#Sergiu Comissiona

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Poulenc: Concerto for 2 Pianos and Orchestra in D Minor, FP 61 - 1. Allegro ma non troppo

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Dag Wirén : Concerto for violin and orchestra Op. 23 (1946)

I. Allegro moderato ma inquieto II. Andante espressivo III. Allegro molto.

Performed by Nils-Erik Sparf (violin) and the Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Sergiu Comissiona.

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June 16 in Music History

1633 Birth of composer Nathaniel Schnittelbach.

1637 Birth of composer Giovanni Paulo Colonna.

1708 Handel completes Aci, Galatea e Polifemo in Italy.

1710 Handel starts work at the Court of Hanover. Appointed Kapellmeister to Georg Ludwig, Elector of Hanover the future King George I.

1752 Birth of composer Meingosus Gaelle.

1755 Birth of German mezzo-soprano Louise Dugazon in Berlin. 

1791 FP of Paisello's "La locanda" London.

1804 Death of German composer Johann Adam Hiller in Leipzig. 

1813 Birth of German musicologist and Mozart biographer Otto Jahn in Kiel.

1843 Birth of composer and cellist David Popper. 

1843 Birth of composer Jan Malat.

1849 Birth of British tenor William Shakespeare in Croydon. 

1853 Birth of Swedish organist and composer Emil Sjögren in Stockholm. 

1858 Birth of composer Eugène Ysaÿe.

1863 Birth of composer Paul Antonin Vidal.

1865 Birth of German soprano Martha Leffler Burchard in Berlin. 

1873 Birth of Ukranian soprano Antonia Neshdanova.

1874 Birth of Russian Opera composer Mikhail Ivanov Boretzky in Moscow.

1883 Birth of German tenor Fritz Krauss in Cologne. 

1889 Birth of American soprano Helen Traubel in St Louis. 

1890 A gala program of music and ballet, of music by composer Edward Straus, opened the first Madison Square Garden in New York City.

1894 Birth of Bulgarian tenor Armand Tokatyan.

1896 Birth of Brazilian composer Hekel Tavares in Rio de Janeiro.

1901 Birth of Swiss conductor and composer Conrad Beck in Lohn. 

1902 Birth of Swiss tenor Hugues Cuenod in Corseaux-sur-Vevey. 

1907 Birth of Russian soprano Elena Kruglikova in Poldosk.

1909 Birth of Austrian violinist and conductor Willi Boskovsky. 

1910 Death of tenor Otto Briesemeister.

1915 Birth of tenor Karl Liebl in Schiltberg, nr. Wiesbaden.

1916 FP of Parker's "Cupid and Psyche" New Haven.

1916 Birth of composer Francis Lopez.

1923 Birth of composer Ake Hermanson.

1923 Birth of American soprano Gladys Kuchta in Chicopee, MA.

1923 Birth of Polish conductor and composer Henryk Czyz in Grudziadz.

1923 Birth of Swedish pianist and organist Ake Hermanson in Mollosund. 

1927 Birth of American electronic music composer Bebe Barron.

1927 Birth of Bulgarian composer Simeon Pironkoff in Lom, Bulgaria.

1928 Birth of Rumanian-American conductor Sergiu Comissiona in Buch.

1928 Birth of tenor William McGrath in Medina. 

1929 Birth of Norwegian soprano Edith Thallaug in Oslo.

1929 Birth of American experimental music composer James K. Randall.

1931 Birth of American composer Lucia Dlugoszewski in Detroit. 

1931 Birth of composer Ivo Petric.

1935 Birth of Italian tenor Tullio Pane in Naples. 

1937 FP of American composer and pianist Mark Blitzstein's opera-review The Cradle Will Rock. He was the pianist in this performance in NYC.

1940 Death of Czech composer Vitezslava Kapralova in Montpellier, France. 

1943 Death of Swedish mezzo-soprano Sigrid Onegin in Magliaso.

1944 Death of German soprano Maria Philippi. 

1950 Birth of English administrator Robert St John Wright, chairman of the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

1950 FP of V. Persichetti's Divertimento for Band. Composer conducting the Goldman Band in NYC.

1952 Birth of English mezzo-soprano Mary King in Tunbridge Wells. 

1952 Birth of American tenor Jerry Hadley in Princeton, IL. 

1953 Birth of English pianist David Owen Norris.

1958 Death of Mexican composer José Pablo Garcia Moncayo in México City. 

1961 FP of A. Schoenberg's Jacob's Ladder posthumously at 35th Festival of the International Society for Contemporary Music in Vienna.

1962 Death of bass Ge Smith. 

1964 FP of Krenek's "Der goldene Bock" chamber opera, Hamburg, composer conducting.

1969 Death of baritone Umberto Urbano.

1970 Death of Estonian composer Heino Eller, at age 83, in Tallinn. 

1973 FP of Benjamin Britten's Death In Venice at Aldeburgh. 

1988 Death of German mezzo-soprano Annelies Burgmeister in Berlin. 

1986 Death of French composer, organist  Maurice Duruflé in Paris. 

1987 Death of Hungarian soprano Maria Von Ilosvay. 

1990 Death of English soprano ��Dame Eva Turner.

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Paul Tobias becomes the 16th cellist represented in the UNCG Cello Music Collection

Paul Tobias has been called a "master of the music and his instrument" by the New York Times, while the San Francisco Chronicle hailed him as "a fired-up, brilliant cellist in the great romantic tradition of Casals". He studied under Gregor Piatigorsky, Margaret Rowell and Bonnie Hampton, and under Leonard Rose, Zara Nelsova, and Claus Adam at The Juilliard School

Among the many orchestras with which Tobias performed are the New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, New Jersey Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony, Baltimore Symphony, and Seattle Symphony. Following his debut under the baton of Michael Tilson Thomas, he performed with conductors such as Pierre Boulez, Sergiu Comissiona, Raymond Leppard, and Zubin Mehta.

The many awards bestowed on Tobias included a Walter W. Naumburg Foundation Prize and the Gregor Piatigorsky Award (presented by the Violoncello Society which proclaimed him "outstanding young American cellist"). Following his first performances with the New York Philharmonic under Pierre Boulez (broadcast over the CBS Television Network), he was given the honor of performing the American premiere of the Pederecki Cello Concerto at the Kennedy Center with the composer conducting the Polish National Radio Symphony. Particularly noteworthy, Paul Tobias championed uncommon and difficult cello works that he believed should be more widely heard.  For example, Tobias was recognized as a pre-eminent interpreter of Samuel Barber's Cello Concerto and of the autograph version of Tchaikovsky's Variations on a Rococo Theme, which he edited for its premier publication by Edwin F. Kalmus.

In addition to solo performances in Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, the Philadelphia Academy of Music, and the Metropolitan Museum, Tobias also participated as a chamber musician at the Aspen Festival and the Marlboro Festival (for five consecutive years at the personal invitation of Rudolf Serkin). Paul Tobias can be heard on recordings for CBS and the Marlboro Recording Society. His performances have been broadcast over NPR, PBS, CBS Television, and numerous European radio stations.  A one hour documentary on Paul Tobias has been broadcast throughout the U.S. over various PBS Television stations.

Additionally, Paul Tobias was Artistic Director of New Heritage Music, a non-profit organization that commissions new works in honor of people, events, and themes central to history. Among composers designated to date are Chen Yi, Michael Daugherty, David Ott, Behzad Ranjbaran, David Sampson, Peter Schickele and Dan Welcher. The American Symphony Orchestra League calls New Heritage Music "a success story in creating new audiences with new music.”

A former Lecturer in Music at Harvard University and pre-concert lecturer for the New York Philharmonic, Tobias also served on the faculties of the Manhattan School of Music, the New England Conservatory of Music, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and the University of California at Berkeley. A member of the faculty of the Mannes College for Music, New School University in New York, he was the recipient of its Distinguished University Teacher of the Year Award. Tobias authored numerous articles for American String Teacher, The Juilliard Journal, the Journal of the Conductors Guild, Strings, and The Strad.

Paul Tobias is the 16th musician to be represented in the UNCG Cello Music Collection. Consisting of the archival music collections of Luigi Silva, Elizabeth Cowling, Rudolf Matz, Maurice Eisenberg, János Scholz, Fritz Magg, Bernard Greenhouse, Laszlo Varga, Lev Aronson, Lubomir Georgiev, Marion Davies, and Douglas Moore, Ennio Bolognini, Nicholas Anderson, Margaret Rowell, and Paul Tobias, the Cello Music Collection at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro constitutes the largest single holding of cello music-related material worldwide.

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Sergiu Comissiona

Sergiu Comissiona (n. 16 iunie 1928, București – d. 5 martie 2005, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA) a fost un dirijor si violonist israelian – american originar din România.

Biografie Sergiu Comissiona s-a născut în București la 16 iunie 1928. Tatăl său, de origine evreiască, era proprietarul fabricii de produse chimice “Minerva” de pe șos. Vitan, iar mama sa cântăreață la operă. Originea numelui său…

[retrobaltimore]

Entertainment chairman recalls the first City Fair

[Weyman Swagger, The Baltimore Sun]

“I had a budget of $600 for the three days but I had Sergiu Comissiona [maestro of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra] on Friday night (free -- we had to borrow music stands from Polytechnic Institute) and Saturday night was Ethel Ennis with the US Army jazz band. Free too.”

Heuisler recalled the brief but windy storm that ripped through early Sunday morning.

“We all headed downtown to pick up the pieces. The Baltimore City Pipe Band opened that morning and the lads … caught in the spirits of it all … marched right through the Miss Allied Florists Beauty Pageant. … Amazing what you can do with a $600 budget,” Heuisler said.

The City Fair was established in 1970 and ran for nearly 20 years.

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Știri: ”Muzică românească în marile catedrale ale Portugaliei” (14 aprilie 2018, Mânăstirea Batalha, Portugalia)

Știri: ”Muzică românească în marile catedrale ale Portugaliei” (14 aprilie 2018, Mânăstirea Batalha, Portugalia)

În cadrul programului ”Muzică românească în marile catedrale ale Portugaliei”, program menit să celebreze Centenarul Marii Uniri, sâmbătă 14 aprilie 2018, ora 19.00, va avea loc concertul formaţiei camerale Iulia, Ştefan şi Marin Cazacu String Trio, în monumentala biserică gotică a Mânăstirii Batalha. Trio-ul, compus din Iulia Cazacu (vioară), Ştefan Cazacu (violoncel) şi Marin Cazacu(violoncel),…

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Allan Pettersson (1911-1980): Viola Concerto (1979) Yuri Bashmet, viola Radio Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Sergiu Comissiona World Premiere, September 24, 1988, Berlin

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March 05 in Music History

1735 FP of G. F. Handel's Organ Concertos Op. 4, nos. 2-3. Was intermission feature during a revival performance of Handel's oratorio Esther at the Covent Garden Theater in London.

1748 Birth of English composer William Shield in Whickham. 

1774 Birth of German composer Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse in Altona. 

1778 Death of English composer Thomas Arne in London. 

1782 Birth of tenor Raffaele Monelli in Fermo. 

1805 Birth of French composer and harpsichordist Theodore LaBarre in Paris. 

1818 FP of G. Rossini's opera Mosè in Egitto 'Moses in Egypt' at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples.

1824 Birth of soprano Anne-Arsene Charton-Demeur in Saujon.  

1835 Birth of William Steinway son of piano manufacturer.

1850 Birth of American composer Daniel Brink Towner. 

1853 Birth of American composer Arthur Foote, in Salem, MA.  1853 Founding of piano company by H. E. Steinway and his sons in NYC.

1856 Covent Garden Opera House in London was destroyed by fire. 1868 FP of Boito's opera Mefistofele at the Teatro de la Scala in Milan.

1873 Death of French composer Alexis De Castillon in Paris.

1877 Death of German conductor and composer Ernst Julius Otto in Dresden. 

1878 Birth of American ragtime composer Egbert Van Alstyne. 

1882 Birth of soprano Pauline Donalda in Montreal.  

1887 Birth of Brazilian composer Heitor VillaI-Lobos in Rio de Janiero.  1893 Birth of tenor Alessio de Paolis in Rome.  1899 Birth of English composer Patrick Hadley in Cambridge. 

1900 Birth of tenor Josef Gostic in Stara Loka, Slovenia. 

1904 FP of Anatole Liadov's symphonic poem Baba Yaga. 1904 FP of Maurice Ravel's String Quartet, by the Heymann Quartet, in Paris.

1905 FP of Frederick S. Converse's The Mystic Trumpeter. Philadelphia Orchestra, Fritz Scheel conducting.

1907 Dr. Lee De Forest becomes first DeeJay playing Rossini's William Tell Overture on a radio signal sent from Telharmonic Hall at Broadway and 40th Street in NYC, to the receiver at the US Naval Yard.

1915 Birth of baritone Gregorio Fiasconaro in Palermo.

1929 Birth of soprano Sylvia Stahlman in Nashville. 

1931 Birth of English composer Anthony Hedges in Bicester.

1931 Birth of Australian conductor and horn player Barry Tuckwell in Melbourne, Australia.

1932 Birth of baritone John Lawrenson in Fleetwood. 

1933 FP of Samuel Barber's Dover Beach for medium voice and string quartet, with mezzo-soprano Rose Bampton and the New York Art Quartet at the French Institute in NYC.

1933 FP of Malipiero's Violin Concerto No. 1, in Amsterdam.

1938 Birth of bass Dimiter Petkov in Sofia, Bulgaria. 

1940 FP of Aaron Copland's John Henry. CBS radio, Columbia Broadcasting Symphony Orchestra, Howard Barlow conducting.

1942 FP of John Cage's The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs with text by James Joyce, in New York.

1942 FP of Shostakovich Symphony No. 7 Leningrad in Kuybyshev.  1943 Death of tenor Louis Treumann in Vienna. 1944 FP of Walter Piston's Symphony No. 2. National Symphony, Hans Kindler conducting, in Washington D.C.

1947 FP of Leonard Bernstein's Facsimile at the Broadway Ballet Theater, choreographed by Jerome Robbins, with the composer conducting in NYC.  1947 Death of Italian composer Alfredo Casella, in Rome.  1948 Birth of English conductor Richard Hickox. 1950 Birth of American-Australian composer Becky Llewellyn.

1950 Birth of American violinist Eugene Fodor in Turkey Creek, CO.

1952 Death of bass-baritone Nikolai Speransky. 

1953 Death of Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev in Moscow.   1954 Birth of American composer Jack Stamp in College Park, MD.

1961 Death of baritone Richard Bitterauf.

1973 Death of Polish born, Swiss conductor Paul Kletzki. 1984 Death of Italian baritone Tito Gobbi. 

1990 FP of David Ward-Steinman's Intersections II: Borobudur. Canberra Institute of the Arts with percussionist Daryl Pratt, composer at the piano in Australia.

2000 Death of tenor Alexander Young. 

2003 FP of Bright Sheng's Tone Poem for Pipa, Sheng, Cello, Piano, and Orchestra Song and Dance of Tears with Wu Man, pipa; Wu Tong, sheng; Yo-Yo Ma, cello and Emanuel Ax, piano. New York Philharmonic, David Zinman conducting.

2004 FP of Gerard Schurmann´s Trio by Richard Hawkins, clarinet; Peter Rejto, cello; Christiana Dahl, piano. Tucson Winter Chamber Music Festival in Tucson, AZ.

2005 Death of Romanian-American conductor Sergiu Comissiona in Oklahoma City, OK.