The Radio 3 Boards Forum from myforum365.com
17:14:22, 01-12-2008 *
Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
News: Whilst we happily welcome all genuine applications to our forum, there may be times when we need to suspend registration temporarily, for example when suffering attacks of spam.
 If you want to join us but find that the temporary suspension has been activated, please try again later.
 
   Home   Help Search Login Register  

The Radio 3 Boards > General Chat > The Coffee Bar > 2008
Pages: [1]
« previous next »
  Print  
Author Topic: 2008  (Read 195 times)
Peter Grimes
***
Gender: Male
Posts: 212
« on: 11:23:07, 15-01-2008 »
Happy New Year everyone! For those interested in such things (come on, you know you are), here are some anniversaries to look forward to in 2008:

Sarasate’s 100th (died 1908)
Schnittke’s 10th (died 1998)
Punch and Judy’s 40th (first performed 1968)
Stockhausen’s 80th (born 1928)
Glock’s 100th (born 1908)
Vaughan Williams’ 50th (died 1958)
Carter’s 100th (born 1908)
Oistrakh’s 100th (born 1908)
Messiaen’s 100th (born 1908)
Rimsky-Korsakov’s 100th (died 1908)
Debussy’s 90th (died 1918)
Penderecxki’s 75th (born 1933)
Brigg Fair’s 100th (first performed 1908)
Gounod’s 190th (born 1818)
Schubert’s 180th (died 1828)
Brahm’s 175th (born 1833)
Gorecki’s 75th (born 1933)
Karajan’s 100th (born 1908)

There’s a mixed bunch who reach the big Hawaii this year:

Andrea Bocelli, Kate Bush, Jools Holland, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Magnus Lindberg, Toyah Wilcox, Paul Weller, Madonna, Billy Bragg, Simon Holt.
Logged
"On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog."
Morticia
Admin/Moderator Group
*****
Posts: 5788
« Reply #1 on: 11:38:23, 15-01-2008 »
Kate Bush? 50? Shocked  It`s all wrong, I tell you! Wrong, wrong, wrong. Even though it isn`t Sad
Logged
Peter Grimes
***
Gender: Male
Posts: 212
« Reply #2 on: 11:42:39, 15-01-2008 »
Not sure who Penderecxki is ...
Logged
"On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog."
time_is_now
*****
Gender: Male
Posts: 4653
« Reply #3 on: 11:49:42, 15-01-2008 »
Quote from: Peter Grimes on 11:42:39, 15-01-2008
Not sure who Penderecxki is ...
Me neither, especially since the Polish language doesn't have an X.

waits for Ollie or someone else equally heartless to come along and demonstrate I'm talking rubbish as usual ...
Logged
The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
oliver sudden
Admin/Moderator Group
*****
Posts: 6411
« Reply #4 on: 12:34:12, 15-01-2008 »
Quote from: time_is_now on 11:49:42, 15-01-2008
Ollie or someone else equally heartless

I say!  Roll Eyes
Logged
John W
*****
Gender: Male
Posts: 3644
« Reply #5 on: 13:00:56, 15-01-2008 »
Grimes, thank you for the reminder - we were compiling centenaries and similar in a New Year thread, and I intended to start a new thread....

Anyway this is what was compiled then

as well as Vaughan Williams d. 1958 and Rimsky-Korsakov d. 1908 other centenaries and part-centenaries to expect attention in 2008:

Messiaen b. 1908
Elliot Carter b. 1908
Edward Macdowell d. 1908
William Balfe b.1808 - opera revival ??
Leo Blech d. 1958
Anton Diabelli d. 1858
Albert Dietrich d. 1908 - revival?
J.F. Fasch d. 1758
Joseph Holbrooke d. 1958
Daniel Lesur b. 1908
Luigi Tomasini d. 1808
Geirr Tviett b. 1908

also might hear more recordings of

Edith Mary Coates (mezzo) b. 1908
Karajan b. 1908
David Oistrakh b. 1908

and celebration of the work of

Francis Galpin b. 1858
Percy Scholes d. 1958


already Macdowell has a CotW slot this week
Logged
A
*****
Posts: 4808
« Reply #6 on: 17:09:50, 15-01-2008 »
Quote from: Morticia on 11:38:23, 15-01-2008
Kate Bush? 50? Shocked  It`s all wrong, I tell you! Wrong, wrong, wrong. Even though it isn`t Sad

Cripes , no, she is about 20 I tell you........

A
Logged
Well, there you are.
Morticia
Admin/Moderator Group
*****
Posts: 5788
« Reply #7 on: 17:18:25, 15-01-2008 »
She is in my memory, A.  What`s left of it Roll Eyes
Logged
Pages: [1]
  Print  
« previous next »
 
Jump to: