Today's Birthdays in Music: April 15 (Marriner, St. John)

1924 - Neville Marriner, Lincoln, England; conductor

Short bio/pictures
Beyond the Academy (La Scena Musicale, June 2000)
Master Marriner (La Scena Musicale, May 2005)

Neville Marriner conducts The Academy of St. Martin's in the Fields in the overture to Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro (Carnegie Hall, 1994)




1971 - Lara St. John, London, Canada; violinist

Wiki entry
Lara St. John website
Lara St. John's Passion (La Scena Musicale, April 2000)
Lara St. John sur l'intonation (La Scena Musicale, April 2000)

Lara St. John plays the 1st movement of Beethoven´s Violin Sonata in c minor