On This Day – 27 April

OTD in 1937 – the first performance of Stravinsky’s Jeu de cartes

Happy Birthday to Sergei Prokofiev, born #OTD in 1891

Happy Birthday to Igor Oistrakh, born #OTD in 1931

#OTD in 1915, the death of Alexander Scriabin

#OTD in 1992, the death of Olivier Messiaen

#OTD in 2007, the death of Mstislav Rostropovich