Eugene Istomin - Eugene Istomin Eugene George Istomin (November 26, 1925 - October 10, 2003) was an American pianist born in New York City. He was famous for his work in the trio, with Isaac Stern and Leonard Rose, known as the Istomin-Stern-Rose Trio, with whom he made many recordings, and particularly of music by Beethoven, Brahms and Schubert. He also played with them in orchestral music, with conductors such as Eugene Ormandy, Bruno Walter and also as a soloist. His earliest public performances were from age 6 with his mother, and at 12 he entered the Curtis Institute. He studied under Rudolf Serkin and also Mieczyslaw Horzowski. In 1943 he won the Leventritt award, and also the Philhadelphia Youth Award. He made his debuts with the Philadelphia Orchestra.
Grammy Awards of 1971 - opera) Gregg Smith (choir director), the Gregg Smith Singers & the Columbia Chamber Ensemble for Ives: New Music of Charles Ives Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist or Soloists (with or without orchestra) George Szell (conductor), David Oistrakh, Mstislav Rostropovich & the Cleveland Orchestra for Brahms: Double Concerto (Concerto in A Minor for Violin and Cello) Best Chamber Music Performance Eugene Istomin, Leonard Rose & Isaac Stern for Beethoven: The Complete Piano Trios Album of the Year, Classical Erik Smith (producer), Colin Davis (conductor), various artists & the Royal Opera House Orchestra & Chorus for Berlioz: Les Troyens Comedy Best Comedy Recording Flip Wilson for The Devil Made Me Buy This Dress Composing and arranging Best Instrumental Composition Alfred Newman (composer) for "Airport Love Theme" Best Original Score Written for a.
Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance - 1982 Vladimir Ashkenazy, Lynn Harrell & Itzhak Perlman for Tchaikovsky: Piano Trio in A Minor Grammy Awards of 1981 Best Chamber Music Performance Itzhak Perlman & Pinchas Zukerman for Music for Two Violins (Moszkowski: Suite For Two Violins/Shostakovich: Duets/Prokofiev: Sonata for Two Violins) Grammy Awards of 1980 Dennis Russell Davies (conductor) & the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra for Copland: Appalachian Spring 1970s Grammy Awards of 1979 Itzhak Perlman & Vladimir Ashkenazy for Beethoven: Sonatas for Violin and Piano Grammy Awards of 1978 The Juilliard String Quartet for Schoenberg: Quartets for Strings (Complete) Grammy Awards of 1977 David Munrow (conductor) & the Early Music Consort of London for The Art of Courtly Love Grammy Awards of 1976 Pierre Fournier, Artur Rubinstein & Henryk Szeryng for Schubert: Trios Nos. 1 in B Flat,.
Deaths in 2003 - 26 Soulja Slim, rapper 26 Anton Burg, USC chemistry professor (99 years) 26 William H. Waldren, archaeologist (79 years) 24 Hugh Kenner, literary critic (80 years) 24 Warren Spahn, baseball pitcher (82 years) 24 Floquet de Neu or Copito de Nieve ("Snowflake"), rare albino gorilla, star of the Barcelona zoo [1] 24 Uma Devi, popularly known as Tuntun, Indian actress (80 years) 21 Bohumil Simon, one of the leaders of the Prague Spring (83 years) 20 David Dacko, first president of the Central African Republic (73 years) 20 Robert Addie, British actor (43 years) 20 Eugene Kleiner, entrepreneur and co-founder of Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers venture capital firm (80 years) 20 Roger Short, British diplomat, consul-general in Istanbul (58 years) 20 Kerem Yilmazer, Turkish actor (58 years) 19 Ken Brett,.
1925 - Edward Gorey, illustrator (+ 2000) March 4 - Paul Mauriat, musician March 25 - Flannery O'Connor, author (+ 1964) March 26 - Pierre Boulez, French composer and conductor April 2 - Hans Rosenthal, showmaster (+ 1987) April 2 - George MacDonald Fraser, author April 3 - Tony Benn, British politician April 14 - Rod Steiger, actor April 25 - Sammy Drechsel, journalist, film director and cabaretist (+ 1986) May 6 - Hanns Dieter Hüsch, cabaretist May 12 - Yogi Berra, Baseball Hall of Famer May 19 - Pol Pot - Cambodian dictator (+ 1998) May 19 - Malcolm X (+ 1965) May 22 - Jean Tinguely, kinetic artist (+ 1991) May 28 - Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, bariton June 26 - Pavel Belyayev, cosmonaut (+1970) July 6 - Bill Haley, rock and roll.
2003 - the US in response to terrorist concerns. December 25 - Queen Elizabeth II broadcasts a Christmas message to the British Commonwealth paying tribute to British troops in Iraq. Pope John Paul II's Christmas message calls for peace in the Middle East. December 25 - Beagle_2 is scheduled to land on Mars, but nothing is heard from the lander. December 25 - The President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan, escapes the second assassination attempt in two weeks. December 26 - A massive earthquake devastates southeastern Iran. Over 30,000 people are reported to have been killed in the city of Bam. December 31- The world's largest Hogmanay party in the Scottish capital Edinburgh is cancelled twenty minutes before midnight due to bad weather. Births May 23 - Dewey, the first cloned deer. May 28.
October 10 - 1946 - John Prine, singer 1946 - Ben Vereen, actor, dancer 1953 - Midge Ure, musician 1955 - David Lee Roth, singer 1956 - Martina Navratilova, tennis champion 1958 - Tanya Tucker, country music singer 1961 - Jodi Benson, cartoon voice-over actress and singer 1963 - Daniel Pearl, journalist 1963 - Rebecca Pidgeon, actress 1966 - Tony Adams, English football player 1969 - Brett Favre, American football player 1973 - Mario Lopez, actor 1974 - Dale Earnhardt Jr, NASCAR racer 1976 - Bob Burnquist, skateboarder Deaths 680 - Husayn bin Ali, grandson of Muhammad 1459 - Gianfrancesco Poggio Bracciolini, Italian humanist, classicist 1827 - Ugo Foscolo, Italian writer 1914 - Charles I of Romania 1927 - Gustave Whitehead, inventor 1940 - Berton Churchill, pioneer Hollywood actor 1964 - Eddie Cantor, singer,.
November 26 - the crime). [1] 1985 - US President Ronald Reagan signs over rights to his autobiography to Random House for a record US$3 million. 1986 - Iran-Contra scandal: US President Ronald Reagan announces that as of December 1 former Senator John Tower, former Secretary of State Edmund Muskie, and former National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft will be serving as members of the Special Review Board looking into the scandal (they became known as the Tower Commission). 1998 - Tony Blair becomes the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to address the Republic of Ireland's parliament. 2003 - Last ever flight by Concorde. Births 1607 - John Harvard, cleric (d. 1638) 1792 - Sarah Grimke, abolitionist, feminist (d. 1873) 1832 - Mary Edwards Walker, feminist, physician (d. 1919) 1869 - Maud, Queen.
Jean Claude Eugene Peclet - Jean Claude Eugene Peclet Jean Claude Eugene Péclet (February 10, 1793 - December 6, 1857) was a French physicist. He was born in Besancon, France. Peclet became one of the first scholars of the École Normale at Paris with Gay-Lussac and Dulong being his teachers. In 1816, he was elected professor at the College de Marseille and taught physical sciences there until 1827. Being nominated Maitre de conferences at the École Normale, he returned to Paris and was elected professor at the École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures. The Péclet number is named after him. He died in Paris..
Gene Eugene - Gene Eugene Gene "Eugene" Andrusco (April 6, 1961 - March 20, 2000) was a Canadian born actor, record producer, engineer, composer and musician. Andrusco was best known as the leader of the funk/rock band Adam Again and as a member of the country music supergroup Lost Dogs. Andrusco was a child actor who appeared in such programs as Bewitched (where he played young "Darrin Stevens"), The Screaming Woman (TV Movie), Gidget Gets Married (TV Movie), Jake and the Fatman, The Bold Ones and Cannon. Eugene was also a voice actor, lending his voice to several animated series, including Wait Till Your Father Gets Home, The Barkleys and The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan (1972-1974). Many years later, Gene would form a funk/rock band called Adam Again.
Eugene, Oregon - Eugene, Oregon Eugene is the third largest city in the state of Oregon. It is the county seat of Lane County, Oregon, positioned at the south end of the Willamette Valley at the confluence of the McKenzie River and the Willamette River, about 60 miles (37 km) east of the Oregon Coast. Eugene is named after its founder, Eugene Franklin Skinner. As of the 2002 census, the city had a total population of 140,395. Eugene has a significant anarchist population. Eugene's climate is mild, at an average temperature of 53 degrees F and with an annual rainfall of 43 inches. Fog can be a problem, as it occasionally closes down the city's airport. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 History 2 Government 3 Geography 4 Transportation 5.
Eugene of Savoy - Eugene of Savoy François-Eugène, Prince of Savoy-Carignan, also Franz Eugen in German (October 16, 1663-April 24, 1736). Noted general. Born in Paris, and a prince of the House of Savoy, Eugene was the son of the Comte de Soissons, a French nobleman. It was rumoured that he was the illegitimate son of Louis XIV, however, and Louis strove mightily to keep down his supposed by-blow. Eugene was rebuffed from a commission in the French army and, frustrated, joined the Austrian army as an officer in 1683. He would spend the rest of his life opposing Louis XIV and French ambition in Europe. For the first part of his career he faced the Ottoman Turks on the battlefield, first coming to prominence during the last major Turkish.
Eugene Wigner - Eugene Wigner Eugene Paul Wigner (Hungarian Wigner Pál Jenő) (November 17, 1902 - January 1, 1995) was a Hungarian - American physicist and mathematician. He was one of a generation of physicists of the 1920s who remade the world of physics. It was a collection of people from Berlin to London to Zürich to Pisa, though not quite yet to New York or Chicago. The first physicists in this new generation --Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger, and Paul Dirac, to name three - -created quantum mechanics. Quantum mechanics was a dazzling new world, which threw open dozens of fundamental physical questions. A new set of men (and a few women) came along behind them, to answer the first questions and pose others, often more complex. Wigner was.
Eugene V. Debs - Eugene V. Debs Eugene Victor Debs (November 5, 1855 - October 20, 1926) was an American labor and political leader and five time Socialist Party candidate for President of the United States. Debs was born in Terre Haute, Indiana. He became a prominent American labor leader, beginning with the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen in 1875. In 1893 he organized the first industrial union in the United States, the American Railway Union (ARU). The Union successfully struck the Great Northern Railway in April 1894. He was jailed later that year as part of the Pullman Strike, which grew out of the strike by the workers who made Pullman's cars. Debs tried to persuade the ARU members who worked on the railways that the boycott was too risky,.
Eugene O'Neill - Eugene O'Neill Eugene (Gladstone) O'Neill (October 16, 1888 - November 27, 1953) American playwright best known for explorations into the darker aspects of the human condition. Frequently, his plays show people on the outer edges of society or begin in a situation of ennui and despair and move dramatically downwards to a grim finish. In 1929 he moved to the Loire Valley in France where he lived in the Chateau du Plessis in St. Antoine-du-Rocher, Indre et Loire. Best known plays include: Desire Under the Elms (1924), Mourning Becomes Electra (1931), and The Iceman Cometh (1946). He received the Pulitzer Prize in 1920 for Beyond the Horizon and received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1936, making him the first US dramatist to do so. His.
Eugene McCarthy - Eugene McCarthy Eugene Joseph McCarthy (born March 29, 1916) was a Congressman for Minnesota's Fourth District from 1949 to 1959 and a United States Senator for Minnesota from 1959 to 1971, where he served as a member of the United States Senate Foreign Relations Committee. His unsuccessful bid for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1968 focused on ending the United States' involvement in the Vietnam War. After leaving the Senate, McCarthy became a senior editor at Simon and Schuster publishing and a syndicated newspaper columnist. He is also a published poet.
Eugene Onegin - Eugene Onegin Eugene Onegin (Евгений Онегин) is a novel in verse written by Aleksandr Pushkin, which was also made into an opera by Tchaikovsky, and into a film by Martha Fiennes. This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it..
Eugene Shoemaker - Eugene Shoemaker Eugene Shoemaker (or Gene Shoemaker) (April 28, 1928 - July 18, 1997) was one of the founders of the field of planetary science, best known for co-discovering the Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9, with his wife Carolyn Shoemaker and David Levy. For his Ph.D. at Princeton, Dr. Shoemaker conclusively showed that Barringer Meteor Crater arose from meteor impact. Dr. Shoemaker founded the Astrogeology Research Program of the USGS in 1961 and was its first director. He was prominently involved in the Lunar Ranger missions to the Moon, which showed that the Moon was covered with a wide size range of impact craters. Dr. Shoemaker was also involved in the training of the American astronauts. Coming to Caltech in 1969, he started a systematic search for Earth-crossing.
Eugene Bleuler - Eugene Bleuler Eugene Bleuler (Eugen Bleuler) (30 April, 1857 - 9 February, 1940) was a Swiss psychiatrist most notable for his contributions to the understanding of madness and the naming of schizophrenia. Bleuler was born in Zollikon, a small town near Zürich in Switzerland. He studied medicine in Zürich, and later studied in Paris, London and Munich after which he returned to Zürich to take a post as an intern at the Burghölzli, a university hospital. In 1886 Bleuler became the director of a psychiatric clinic at Rheinau, a hospital located in an old monastery on an island in the Rhine. Rheinau was noted at the time for being backward, and Bleuler set about improving conditions for the patients resident there. Bleuler returned to the Burghölzli.
Eugene Cernan - Eugene Cernan Eugene A. Cernan (born March 14, 1934) is a former United States astronaut. He has been into space three times: as co-pilot of Gemini 9A in June 1966; as lunar module pilot of Apollo 10 in May 1969; and as commander of Apollo 17 in December 1972, when he became "the last man on the moon". He was also a reserve crew member for the Gemini 12, Apollo 7 and Apollo 14 missions. Cernan is one of only three men to voyage to the moon on two different occasions (the others being Jim Lovell and John Young), and one of only twelve men to walk on the moon. Cernan orbited the moon on Apollo 10, and landed on the moon on Apollo 17. Gene.
