On April 1, 2017 7 years ago today Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman, 1941) was awarded his Nobel Prize in Literature in a private ceremony held at an undisclosed location in Stockholm, Swede

We mark the birth on March 25, 1867 157 years ago today of the cellist and conductor Arturo Toscanini, in the city of Parma, in what was then the Kingdom of Italy. He died, at the age of 89, on J

We mark the birth of the Russian composer Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov on March 18, 1844: 180 years ago today. Born in the Russian town of Tikhvin roughly 120 miles east of St. Petersburg

We mark the first performance on March 11, 1851 173 years ago today of Giuseppe Verdis opera Rigoletto at Venices storied Teatro la Fenice: The Phoenix Theater. We set the scene. The year was

We mark the first performance of the ballet Swan Lake on March 4, 1877: 147 years ago today. Premiered at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow, with music by Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893), choreograp

We mark the premiere on February 26, 1935 89 years ago today of Georges Bizets Symphony in C. The premiere took place in Basel, Switzerland, in a performance conducted by Felix Weingartner (1863

I am aware that Valentines Day is already 5 days past, but darned if the romantic warm n fuzzies arent still lingering with me like a rash from poison oak. As such, I will be excused for offering

February 12 is one of those remarkable days in music history, remarkable for all the notable events that took place on this day. So: before getting to our featured topic, let us acknowledge some of th

On February 5, 1887 137 years ago today Giuseppe Verdis 25th and second-to-last opera, Otello, received its premiere at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan. The premiere was the single greatest trium

We mark the premiere on January 29, 1781 243 years ago today of Wolfgang Mozarts opera Idomeneo, Re di Creta (Idomeneo, King of Crete). With a libretto by Giambattista Varesco (1735-1805), whi