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THIS DAY IN GAY HISTORY

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1915 – Earl Wild (d.2010) was an American pianist, renowned as a leading virtuoso of his generation. Harold C. Schonberg called him a "super-virtuoso in the Horowitz class". He was well known for his transcriptions of classical music and jazz, and he was also a composer.

Royland Earl Wild was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1915. Wild was a musically precocious child and studied under Selmar Janson at Carnegie-Tech University there, and later with Marguerite Long, Egon Petri, and Helene Barere (the wife of Simon Barere), among others. As a teenager, he started making transcriptions of romantic music and composition.

In 1931 he was invited to play at the White House by President Herbert Hoover. The next five presidents (Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson), also invited him to play for them, and Wild remains the only pianist to have played for six consecutive presidents.

In 1937, Earl Wild was hired as a staff pianist for the NBC Symphony Orchestra. In 1939, he became the first pianist to perform a recital on U.S. television. Wild later recalled that the small studio became so hot under the bright lights that the ivory piano keys started to warp.

During World War II, Wild served in the United States Navy as a musician. He often travelled with Eleanor Roosevelt while she toured the United States supporting the war effort. Wild's duty was to perform the national anthem on the piano before she spoke.

Wild, who was openly gay, lived in Columbus, Ohio and Palm Springs, California with his domestic partner of 38 years, Michael Rolland Davis. He died aged 94 of congestive heart disease at home in Palm Springs

1926 – Michael Butler (d.2022) was an American theatrical producer born on this date; he is best known for bringing the rock musical Hair from the Public Theater to Broadway in 1968. During his time as Hair producer he was dubbed by the press as "the hippie millionaire". Other Broadway production credits include the play Lenny in 1971 and the musical Reggae in 1980.

Butler was born in Chicago, Illinois into a wealthy family. In the early 19th century, his ancestors started a paper company on the Fox River in St. Charles, Illinois, and supplied paper for the U.S. Congress. The business was later moved to Chicago, where it was at one time one of the city's oldest family owned business, and later diversified into dairy, ranching, aviation. Butler's father helped found the village of Oak Brook, Illinois and the Oak Brook Polo Club.

Butler served as Special Advisor to then-Senator John F. Kennedy on the Middle East, Chancellor of the Lincoln Academy, Commissioner of the Port of Chicago, President of the Organization of Economic Development in Illinois, Assistant to Illinois Governor Otto Kerner, Jr., President of the Illinois Sports Council, and he was a Democratic Candidate in Du Page County for the State Senate.

Butler was the godson of Tyrone Power, and in his early twenties he lived with Power and his wife, actress Linda Christian. Rumour has it he had affair with both of them. He was also involved with Rock Hudson. Through Power's friend, film director Edmund Goulding, he befriended the Kennedy family, particularly Joe and John F. Kennedy. Butler and JFK socialized often in Hyannisport, Greenwich Village and in Newport, R.I.

Rock Hudson and Michael Butler

Butler dated Candice Bergen, Nati Abascal and Audrey Hepburn, with whom he had a relationship in the early 1950s before her marriage to Mel Ferrer. Butler was involved in Hepburn accepting a role in the New York production of the play Ondine, where she worked with Ferrer soon before marrying him. He has a son, Adam, from his 1962 marriage to Loyce Stinson Hand.

Around the time of his first association with Hair, Butler became a political activist. Before the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago he arranged a meeting between Chicago mayor Richard Daley and Abbie Hoffman, recommending that the party cultivate the Yippie vote. He held "Cause" meetings in Oak Brook, Illinois in the summer of 1969 with Tom Smothers, Peter Yarrow, and Black Panther Fred Hampton, among others. Butler donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to left-leaning causes and was listed on Richard Nixon's Enemies List

1957 – The Cuban-born artist Felix Gonzalez-Torres was born (d.1996). He grew up in Puerto Rico before moving to New York City. Gonzalez-Torres had his first one-man exhibition at Andrea Rosen Gallery in 1990. His work was the focus of several major museum solo exhibitions in his lifetime and after his death. Retrospectives of his work have been organized by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York (1995), the Sprengel Museum in Hannover, Germany (1997), and the Serpentine Gallery in London (2000).

Gonzalez-Torres was known for his quiet, minimal installations and sculptures. Using materials such as strings of lightbulbs, clocks, stacks of paper, or packaged hard candies, Felix Gonzalez-Torres's work is sometimes considered a reflection of his experience with AIDS.

Many of Gonzalez-Torres's installations invite the viewer to take a piece of the work with them: a series of works allow viewers to take packaged candies from a pile in the corner of an exhibition space, while another series is comprised of stacks of ultrathin sheets of clear plastic or unlimited edition prints, also free for the viewer to take. These installations are replenished by the exhibitor as they diminish. The most pervasive reading of Gonzalez-Torres's work takes the processes his works undergo (lightbulbs expiring, piles of candies dispersing, etc.) as metaphor for the process of dying.

"Untitled"

One of his most recognizable works, Untitled (1992) is a billboard put up in New York City of a a sensual black-and-white photograph of Gonzalez-Torres's empty, unmade bed with traces of two absent bodies. It was installed on twenty-four billboards throughout New York. This enigmatic image was both a celebration of coupling and a memorial to the artist's lover, Ross, who had recently died of AIDS. In one interview, he said "When people ask me, 'Who is your public?' I say honestly, without skipping a beat, 'Ross.' The public was Ross. The rest of the people just come to the work."

1970 – The retired NBA basketball player John Amaechi was born on this date in Boston, Massachusetts. He currently works as a broadcaster and political activist in the United Kingdom. In February 2007, Amaechi publicly announced that he is Gay and became the first player associated with the NBA to come out.

One widely-publicized response to Amaechi's announcement came from former NBA player Tim Hardaway, who stated that he would ask for a gay player to be removed from his team: "First of all I wouldn't want him on my team. Second of all, if he was on my team I would really distance myself from him because I don't think that's right and I don't think he should be in the locker room when we're in the locker room. Something has to give. If you have 12 other ball players in your locker room that's upset and can't concentrate and always worried about him in the locker room or on the court or whatever, it's going to be hard for your teammates to win and accept him as a teammate." Hardaway later apologized for his remarks.

Some players gave Amaechi public support: former Magic teammate Grant Hill said "the fact that John has done this, maybe it will give others the comfort or confidence to come out as well, whether they are playing or retiring." Shaquille O'Neal told the New York Daily News, "If he was on my team, I guess I would have to protect him from the outsiders, I'm not homophobic or anything. I'm not the type who judges people, I wish him well." Charles Barkley said "It shouldn't be a big deal to anybody. I know I've played with gay players and against gay players and it just shouldn't surprise anybody or be any issue."However, the prevailing public statements from NBA players tended toward an expression of mixed feelings on the matter. Steven Hunter said that he would accept an openly gay teammate "as long as he [didn't] make any advances toward me. As long as he came to play basketball like a man and conducted himself like a good person, I'd be fine with it." That sentiment was echoed, though less tactfully, by Shavlik Randolph, who said that "as long as you don't bring your gayness on me I'm fine. As far as business-wise, I'm sure I could play with him. But I think it would create a little awkwardness in the locker room."Pat Garrity warned that an openly gay player could expect to face both acceptance and hostility from his teammates. He said that "they would have teammates that would accept them for being a good person and a good teammate, and there would be people who would give him a hard time about it. I think that's true if you're playing basketball or in an office job. That's just how the world is right now."LeBron James said, "With teammates you have to be trustworthy, and if you're gay and you're not admitting that you are, then you are not trustworthy. So that's like the No. 1 thing as teammates — we all trust each other ... It's a trust factor, honestly. A big trust factor."

In May 2007, a few months after coming out, Amaechi said he had "underestimated America", adding that he had expected the "wrath of a nation" but it never materialized. He made these statements despite having been the subject of death threats a few months earlier.

In August 2008, Amaechi was sent to Beijing to do Olympic Men's and Women's Basketball broadcasts and reporting for the BBC. There, he authored a blog with fellow activist and renowned photographer Jeff Sheng in partnership with Amnesty International. He used Sheng's knowledge of Mandarin and experience in Beijing to get behind the scenes and gather candid interviews with locals and Olympic athletes alike.

In 2008, John Amaechi made several appearances on Shirts & Skins, a reality series on LOGO Television. Amaechi acted as team "mentor" and "psychologist" to the San Francisco Rockdogs, a gay basketball team, and shared his experiences on basketball, life, and coming out.

1979 – Jason Sechrest, born in Columbus, Indiana, is an on-screen personality and writer in the adult industry. He has starred in numerous adult films, straight and gay, but only in non-sexual roles. In 2005 he was nominated by the Grabby Awards and GAYVN Awards for his comedic, nonsexual performance in Wet Palms. He also appeared in a role in gay-themed feature film Dog Tags.

He is best known for his website, now defunct. The website catered to straight, gay and bisexual adult markets. Sechrest himself is bisexual.

He hosted of one of the longest running shows on the now defunct KSEX Radio, The Jason Sechrest Show (formerly titled The Young & the Curious).

In July 2008, he launched an iteration of his previous internet radio show, now titled Bottoms Up!, via RudeTV.com.

Arena magazine listed him as one of the "50 Most Powerful People in Porn" list along with Larry Flynt and Hugh Hefner. He has also been called "The Oprah of Porn".

1983 – Today, one of the inventors of Facebook and Obama's tech wizard Chris Hughes was born. Hughes co-founded and served as spokesperson for the online social directory, Facebook, with Harvard roommates Mark Zuckerberg and Dustin Moskovitz. Hughes currently serves as a consultant for the popular site, but primarily acts as coordinator of online organizing within the Barack Obama presidential campaign on My.BarackObama.com, the campaign's online social networking website. He also served on the National Board of Directors of the Roosevelt Institution in 2005 and 2006.

Chris Hughes was born in Hickory, North Carolina, a small, conservative town in the western part of the state. Not entirely comfortable in his hometown, he longed to go away to prep school. Given his family's modest income, achieving that dream seemed unlikely; nevertheless, as a high school freshman Hughes, unbeknownst to his parents, applied to a number of boarding schools. The prestigious Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts not only accepted him but also offered financial aid that would allow him to attend.

While he was at Phillips, Hughes recognized that he was gay. "I went to boarding school Southern, religious, and straight, and I left boarding school not being at all religious and not being straight," he stated to Ellen McGirt of Fast Company.

During his sophomore year he roomed with Mark Zuckerberg, a student who was working with another dorm-mate, Dustin Moskovitz, to create an on-line version of Harvard's "facebook," a publication with photos and basic information about students to help them meet each other. Zuckerberg invited Hughes to join the project.

Zuckerberg and Moskovitz were computer geeks proficient in the technical aspects of the process, such as writing software codes. Hughes's emphasis was on the users: how they would want to connect with others, how they could share information, how their concerns about privacy could be addressed.

Hughes's input earned him the nickname "the Empath"—perhaps slightly derisive among die-hard techies but also reflective of what would be his crucial role in the development of Facebook.

In the summer of 2004 Hughes, Zuckerberg, and Moskovitz went to California, seeking venture capital for the fledgling Facebook site. The rest is history.

He is the Executive Director of Jumo, which he founded in 2010. Jumo is a non-profit social network organization which "aims to help people find ways to help the world." In July 2010, UNAIDS (Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS) appointed him to a 17-member "High Level Commission" of renowned politicians, business leaders, human rights activists, and scientists tasked with spearheading a "social and political action campaign over the coming year aimed at galvanizing support for effective HIV prevention programmes".

In 2009, Hughs attended President Obama's first state dinner with his boyfriend Sean Eldridge, Political Director of Freedom to Marry. On New Year's Eve 2010, on a vacation trip to Thailand, he became engaged to Sean, his partner of five years. Hughes and Eldridge announced their engagement in January 2011 at a reception in support of Freedom to Marry. He and Eldridge have lent their own voices and resources to the cause of glbtq rights, particularly marriage equality.

2015 – In Bolivia, the Justice Minister announces the passage of the Law of Gender Identity which allows transgender people to change their legal documents. The bill was initially proposed by Raysa Torriani, a transgender woman and trans activist, three years earlier. The “Law of Gender Identity” will legally recognize the identity of 1,500 self-identified transgender people living in Bolivia . "Now, the sisters and brothers who want to change their name and sex, by an administrative resolution, can change their information" in the records of various government institutions, said Virginia Velasco, the minister of justice of Bolivia.

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#RudyTuesday This is a production photo of Garroway at Large, an experimental NBC variety show program broadcast from Chicago at 10 p.m. on Saturdays (and later on Sundays and Fridays) starting in April 1949.

Hosted by Dave Garroway, the program aired with a full symphony orchestra, two female singers, Betty Chapel and Connie Russell, and a male singer, Jack Haskell. In addition, the Hamilton Trio, a contemporary dance group, appeared each week, along with comedian Cliff Norton.

Garroway abandoned the familiar theatrical proscenium concept for a more casual approach in which the reality of the studio was acknowledged. Followed by a single camera, he walked around the entire large studio space and simple abstract sets as he directly talked to guests and the TV viewer. This live staging technique, known as the "Chicago Style," was developed further on Garroway's next show, Today. (Wikipedia)

One in a series of photos from the Rudy Bretz papers at UMD.

#retro #vintage #television #1950s #chicago

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1922 circa - Arturo Toscanini è stato uno dei più grandi musicisti del mondo, famoso per il suo perfezionismo, udito sensibile e memoria prodigiosa. Varie volte direttore musicale a Milano e New York, fino a dirigere una nuova orchestra: la NBC Symphony Orchestra. Oggi, la qualità dei musicisti è drasticamente decaduta a causa della vita moderna, troppo complessa e veloce, e per l'uso di una tecnologia molto limitata e dannosa, che soffoca gli individui più intelligenti, a beneficio di una massa ignorante. ---FONTI: fanpage.it arturo toscanini muore 60 anni - youtube toscanini guglielmo tell

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Charles Dean Dixon (January 10, 1915 – November 3, 1976) was a conductor. He studied conducting at the Juilliard School and Columbia. When early pursuits of conducting engagements were stifled because of racial bias, he formed his orchestra and choral society. He guest-conducted the NBC Symphony Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic during its summer season. He guest-conducted the Philadelphia Orchestra and Boston Symphony Orchestra. He won the Ditson Conductor's Award. He left the US for the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. He was the principal conductor of the Gothenburg Symphony in Sweden, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra in Australia, and the hr-Sinfonieorchester in Frankfurt. During his time in Europe, he guest-conducted with the WDR Sinfonieorchester in Cologne and the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks in Munich. He made several recordings with the Prague Symphony Orchestra for Bärenreiter, including works of Beethoven, Brahms, Haydn, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Schumann, Wagner, and Weber. For Westminster Records, his recordings included symphonies and incidental music for Rosamunde by Schubert, symphonic poems of Liszt, and symphonies of Schumann. He recorded several American works for the American Recording Society in Vienna. Some of his WDR broadcast recordings were issued on Bertelsmann and other labels. He introduced the works of many American composers, such as William Grant Still, to European audiences. During the 1968 Olympic Games, he conducted the Mexican National Symphony Orchestra. He returned to the US for guest-conducting engagements with the New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Detroit Symphony, Milwaukee Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony, St. Louis Symphony, and San Francisco Symphony. He served as the conductor of the Brooklyn Philharmonic, where he gained fame for his children's concerts. He conducted most of the major symphony orchestras in Africa, Israel, and South America. His last appearance in the US was conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra in April 1975. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence https://www.instagram.com/p/CnO8yZGrMgs/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Listen to this new beautiful track, ‘The Bottom’ by the composer Brett McCutcheon. Here’s more from the artist and a story about the upcoming EP. On the night of September 30, 2017, Brett McCutcheon��s life changed forever. His brother Ryan was tragically killed in a car accident. Five years later, Brett no longer a teenager but a senior in college realizes his journey mirrors that of millions of kids who have experienced great loss. The Ocean - five years is that story. Built around the revised composition of the original release in 2018, it explores deeper meaning and understanding. Centered on June Bracken’s vocal performance, the new music now includes symphonic performances by musicians of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and also features NBC’s -The Voice Finalist, Chris Jamison. The Ocean moves through the crippling dependency of living through loss, to finding life among those that grieve, to knowing everything was always going to be okay. A documentary short film used to raise child grief awareness will accompany the project. The EP consists of 5 tracks; Intro, Sinking, The Bottom, Floating and The Shore. Representing the grief journey. Loneliness and depression give "The Bottom" its dark and eerie ambiance through the orchestra. The seemingly unending cycle of negative thoughts inspires repetitive lyrics from June. Now, at the ocean's lowest depths, we can gaze upward to witness society continuing its journey through the passing waves without us. The notion of swimming upward seems futile as we plunge deeper into darkness and despair. The overwhelming power of the entire orchestra delivers a resounding declaration of no return.

#youtube #Brett McCutcheon #new music #composer

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sonyclasica · 6 months

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ARTUR RODZIŃSKI & THE CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA

THE COMPLETE COLUMBIA ALBUM COLLECTION

Tras la reciente publicación por Sony Classical de 16 CD de las grabaciones de Artur Rodziński con la Filarmónica de Nueva York, llega la esperada colección de 13 discos de sus grabaciones completas con la Orquesta de Cleveland, que Rodziński dirigió de 1933 a 1943.

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El apasionado y volátil director polaco (1892-1958) -cuyo estilo ágil y propulsivo emulaba el de su ídolo Toscanini- se ganó la reputación de forjador de grandes orquestas: dirigió y puso a punto la Filarmónica de Los Ángeles antes de ocupar su puesto en Cleveland. En 1935, atrajo la atención de todo el país hacia la orquesta del medio oeste cuando la dirigió en el estreno en EE.UU. de la ópera de Shostakovich Lady Macbeth del distrito de Mtsensk.

Durante su etapa en Cleveland, Rodziński moldeó su orquesta hasta convertirla en un brillante conjunto que su sucesor, George Szell, elevaría después a la preeminencia internacional. Mientras tanto, Rodziński también trabajaba en Europa, convirtiéndose en el primer estadounidense nacionalizado que dirigió la Filarmónica de Viena en el Festival de Salzburgo. Allí Toscanini admiró su trabajo y en 1938 lo eligió para entrenar a su nueva Orquesta Sinfónica de la NBC.

En Cleveland, entre 1939 y 1942, Rodziński dirigió varias grabaciones importantes para Columbia Masterworks, todas ellas contenidas en este nuevo conjunto. Con el dedicatario Louis Krasner como solista, realizó la primera grabación en estudio del Concierto para violín de Berg. Sus otros aclamados 78 sets incluyen la Sinfonía fantástica de Berlioz, Scheherazade de Rimsky-Korsakov ("entre las mejores interpretaciones que se han hecho de esta partitura incorregiblemente popular" - High Fidelity), Ein Heldenleben de Strauss, la Quinta Sinfonía de Tchaikovsky ("Notable aquí es la tensión del segundo movimiento y el heroico cierre del primero" - Gramophone), así como las de Sibelius y Shostakovich, Romeo y Julieta de Chaikovski ("Emoción inmaculada" - Gramophone), La Mer de Debussy y el "escenario" orquestal de Show Boat de Jerome Kern, además de una grabación inédita del Concierto para violín de Mendelssohn con Nathan Milstein.

Hasta ahora, la mayoría de estos álbumes solo se habían editado en 78 y reeditado en LP. Así, la colección de 13 discos de las grabaciones de Rodziński en Cleveland, meticulosamente editada y masterizada por Sony Classical, llena un gran vacío en la discografía en CD de este director de orquesta, que sigue siendo muy admirado.

CONTENIDO DEL SET:

DISCO 1:

Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé Suite No. 2, M. 57b

Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole, M. 54

Ravel: Miroirs, M. 43: No. 4, Alborada del gracioso (Version for Orchestra)

DISCO 2:

Debussy: La mer, L. 109

Kern: Show Boat (Scenario for Orchestra)

DISCO 3:

Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 in D Minor, Op. 47

DISCO 4:

Strauss, R.: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche Op. 28

Strauss, R.: Salome, Op. 54 - Salomes Tanz (Dance of the seven veils)

Strauss, R.: Der Rosenkavalier, Op. 59, Act II: Waltz Suite

DISCO 5:

Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet Overture-Fantasy, TH 42 (1880 Version)

Tchaikovsky: 1812 Overture, Op. 49, TH 49

Tchaikovsky: Marche Slave, Op. 31, TH 45

Mussorgsky: Khovantchina: Dawn Over the Moscow River (Prelude to Act I)

DISCO 6:

Sibelius: Symphony No. 5 in E-Flat Major, Op. 82

Järnefeldt: Præludium

Sibelius: Finlandia, Op. 26

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Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 in E Minor, Op. 64, TH 29

DISCO 8:

Shostakovich: Symphony No. 1 in F Minor, Op. 10

DISCO 9:

Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade, Op. 35

Weinberger: Variations and Fugue on "Under the Spreading Chestnut Tree"

DISCO 10:

Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 in C Major, Op. 21

Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream. Overture, Op. 21

Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream. Incidental Music, Op. 61

DISCO 11:

Strauss, R.: Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40, TrV 190

Weber: Der Freischütz: Overture

DISCO 12:

Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique, Op. 14

DISCO 13:

Schoenberg: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 36

Berg: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra "To the Memory of an Angel"

Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E Minor, Op. 64

#Artur Rodziński #The Cleveland Orchestra

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Arturo Toscanini conducting the NBC Symphony Orchestra in its first television broadcast, March 20, 1948. The orchestra was conceived by NBC chief David Sarnoff especially for Toscanini. It debuted on radio and later moved to TV.

Photo: Associated Press via madison.com

#vintage New York #1940s #Arturo Toscanini #Toscanini #NBC Symphony #early TV #March 20 #20 March #music on TV #David Sarnoff #vintage NYC

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Leopold Stokowski (1882-1977) was a British conductor, composer, organist who became one of the leading conductors of the early and mid-20th century. He was music director of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the NBC Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic Orchestra, the Houston Symphony Orchestra, the Symphony of the Air and many others but is best known for his…

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classicalmusicdaily · 7 months

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The conductor Marin Alsop is highly regarded. She has led several of the most prestigious orchestras in Europe as well as the majority of the top orchestras in the United States. Marin Alsop On October 16, 1956, Alsop was born in New York. He attended Yale University for his undergraduate studies in music and the Juilliard School for his graduate work. Alsop, a well-known musician in the UK, has performed with many of the country's top orchestras. From 2002 to 2008, she was as Principal Conductor of the Bournemouth Symphony; she is currently Conductor Emeritus. She was appointed principal guest conductor of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and the City of London Sinfonia in 1999. She has also performed with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, BBC SO, LSO, and LPO. Alsop has promoted contemporary American music, releasing renowned recordings of pieces by Barber and Gershwin, among other composers. She established Concordia, a 50-piece orchestra with a focus on contemporary music, in 1984. She often leads Concordia at New York City's Lincoln Center. She performs violin jazz with her band, String Fever. Numerous awards have been given to Alsop, including the American Academy of Arts and Sciences fellowship, the European Women of Achievement Award, and the Classical Brit Award for Best Female Artist. She set a new milestone in 2003 when she became the first person to simultaneously take home the Royal Philharmonic Society Conductor's Award and the Artist of the Year Award from Gramophone. As the sole classical musician present at the World Economic Forum gathering in Davos, Switzerland in 2006 alongside presidents, prime ministers, and CEOs of the most influential corporations in the world, Alsop accepted an invitation. She has appeared on NBC's Today Show, been featured as Person of the Week on ABC News, and been highlighted in Time and Newsweek. When Alsop was chosen as the first female music director of a significant American orchestra, the Baltimore Symphony, in 2007, she created history. After winning her first position with an orchestra as associate conductor of the Richmond Symphony in Virginia, Alsop started conducting studies with Leonard Bernstein and Seiji Ozawa, the music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, in 1988. She was appointed music director of the Long Island Philharmonic in New York and the Eugene Symphony in Oregon the following year. She took on the role of music director of the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music in Santa Cruz, California, in 1991, and the Colorado Symphony in Denver, Colorado, in 1993. She held a number of positions with other orchestras as well. In 2002, she was appointed chief conductor of the Bournemouth Symphony in England, where she gained notoriety. She became the first woman to conduct a major American orchestra when she was appointed music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra beginning with the 2007–2008 season. American and current music were of particular importance to Alsop. In 2004, she led the New York Philharmonic in a semi-staged production of Bernstein's Candide as well as a revival of John Adams' Nixon in China with the Opera Theater of St. Louis, Missouri. Among other American composers, she captured the orchestral compositions of Edward Joseph Collins and Samuel Barber. Alsop received appreciation for her renditions of classic repertoire, notably Romantic works, as well as for her recordings of Brahms's compositions with the London Philharmonic. The Red Violin Concerto by John Corigliano was released in 2007 by Alsop and the Baltimore Symphony with Joshua Bell performing as the soloist. With the So Paulo Symphony Orchestra, with whom she recorded Sergey Prokofiev's seven symphonies, Alsop was chosen principal conductor in 2012. She took over as the main conductor of the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra after leaving that position in 2019. The first female to hold both posts was Alsop. The COVID-19 epidemic delayed

the start of Alsop's term until 2021, but she was chosen chief conductor and curator of the Ravinia Festival in Highland Park, Illinois, the following year. Numerous awards were given to Alsop, including the Stokowski Conducting Prize in 1988 and a Leonard Bernstein Fellowship to the Tanglewood Music Center in Massachusetts, where she earned the Koussevitsky Conducting Prize the following year. She was selected Artist of the Year by Gramophone magazine in 2003, the same year she took home the Conductor Award from the Royal Philharmonic Society. 2005 saw Alsop receive the Classical BRIT (British Record Industry Trust) Female Artist of the Year Award and become the first conductor to be selected a MacArthur fellow. She was the focus of the documentary The Conductor, which had its world premiere in 2021 in New York at the Tribecca Film Festival. Additionally, to being the first and only conductor to get a MacArthur Fellowship, Alsop was the first female conductor of the BBC's Last Night of the Proms and received the Crystal Award from the World Economic Forum. She holds honorary doctorates from Yale University and the Juilliard School, in addition to numerous other accolades and academic positions, including 2020 Artist-in-Residence at Vienna's University of Music and Performing Arts, Director of Graduate Conducting at Johns Hopkins University's Peabody Institute, and Artist-in-Residence at 2020. She established the Taki Concordia Conducting Fellowship in 2002 to support and advance the careers of other female conductors. In 2020, the fellowship was renamed the Taki Alsop Conducting Fellowship in her honor. A documentary on her life called The Conductor made its debut at the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival in New York. The Cleveland Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, La Scala Orchestra, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Budapest Festival Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, and Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra are just a few of the notable international ensembles that Alsop frequently guest conducts. He also has long-standing relationships with the London Philharmonic and London Symphony Orchestras. She led the "Global Ode to Joy" (GOTJ), a crowdsourced video production to honour Beethoven's 250th anniversary, in conjunction with YouTube and Google Arts & Culture. She urged the entire audience to express the Ninth Symphony's call for tolerance, unity, and joy in videos branded #GlobalOdeToJoy in collaboration with Germany's official Beethoven anniversary campaign and the top cultural organisations of five continents. A grand video finale featuring a GOTJ highlight reel set to a performance of the "Ode to Joy," featuring the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony, the international Stay-at-Home Choir, and Alsop herself, marked the project's conclusion in December 2020, the month of Beethoven's birth.

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156 years ago today in Parma the conductor Arturo Toscanini (1867-1957) was born. One of the most famous conductors.

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02／23 柴寮偶記

新聞挖挖哇：老人與錢20190411(詹惠珠、戴志揚、翁燦燿、鄭嘉欣、周映君) - YouTube 這樣說很容易誤導；正確的作法是自己要留存足夠的金額。 ── 護理師拉童害手脫臼桃市教育局重罰幼園3萬提報不適任 - 生活 - 自由時報電子報 (ltn.com.tw) 時有發生，非常可惡！ ── 日台美食おすすめ | Facebook 日本的蚵仔好像都很大－太大。 ── 消化一下：台湾“自由凤梨”，请岛内同胞先消化一下 - YouTube 一年前的東西，現在應該要刪除，否則成了大笑話。 ── 【古樂系列】唱吧！巴洛克美聲！花絮影片 - YouTube 這樣的小型音樂會應該更多的散布在台灣的各個角落；多團體而長期的舉辦，將給台灣的文化，甚至及於政治帶來很大，並且全面的提升。 ── 得寸進尺！共機侵門踏戶擾我空域還驅離我國軍機曝中國4軍艦突闖美日南海演習為...│廖筱君主持│【新台灣加油完整版】20211101│三立新聞台 - YouTube • 打兩顆 50機槍子彈貫穿機腹示警；依階段升級。• 誰在乎就誰ㄍ有壓力。 ── 在大陸沒經歷過所以才好奇嘛！大陸爸媽初來台灣時竟對這些事有興趣？孫明寺說：因為之前沒經歷過呀！【圓臉麥麥】 - YouTube 漂亮的女生都被台灣人娶回家了。 ── 為什麼不要嫁給台灣男生！🔥23歲從日本嫁到台灣太衝動。。？｜【Ma上聊聊】｜【我是Mana】 - YouTube 千般的好，其實心機深沉另有所圖，所以成了人家的老婆不是嗎？唉！ ── BBC節目重溫【英國廣播公司全球問答在台灣】CC字幕《特別企劃》 #9 ｜BBC GLOBAL QUESTIONS IN TAIWAN - Program Replay - YouTube 台灣人、新加坡人，包括所有在海外的 “華僑”，羅致政、黃介正、吾爾開希都是 “逃離中國”。傳統、文化，是時時在轉變的，這還不去說中國是一個七十年以上歷史的共產政權。 ── 精彩片段》沈明室:台海發生衝突從日本到台灣只需要2天...【年代向錢看】2023.02.10 - YouTube 老是談怎麼防衛，就不敢去想戰場在中國；他可以打你，你不可以打他，這是那門子戰略？如果只有一個台灣倒也罷了，現在連美日，甚至歐洲都可能參戰，就只為一個台灣？放心，不會打。中國只可能知難而退吧。中國不打也一樣要打，否則後患無窮。完整封鎖，開除球籍，其實也就完事了。沒事沒事！ ── 【台灣演歌秀】完整公版第9集│邱蘭芬 x 洪第七 x 金門王+李炳輝│八大節目《經典好節目》 - YouTube The house of rising song 大節女 ── 【震傳媒｜新聞不芹菜】EP313｜獨家專訪陳水扁前總統，解析新政治、新變局 - YouTube 認同阿扁的說法。 ── 【完整版】吃牛肉聊鮮肉　名作家顛覆三觀 20220502【李昂、廖輝英】 - YouTube “性” 是雌雄的天賦關係；陪伴是退而求次，男陪男、女陪女，是不得已的終局。愛的種類太多；甜蜜來自性，這是夫婦之所以為夫婦的重要羈絆。大河人生；請多多服用威而鋼！ ── Facebook 撤出兵員，漸次切斷台金關係。 ── 變調的中國夢？｜#謝金河 #矢板明夫 #汪浩｜@華視三國演議｜20230211 - YouTube 中國應該永遠由中國共產黨統治。 ── 老夫老妻別期待激情，以免誤了人生 - 鄧惠文自講 -【心事有人知】 - YouTube 可以有的，阿惠。“性” 是生物雌雄的天賦關係；陪伴是退而求次，同性陪伴，是不得已的終局。愛的種類太多；激情來自性，這是夫婦不同於其他關係的重要羈絆。就是說－失去熱情是人生現實，心理活化不易，激情卻可以從激化而重生；這就是物理治療。很大的問題倒還不是失去熱情，而是對互動已經不習慣，冷漠，甚至噁心。大河人生，請多多使用潤滑油、威而鋼！ ── 假弔唁真統促？中共涉統高官不請自來不惜造假身分來台啟人疑竇國台辦批粗暴擋弔唁團踢爆中方自導自演喊停藍白竟聲援膛炸？│許貴雅主持│【新台灣加油完整版】20230213│三立新聞台 - YouTube • 中國官員的面貌實在看不出文明、文化，甚至醜陋，原因不明。•hm，也可能是五千年太久。•內含有異，越趨細小。 ── (2) 20190112 宛儒畫廊慈善音樂會 An Evening of Music, Art and Charity - YouTube 有這麼多藝文活動、觀眾及人物，台灣人真幸福。 ── 親密關係恐懼 - 鄧惠文自講 -【心事有人知】 - YouTube 1.需有一方先開口。2.去麗晶 Robin's 吃牛排，3.北投住旅店，洗溫泉（帶內用潤滑劑）。4.上愛情旅店。5.出國旅遊。豐儉由人；是一個療程，無關情愛。 ── 公開訴願資料陳明通：不能讓林智堅含冤莫白 - 政治 - 自由時報電子報 (ltn.com.tw) 一定要消滅國民黨，否則台灣永無寧��。 ── 台灣人的＂黑歷史＂！？聽完這集內心感到相當的沉重【蔡正元｜有哏來爆】2022.04.27 - YouTube 喜歡日本的不止台灣人。 ── 台灣人的＂黑歷史＂！？聽完這集內心感到相當的沉重【蔡正元｜有哏來爆】2022.04.27 - YouTube 喜歡日本的不止台灣人。殖民本質有什麼好談的？要不要談談 228？肝腸塗地、血流成河的天安門事件？這也沒什麼好談的。台灣人能夠脫離中國的愚昧，託的就是日本的殖民教育；這和香港、新加坡、印度、北美洲、南美洲都沒有什麼兩樣。因為那就是之一個殖民時代。洋人來台？那是大帆船時代。這些都已經是歷史！台灣人喜歡日本不止老人，現在年輕人更是喜歡：動畫、漫畫、產品精緻、街道乾淨、人民素質高。仔細看一下，戰後新創產品，大多數是日本。中國書讀傻掉了嗎？連韓國人都不如。赴日旅遊，韓國人佔第一位，台灣人第二。很幹吧？失去政治舞台的蔡正元。科科 ── 美方的话茬，我们选择不接，想见王毅主任，布林肯需要拿出诚意来 - YouTube 這樣的姿態不會比較高級。 ── 精彩片段》明居正:台灣空前難受.但是空前安全...【年代向錢看】2023.01.24 - YouTube 台灣將成僑鄉！ ── 【日本人台灣散步系列】早上的淡水, 與我知道的不同面貌. 捷運站出發, 中正路, 市場和清水嚴. 朝の淡水、僕の知らない顔が。MRT駅を出発して中正路, 市場、清水嚴 - YouTube 吃的之外，還有從某一個點看過去就是躺著的觀音－觀音山，還有大帆船時代的西班牙紅毛��。台南是荷蘭。 ── 《獨!謝金河.明居正專訪!中國就是吃人的體制!全球經濟被拖累?!封殺中國2025!美中科技戰開打!習近平內外交戰?!》【年代向錢看】2023.01.24 - YouTube 長達半年不現身，不出來溝通，很難用不會說話，不懂得溝通可以說明解釋。問題是到底蔡英文碰到了什麼問題，陷入什麼困境，這才是值得追究的。否則恐怕大家也都陷入不自知的怠惰。 ── 【阿布的口袋名單】在地囝仔帶路～東門市場真內行的吃貨行程！米粉湯、豆花｜【就是這味】 - YouTube 豆花最早是＋薑汁 ── 如果國民黨沒來，台灣會被美國接管嗎？ - YouTube 老在政治轉不出來！別忘了清朝皇帝怎麼說台灣。台獨、華獨，通通是毒。每個朝代的庶民都是 “逃離”－逃離中國；包括競爭失敗的 “中華民國”。原因除了歷代中國的戰亂與庶民的窮困之外，尤其地處邊陲的福建。在將近 100年前，福建差不多就只是一片荒地。曾經回到廈門的陸配、外祖母這麼說：「很荒！」；就是說很荒蕪。（四萬萬五千萬－49 年國民黨數字，百年前人口分配到邊陲實在不多。）百姓的出路只有脫離家鄉，呈幅射狀的跑到台灣，或其他地方試試運氣。這就是今天 “華僑” 滿天下的原因。這個現象到今天還是沒有改變。 ── Wagner: Tannhäuser - Overture - NBC Symphony Orchestra/Toscanini (1948) - YouTube First conductor I met in my life : Toscanini . ── 我的外公是他！唱懷舊老歌的林承光先生 - YouTube 剛好有這一篇： https://iseilio-blog.tumblr.com/post/680959964389523456 ── 日台交流広場（台湾と日本） | Facebook 可以互補，直到盡可能的美好；只是需要時間。 ── ── 中國是怎麼形成的？｜#杜正勝 #矢板明夫 #汪浩｜@華視三國演議｜20230225 - YouTube 每個朝代的庶民都是 “逃離”－逃離中國；包括競爭失敗的 “中華民國”。原因除了歷代中國的戰亂與庶民的窮困之外，尤其地處邊陲的福建。在將近 100年前，福建差不多就只是一片荒地。曾經回到廈門的陸配、外祖母這麼說：「很荒！」；就是說很荒蕪。（四萬萬五千萬－49 年國民黨數字，分配到邊陲實在不多。）百姓的出路只有脫離家鄉，呈幅射狀的跑到台灣，或其他地方試試運氣。這就是今天 “華僑” 滿天下的原因。這個現象到今天還是沒有改變。 ── 【京都旅遊】錦市場美食散步😋豆乳甜甜圈、海鰻天婦羅、奶油紅豆鯛魚燒、豆皮奶油可樂餅、史努比茶屋☕️關西京都自由行｜實彩子Misako’s Vlog - YouTube 卡娃意 ── Facebook 他這是 “先說先贏”。 ── 不久將出現"電動車墳場"!? 電動車電池多年後恐成災難歐美急規範廢電池回收不入土花東後山"台灣礦場"獨家曝光礦主鏡頭前吐甘苦｜苑曉琬主持｜【薪動大未來完整版】20230226｜三立iNEWS - YouTube 沒有聽到說竹鹽有什麼比較好。 ──

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