Composers

Daniel Pinkham’s Nocturnes premiered on today’s date in 1993, at the First and Second Church in Boston.

Richard Wagner (1813 - 1883) Transformation music from Parsifal

On May 21, 1983, Dave Brubeck’s “Pange Lingua Variations” for chorus, jazz ensemble and orchestra had its premiere at the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament in Sacramento, California.

In Amsterdam on today’s date in 1906, the Concertgebouw Orchestra and conductor Willem Mengelberg premiered a work of Alfons Diepenbrock’s entitled “In Great Silence – a Mood Poem based on an Aphorism of Friedrich Nietzsche.”

On today’s date in 2014, a new work by Jodie Blackshaw intended for middle-school band students was premiered by the Rosemount Middle School Band of Rosemount, Minn., under the direction of John Zschunke.

Milhaud’s Sabbath Morning Service was first heard at Temple Emanu-El on today’s date in 1949, with its composer conducting.

On today’s date in 1959, the American composer Ned Rorem tried his hand at conducting the premiere of one of his own compositions, a chamber suite entitled “Eleven Studies for Eleven Players.”

On today’s date in 1868, the Czech composer Bedrich Smetana helped lay the foundation stone for Prague’s future National Theatre.

Taloowa' Chipota, which in the Chickasaw language means “Children’s Songs,” was premiered on May 15, 2012, by children at the Dickson School.

On today’s date in 1897, John Philip Sousa was in Philadelphia and leading his band in the premiere performance of “The Stars and Stripes Forever!”