The 13 days covered in the series will be:
Saturday, 10/29 11:00 AM
• February 24, 1607: The premiere of Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo; a program
about the dawn of opera
Saturday, 11/05 11:00 AM
• April 22, 1723: The town council of Leipzig appoints Bach as
cantor; a program about Baroque music
Saturday, 11/12 11:00 AM
• October 29, 1787: The premiere of Mozart’s Don Giovanni in Prague
Saturday, 11/19 11:00 AM
• August 8, 1803: Parisian piano maker Sebastien Erard gives one
of his sturdy new creations to Beethoven and the composer was
able to write more expressive and emotional music for the piano.
Saturday, 11/26 11:00 AM
• April 7, 1805: The first public performance of Beethoven’s Eroica
Saturday, 12/03 11:00 AM
• August 13, 1876: The launch of the first “Ring” cycle at Bayreuth
Saturday, 12/17 11:00 AM
• May 7, 1889: The opening day of the Exposition Universelle in Paris,
when Debussy first heard gamelan music, and world music became
a part of the Western European classical language
Saturday, 12/24 SPECIAL HOLIDAY PROGRAMMING
Saturday, 12/31
• January 5, 1909: The premiere of Strauss’s Elektra
Saturday, 01/07 11:00 AM
• May 29, 1913: The premiere of Stravinsky’s ballet, The Rite of Spring
Saturday, 01/14 11:00AM
• December 26, 1926: The premiere of Sibelius’s Tapiola, his last
major work before thirty years of silence
Saturday, 01/21 11:00 AM
• January 10, 1931: The debut of Charles Ives’s Three Places in New
England
Saturday, 01/28 11:00 AM
• January 28, 1936: The Soviet newspaper Pravda publishes the
article Chaos Instead of Music, which signaled Stalin’s displeasure
with Shostakovich’s opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk.
Saturday, 02/04 11:00 AM
• November 4, 1964: The premiere of Terry Riley’s In C
