Sir Stephen Lloyd Sondheim-Webber?

Synopsis

Music Played in Today's Program

Stephen Sondheim (b. 1930) A Little Night Music New York City Opera Orchestra; Paul Gemignani, cond. MusicMasters 67099

Andrew Lloyd Webber (b. 1948) Angel of Music Cincinnati Pops; Erich Kunzel, cond. Telarc 80405

On This Day

Births

• 1930 - American composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim, in New York City;

• 1868 - Scottish composer and conductor Hamisch MacCunn, in Greenock;

• 1943 - American composer Joseph Schwantner, in Chicago;

• 1948 - British composer Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber, in London;

Deaths

• 1687 - Italian-born French composer Jean Baptiste Lully, age 54, in Paris, following an inadvertent self-inflicted injury to his foot (by a staff with which he would beat time for his musicians) which developed gangrene;

Premieres

• 1963 - William Kraft: "Concerto grosso," in San Diego, Calif.;

• 1973 - Ginastera: Piano Concerto No. 2, in Indianapolis, with Hilde Somer as soloist;

• 1984 - John Harbison: Symphony No. 1, in Boston, with the Boston Symphony, Seiji Ozawa conducting;

• 1985 - John Harbison: "Twilight Music" for horn, violin and piano, at Alice Tully Hall, by members of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (David Jolley, horn; James Buswell, violin; Richard Goode, piano);

• 1997 - Zwilich: "Peanuts Gallery" (after the "Peanuts" comic strip characters by Charles Schultz) for piano and chamber orchestra, at Carnegie Hall in New York by the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra with soloist Albert Kim.