![]() Peter's in Rome and hear Allegri's "Miserere"performed by the Chapel Choir The Vatican had jealously guarded Allegri's score as their exclusive property, and under threat of excommunication, the Vatican choir was forbidden to let the score be taken out of the Chapel, copied, or even seen by any outsider That same evening, after one hearing, Wolfgang (age 14) transcribed the piece from memory The Mozarts then returned to St. 90, in Prague, at a concert celebrating Dvorák's honorary doctorate from Prague's Charles University, with Ferdinand Lachner (violin), Hanus Wihan (cello), and the composer at the piano ġ902 - Loeffler: "Two Poems"for orchestra, by the Boston Symphony, Wilhelm Gericke conducting ġ920 - Respighi: "Ballata delle gnomidi" (Dance of the Gnomes) for orchestra, in Rome, Bernardino Molinari conducting ġ934 - Bloch: "Sacred Service," in New York City, by the Schola Cantorum, conducted by the composer ġ965 - David Amram: Passover opera "The Final Ingredient" is produced on television in New York City ġ967 - Hovhaness: "The Holy City" for orchestra, in Portland, Maine ġ999 - Augusta Read Thomas: "Passion Prayers" for solo cello and six instruments, in Philadelphia by the Network for New Music, with cellist Scott Kluksdahl ġ770 - Leopold and Wolgang Mozart attend a Holy Week service at St. 97, at the Hotel "Zum Romischen Kaiser" in Vienna, with violinist Ignaz Schuppanzigh, cellist Joseph Linke, and the composer at the piano This was the last time the Beethoven performed in public as a pianist ġ884 - d'Indy: symphonic poem "La Mort de Wallenstein" (Wallenstein's Death), in Paris ġ891 - Dvorák: "Dumky" Piano Trio, Op. Thomas Church in Leipzig ġ814 - Beethoven: "Archduke" Piano Trio in Bb, Op. Matthew Passion" (first version), at the St. Albany TROY-1707 On This Day Birthsġ682 - French composer Jean-Joseph Mouret, in Avignon He achieved belated fame in American when one of his trumpet fanfares was used as the theme for public televisions's "Masterpiece Theater" ġ891 - Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev (Gregorian date: April 23) ġ916 - Argentine composer Alberto Ginastera, in Buenos Aires ġ689 - possible premiere of Purcell: opera "Dido and Aeneas,"in Chelsea (London) at Josias Priest's School for Young Ladies This exact date and circumstance of this premiere is uncertain: April 30 th is also cited as a possibility (Apmarked the coronation of the Protestant monarchs William and Mary, and April 30 th was Queen Mary's birthday) In any case, the premiere most likely occurred sometime before the libretto by Nahum Tate was published in December of 1689 ġ727 - J.S. 5 (Visions) Sinfonia Varsovia Ian Hobson, cond. A studio recording of Sinfonia 5 was made under the composer’s supervision in 2018, but its public premiere by the Seattle Symphony occurred posthumously on today’s date in 2019. Sadly, although completed in 2016, despite Walker’s stature and fame, he found no American orchestra able to schedule it during his lifetime. His fifth and last Sinfonia, which he subtitled “Visions,” was inspired by the 2015 hate-crime shootings at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, and exists in two versions: one version includes elusive, enigmatic spoken texts and a video that includes a photo of the port of Charleston at its conclusion the other version is purely instrumental. Walker died in the summer of 2018 at the age of 96, leaving behind a substantial body of music ranging from solo works for piano and organ to chamber works and orchestral scores, including 5 works he titled “Sinfonias.” ![]() ![]() That was for his “Lilacs,” a setting for solo soprano and orchestra of Walt Whitman’s poem, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed,” an elegy for the assassinated Abraham Lincoln. became the first African-American to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music. ![]()
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