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Composers Datebook
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Today: #164 in Music on our combined chart.
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| Date | Combined Rank | Apple Podcasts |
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| Oct 5 | #164 | #143 |
| Oct 4 | #184 | #163 |
About the show
Composers Datebook™ is a daily two-minute program designed to inform, engage, and entertain listeners with timely information about composers of the past and present. Each program notes significant or intriguing musical events involving composers of the past and present, with appropriate and accessible music related to each.
Latest episodes
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Grove and Sullivan 'discover' Schubert
October 5, 2026 · 2 minSynopsis On today’s date in 1867, two eminent British Victorians arrived in Vienna in search of Franz Schubert. Now, Schubert had been dead for 39 years, as the two Brits were quite aware. George Grove, 47, was England’s finest…
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Copland's 'Appalachian Spring' Suite
October 4, 2026 · 2 minSynopsis On today’s date in 1945, Artur Rodzinski conducted the New York Philharmonic in the premiere performance of an orchestral suite arranged from Aaron Copland’s ballet score Appalachian Spring. For the ballet’s 1944 premiere at the…
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The Dream of Gerontius
October 3, 2026 · 2 minSynopsis Despite a disastrous premiere in Birmingham on today’s date in 1900, Edward Elgar’s oratorio The Dream of Gerontius has become one of his best-loved and most-frequently performed works in the U.K., where, in 2015, Classic FM…
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Steve Heitzeg's 'Nobel Symphony'
October 2, 2026 · 2 minSynopsis In 2001, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Nobel Prize, Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota, commissioned American composer Steve Heitzeg to write a Nobel Symphony. In 1866, the Swedish engineer and…
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Gabriela Lena Frank's 'Hilos'
October 1, 2026 · 2 minSynopsis On today’s date in 2010, at Vanderbilt University’s Blair School of Music in Nashville, the ALIAS ensemble gave the premiere performance of a new chamber work by American composer Gabriela Lena Frank. It was titled Hilos — the…
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A Vaughan Williams premiere in Liverpool
September 30, 2026 · 2 minSynopsis Even during the bombing of London by the German Air Force, the London Blitz of World War Two, the BBC Proms Concerts continued. True, in 1941 a German incendiary bomb did destroy the long-time home of the Proms, Queen’s Hall on…
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Tan Dun at the movies (and in the concert hall)
September 29, 2026 · 2 minSynopsis On today’s date in 2000, a new cello concerto received its premiere performance at the Barbican Center in London. Billed as the Crouching Tiger Concerto, this score was by Chinese composer Tan Dun, and was derived from his film…
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Herrmann and Daugherty look to the skies
September 28, 2026 · 2 minSynopsis On today’s date in 1951, the classic sci-fi film The Day the Earth Stood Still was playing in theaters across America. The film’s opening sequence depicted a UFO hovering over Washington, D.C. Back then, flying saucer sightings…