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Ingram Marshall's Dark Waters

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Ingram Marshall (b. 1942) Dark Waters Libby van Cleve, English horn; Ingram Marshall, electronics New Albion 112

On This Day

Births

  • 1874 - Russian-born American double-bass player, conductor and new music patron, Serge Koussevitzky, in Vishny-Volochok (Gregorian date: July 26)

  • 1901 - English composer Gerald Finzi, in London

  • 1930 - American composer Eric Stokes, in Haddon Heights, N.J.

Deaths

  • 1674 - English composer and chorister, Pelham Humfrey, age 27, in Windsor; An entry in Samuel Pepy's famous diary describes him in 1667 as being "full of form, and confidence, and vanity," and disparaging "everything and everybody's skill but his own."

Premieres

  • 1942 - Wm. Schuman: "Newsreel," at a New York Philharmonic concert at Lewisohn Stadium, conducted by Arthur Smallens

  • 1948 - Kurt Weill: folk opera "Down in the Valley" at the University of Indiana in Bloomington

  • 1949 - Britten: "Spring Symphony" at the Holland Festival in Amsterdam

  • 1999 - Kernis: "Concierto de Dance Hits," in Minneapolis, by the Minnesota Orchestra conducted by David Miller, with guitarist David Tanenbaum

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