Musical Anniversaries 2012

[Roehre]

Alphons DIEPENBROCK 1862-1921 Dutch composer, friend of Mahler and Mengelberg, at whose home many of the European artists (composers, writers and philosophers) met and who corresponded (10 vols) with approximately everyone of name between 1890s and 1921.

[Suffolkcoastal]

Oh dear Debussy for next year, we get a bit too much Debussy already, I expect they'll be even more La Mer's, Faun Afternoon's, G minor Quartets, Clair de Lune's and Preludes than we already get. It will be interesting to see which composers R3 will favour and which will be shoved to one side with only the absolute minimum of acknowledgement. This year we've had far too much Grainger because his tendency to compose short works fits in nicely with R3 obsession with short works and chunks.
It would be interesting to see what Massenet R3 come up with, he still needs a major reappraisal. Ireland is currently being well served with recordings so it will be interesting to see how this is reflected. Daniel Jones is however the key interest for me. I've come across very little of his music on R3 the past 20 years or so and only a relatively small proportion of his works have been recorded. Some works I've responded to better than others, but he certainly needs reappraisal and would benefit from been given a considerably raised profile on R3 next year.

[MrGongGong]

You have Conlon Nancarrow and Cage
what more do you need ?

Perry Como and the Titanic ?

[bluestateprommer]

Two more composer names for the anniversary list:
1. Liza Lehmann (born July 11, 1862)
2. Jennifer Higdon (born December 31, 1962)

If your horizons extend to composers with annivesaries ending in 25th or 75th, then:
3. Gordon Crosse (born December 1, 1937)
4. Philip Glass (born January 31, 1937)
5. David Del Tredici (born March 16, 1937)
6. Katherine Hoover (born 1937)

1887 births:
7. Heitor Villa-Lobos
8. Sigmund Romberg
9. Heino Eller

[VodkaDilc]

Like all Britten fans, it's 2013 I'm waiting for!

[EdgeleyRob]

Like all Britten fans, it's 2013 I'm waiting for!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Daniel Jones is however the key interest for me. I've come across very little of his music on R3 the past 20 years or so and only a relatively small proportion of his works have been recorded. Some works I've responded to better than others, but he certainly needs reappraisal and would benefit from been given a considerably raised profile on R3 next year.

[Parry1912]

Do things other than people count? If so what about December 6th 1912 at 3.30 PM, the day and time that Kingsway Hall was officially opened by the Lord Mayor of London.

Now that is worth celebrating. What a shame it's no longer with us as a recording venue.

Also worth celebrating - The centenary of Hubert Parry's Symphony No. 5 (also called Symphonic Fantasia '1912')

[EdgeleyRob]

Now that is worth celebrating. What a shame it's no longer with us as a recording venue.

Also worth celebrating - The centenary of Hubert Parry's Symphony No. 5 (also called Symphonic Fantasia '1912')

Again

[Bryn]

You have Conlon Nancarrow and Cage
what more do you need ?

Well just so long as RW gives us the full Nancarrow Experience and Cage Happening.

[MrGongGong]

An essential ingredient in many a composers work IMV

Wilbur Scoville (1865 - 1942)

Today is the birthday of Walter Lincoln Scoville (AKA Wilbur Scoville), the creator of the original Scoville Organoleptic Test, which gave it’s and his name to the unit of measure we use today to rate the heat of Chillies.

100 Years ago in 1912 while working for Parke Davis, Wilbur developed the Scoville Organoleptic Test for measuring the strength or amount of capsaicin in a variety of Chilli Pepper.

“Scoville proposes the following practical method. Macerate 0.1 gm. of ground capsicum overnight in 100 mils of alcohol; shake well and filter. Add this tincture to sweetened water (10% sugar) in such proportion that a distinct but weak pungency is perceptible to the tongue or throat.” – Quote from excellent article by Dave DeWitt

For the rest of the non chilli-head world he is probably best know in for this book “The Art of Compounding” which was a standard work for Pharmaceutical Students and Pharmacists, first published in 1895, it went through 8 editions and was still in common use into the 1960′s

Born at the end of the American Civil War in Bridgeport, Connecticut on January 22 1865, he passed away in 1942 at the age of 77, he achieved many things in his life, but for us he is the man who gave his name to the Scoville Heat Scale. Happy Birthday Wilbur.

http://fiery-foods.com/article-archives/85-chile-history/3171-wilbur-scoville-and-the-organoleptic-test-centennial

[salymap]

2012 Anniversaries Kathleen Ferrier 1912 - 1953

I see,with disbelief, that Kathleen Ferrier was born 100 years ago, on 22nd April, 1912.

Please add to the thread on anniversaries this year ff. I can't find it at the moment.

[Alf-Prufrock]

Daniel Jones is however the key interest for me. I've come across very little of his music on R3 the past 20 years or so and only a relatively small proportion of his works have been recorded. Some works I've responded to better than others, but he certainly needs reappraisal and would benefit from been given a considerably raised profile on R3 next year.

I remember - it must be about 20 years ago in fact - that Radio 3 once broadcast all Daniel Jones's symphonies in a special series, I think at that time nine of them. He went on to compose 13 in all. I recorded the lot on cassette tapes, which have all gone to that great junkyard in the sky. The amount of stuff that I once recorded from radio was immense and, oh dear, how often do I sigh that I do not have them now. In any case, I remember much enjoying Jones's work, and it certainly was not astringent or outlandish.

Is there now not a case for the BBCNOW to record and broadcast the lot of them again?

[Roehre]

I remember - it must be about 20 years ago in fact - that Radio 3 once broadcast all Daniel Jones's symphonies in a special series, I think at that time nine of them. He went on to compose 13 in all. I recorded the lot on cassette tapes, which have all gone to that great junkyard in the sky. The amount of stuff that I once recorded from radio was immense and, oh dear, how often do I sigh that I do not have them now. In any case, I remember much enjoying Jones's work, and it certainly was not astringent or outlandish.

Is there now not a case for the BBCNOW to record and broadcast the lot of them again?

IMO there is such a case, especially now we've got since ten or so years all his string quartets available on that splendid Chandos set.

[Rivington]

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875 - 1912).

Many events throughout the year already organised in Croydon etc. with the World Première of his opera Thelma, at The Ashcroft Theatre, Fairfield Halls, Croydon 9 - 11 February, by Surrey Opera/Jonathan Butcher.

Further details on samuelcoleridgetaylornetwork (worth a Google).