12-13: Barclay James Harvest 1970 - Death : Human 1991 / Deluxe Edition 2011 - Lovin' Spoonful Anthology / Rhino 1990 - Enrique Morente & Lagartija Nick : Omega 1996

Not shown above: Vittorio Mario Vanzo

1622 – Jan Campanus Vodňanský [Johannes Vodnianus Campanus] (Czech humanist, composer, pedagogue, poet & dramatist)
1738 – Gotthard Wagner (German composer)
1793 – Johann Joachim Christoph Bode (German literary translator, oboist & composer)
1812 – Marianne von Martinez (Austrian singer, pianist & composer of Spanish ancestry, pupil of Haydn & Porpora)
1898 – George Frederick Bristow (American composer, conductor & violinist)
1919 – Amintore Galli (Italian critic, teacher & composer)
1929 – Knut Håkanson (Swedish composer & conductor)
1942 – Eleanor Everest Freer (American composer, singer & philanthropist)
1945 – Vittorio Mario Vanzo (Italian conductor & composer)
1951 – Selim Palmgren (Finnish composer, pianist & conductor)
1962 – Harry Barris (American jazz & pop singer, songwriter & pianist, The Rhythm Boys)
1968 – Siegfried Reda (German organist & composer)
1981 – Pigmeat Markham (American comedian, singer, dancer & actor)
1992 – Bernard Drukker (Dutch easy listening organist, pianist & orchestra leader)
1995 – Nancy LaMott (American cabaret singer)
1996 – Mae Barnes (American pop & jazz singer & dancer, introduced "The Charleston" on Broadway)
2001 – Chuck Schuldiner (American metal singer, songwriter & guitarist, Death, Control Denied)
2002 – Zal Yanovsky (Canadian rock guitarist, songwriter & singer, The Lovin' Spoonful)
2005 – Timothy Jordan II (American rock keyboardist, guitarist, songwriter & singer, The All American Rejects, Jonezetta)
2010 – Enrique Morente (Spanish flamenco singer & songwriter)
2010 – Woolly Wolstenholme (English rock keyboardist, singer & multi-instrumentalist, Barclay James Harvest, Maestoso)

12-12: Rolling Stones San Francisco 1981 - Clifton Chenier King of the Bayous 1970 - Ike & Tina Turner Workin' Together 1971 - Copland Complete Piano Music / Leo Smit 1994

Not shown above: Johann Gottfried Seyfert & Heinrich Reitsch

1772 – Johann Gottfried Seyfert (German composer)
1788 – Joseph Gibbs (English organist & composer)
1812 – John Malchair (English painter, printmaker & musician)
1836 – Giuseppe Farinelli (Italian composer)
1909 – Carl Lorens (Austrian folk singer, poet & composer of Wienerlieder)
1920 – Paul Lacome (French composer & multi-instrumentalist)
1927 – Heinrich Reitsch (composer)
1933 – Theodore Moses Tobani (German-born American composer, arranger & violinist)
1951 – Mildred Bailey (American jazz singer, "The Rockin' Chair Lady")
1957 – Robert Kurka (American composer, conductor & violinist)
1976 – Vinko Žganec (Croatian ethnomusicologist)
1978 – Clifton Chenier (American Cajun, Creole & blues accordionist, singer & songwriter, "King of Zydeco")
1985 – Ian Stewart (Scottish rock & blues pianist, organist & percussionist, The Rolling Stones)
1987 – Louis de Meester (Belgian composer)
1987 – Enrique Jorrín (Cuban composer, violinist & band director, inventor of cha-cha-chá)
1991 – Lex Karsemeijer (Dutch tenor & choral conductor)
1993 – Joan Cross (English soprano, creator of roles in several of Britten's operas)
1999 – Leo Smit (American pianist & composer)
2006 – Kenny Davern (American jazz clarinetist & soprano saxophonist)
2007 – Ike Turner (American R&B, soul, rock & funk singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, bandleader, producer & talent scout)

No, that's not John Malchair driving the wagon up at top. That's one of his paintings, a watercolor over pencil. A problem with landscape artists is that sometimes they don't do self-portraits.

12-11: M.S. Subbulakshmi : Concert Album 1970 - Mahler 7 live / Kondrashin 1979 - Brahms 4 / De Sabata 1939 - Victor De Sabata Orchestral Works / Ceccato 2001

1831 – George Schetky (Scottish-born American cellist, composer, conductor, teacher & publisher)
1857 – Castil-Blaze [François-Henri-Joseph Blaze] (French musicologist, music critic, composer & music editor)
1911 – Thomas Ball (American sculptor, painter, violinist & singer, active also in Italy)
1955 – Franz Syberg (Danish composer & organist)
1964 – Sam Cooke (American soul, R&B & gospel singer & songwriter)
1964 – Alma Mahler (Austrian socialite & composer, spouse of Gustav Mahler, Walter Gropius & Franz Werfel)
1967 – Richard Stöhr (Austrian composer, author & teacher)
1967 – Victor De Sabata (Italian conductor & composer)
1975 – Lee Wiley (American jazz singer)
1983 – Simon [Szymon] Laks (Polish composer, violinist, pianist & author, head of prisoners' orchestra at Birkenau-Auschwitz from 1942–44)
1998 – Lynn Strait (American rock singer & songwriter, Snot)
2004 – M.S. Subbulakshmi [மதுரை சண்முகவடிவு சுப்புலட்சுமி] (Indian Carnatic vocalist)
2007 – Christie Hennessy (Irish folk singer, songwriter & guitarist)

Alma mater? I thought you said Alma Mahler!

I'm disappointed that I was unable to find you a recording of some of the dozen-and-a-half-or-so songs composed by Alma Schindler Mahler Gropius Werfel. I really did have my heart set on it. But instead, here is the one symphony we haven't yet had from Hubby #1, in this our year-long remembrance of the 100th anniversary of his death. And the live performance here is a particularly exciting and relatively light-hearted one of this weirdest of all Mahler's works.

So, bummer on the Alma front, but good news in the way of Indian music. I've been bemoaning that I have so little information on death dates for many Asian musicians, but here we've lucked out. M.S. Subbulakshmi was one of the most lauded and highly awarded singers of Carnatic music, and I have not only her date of death, but also some excellent sources for transfers of a number of her old LP recordings. The 3-disc set offered here should do you nicely.

I'm also pleased to offer you a first here at YiDM: someone on our list, in separate roles as conductor and composer. (Of course, this doesn't include persons like Stravinsky and Copland whom we've had in both roles simultaneously.) Victor de Sabata was a fiery conductor of both the opera pit and concert stage. He hated the process of making recordings and thus left behind only a few, which are treasured by collectors. I've heard some of them, including this great Brahms 4th, but I've never heard any of the music de Sabata composed. So, I'll be listening to that along with the rest of you!

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.