On This Day – 14 October

#OTD in 1670 the first performance of #Lully’s Le Bourgeois gentilhomme

#OTD in 1843 the first performance of #Mendelssohn’s Midsummer Night’s Dream incidental music

#OTD in 1903 the first performance of #Elgar’s The Apostles

#HappyBirthday to Alexander von #Zemlinksy born #OTD in 1871

#OTD in 1568 the death of Jacques #Arcadelt

#OTD in 1669 the death of Antonio #Cesti

#OTD in 1990 the death of Leonard Bernstein seen here rehearsing Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring