976 - Victor Alessandro, composer, dies at 60
1979 - John Glascock, British bassist (Jethro Tull)
1981 - Bob Eberly, singer (Jimmy Dorsey Band), dies at 65
1982 - Eduard Tubin, Estonian composer, dies at 77
1982 - Leonid Borisovitch Kogan, Russian violinist (b. 1924)
1984 - Jan Novak, composer, dies at 63
1989 - Emerson Buckley, composer, dies at 73
1995 - Alan Hull, English singer/composer, dies at 50
2001 - Michael Karoli, German guitarist (b. 1948)
2003 - Arthur Conley, American singer (b. 1946)
2003 - Don Gibson, American singer (b. 1928)
2006 - Ruth Brown, American blues singer (b. 1928)
2006 - Flo Sandon's, Italian singer (b. 1924)
News from this Day in History
1492 - During his second journey of exploration in the Western Hemisphere, Christopher Columbus lands on the southern coast of an island named Borinquen, which he renamed San Juan and is now known as Puerto Rico.
1558 - Elizabethan era begins: Queen Mary I of England dies and is succeeded by her half-sister Elizabeth I of England.
1855 - David Livingstone becomes the first European to see the Victoria Falls in what is now present-day Zambia-Zimbabwe.
1919 - King George V of the United Kingdom proclaims Armistice Day (later Remembrance Day). The idea was first suggested by Edward George Honey.
1936 - Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy become overnight success on radio
1950 - Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, is enthroned as the leader of Tibet at the age of fifteen.
1970 - Luna program: The Soviet Union lands Lunokhod 1 on Mare Imbrium (Sea of Rains) on the Moon. This is the first roving remote-controlled robot to land on another world and was released by the orbiting Luna 17 spacecraft.
1970 - Douglas Engelbart receives the patent for the first computer mouse.
1988 - The first e-mail was sent from the United States to Europe. A computer engineer in The Netherlands received a message that he was able to connect to NSFnet.
World Holidays and Observances
International Students' Day - Commemorates the anniversary of the 1939 Nazi storming of the University of Prague.
Czech Republic and Slovakia - Struggle for Freedom and Democracy Day - Commemorates the beginning of the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia in 1989.
Greece - Polytechneio - Commemorates the 1973 students protests against the junta of the colonels.
Japan - Shogi Day. (More accurately 17th day on Kannazuki; 17th November in modern calendar)
R.C. Saints - Elisabeth of Hungary; Gregory of Tours; Hilda of Whitby; Hugh of Lincoln; Acisclus
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