This video was also posted on Dudley Moore’s birthday.
In this clip from the 1950’s-60s British comedy group “Beyond the Fringe,” Dudley Moore plays a very funny but also very musically well-done parody of a Beethoven Piano Sonata, using the famous whistling tune from “Bridge Over the River Kwai” as a thematic subject.
The ‘ending’ here is dragged out for a good minute and a half with Dudley showing every sign of wanting to escape from 3’42 onwards.
• 1547 ~ Melchior Bischoff, Composer
• 1554 ~ Paulo Bellasio, Composer
• 1650 ~ Francesco Sacrati, composer, died at the age of 44
• 1751 ~ Domingo Miguel Bernaube Terradellas, Composer, died at the age of 38
• 1754 ~ Hans Gram, Composer
• 1782 ~ Carlo Giovanni Testori, Composer, died at the age of 68
• 1782 ~ Christoph Gottlieb Schroter, Composer, died at the age of 82
• 1812 ~ Gustav Adolf Mankell, Composer
• 1850 ~ Eaton Faning, Composer
• 1876 ~ John Owen Jones, Composer
• 1889 ~ Felix Arndt, Composer
• 1890 ~ Beniamino Gigli, Italian tenor
• 1896 ~ Clara Josephine Wieck Schumann, Composer and pianist, died at the age of 76
• 1900 ~ Gustav Heinrich Graben-Hoffman, Composer, died at the age of 80
• 1903 ~ Jerzy Fitelberg, Polish composer
• 1910 ~ Jean-Baptiste Theodore Weckerlin, Composer, died at the age of 88
• 1913 ~ Ion Dumitrescu, Composer
• 1917 ~ Enyss Djemil, Composer
• 1920 ~ Hephzibah Menuhin, American pianist
• 1926 ~ Vic Ames (Urick), Singer with The Ames Brothers
• 1927 ~ David Frederick Barlow, Composer
• 1927 ~ Walter Aschaffenburg, Composer
• 1937 ~ Teddy Randazzo, Singer
• 1939 ~ Three Little Fishies, by Kay Kyser hits #1
• 1941 ~ Harry James and his orchestra recorded the classic You Made Me Love Youfor Columbia Records.
• 1943 ~ Tison Street, Composer
• 1944 ~ Cipa Dichter, Brazilian pianist, wife of Misha Dichter
• 1944 ~ Joe (John Robert) Cocker, British rock-blues singer and songwriter
• 1946 ~ Cher (Cherilyn Sarkisian LaPierre), Entertainer
• 1952 ~ Warren Cann, Drummer
• 1960 ~ Sue Cowsill, Singer with The Cowsills
• 1961 ~ Hans Werner Henze’s opera “Elegy for Young Lovers,” premiered in Schwetzingen
• 1967 ~ The BBC banned The Beatles’ “A Day in the Life” because of drug references
• 1970 ~ The Beatles’ “Let it Be” movie premiered in the United Kingdom
• 1975 ~ Jacques Stehman, Composer, died at the age of 62
• 1979 ~ The first western pop star to tour USSR was Elton John
• 1984 ~ “On Your Toes” closed at Virginia Theater NYC after 505 performances
• 1986 ~ Bernard Naylor, Composer, died at the age of 78
• 1991 ~ Julian Orbon De Soto, Composer, died at the age of 65
• 2000 ~ Jean-Pierre Rampal, who popularized the flute as a solo instrument and became one of classical music’s brightest stars, died in Paris. He was 78. The cause was a heart attack.
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• 2002 ~ Sandor Konya, a tenor who spent much of his career at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, died. He was 78. Born in Sarkad, Hungary, in 1923, Konya studied in Hungary, Italy and Germany before making a name for himself as a Wagnerian tenor and giving hundreds of performances at the Met in the late 1960s and early 1970s. He moved to Ibiza in the 1980s and started Pro Arte, a local foundation to promote the operatic arts with productions throughout the season, said Echarte, who is vice president.