Full Version: Celebrity Musicians Birthdays
Murray Perahia is 65 today, 5 weeks younger than ne.
Yesterday John WIllimas (Guitarist) was 71, and Barbra Striesand was 70
Today Gennadi Rodhestvensky is 81. Harpist Marisa Robles is 75.
Adele is 24 tomorrow
I forgot to report that two leading sopranos had birthdays earlier in the week. Heather Harper was 82 and Felicity Lott was 75
Composer Judith Weir is 62 today
Trumpeter Kenny Ball is 82 today
Sorry - not a musician - but George Best would have been 66 today...
Today or tomorrow
Clarinettist Thea Musgrave is 84 (I once heard her play at the Snape Maltings, shortly after Britten had died. Peter P was there though.
Cilla Black is 69, Ian Tracey (Liverpool Cathedral) is 57, and finally Howard Goodall is 54
Clarinettist Thea Musgrave is 84 (I once heard her play at the Snape Maltings, shortly after Britten had died. Peter P was there though.
Cilla Black is 69, Ian Tracey (Liverpool Cathedral) is 57, and finally Howard Goodall is 54
Kylie Minogue is 44 today.
QUOTE(fsharpminor @ May 26 2012, 06:32 PM) 
Clarinettist Thea Musgrave is 84 (I once heard her play at the Snape Maltings, shortly after Britten had died. Peter P was there though.
You're getting your Theas confused! Composer Thea Musgrave was 84 yesterday; clarinettist Thea King (b. 26th December 1925) died in 2007
Mea Culpa - thanks for the correction Deborah, it was Thea King we heard.
- thanks for the correction Deborah, it was Thea King we heard.
Sir Tom Jones is 72 today
Lang Lang is 30 today
Paul McCartney is 70 today.
Ringo Starr (Richard Starkey) is 72 today
QUOTE(fsharpminor @ Jul 7 2012, 07:59 PM)
Ringo Starr (Richard Starkey) is 72 today
Scary.
Yesterday Dame Fanny Waterman was 93, Stephen Sondheim was 83, and Lord Andrew Lloyd-Webber was 65
Today composer Michael Nyman is 69
Tomorrow Benjamin Luxon is 76
Today composer Michael Nyman is 69
Tomorrow Benjamin Luxon is 76
Aretha Franklin is 71 today. Elton John is 66 today (12 days younger than me)
Conductor/Composer Harry Rabinowitz is 97 today
Violinist Kyung Wha Chung is 65 today
Violinist Kyung Wha Chung is 65 today
John Suchet is 69 today
Had the pleasure of meeting him on one of his Beethoven book tours. Lovely man.. 
Rolf Harris is 83 today. Eric Clapton is 68 today.
Lesley Garrett (the Doncaster Diva) is 58 today. (not my favourite singer I'm afraid)
Brilliant clarinettist Gervase de Peyer is 87 today
Montserrat Caballe is 80
Julian Lloyd Webber is 62 tomorrow
Sir Neville Marriner is 89 today
Murray Perahia is 66 today (5 weeks younger than me!)
John Eliot Gardiner was 70 yesterday. Today John McCabe is 74
Guitarist John Williams is 72 today.
Igor Oistrakh was 82 yesterday
Conductor Zubin Mehta is 77 toady
Gennadi Roszhdevensky is 82 today, Marisa Robles, queen of the harp, is 76.
Tomorrow Adele is 25
Tomorrow Adele is 25
Two lovely British sopranos have birthdays today. Heather Harper is 83, and Felicity Lott is 66
QUOTE(fsharpminor @ Apr 29 2013, 12:57 PM)
Conductor Zubin Mehta is 77 toady
I did not think he was the slightest bit obsequious
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