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Hello and Good Morning,
It's a beautiful, sunny day here in southern Ontario. Thank Goodness. Did you know that today is Composer Day in Brazil? Sounds like a great reason for a holiday. Maybe we should lobby for a Canadian version of this. Just checking to see if your instrument strings are O.K., Before their too old and tired, don't forget to check in to www.globalstrings.com. We should be your only source for strings in Canada simply because you get them fast and you save money. What could be better, especially in these crazy times. We've got all the greats like DR, Elixir, Ernie Ball, Hannabach, Savarez, SIT, Thomastik-Infeld and more and at the best prices you'll find anywhere on the globe. So for guitar, bass, mandolin, violin or whatever strings you need, sign up, sit back and Enjoy. All the Best.
Today in Music History
1967 - Beatles turn down $1 million NY concert offer by Sid Berstein
1975 - US decides John Lennon won't be deported due to UK pot conviction
1977 - Guitarist Steve Hackett quits Genesis
Births in Music
1949 - Dave Hope, rock bassist (Kansas)
1951 - John "Cougar" Mellencamp, Seymour Indiana, singer/songwriter/musician (Jack and Diane)
1971 - Daniel Boucher, Québécois musician
1698 - Henri Madin, composer
1746 - William Billings, Boston Mass, hymn composer (Rose of Sharon)
1758 - Paul Anton Wineberger, composer
1774 - Ferdinando Orlandi, composer
1798 - Jean B Vuillaume, French violin maker (octobas)
1801 - Adolf Muller, composer
1802 - Bernhard Molique, composer
1802 - Wilhelm Bernard Molique, composer
1835 - Felix Draeseke, German composer
1879 - Joseph Bovet, composer
1880 - Jaime Pahissa, composer
1901 - Ralph Rainger, composer
1909 - Shura Cherkassky, Ukrainian classical pianist
1911 - Joe Jones, Chicago IL, drummer
1911 - Vaughn Monroe, Akron Oh, singer/orch leader (Vaughn Monroe Show)
1915 - Roman Padlewski, composer
1926 - Ivan Jirko, composer
1926 - Marcello Abbado, composer
1927 - Al Martino, American singer and actor
1936 - Charles Dutoit, Swiss conductor
1939 - Colin Cooper, vocalist/saxophonist (Climax Blues Band)
1940 - Dino Valenti, rock guitarist/vocalist (Quicksilver Messenger Service)
1941 - Martin Murray, London England, rocker (Honeycombs)
1941 - Tony Sylvester, rocker (Main Ingredient)
1944 - Judee Sill, American musician (d. 1979)
1945 - Kevin Godley, Manchester England, writer, singer, drums and percussion (10cc)
1946 - Bernard Lavilliers, French singer
1949 - Kieran Kane, Queens NY, singer (O'Kanes-Daddies Need to Grow Up Too)
1951 - Carmen R "Tata" Vega, US soul singer (Color Purple soundtrack)
1953 - Tico Torres, rock drummer (Bon Jovi)
1954 - Kenneth Atchley, American composer
1955 - Yo-Yo Ma, Paris France, Chinese/American cellist
1957 - Michael W. Smith, American singer
1960 - Kyosuke Himuro, Japanese singer
1960 - Viktor Lazlo, Belgian singer
1961 - Brian Mannix, Australian singer and actor
1964 - Sam Brown, English singer-songwriter
1964 - Ann Curless, singer (Expos‚-What You Don't Know)
1966 - Marco Beltrami, Italian-American film composer
1967 - Luke Haines, English musician (The Auteurs, Black Box Recorder)
1968 - Toni Braxton, singer (You Mean the World to Me)
1968 - Thom Yorke, British singer/musician (Radiohead)
1969 - Javier Álvarez, Spanish singer-songwriter
1974 - Charlotte Nilsson, Swedish singer
1975 - Damian Kulash, American musician (OK Go)
1975 - Tim Minchin, Australian comedian and musician
1976 - Taylor Hicks, American singer/musician
1978 - Alesha Dixon, British pop singer (Mis-Teeq)
1982 - Li Yundi, Chinese classical pianist
1984 - Ikuta Toma, Japanese Singer/Actor
1988 - Stacy DuPree, American musician (Eisley)
Deaths in Music
1553 - Cristóbal de Morales, Spanish composer (bc. 1500)
1766 - Andre Cheron, composer, dies at 71
1887 - George James Webb, composer, dies at 84
1890 - John Hill Hewitt, composer, dies at 89
1915 - Samuel Prowse Warren, composer, dies at 74
1918 - C Hubert H Parry, Engl musicologist/composer (Jerusalem), dies at 70
1925 - Hubert Platt Main, composer, dies at 86
1959 - Mario Lanza, opera singer, dies at 38 of a heart attack
1966 - Grigoris Asikis, Greek singer and songwriter. (b. 1890)
1966 - Smiley Lewis, American musician (b. 1913)
1976 - Nikolai Lopatnikoff, composer, dies at 73
1981 - Wouter Paap, composer, dies at 73
1988 - Billy Daniels, singer, dies of cancer at 73
1992 - Ed Blackwell, US jazz drummer (Quartet)
1998 - Arnold Jacobs, American tuba player a.k.a. Song and Wind (b. 1915)
2003 - Arthur Berger, American composer (b. 1912)
What Happened in the World Today One Year Ago
- The 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded to Yoichiro Nambu for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics, and to Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature.(Wall Street Journal)(Nobel Foundation)
- 2008 Thai political crisis: The anti-government protester group were injured as police attacked barricades outside Thailand's parliament in Bangkok injuring hundreds of people, with a car bomb killing 1 person. (BBC News) (Reuters)
- Russia agrees to provide Iceland with emergency loans of 4 billion euros ($5.4 billion).(Reuters)
- Iceland's Financial Supervisory Authority takes control of troubled Landsbanki Bank.(MarketWatch)
- The Reserve Bank of Australia reduces interest rates by 100 basis points to 6.0 per cent to combat the effect of the subprime mortgage crisis. (Financial Times)
- President Dmitry Medvedev announces an extra 950 billion roubles ($36.4 billion) of new emergency credit for banks at a Kremlin meeting. (Reuters)
What Happened on this Day in History
3761 BC - The epoch (origin) of the modern Hebrew calendar (Proleptic Julian calendar).
1916 - Georgia Tech defeats Cumberland 222-0 in one of the most lopsidded college football games in American history.
1919 - KLM of the Netherlands was founded. It is the oldest airline still operating under its original name.
1952 - "American Bandstand" debuts on a local Philadelphia station.
1955 - Beat poet Allen Ginsberg reads his poem "Howl" for the first time at a poetry reading in San Francisco.
1959 - U.S.S.R. probe Luna 3 transmits first ever photographs of the Far side of the Moon.
1982 - Cats opens on Broadway and runs for nearly 18 years before closing on September 10, 2000.
2000 - The last ever competitive match at Wembley Stadium is a 1-0 defeat of England to Germany and the last goal was scored by Liverpool's Dietmar Hammann. The match was Tony Adams' 60th at Wembley setting the record for most appearances at the stadium.
Holidays and Observances
- RC Saints - Memorial of Our Lady of the Rosary; formerly Saint Justina, Saint Osyth
- Feast day of Pope Mark.
- Saints Sergius and Bacchus
- French Republican Calendar - Sixteenth day in the Month of Vendémiaire
- Brazil - Composer Day
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