Henryk Szeryng - Henryk Szeryng Henryk Szeryng (September 22, 1918 - March 8, 1988) was a violinist. He was born in Żelazowa Wola in Poland and studied there and with Carl Flesch in Berlin. He made his solo debut in 1933 playing the Johannes Brahms Violin Concerto . From 1933 to 1939 he studied composition in Paris with Nadia Boulanger, and during World War II he worked as an interpreter for the Polish government in exile and gave concerts for the Allied troops all over the world. During one of these concerts in Mexico City he received an offer to take over the string department of the university there. He accepted the offer and became a Mexican citizen in 1946. Szeryng subsequently focused on teaching before resuming his concert.
Violinist - Leonid Kogan Herman Krebbers Fritz Kreisler Gidon Kremer Jan Kubelík Tasmin Little Vanessa Mae Yehudi Menuhin Midori Nathan Milstein Viktoria Mullova Anne Sophie Mutter Jeannette Neveu David Oistrakh Itzhak Perlman Oscar Shumsky Nils-Erik Sparf Simon Standage Isaac Stern Josef Suk Henryk Szeryng Jacques Thibaud Maxim Vengerov Pinchas Zukerman Popular music violinist, including fiddlers Tracy Bonham Petra Haden Ashley MacIsaac.
Grammy Awards of 1976 - Instrumental Soloist or Soloists (with orchestra) Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos (conductor), Alicia de Larrocha & the London Philharmonic for Ravel: Concerto for Left Hand and Concerto for Piano in G/Fauré: Fantaisie for Piano and Orchestra Best Classical Performance Instrumental Soloist or Soloists (without orchestra) Nathan Milstein for Bach: Sonatas and Partitas for Violin Unaccompanied Best Chamber Music Performance Pierre Fournier, Artur Rubinstein & Henryk Szeryng for Schubert: Trios Nos. 1 in B Flat, Op. 99 and 2 in E Flat, Op. 100 (Piano Trios) Album of the Year, Classical Raymond Minshull (producer), Georg Solti (conductor) & the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for Beethoven: Symphonies (9) Complete Comedy Best Comedy Recording Richard Pryor for Is It Something I Said? Composing and arranging Best Instrumental Composition Michel Legrand (composer) for Images performed by Michel.
Grammy Awards of 1975 - London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus for Berlioz: The Damnation of Faust Best Classical Performance Instrumental Soloist or Soloists (with orchestra) Maxim Shostakovich (conductor), David Oistrakh & the New Philharmonia for Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1 Best Classical Performance Instrumental Soloist or Soloists (without orchestra) Alicia de Larrocha for Albeniz: Iberia Best Chamber Music Performance Pierre Fournier, Artur Rubinstein & Henryk Szeryng for Brahms: Trios (Complete)/Schumann: Trio No. 1 in D Minor Album of the Year, Classical David Harvey (producer), Georg Solti (conductor) & the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique Comedy Best Comedy Recording Richard Pryor for That Nigger's Crazy Composing and arranging Best Instrumental Composition Mike Oldfield (composer) for "Tubular Bells - Theme From The Exorcist" Album of Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or a Television.
Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance - Brahms: Cello and Piano Sonatas in E Minor and F Grammy Awards of 1985 The Juilliard String Quartet for Beethoven: The Late String Quartets Grammy Awards of 1984 Mstislav Rostropovich & Rudolf Serkin for Brahms: Sonata for Cello and Piano in E Minor, Op. 38 and Sonata in F, Op. 99 Grammy Awards of 1983 Richard Goode & Richard Stoltzman for Brahms: The Sonatas for Clarinet & Piano, Op. 120 Grammy Awards of 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.
1918 - 1918 in music 1918 in science 1918 in sports Births January 15 - Gamal Abdal Nasser, President of Egypt (d. 1970) January 15 - Robert Byrd, American politician January 16 - Stirling Silliphant, writer, producer (d. 1996) January 20 - Esquivel, musician January 26 - Nicolae Ceausescu, Romanian dictator (d. 1989) January 26 - Philip Jose Farmer, science fiction writer January 27 - Skitch Henderson, musician, band leader January 29 - John Forsythe, actor February 1 - Dame Muriel Spark, author February 6 - Lothar-Günther Buchheim, author of Das Boot February 8 - Fred Blassie, former professional wrestler (d. 2003) February 25 - Bobby Riggs, tennis player (d. 1995) February 26 - Theodore Sturgeon, science fiction writer (d. 1985) March 3 - Fritz Thiedemann, equestrian (d. 2000) March 5 - James.
1988 - and left 400.000 persons homeless. December 19 - The Consumer Product Safety Commission bans the sale of lawn darts following the deaths of three children. December 21 - Pan Am flight 103 is blown up by Libyan terrorists over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 259 on board and 11 on the ground. Akira, anime film, released. Summer Olympic Games in Seoul, Korea Former pop singer Sonny Bono is elected mayor of Palm Springs, California. Televangelist Jimmy Swaggart is the focus of a sex scandal, and later admits to being with prostitutes and steps down from his television ministry. Iran Air Flight 655 shut down by missiles throwm from the USS Vincennes ship Year in topic 1988 in film Dangerous Liaisons Mississippi Burning Working Girl starring Harrison Ford Die Hard starring Bruce Willis Rain.
Carl Flesch - contemporary), gained fame as a chamber music performer and as a violin pedagogue. He published a number instructional books including Die Kunst des Violin-Spiels (1923). Among his pupils were Ida Haendel and Henryk Szeryng, and he was consulted by Louis Krasner over technical difficulties in the Violin Concerto by Alban Berg which Krasner was to premiere. Flesch owned the Brancaccio Stradivarius, but had to sell it in 1928 after losing all his money on the New York Stock Exchange. Flesch died in Lucerne..
September 22 - Sara Jane Moore tries to assassinate President Gerald Ford 1980 - Iraq invades Iran Births 1791 - Michael Faraday, scientist (†1867) 1880 - Dame Christabel Pankhurst, women's suffrage activist 1885 - Erich von Stroheim, actor, writer, director (†1957) 1895 - Paul Muni, Academy Award winning actor (†1967) 1902 - John Houseman, actor and director (†1988) 1918 - Henryk Szeryng, violinist (†1988) 1920 - William H. Riker, political scientist 1924 - Rosamunde Pilcher, novelist 1927 - Tommy Lasorda, baseball manager 1932 - Ingemar Johansson, boxing champion 1934 - Lute Olson, college basketball coach 1943 - Toni Basil, singer, dancer, choreographer 1946 - King Sunny Ade, reggae singer 1951 - David Coverdale, singer 1952 - Paul Le Mat, actor 1954 - Shari Belafonte, singer 1956 - Debby Boone,.
March 8 - 1932) 1879 - Otto Hahn, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1944 (†1968) 1904 - Victor de Kowa, actor (†1973) 1908 or 1909 or 1911 - Claire Trevor, actress 1915 - Tapio Rautavaara, athlete, actor, singer 1921 - Cyd Charisse, actress, dancer 1922 - Heinar Kipphardt, dramatist, lyricist, narrator (†1922) 1923 - Walter Jens, writer 1943 - Lynn Redgrave, actress 1945 - Micky Dolenz, actor, director, musica ("The Monkees") 1945 - Anselm Kiefer, painter 1947 - Carole Bayer Sager, composer 1948 - Gary Numan, singer 1959 - Aidan Quinn, actor 1976 - Freddie Prinze Jr, actor 1983 - Sandra Cougler,most beautiful girl of the world Deaths 1702 - King William III of England 1874 - Millard Fillmore, 13th President of the United States 1930 - William Howard.
Henryk Sienkiewicz - Henryk Sienkiewicz Henryk Sienkiewicz (May 5 1846 - November 15 1916) was a Polish novelist, one of the most outstanding Polish writers of the 2nd half of 19th century. Since published his novels in series in newspapers, he was immensely popular and loved at his times and after over a century he is still highly valued among readers of prose. He is best known for his colourful historical novels depicting heroic deeds of Polish fighters. His novel Quo Vadis has been filmed several times, notably the 1951 version. Nobel Prize in literature laureate in 1905. The most important works: Trylogia (Trilogy) Ogniem i mieczem (With Fire and Sword) 1884 Potop (The Deluge) 1886 Pan Wołodyjowski (Mr. Wolodyjowski) 1888 Krzyzacy (The Teutonic Knights) 1900 Quo Vadis 1895.
Henryk Górecki - Henryk Górecki Henryk Mikołaj Górecki (born December 6, 1933) is a Polish composer of classical music. Górecki was born in Czernica, in southern Poland. He did not study music seriously until he was in his twenties, when he began to study in Katowice. Later, while continuing his studies in Paris, Górecki was able to hear works by Anton Webern, Olivier Messiaen and Karlheinz Stockhausen which were suppressed by the Polish government. Górecki eventually became a music professor in Katowice, but he resigned his post in the late 1970s in protest against the government's refusal to allow Pope John Paul II to visit the city. Górecki's music covers a variety of styles, but tends to be harmonically relatively simple. His first works were in the same avant.
Henryk Grossmann - Henryk Grossmann Henryk Grossmann (1881 - 1950) was born in Cracow and studied law and economics in Cracow and Vienna. In 1925 he joined the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt. He left Germany in the 1930s and returned to become Professor of Political Economy at Leipzig University in 1949. Grossmann's key contribution to political-economic theory was his book, The Law of Accumulation and Breakdown of the Capitalist System, a study in marxian crisis theory. It was published in Leipzig months before the Wall Street Crash of 1929. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Early life & Education 2 Career 3 Contribution to Theory 3..1 The logical and mathematical basis of the law of breakdown 3..2 The formula 3..3 Discussion of the formula 4 Influence Early life.
Henryk Zygalski - Henryk Zygalski Henryk Zygalski was part of the Polish Biuro Szyfrow (Cipher Bureau) and was on the team, with Marian Rejewski and Jerzy Rozycki, that cracked the Enigma codes..
Henryk Muszynski - Henryk Muszynski Henryk Muszynski (born March 20, 1933) is the Archbishop of Gniezno, Poland, having been appointed by Pope John Paul II when the Polish hierarchy was reorganized in March 1992. He had previously been Bishop of Wloclawek since 1987. Traditionally the Archbishop of Gniezno is Primate of Poland, but when the reorganization severed the See from that of Warsaw an exception was made for the lifetime of the present Archbishop of Warsaw, who had previously been Archbishop of both cities. Archbishop Muszynski has sought to improve relations with Jews in the Polish-German border areas..
Kielce pogrom - included over 40 Jews, that were massacred and 80 wounded. There were also killed 2 non-Jewish Poles. On July 3, Henryk decided to return home, and that evening he came back to Kielce. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Prequisites 2 Events 3 The attempts to stop pogrom 4 Trials 5 Unanswered Questions 6 Background 7 Explanations 8.
January 9 - - Giuseppi Gallignani, composer 1851 - Luis Coloma, Spanish Jesuit writer, theologian 1854 - Jennie Jerome, American society beauty (†1921) 1856 - Anton Askerc, priest, poet 1856 - Lizette Woodworth Reese, poet 1856 - Stevan Mokranjac, composer 1857 - Henry B. Fuller, writer 1859 - Carrie Lane Chapman Catt, women's rights leader, founder of the League of Women Voters 1859 - Frederik Pijper, Dutch vicar, church historian 1864 - Vladimir Steklov, Russian mathematician (†1926) 1866 - Albert Baertsoen, Flemish painter, etcher 1867 - Jacques Urlus, Dutch opera singer 1868 - S. P. L. Sřrensen, Danish chemist (†1939) 1870 - Joseph B Strauss, civil engineer, builder of the Golden Gate Bridge 1873 - Hayyim Nahman Bialik, Hebrew poet, translator 1875 - Gertrude Whitney, sculptor (†1942) 1876 - Hans.
Janusz Korczak - and child pedagogist. Korczak was born Henryk Goldszmit on July 22, 1878 in Warsaw Poland. His parents were an assimilated Jewish family. His father Jozef Goldszmit died in 1896, possibly by his own hand, leaving the family without a source of income. Over the next few years, the family was forced to abandon their spacious apartment and, during his teens, Korczak was the sole breadwinner for his mother, sister, and grandmother. 1898 he used Janusz Korczak as a writing pseudonyme in Ignacy Paderewski’s literary contest. The name originated from the book Janasz Korczak and the pretty Swordsweeperlady by J. I. Krazewski. 1898 – 1904 Korczak studied medicine in Warsaw and also wrote for newspapeps. After his graduation he became a pediatrician. During the Russo-Japanese War in 1905-1906 he served as a.
Jerzy Rozycki - Polish Biuro Szyfrow (Cipher Bureau) and was on the team, with Marian Rejewski and Henryk Zygalski, that cracked the Enigma codes..
Józef Ignacy Kraszewski - made into movie by Jerzy Hoffman. Kraszewski is commonly regarded as the best Polish history author, second only to Henryk Sienkiewicz..
