Synopsis
On today’s date in 1965, the first complete performance of American composer Charles Ives’ Symphony No. 4 took place in New York.
38 years earlier, in 1927, also in New York, British conductor Eugene Goossens had performed the first two movements of Ives’ Fourth Symphony, after many a...
Published 04/26/24
Synopsis
On today’s date in 1926, Giacomo Puccini’s last opera, Turandot, had its belated premiere at the La Scala Opera House in Milan, with Arturo Toscanini conducting. The originally scheduled 1925 premiere had to be postponed, as Puccini had died in November 1924, leaving Turandot...
Published 04/25/24