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Classical music anniversaries in 2014, from C.P.E. Bach to Adolphe Sax

The invention of Adolphe Sax
The invention of Adolphe Sax
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Happy New Year! Here's this year's list of major classical music anniversaries.

Nothing huge in 2014, except for C.P.E. Bach and Gluck fans (300th), and saxophone mavens (Adolphe Sax 200th). The usual disclaimers and ideosyncracies apply:

* Birthdays only, no death anniversaries

* Mostly major names (plus a few interesting minor ones, but no attempt to be comprehensive)

* Mostly classical musicians (plus a few interesting others)

* For living musicians, only birthdays ending in zero.

* For dead musicians, only birthday anniversaries ending in two zeros.

* No 150th anniversaries; call me sesquiphobic, but as a demarcation of time passing, 150 years is not as compelling as 100, 200, etc.

Away we go! Prepare to feel old. Or, young...

January

Jan 9 Jimmie Page 70
Jan 12 Howard Stern 60
Jan 14 Nina Totenberg 70
Jan 16 Marilyn Horne 80
Jan 17 Michelle Obama 50
Jan 21 Uto Ughi 70
Jan 29 Oprah 60
Jan 30 Lynn Harrell 70

February

Feb 2 Andrew Davis 70
Feb 2 Ursula Oppens 70
Feb 5 Hank Aaron 80
Feb 15 Matt Groening 60
Feb 16 Sigiswald Kuijken 70
Feb 17 Anner Bylsma 80
Feb 17 Karl Jenkins 70
Feb 27 JoAnn Falletta 60
Feb 18 John Travolta 60
Feb 28 Bernadette Peters 70

March

Mar 1 Roger Daltry 70
Mar 1 Justin Bieber 20
Mar 3 Florence Quivar 70
Mar 6 Kirill Kondrashin 100
Mar 6 Kiri Te Kanawa 70
Mar 7 Denyce Graves 50
Mar 8 CPE Bach 300
Mar 15 Sly Stone 70
Mar 16 Roger Norrington 80
Mar 23 Michael Nyman 70
Mar 26 Diana Ross 70
Mar 31 Shirley Jones 80

April

Apr 3 Doris Day 90
Apr 6 Felicity Palmer 70
Apr 15 Neville Marriner 90
Apr 18 Tobias Picker 60
Apr 28 Michael Daugherty 60
Apr 29 Jerry Seinfeld 60

May

May 11 Judith Weir 60
May 13 Stephen Colbert 50
May 14 Mark Zuckerberg 30
May 22 Sun Ra 100
May 28 Gladys Knight 70
May 30 Cee-Lo Green 40
May 31 Darryl "D.M.C." McDaniels of Run-DMC 50

June

Jun 5 Bill Moyers 80
Jun 5 Nigel North 60
Jun 6 Philippe Entremont 80
Jun 8 Boz Scaggs 70
Jun 29 Rafael Kubelik 100
Jun 29 Ezra Laderman 90

July

Jul 2 Christoph von Gluck 300
Jul 2 Frederick Fennell 100
Jul 9 Courtney Love 50
Jul 11 Nancy Allen 60
Jul 15 Harrison Birtwhistle 80
Jul 23 Maria Joao Pires 70
Jul 28 World War I begins 100th

August

Aug 11 Joe Jackson 60
Aug 12 Pat Metheny 60
Aug 14 Georges Pretre 90
Aug 15 Panama Canal 100
Aug 15 Maxim Vengerov 40
Aug 17 Jean-Bernard Pommier 70
Aug 25 Elvis Costello 60

September

Sep 1 Leonard Slatkin 70
Sep 4 Rene Pape 50
Sep 8 Peter Maxwell Davies 80
Sep 13/14 Francis Scott Key "The Star-Spangled Banner" 200th
Sep 13 Ralph Rapson 100
Sep 16 Lauren Bacall 90
Sep 19 Jimmy Fallon 40
Sep 21 Leonard Cohen 80
Sep 24 Andrzej Panufnik 100
Sep 27 Dmitry Sitkovetsky 60

October

Oct 1 Jimmie Carter 90
Oct 2 Ton Koopman 70
Oct 8 Nelson Freire 70
Oct 10 David Lee Roth 60
Oct 19 Benita Valente 80
Oct 20 Frederic Chiu 50
Oct 25 Katy Perry 30
Oct 27 Dylan Thomas 100
Oct 30 Frans Bruggen 80

November

Nov 6 Adolph Sax 200
Nov 9 Hedy Lamarr 100
Nov 11 Leonardo di Caprio 40
Nov 14 Joseph Simmons of Run-DMC
Nov 16 Donald Runnicles 60
Nov 16 Diana Krall 50
Nov 25 Joe DiMaggio 100
Nov 22 Scarlett Johansson 30

December

Dec 7 Daniel Chorzempa 70
Dec 9 Judi Dench 80
Dec 14 Rosalyn Tureck 100
Dec 19 William Christie 70
Dec 21 Michael Tilson Thomas 70
Dec 23 Claudio Scimone 80
Dec 25 Annie Lennox 60
Dec 25 Ian Bostridge 50
Dec 28 Maggie Smith 80
Dec 30 Roberto Abbado 60

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