On This Day – 29 April

OTD in 1725 – the first performance of Bach’s Cantata ‘Es ist euch gut, daß ich hingehe’ BWV 108

Happy birthday to Thomas Beecham, born #OTD in 1879

Happy Birthday to Malcolm Sargent, born #OTD in 1895

Happy Birthday to Duke Ellington, born #OTD in 1899

Happy Birthday to Peter Sculthorpe, born #OTD in 1929