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Marilyn Horne's 80th Birthday Celebration Will Feature Renée Fleming, Samuel Ramey, Barbara Cook and Other Star Vocalists
2014, the Year of Pierre Monteux (Remember Him?)
There will be some anniversaries celebrated this year, none wider than that of the birth of Richard Strauss. But here's a milestone that I suspect few will comment on. It is half a century since Pierre Monteux, the French-born conductor. Not just any conductor, one of the most influential and revered of the 20th century. And yet these days, few music lovers are more than dimly aware of his name. Quickies: Beethoven Sells for $200K?, Gramo's Classical & Jazz, 'Lion King' Out Grosses Broadway, Boulezian on Gluck, Cracked Movie Music
An extraordinarily rare sketch leaf manuscript by the German composer Ludwig van Beethoven will be auctioned next month by New Hampshire based, RR Auction. More details can be found online at www.rrauction.com.
