Today's Birthdays in Music: May 10 (Babbitt, M. Shostakovich)

1916 - Milton Babbitt, Philadelphia, U.S.A.; composer

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Milton Babbitt's Fanfare For All (Meridian Arts Ensemble in Timosoara, Romania. November 2007)



1938 - Maxim Shostakovich, Leningrad, Russia; pianist & conductor

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Maxim Shostakovich on his father's 7th Symphony

Dmitri Shostakovich's Piano Concerto No. 1, 4th mvt. Maxim Shostakovich conducts I Musici de Montréal. Pianist is Dmitri Shostakovich, Jr.