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100th anniversary of the birth of composer Leroy (pronounced luh-ROY) Anderson. Anderson, who was born in Cambridge, Mass., June 29, 1908, was a master of light classical works, many of which have become so popular that we hardly realize anymore that they're by Anderson.
19 April 1908, Birth of German conductor Joseph KEILBERTH in Karlsruhe. d-Munich, 20 JUL 1968, while conducting a performance of Tristan und Isolde, at the National Theater Munich. He started his career in the State Theatre of his native city, Karlsruhe. In 1940 he became director of the German Philharmonic Orchestra of Prague. Near the end of World War II he became principal conductor of the Dresden Staatskapelle. In 1949 he became chief conductor of the Bamberg Symphony, formed mainly of Germans expelled from post-war Czechoslovakia under the Beneš decrees. He died in Munich in 1968 after collapsing while conducting Wagner's opera Tristan und Isolde in exactly the same place as Felix Mottl had done in 1911. Keilberth conducted the first stereo recording of Richard Wagner's Ring Cycle in 1955.
Herbert von Karajan (April 5, 1908 – July 16, 1989)This story | WEB LINKS | IMAGES | NEWS | SHOP Herbert von Karajan
2008 is the 50th anniversary of the death of Ralph Vaughan Williams, one of the greatest of the 20th-century composers who gave British music a golden age unparalleled since the 17th century. Vaughan Williams wrote music shaped by his love of British folk tunes and the great Renaissance composers which is none the less strikingly original and unmistakably of our time. MORE | WEB LINKS | IMAGES | SHOP Ralph Vaughan Williams
This year...a 20-day festival celebrating black cultural legacy at Carnegie Hall, which also will honor the 100th birthday year of composer Elliott Carter and present a complete cycle of Mahler symphonies in a 12-day period conducted by Daniel Barenboim and Pierre Boulez.
Manchester's Halle Orchestra is 150 years old. And what a difference it's made to the cultural life of the city...... The Hallé's 150th Anniversary Concert is at the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester (photo) on 30 January. The Hallé 150 season continues throughout the year...
Salzburg, which hosted Mozart's 250th birthday celebrations in 2006, will deck itself out for another musical extravaganza this year -- the 100th birthday of perhaps its next most famous musical son, conductor Herbert von Karajan.Ringing in the "Herbert von Karajan Jubilee Year" today will be a concert in Salzburg's famous "Grosses Festspielhaus" concert hall.On the programme, by the Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg under its chief conductor Ivor Bolton, will be Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony, Mozart's 23rd Piano Concerto and Richard Strauss's symphonic poem, Don Juan.That is exactly the same programme, with exactly the same orchestra, that Karajan made his professional conducting debut with on January 22, 1929.The Berlin Philharmonic, whose chief conductor he was from 1955 until his death in 1989, will play birthday concerts in Berlin, Paris and Tokyo.Vienna's legendary Musikverein concert hall is staging a three-part Karajan cycle of concerts, with both the Berlin and the Vienna Philharmonics. There will be a special Karajan Festival in Lucerne, Switzerland, and Salzburg's own Easter and Summer Festivals will also pay homage to the "maestro of all maestros".The birthday itself, April 5, will be marked by a special ceremony in Salzburg's Mozart House museum.The other orchestras Karajan worked closely with -- the Vienna Philharmonic, the Philharmonia Orchestra, and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra -- all have special memorial concerts lined up in New York, London and Munich.Record labels Deutsche Grammophon, EMI and Sony are unearthing and repackaging their countless and often legendary Karajan recordings and DVDs.There will also be a deluge of books about the conductor, including one by his widow, Eliette von Karajan, entitled "Mein Leben an seiner Seite" (My life at his side).And a new documentary by Robert Dornhelm is to be released on DVD.Born in Salzburg on April 5, 1908, Heribert Ritter von Karajan studied piano, harmony and composition at the Mozarteum in Salzburg between 1916 and 1926 and then conducting at Vienna's Academy for Music and the Performing Arts between 1926 and 1929.It was his music-loving father, a doctor, who gave the 20-year-old Karajan his first break, hiring the Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg for his debut concert in January 1929.
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