Historical Events of May 24
24 May
** 1887 – birth of Enrico Leide (Italy) d.1970
A concert cellist and conductor. He was the chief conductor of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra 1920 – 1930. Also, in Atlanta he was music director at the Paramount Theatre. From 1939 to 1945, he served as the director of the Brenau Music Conservatory in Gainesville, Georgia. From 1947 to 1949, he conducted the New York Philharmonic Orchestra and later served as the head of the American Symphony in New York until 1960.
** 1910 - the Thibaud-Pau Casals-Cortot trio recorded Beethoven - Trio in D Major, Op.79/1 in Paris - some nine performances of the work by this trio were later given in concerts
** 1954 - birth of Hank Roberts (Terre Haute, IN, USA)
jazz cellist, singer, bandleader & session player.
** 1959 - cellist Günther Johannes Paetsch and violinist Priscilla McClure Johnson married on 24th May, 1959, in Colorado Springs, followed by a two-month-long honeymoon on the top of the continental divide in the Colorado Rocky Mountains, on horseback!
Not only were both Gunther and Priscilla top-level professional musicians, but their seven children (three girls and four boys) all learned to play string instruments as well. They eventually formed their own nine-piece group called the Paetsch Family Chamber Music Ensemble.
** 1965 – on this date the premiere was heard of Bohuslav Martinů’s Cello Concerto No.2 (written in 1944-45). Saša (Alexander) Večtomov was cello soloist, with the Prague Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Zdeněk Koškler.
** 1972 – birth of Felix Pavlovich Korobov (Irkutsk, Russia)
A Russian conductor and cellist. He joined the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Academic Music Theatre in 1999 and the Novaya Opera Theatre in 2003, becoming its principal conductor between 2004 and 2006. 2011 he has been chief conductor of the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Music Theatre and often tours as a conductor, and still as a cellist.
** 1974 - First performance of Francis Routh - Cello Concerto, Op.27, by Christopher Bunting (soloist), and the Belgian Chamber Orchestra conducted by Francis Routh
London (South Bank)
** 1980 - Pedro Corostola performed as cello soloist with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Musikaste, conducted by Carlos Ibarra Larrauri, in the closing of the Musikaste Festival, in the Basque Country - the concert was recorded live. The featured cello work was by Basque composer José María Usandizaga, titled ‘Fantasía para cello y orquesta en dos tiempos’ with a duration of over 18 minutes.
** 1988 - birth of Iván Casado (Vitoria, Basque Country)
cellist, chamber musician & professor
** 1988 – birth of Callie Marie Hernández (Jacksonville, Floria, U.S.A.)
An American actress known for her roles in the films ‘Blair Witch’ (2016), ‘La La Land’ (2016), ‘The Endless’ (2017), and ‘Alien: Covenant’ (2017). Before taking acting as a profession, Hernandez played the cello in seriousness in several bands, at the time when acting was still a hobby!
