Today's Birthdays in Music: March 25 (Bartók, Toscanini)

1881 - Béla Bartók, Nagyszentmiklós, Hungary; composer, pianist, ethnomusicologist

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A Composer at the Next Station (La Scena Musicale, Sept. 2004)

Bartók - Piano Concerto No. 3 (Part 1). Andras Schiff at piano, City of Birmingham Orchestra, Simon Rattle, conductor (1997)



1867 - Arturo Toscanini, Parma, Italy; conductor

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Toscanini conducts the NBC Symphony Orchestra in Beethoven's Symphony No. 5, 1st mvt. (Carnegie Hall, 1952)


Overture to Verdi's La Forza del Destino (Toscanini conducts the NBC Symphony Orchestra, 1944)

Today's Birthdays in Music: March 15 (Strauss, McPhee)

1835 - Eduard Strauss, Vienna, Austria; conductor and composer

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Polka "Without Brakes" by Eduard Strauss (Vienna Philharmonic, conductor Zubin Mehta, New Year's Concert 2007)






1900 - Colin McPhee, Montreal, Canada; composer and ethnomusicologist

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