12-10: The Band : NY Palladium 1976 - Henry Cowell Piano Music : Cowell 1963 - Heifetz : Sibelius Concerto 1935 / Tchaikovsky Concerto 1937 - Il Giardino di Giulio Caccini 2003

Not shown above: Friedrich Franz Hurka, Dieudonné-Pascal Pieltain, Mariano Obiols i Tramullas & Pablo Hernández y Salces

1618 – Giulio Caccini (Italian composer, lutenist, gambist, harpist, singer, author & teacher, a pioneer of opera)
1665 – Tarquinio Merula (Italian composer, organist & violinist)
1805 – Friedrich Franz Hurka [František Václav Hůrka] (Czech tenor & composer, active in Germany)
1826 – Benedikt Schack [Žák] (Czech tenor & composer, active in Austria, friend of Mozart & creator of Tamino in Die Zauberflöte)
1833 – Dieudonné-Pascal Pieltain (Belgian violinist & composer)
1877 – Federico Ricci (Italian composer & teacher, brother of Luigi)
1888 – Mariano Obiols i Tramullas (Spanish composer)
1910 – Pablo Hernández y Salces (Spanish composer)
1921 – Viktor Jacobi (Hungarian operetta composer)
1938 – Mario Pilati (Italian composer, music critic & teacher)
1939 – Wilhelm Grosz (Austrian composer, pianist & conductor, active in the UK & US, "Red Sails in the Sunset")
1965 – Henry Cowell (American composer, music theorist, pianist & teacher)
1966 – Boris Koutzen (Russian-born American violinist, composer & teacher)
1967 – Brasílio Itiberê da Cunha Luz (Brazilian folklorist, composer & author)
1967 – Otis Redding (American soul singer, songwriter, producer, arranger & talent scout)
1967 – Ron Caldwell, Carl Cunningham, Phalin Jones & Jimmy King (members of American R&B group the Bar-Kays)
1969 – Franco Capuana (Italian conductor)
1969 – Leigh Harline (American film composer, "When You Wish Upon A Star")
1982 – Roy Webb (American film composer, The Magnificent Ambersons, I Walked with a Zombie, Notorious, Mighty Joe Young)
1986 – Kate Wolf (American folk singer, songwriter & guitarist)
1987 – Jascha Heifetz (Lithuanian-born American violinist)
1991 – Headman Shabalala (South African singer, Ladysmith Black Mambazo)
1994 – George van Renesse (Dutch pianist & conductor)
1995 – Darren Robinson [Buffy, Buff Love, DJ Doctor Nice] (American rapper & beatboxer, The Fat Boys)
1996 – John Duffey (American bluegrass singer & mandolinist, The Country Gentlemen)
1997 – Violet Carlson (American comedienne, actress, singer & dancer)
1999 – Rick Danko (Canadian rock & folk bass guitarist, singer, songwriter & multi-instrumentalist, The Band)
2008 – Didith Reyes (Filipino actress & singer)

This is getting really difficult. And I don't just mean finding links for you. (Some of the hosts have now gone into a kind of lockdown mode, where only those who uploaded a file can download it.) I'm talking about all the carnage, too! Heifetz, Otis Redding and most of his backing band, Henry Cowell... Rick Danko... it smarts something awful.

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