Thomson's "Louisiana Story"

Synopsis

Music Played in Today's Program

Virgil Thomson (1896 - 1989) Louisiana Story Suite New London Orchestra; Ronald Corp, cond. Hyperion 66576

On This Day

Births

• 1932 - Amnerican composer and teacher Alan Stout, in Baltimore;

Deaths

• 1959 - British light-music composer Albert W. Ketèlbey, age 84, on the Isle of Wight;

Premieres

• 1724 - Bach: Sacred Cantata No. 116 ("Du Friedefürst, Herr Jesu Christ") performed on the 25th Sunday after Trinity as part of Bach's second annual Sacred Cantata cycle in Leipzig (1724/25);

• 1887 - Tchaikovsky: Suite No. 4 (“Mozartiana”), on an all Tchaikovsky program in Moscow conducted by the composer (see Julian date: Nov. 14);

• 1937 - R. Schumann: Violin Concerto in d (composed 1853 for the great violinist Joseph Joachim, who never performed it in public), in Berlin, by the Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Karl Boehm, with Georg Kulenkampff as soloist;

• 1948 - Virgil Thomson: "Louisiana Story" Suite, by the Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy conducting;

• 1954 - Lutoslawski: "Concerto for Orchestra," in Warsaw;

• 1993 - Stanislaw Skrowaczewski: Chamber Concerto ("Ritornelli poi Ritornelli") in St. Paul, Minn., by the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, with the composer conducting;

• 1997 - Corigliano: "The Red Violin (Chaconne for Violin and Orchestra), by soloist Joshua Bell with the San Francisco Symphony, Robert Spano conducting;

Others

• 1760 - Franz Joseph Haydn (age 28) marries Maria Anna Keller (age 31) in St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna; Ms. Keller was the daughter of the wigmaker Johann Peter Keller, who is said variously to have assisted Haydn in his years of poverty or employed him as a music teacher.