Ives makes the "Pops" circuit

Synopsis

Music Played in Today's Program

Charles Ives (1874 –1954) arr. Wm. Schuman (1910 – 1992) Variations on "America" New York Philharmonic; Kurt Masur, cond. Teldec 74007

On This Day

Births

• 1804 - Russian composer Mikail Glinka ((Gregorian date: June 1);

• 1943 - American composer Tison Street, in Boston;

Deaths

• 1896 - German pianist and composer, Clara Wieck Schumann, age 76, in Frankfurt;

• 1995 - American composer Ulysses Kay, in Englewood, N.J.;

Premieres

• 1914 - Miaskovsky: Symphony No. 1, in Pavlovsk (Julian date: June 2);

• 1937 - John J. Becker: Symphony No. 3 ("Symphonia Brevis"), at the Saint Paul Auditorium by the Twin Cities Civic (Federal Music Project, Minnesota) Orchestra, with the composer conducting;

• 1948 - Milhaud: Symphony No.4, in Paris, composer conducting;

• 1950 - Dallapiccola: opera "Il prigionero" (The Prisoner)(first staged production), in Florence at the Teatro Comunale; The opera has been premiered in a concert performance in Turin on December 1, 1949;

• 1973 - Menotti: Suite for Two Cellos and Piano, in New York, with cellists Gregor Piatigorsky and Leslie Parnas, and pianist Charles Wadsworth;

• 1974 - Panufnik: "Sinfonia Concertante," in London;

• 1974 - Sondheim: incidental music for "The Frogs" (after Aristophanes), at the Yale swimming pool;

• 1977 - Hovhaness: "Rubaiyat" for narrator, accordion, and orchestra, in New York City;

• 1979 - Tobias Picker: "Romance" for violin and piano, at York College, by Linda Quan (violin) and Aleck Karis (piano);

• 1989 - Katherine Hoover: "Quintet Da Pacem," for piano quintet, at Alice Tully Hall in New York, by members of the New Jersey Chamber Music Society;

Others

• 1846 - American premiere of Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 ("Choral") by New York Philharmonic Society at New York's Castle Garden, George Loder, Jr. conducting; It appears that the Society tried unsuccessfully to invite Mendelssohn to attend this festival performance, which they organized to raise funds for "the erection of a suitable edifice for musical purposes" in Manhattan; The next documented performance of Beethoven's Ninth outside of New York was given in Boston on February 5, 1853 by the combined forces of the Handel and Haydn Society plus the Germania Society; Other 19 th century regional premieres of Beethoven Ninth occurred in New Haven (Dec. 10, 1870), Columbus (Dec. 13, 1870), Chicago (Dec. 17, 1870), Philadelphia (April 27, 1874), Milwaukee (Oct. 22, 1878), Baltimore (May 3, 1884) and Pittsburgh (May 25, 1889);

• 1943 - The U.S. Marine Band performs a special wartime concert on the White House South Lawn for President Roosevelt and Winston Churchill; Despite a steady rain, Roosevelt and Churchill stayed throughout and sang "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" with the band at the conclusion.