Pomp – and MJQ

Synopsis

Music Played in Today's Program

Sir Edward Elgar (1857-1934) Pomp and Circumstance No. 4 London Philharmonic ; Daniel Barenboim, cond. Sony Classical 60789

Milt Jackson (1923-1999) Blues in c Modern Jazz Quartet Atlantic 1652

On This Day

Births

• 1803 - French composer Adolphe Adam, in Paris;

• 1837 - French composer and organist Théodore Dubois, in Rosnay;

• 1910 - German-born American composer Bernhard Heiden, in Frankfurt;

• 1919 - Danish composer Niels Viggo Bentzon, in Copenhagen;

• 1949 - American composer Stephen Paulus, in Summit, N.J.;

Deaths

• 1985 - American composer Paul Creston, age 78, in San Diego, Calif.;

Premieres

• 1846 - Suppé: operetta "Dichter und Bauer" (Poet and Peasant), in Vienna;

• 1907 - Elgar: "Pomp and Circumstance"March No. 4, in London;

• 1943 - Bernstein: song-cycle "I Hate Music!" at the Public Library in Lenox, Mass., with mezzo-soprano Jennie Tourel and the composer at the piano; The New York premiere of this work occurred on November 13, 1943 (the day before his surprise conducting debut with the New York Philharmonic), with the same performers;

• 1980 - Lutoslawski: Double Concerto, for oboe, harp and chamber orchestra, in Lucerne, Switzerland by oboist Heinz Holliger, harpisy Ursula Holliger, and the Collegium Musicum conducted by Paul Sacher;

Others

• 1724 - Handel performs on the organ at St. Paul's Cathedral in London before the royal princesses Anne and Caroline (Gregorian date: Sept. 4);

• 1968 - Czech conductor and composer Rafael Kubelik launches an appeal to world musicians to boycott performances in the five nations which invaded Czechoslovakia on August 20-21 until their military forces evacuate the country; The appeal was joined by Igor Stravinsky, Arthur Rubinstein, Yehudi Menuhin, Otto Klemperer, Bernard Haitink, Claudio Arrau, and others.