Robert Russell Bennett takes the prize (twice)

Synopsis

Music Played in Today's Program

Robert Russell Bennett (1894 – 1891) Abraham Lincoln (A Likeness in Symphony Form) Moscow Symphony; William T. Stromberg, cond. Naxos 8.559004

On This Day

Births

• 1811 - German composer, conductor and pianist Ferdinand Hiller, in Frankfurt am Main;

• 1882 - Hungarian operetta composer Imre [Emmerich] Kálman, in Siófok;

• 1925 - Italian composer Luciano Berio, in Oneglia, Imperia;

• 1929 - American composer George Crumb, in Charleston, West Virginia;

• 1931 - Russian composer Sofia Gubaidulina, in Chistopol, Tatar (USSR);

Deaths

• 1799 - Austrian violinist and composer Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf, age 59, at Castle Rothlottia, near Neuhaus (Bohemia);

• 1948 - Austrian composer Franz Lehár, age 78, in Bad Ischl;

• 1949 - Cuban composer and violinist Joaquin Nin y Castellanos, age 70, in Havana;

• 1971 - American composer Carl Ruggles, age 95, in Bennington, Vermont;

Premieres

• 1737 - Rameau: opera "Castor et Pollux," in Paris at the Palais Royal Opéra;

• 1885 - Jhn. Strauss Jr.: operetta, "The Gypsy Baron," in Vienna;

• 1910 - Victor Herbert: operetta, "Naught Marietta," in Syracuse, N.Y.;

• 1930 - Roussel: Symphony No. 3, by the Boston Symphony, Serge Koussevitzky conducting;

• 1931 - Robert Russell Bennett: "Abraham Lincoln" Symphony, by the Philadelphia Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski conducting;

• 1936 - Miaskovsky: Symphony No. 16, in Moscow;

• 1940 - John Alden Carpenter: Symphony No. 1 (revised version), by Chicago Symphony, Frederick Stock conducting;

• 1946 - Bernstein: ballet "Facsimile," at the Broadway Theater in New York City by the Ballet Theater, choreographed by Jerome Robbins, with composer conducting;

• 1946 - Cowell: Symphony No. 4 ("Short Symphony"), by the Boston Symphony, Richard Burgin conducting;

• 1970 - Penderecki: "Kosmogonia," at the United Nations in New York City;

• 1992 - Libby Larsen: Marimba Concerto ("After Hampton"), by the Long Beach Symphony, with soloist William Moersch and JoAnn Falleta conducting;

• 1994 - Harrison Birtwistle: opera "The Second Mrs. Kong," at Glyndeborune;

• 1997 - Geoffrey Burgon: Piano Concerto, in Singapore, with soloist Joanna MacGregor and the Singapore Symphony;

• 1997 - Corigliano: "DC Fanfare," in Washington, D.C., by the National Symphony, Leonard Slatkin conducting;

• 2001 - Steve Reich: orchestral version of "Different Trains," by the Philadelphia Orchestra, David Robertson, conducting;

Others

• 1818 - Felix Mendelssohn, age 9, plays his first public concert, in Berlin;

• 1919 - First performance by the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, Walter Rothwell, conductor.