On This Day – 9 October

#OTD in 1921 – the first performance of #Janáček’s Taras Bulba

#HappyBirthday to Camille #SaintSaëns Saint-Saëns born #OTD in 1834 YoYo Ma and Kathy Stott perform Le Cygne from Le Carnaval des animaux

#HappyBirthday to Carl Flesch born #OTD in 1873

#HappyBirthday to Bebo Valdés born #OTD in 1918

#HappyBirthday to Einojuhani #Rautavaara born #OTD in 1928

#OTD in 1900 the death of Heinrich von #Herzogenberg