2, in Washington, D.C., by the National Symphony, Hans Kindler conducting ġ965 - Piston: Symphony No. 7 ("Leningrad") by the Bolshoi Theater Orchestra, conducted by Samuel Abramovitch Samosud, in Kuibyshev (the temporary Soviet capital where the orchestra and Shostakovich had been evacuated) ġ944 - Piston: Symphony No. 1, by the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orcherstra with Pierre Monteux conducting and Viola Mitchell the soloist ġ940 - Copland: "John Henry," on a CBS "School of the Air" radio broadcast, by the Columbia Broadcasting Symphony conducted by Howard Barlow ġ942 - Cage: "The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs" (text by James Joyce) for voice and piano, in New York ġ942 - Shostakovich: Symphony No. Converse: "The Mystic Trumpeter" by the Philadelphia Orchestra, Fritz Scheel conducting ġ933 - Barber: "Dover Beach" for medium voice and string quartet, at the French Institute in New York City, by mezzo-soprano Rose Bampton and the New York Art Quartet ġ933 - Malipiero: Violin Concerto No. 18) ġ904 - Ravel: String Quartet, in Paris, by the Heymann Quartet ġ905 - Frederick S. 17) ġ904 - Liadov: symphonic poem "Baba Yaga" (Gregorian date: Mar. 2, with the composer as soloist, in New York City ġ892 - Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2-3, in London as intermission features during a revival performance of Handel's oratorio "Esther" at the Covent Garden Theater (Gregorian date: March 16) ġ818 - Rossini: opera "Mosè in Egitto" (Moses in Egypt) (1st version in Italian), in Naples at the Teatro San Carlo ġ868 - Boito: opera "Mefistofele," at the Teatro della Scala in Milan ġ889 - MacDowell: Piano Concerto No.
ġ887 - Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos, in Rio de Janeiro ġ778 - British composer Thomas Arne, age 67, in London ġ947 - Italian composer Alfredo Casella, age 63, in Rome ġ953 - Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev, age 61, in Moscow (the same day that Joseph Stalin died) ġ735 - Handel: Organ Concertos Op. Samuel Barber (1910 - 1981) Dover Beach Samuel Barber, baritone Curtis String Quartet Pearl 0049 On This Day Birthsġ853 - American composer Arthur Foote, in Salem, Mass. The young man took his advice, and rather than make a name for himself as a concert pianist or opera baritone, rapidly established himself as one of the major American composers of the 20th century. When the British composer Ralph Vaughan Williams heard Barber sing his setting of "Dover Beach," he urged Barber to continue to compose. This first recording of "Dover Beach," made in 1935, however, featured Barber himself as the vocalist, making him perhaps the only classical composer to sing one of his own works on a professional, major-label recording. On today's date in 1933, it was another Metropolitan Opera artist, mezzo-soprano Rose Bampton, who gave the premiere of one of Barber's early masterworks: a setting of a text by the British poet Matthew Arnold entitled "Dover Beach" for voice and string quartet. Maybe it just ran in the family: his mother was a talented amateur pianist, his uncle Sidney Homer a respected composer of art songs, and his aunt Louise Homer was a leading soprano at the Metropolitan Opera. After all, he was an incredibly gifted triple talent: a pianist, composition student, and a singer. Among the talented music students at Philadelphia's Curtis Institute in the late 1920s, a teenager named Samuel Barber must have stood out.
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