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I Need a Doctor by Hot Snakes from the album Jericho Sirens

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September 29 in Music History

1634 FP of Lawes masque Comus, with text by Milton, at Ludlow Castle in Shropshire. 1641 Franz Tunder becomes organist at Marienkirche in Lubeck. Establishes evening music, Abendmusiken. 1652 Gala concert for Jakob Froberger by his French peers at Convent of the Jacobins in Paris. 1654 Birth of German organist and composer Vincenz Lubeck. 1674 Birth of composer Jacques Hotteterre.  1727 Birth of English composer Dr. Henry Harrington in Somerset. 1739 Handel finishes his Concerto Grosso in G, Op. 6, no. 1 in London. 1746 Birth of German organist and composer Ernst Ludwig Gerber. 1753 Birth of composer Johann Gottfried Schicht.

1789 Mozart completes Clarinet Quintet, K. 581, written for clarinetist Anton Stadler, who gave the first public performance in December 1789. 1794 Birth of composer William Michael Rooke.

1841 Birth of Italian conductor and composer Enrico Bevignani in Naples.  1847 FP of Franz Doppler's "Benjowsky" Budapest. 1849 Birth of composer Ladislao Joseph Philip Paul Zavrtal.

1854 Birth of composer Martin Plüddemann.

1855 Birth of Italian composer, pianist, and conductor Michele Esposito. 1858 Birth of composer Leopoldo Mugnone.

1869 Birth of English soprano Hedwig Helbig, in Plauen, Saxony. 

1879 Birth of Dutch cellist Willem Willeke in The Hague.  1879 Birth of Cuban-Spanish composer Joaquin Nin Castellano in Havana.  1881 Birth of American bandmaster and march composer William C. White in Centerville UT.

1893 Birth of Russian-American conductor Fabien Sevitzky.

1894 Birth of Italian conductor Franco Capuana in Fano.

1901 Death of Italian mezzo-soprano Adelaide Borghi-Mamo.  1903 Birth of cellist Karl August Andersen.

1903 Death of German soprano Marie Geistinger in Klagenfurt. 1915 Death of German composer Rudi Stephan fighting WW I in Tarnopol.  1915 Death of Finnish composer Aarre Merikanto in Helsinki. 1916 Birth of German tenor Josef Traxel in Mainz. 

1916 Birth of composer Minao Shibata

1918 Birth of American composer and conductor Harold Lawrence Walters. 1918 FP of Gustav Holst's The Planets in Queen's Hall, London 1920 Birth of Czech conductor Václav Neuman.  1921 FP of Sigmund Romberg's operetta Blossom Time in NYC. 1927 Birth of Iranian composer Hussein Dehlawi in Teheran. 1930 Birth of Australian conductor Richard Alan Bonynge in Sydney.  1942 Birth of French violinist Jean-Luc Ponty in Arranches

1943 Birth Welsh conductor and composer Alun Francis.

1945 Birth of Greek composer Kyriakos Sfetsas in Amphilochia. 1945 Birth of American soprano Lella Alice Cuberli, in Austin, TX.  1949 Birth of American composer Eric Funk in Deer Lodge, MT. 1949 FP of Arthur Bliss' opera The Olympians in London. 1949 Birth of mezzo-soprano Tuula Nieminen. 1953 Birth of Italian soprano Adelina Scarabelli, in Milan. 1955 Birth of American composer Steve Perillo in The Bronx, NYC. 1968 FP of Henze's Piano Concerto No. 2, in Bielefeld, Germany. 

1968 FP of DALLAPICCOLA's "Ulisse" in Berlin. 1969 FP of Dimiti Shostakovich' Symphony No. 14 on poems of Lorca, Apollinaire, Küchelbecker, and Rilke. Moscow Chamber Orchestra, Rudolf Barshai conducting, with soloists Galina Vishnevskaya and Yevgeny Vladimirov in Leningrad. 1977 Death of Russian composer and conductor Alexander Tcherepnin. 1983 FP of Witold Lutoslawski's Symphony No. 3, in Chicago. 1997 FP of Michael Torke's Overnight Mail for chamber ensemble. Orkest de Volharding, Jurjen Hempel conducting in Carre, Amsterdam.

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I Shall Be Free by Hot Snakes - Video by Tiger Reis

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Not in Time by Hot Snakes - Director: Jessica Kourkounis

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May 18 in Music History

1616 Birth of German composer and organist Johann Jakob Froberger in Stuttgart.

1733 Death of German composer Georg Böhm in Luneburg.

1737 FP of Handel's opera Berenice at Covent Garden in London.

1759 Birth of composer Charles Duquesnoy.

1779 FP of Gluck's Iphigenie en Tauride in Paris.

1783 Death of Italian soprano Lucrezia Agujari.

1798 FP of Bruni's "La Rencontre en voyage" Paris.

1812 FP of Rossini's "Demetrio e Polibio" Opera seria.

1818 Death of Italian composer and violinist Maddalena Lombardi.

1819 Birth of composer Julius Hopp.

1830 Birth of Hungarian composer Karl Goldmark.

1836 Birth of composer Isidor Vorobchievici.

1840 FP of Auber's "Zanetta, ou Jouer avec le feu" Paris.

1845 Birth of Austrian conductor Wilhelm #Gerike 

1849 FP of Adam's "Le Toréador" Paris.

1854 Birth of Dutch composer Bernard Zweers in Amsterdam.

1863 Birth of Russian tenor Anton Sekar-Rozhansky.

1866 Birth of German tenor Otto Briesemeister in Arnswalde.

1874 Birth of Italian tenor Antonio Fassino in Plobesi Torinese.

1875 Birth of Italian pianist Guido Alberto Fano in Padua.

1879 FP of Dominiceti's "Il lago delle fate" Milan.

1883 Birth of Uruguayan composer Eduardo Fabini.

1883 Birth of composer Luigi Perrachio.

1886 Birth of composer Ole Windgstad.

1887 FP of Chabrier's Le Roi malgre lui at Opera Comique in Paris.

1896 Death of German bass Gustav Siehr.

1897 FP of Paul Dukas' tone-poem The Sorcerer's Apprentice with the composer conducting in Paris.

1899 Birth of German soprano Margaretha Abler in Wiesbaden.

1901 Birth of French composer Henri Sauguet in Bordeaux.

1901 Birth of American composer Harry Robert Wilson.

1905 Birth of Austrian composer Erich Zeisl in Vienna.

1907 Birth of English pianist Clifford Curzon in London.

1909 Death of Spanish composer and pianist Isaac Albeniz.

1910 Death of French composer and opera singer Pauline Viardot-Garcia.

1911 Death of Austrian composer Gustav Mahler in Vienna.

1912 Birth of composer Richard Brooks.

1912 FP of Albert Roussel's orchestral triptych Evocations in Paris.

1914 Birth of Bulgarian bass Boris Christoff in Plovdiv, Bulgaria.

1917 FP of Eric Satie's Parade. Diaghilev and the Ballet Russe in Paris.

1919 Death of Italian tenor Giuseppe Oxilia in Milan

1921 FP of D'Albert's "Scirocco" Dramstadt.

1922 FP of Igor Stravinsky's opera Renard, Ernest Anseremet conducting at the Paris Opéra.

1924 Birth of German-born French pianist Samson Francois.

1925 FP of Leos Janacek's opera The Sly Little Fox in Prague.

1929 Birth of Canadian composer Roger Matton in Grandby, Quebec.

1932 Birth of Australian composer David Sydney Morgan in Surrey, England.

1939 FP of Douglas Moore's opera The Devil and Daniel Webster, NYC.

1940 FP of Luigi Dallapiccola's opera Volo di Notte in Florence.

1941 Death of soprano Milka Ternina.

1948 Birth of Finnish composer Mikko Heino.

1949 Birth of British composer Rick Wakerman.

1949 FP of Darius Milhaud's Sabbath Morning Service. Temple Emanu-El, San Francisco. He conducted.

1950 FP of Rogers' "The Veil" Bloomington, IN.

1950 FP of Lukas Foss's opera The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County text by Mark Twain, in Bloomington, Indiana.

1952 FP of Gotovac's "Mila Gojsalica" music drama, Zagreb.

1959 Birth of Dutch composer Norbert Wissing in Amsterdam.

1962 FP of Cikker's "Vzkrisenie" Praha.

1975 Death of American composer Leroy Anderson in Woodbury CT at age 66.

1978 FP of Henry Cowell's Quartet Romantic for 2 flutes, violin and viola. Paul Dunkel and Susan Palma, flutes; Ralph Schulte, violin; John Graham, viola. 

1980 FP of Einem's "Jesu Hochzeit". 

1981 FP of Joan Tower's Sequoia. American Composers Orchestra conducted by Dennis Russell Davies, in NYC.

1985 Death of Swedish composer Hilding Rosenberg in Stockholm. 

1988 FP of Philip Glass' opera The Fall of the House of Usher based on Poe at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, MA.

1990 FP of John Harbison's Viola Concerto, soloist Jaime Laredo and the New Jersey Symphony, Hugh Wolff conducting in Bridgewater, NJ.

1993 Death of soprano Maria Gentile.

1996 FP of Philip Glass' opera Les Enfants Terrible. Karen Kamensek conducting Philip Glass Ensemble at the Theatre Casino in Zug, Switzerland.

2001 FP of Kaija Saariaho's Song for Betty (For music patron, Betty Freeman). Los Angeles Philharmonic, Esa-Pekka Salonen conducting.

2002 Death of Argentinian composer Jorge Oscar Pickenhayn in San Carlos, Uraguay.

2002 Death of Austrian violinist Wolfgang Schneiderhan in Vienna.

2012 Death of German baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau.