Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Musician's Birthdays November 22-28

November 22 - Hoagy Carmichael (1899) American jazz pianist and songwriter; Benjamin Britten (1913) British composer; Gunther Schuller (1925) American composer, conductor, French-horn player and educator.

November 23 - Manuel de Falla (1876) Spanish composer and conductor; Jerry Bock (1928) American songwriter for the musical theater; Krzysztof Penderecki (1933) Polish comoser.

November 24 - Lilli Lehmann (1848) German soprano; Scott Joplin (1868) American ragtime composer and pianist; Alfred Schnittke (1934) Soviet composer.

November 25 - Giuseppe Guarneri (1666) Italian violin maker; Virgil Thomson (1896) American composer, conductor and music critic; Paul Desmond (1924) American jazz alto saxophonist and composer.

November 26 - Eugene Istomin (1925) American pianist; Alan Stout (1932) American composer; Tina Turner (1938) American soul-rock singer.

November 27 - Sir Julius Benedict (1804) German-born English conductor and composer; Charles Koechlin (1867) French composer; Jimi Hendrix (1942) American rock guitarist, singer, and songwriter.

November 28 - Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632) Italian-born French composer and conductor; Anton Rubinstein (1829) Russian composer and pianist; Randy Newman (1943) American pop-rock songwriter, singer and pianist.

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