Gottschalk plays a "politically correct" concert

Synopsis

Music Played in Today's Program

Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829-1869) The Union (Paraphrase de Concert) Alan Marks, piano Nimbus 5014

On This Day

Births

• 1740 - American-born Moravian composer John Antes, in Frederickstownship, Pa.;

Deaths

• 1654 - German composer Samuel Scheidt, age 66, in Halle;

• 1916 - Spanish composer Enrique Granados, age 48, dies at sea returning to Europe from New York City when the S.S. Sussex is torpedoed in the English Channel by a German submarine during WWI;

• 1921 - French composer Deódat de Sévérac, age 48, in Céret;

Premieres

• 1784 - Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 15 in Bb, K. 450, at the Trattnerhof in Vienna, with composer as soloist;

• 1860 - Joachim: Violin Concerto ("Hungarian"), in Hannover, Germany;

• 1868 - Brahms: Piano Quintet in f, Op. 34, in Paris, with pianist Luise Langhans-Japha, with an unidentified string ensemble;

• 1881 - Verdi: opera "Simon Boccanegra" (2nd version, with libretto revised by Boito), in Milan at the Teatro alla Scala;

• 1924 - Sibelius: Symphony No. 7, in Stockholm, with the composer conducting;

• 1932 - Randall Thompson: Symphony No. 2, in, Rochester, N.Y.;

• 1941 - Shostakovich: incidental music for Shakespeare's "King Lear," in Leningrad, at the Gorky Bolshoy Dramatic Theater;

• 1949 - Panufnik: "Tragic Overture," in New York City;

• 1984 - Philip Glass: opera "Akhnaten," in Stuttgart, at the Wurttemberg State Theater, with Dennis Russell Davies, conducting;

• 1996 - Thomas Oboe Lee: "ART: arias and interludes" for string quartet, in Gassoon Hall at Boston College by the Artaria Quartet;

• 2001 - Chihara: "Songs of Love and Loss," by violist Geraldine Waltherthe and the 20-voice San Francisco Chamber Singers, at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Berkeley, Calif., directed by Robert Geary;

Others

• 1721 - J.S. Bach dedicates his six "Brandenburg" Concertos to Margrave Christian Ludwig of Brandenburg, whose orchestra apparently never performed them.