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JANUARY 2017 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Milt Jackson, 1923 Sir Michael Tippett, 1905 Victor Borge, 1909 Giovanni Pergolesi, 1710 Alexander Scriabin, Francis Poulenc, 1899 Stephen Stills, 1945 Lionel Newman, 1916 1872 Ulysses Simpson Kay, 1917 Earl Scruggs, 1924 Jean-Pierre Rampal, 1922 Tommy Johnson, 1935

8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Lowell Mason, 1792 Joan Baez, 1941 Rod Stewart, 1945 Reinhold Glière, 1875 Albert Schweitzer, 1875 Elvis Presley, 1935 Dave Matthews, 1967 Billy Butterfield, 1917

15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Gene Krupa, 1909 Ethel Merman, 1909 Eartha Kitt, 1927 Emmanuel Chabrier, 1841 Janis Joplin, 1943 Walter Piston, 1894 Placido Domingo, 1941 Marilyn Horne, 1934 Dolly Parton, 1946 Robert Palmer, 1949

22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Muzio Clementi, 1752 Norman Dello Joio, 1913 Stéphane Grappelli, 1908 Wolfgang Amadeus Arthur Rubinstein, 1887 Neil Diamond, 1941 Eddie Van Halen, 1955 Mozart, 1756 Jerome Kern, 1885

29 30 31 Leslie Bricusse, 1931 Franz Schubert, 1797 Philip Glass, 1937 Phil Collins, 1951

Copyright © 2016-2017 Plank Road Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved. FEBRUARY 2017 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 Francesco Stradivari, 1671 Jascha Heifetz, 1901 Felix Mendelssohn, 1809 Erich Leinsdorf, 1912 Victor Herbert, 1859 Graham Nash, 1942 Luigi Dallapiccola, 1904 James P. Johnson, 1894 Shakira, 1977 Renata Tebaldi, 1922

5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Natalie Cole, 1950 Eubie Blake, 1883 John Williams, 1932 Alban Berg, 1885 Leontyne Price, 1927 Sergio Mendez, 1941 Garth Brooks, 1962 Carole King, 1942

12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Roy Harris, 1898 Michael Praetorius, John Corigliano, 1938 Arcangelo Corelli, 1653 Yoko Ono, 1933 1571 Alec Wilder, 1907 Teresa Jennings, 1956 Harold Arlen, 1905 Karl Hitzemann, 1965

19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Smokey Robinson, 1940 Carl Czerny, 1791 Léo Delibes, 1836 George Frideric Handel, Michel Legrand, 1932 George Harrison, 1943 Andrés Segovia, 1893 1685 Rupert Holmes, 1947

26 27 28 29 Michael Bolton, 1954 Enrico Caruso, 1873 Gioacchino Rossini, 1792 Jimmy Dorsey, 1904

Copyright © 2016-2017 Plank Road Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved. MARCH 2017 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 Frédéric Chopin, 1810 Bedrich Smetana, 1824 Antonio Vivaldi, 1678 Glenn Miller, 1904 Kurt Weill, 1900 Mario Davidovsky, Harry Belafonte, 1927 1934

5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Heitor Villa-Lobos, 1887 Kiri Te Kanawa, 1944 Maurice Ravel, 1875 Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Samuel Barber, 1910 Carl Ruggles, 1876 1714 Henry Cowell, 1897 Alan Hovaness, 1911 Bobby McFerrin, 1950

12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Thomas Arne, 1710 Georg Philipp Christa Ludwig, 1928 Nat “King” Cole, 1917 Nikolai Rimsky- Telemann, 1681 Korsakov, 1844 Johann Strauss, Sr., 1804 Quincy Jones, 1933

19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Max Reger, 1873 Johann Sebastian Bach, Stephen Sondheim, 1930 Arturo Toscanini, 1867 1685 Andrew Lloyd Webber, Béla Bartók, 1881 Modest Mussorgsky, 1839 1948 Aretha Franklin, 1942 Marian McPartland, 1918 Elton John, 1947

26 27 28 29 30 31 Pierre Boulez, 1925 Ferde Grofé, 1892 Rudolf Serkin, 1903 William Walton, 1902 Franz Joseph Haydn, Diana Ross, 1944 Sarah Vaughan, 1924 Richard Rodney 1732 Mstislav Rostropovich, Bennett, 1936 1927

2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Marvin Gaye, 1939 Elmer Bernstein, Herbert von Karajan, Gerry Mulligan, 1927 Billie Holiday, 1915 1922 1908 André Previn, 1929 Merle Haggard, 1937

9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Mandy Moore, 1984 Joss Stone, 1987 Imogen Holst, 1907 Morton Subotnick, 1933 Bessie Smith, 1894 Vince Gill, 1957

16 17 18 19 20 21 22 Henry Mancini, 1924 Franz von Suppé, 1819 Dudley Moore, 1935 Lionel Hampton, 1908 Sir Yehudi Menuhin, 1916 Leopold Stokowski, 1882 Tito Puente, 1923 Charles Mingus, 1922 Luther Vandross, 1951 Michael Colgrass, 1932 Glen Campbell, 1936

23 24 25 26 27 28 29 Sergei Prokofiev, 1891 Joe Henderson, 1937 Ella Fitzgerald, 1917 Wallingford Riegger, 1885 Roy Orbison, 1936 John Williams Albert King, 1923 Edward Kennedy (guitarist), 1941 Ellington, 1899 Barbra Streisand, 1942 Zubin Mehta, 1936

30 Franz Lehár, 1870 Robert Shaw, 1916 Willie Nelson, 1933

Copyright © 2016-2017 Plank Road Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved. MAY 2017 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 5 6 Kate Smith, 1909 Alessandro Scarlatti, 1660 Bing Crosby, 1903 Maynard Ferguson, 1928 Lorenz Hart, 1895 Pete Seeger, 1919 James Brown, 1933

7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Johannes Brahms, 1833 Louis Gottschalk, 1829 Billy Joel, 1949 Milton Babbitt, 1916 Irving Berlin, 1888 Jules Massenet, 1842 Sir Arthur Sullivan, Peter Ilyich Gabriel Fauré, 1845 1842 Tchaikovsky, 1840 Gil Evans, 1912 Stevie Wonder, 1950

14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Otto Klemperer, 1885 Arthur Berger, 1912 Woody Herman, 1913 Erik Satie, 1866 Janet Jackson, 1966 Peter Mennin, 1923

21 22 23 24 25 26 27 Thomas “Fats” Waller, Richard Wagner, 1813 Bob Dylan, 1941 Beverly Sills, 1929 Miles Davis, 1926 Thea Musgrave, 1928 1904 Sean Gill, 1976 Mike Wilson, 1957

28 29 30 31 György Ligeti, 1923 Isaac Albéniz, 1860 Benny Goodman, 1909 Peter Yarrow, 1938 Eric Korngold, 1897 Yannis Xenakis, 1922

4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Aram Khatchaturian, 1903 George Szell, 1897 Tomaso Albinoni, 1671 Carl Nielsen, 1865 Frederick Loewe, 1901 Vincent Persichetti, 1915 Robert Schumann, 1810 Cole Porter, 1891 Judy Garland, 1922 Les Paul, 1915 Charles Wuorinen, 1938

11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Richard Strauss, 1864 Chick Corea, 1941 Carlos Chávez, 1899 Edvard Grieg, 1843 Charles Gounod, 1818 Donald Riggio, 1926 Otto Luening, 1900 Igor Stravinsky, 1882 Errol Garner, 1921

18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Sammy Cahn, 1913 Jacques Offenbach, 1819 Harry Partch, 1901 Paul McCartney, 1942 Lionel Richie, 1949

25 26 27 28 29 30 Carly Simon, 1945 Jacob Druckman, 1928 Richard Rodgers, 1902 Leroy Anderson, 1908 Lena Horne, 1917 Bernard Herrmann, 1911

2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Christoph W. von Gluck, Leos Janácek, 1854 * William Byrd, 1623 (date Wanda Landowska, 1879 Gustav Mahler, 1860 Percy Grainger, 1882 1714 Ruth Crawford Seeger, of death) Gordon Jacob, 1895 Gian Carlo Menotti, Frederick Fennell, 1914 1901 Stephen Collins Paul Jennings, 1948 1911 Pete Fountain, 1930 Foster, 1826 Doc Severinsen, 1927 Ringo Starr, 1940

9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Ottorino Respighi, 1879 Carl Orff, 1895 Van Cliburn, 1934 Karl Erb, 1877 Woody Guthrie, 1912 Julian Bream, 1933 David Diamond, 1915 Arlo Guthrie, 1947 Linda Ronstadt, 1946

16 17 18 19 20 21 22 Pinchas Zukerman, 1948 Peter Schickele, 1935 Carlos Santana, 1947 Isaac Stern, 1920 P.D.Q. Bach, 1??? Phoebe Snow, 1952

23 24 25 26 27 28 29 Ernest Bloch, 1880 Serge Koussevitsky, Frank Loesser, 1910 Billy Taylor, 1921 1874 Peter Serkin, 1947 Mick Jagger, 1943

30 31 David Sanborn, 1945

Copyright © 2016-2017 Plank Road Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved. AUGUST 2017 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 5 Lionel Bart, 1930 Arthur Bliss, 1891 Tony Bennett, 1926 Louis Armstrong, 1901 Jerry Garcia, 1942 William Schuman, 1910

6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Karel Husa, 1921 Cécile Chaminade, 1857 Alexander Glazunov, 1865 * Giovanni Gabrieli, 1612 (date of death)

13 14 15 16 17 18 19 John Ireland, 1879 Jacques Ibert, 1890 Bill Evans, 1929 Antonio Salieri, 1750 Kathleen Battle, 1948 Lukas Foss, 1922 Oscar Peterson, 1925

20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Lili Boulanger, 1893 Claude Debussy, 1862 Ernst Krenek, 1900 Stephen Paulus, 1949 Leonard Bernstein, 1918 Branford Marsalis, 1960 William “Count” Basie, Karlheinz 1904 Stockhausen, 1928

27 28 29 30 31 Ann Murray, 1949 Shania Twain, 1965 Charlie Parker, 1920 Itzhak Perlman, 1945

Copyright © 2016-2017 Plank Road Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved. SEPTEMBER 2017 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 Johann Pachelbel, 1653 Engelbert Humperdinck, 1854 Seiji Ozawa, 1935 Leonard Slatkin, 1944

3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Nicolo Amati, 1596 Anton Bruckner, 1824 Johann Christian Bach, Buddy Holly, 1936 Anton Dvorak, 1841 Girolamo Frescobaldi, Darius Milhaud, 1892 1735 Patsy Cline, 1932 1583 Giacomo Meyerbeer, 1791 Amy Beach, 1867 John Cage, 1912

10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Jose Feliciano, 1945 Clara Wieck Schumann, Luigi Cherubini, 1760 Bruno Walter, 1876 Nadia Boulanger, 1887 1819 Jessye Norman, 1945 Charlie Byrd, 1925 Arnold Schoenberg, 1874 B. B. King, 1925 Mel Torme, 1925

17 18 19 20 21 22 23 David Ellsworth, 1953 F. “Jelly Roll” Morton, 1885 Gustav Holst, 1874 John Coltrane, 1926 John Riggio, 1968 Ray Charles, 1930 Julio Iglesias, 1943 Bruce Springsteen, 1949

24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Fisher Tull, 1934 Jean-Philippe Rameau, 1683 George Gershwin, 1898 Dimitri Shostakovich, 1906 Glenn Gould, 1932

Copyright © 2016-2017 Plank Road Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved. OCTOBER 2017 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Paul Dukas, 1865 Sting (Gordon Gwen Stefani, 1969 Bob Geldolf, 1951 William Billings, 1746 Vladimir Horowitz, 1904 Sumner), 1951 John Mellencamp, 1951 Yo Yo Ma, 1955 Michael W. Smith, 1957

8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Heinrich Schütz, 1585 Camille Saint-Saëns, 1835 Giuseppe Verdi, 1813 Art Blakey, 1919 Ralph Vaughan Art Tatum, 1909 John Lennon, 1940 Paul Creston, 1906 Williams, 1872 Thelonious Monk, 1917 Luciano Pavarotti, 1935

15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Chuck Berry, 1926 Charles Ives, 1874 George Solti, 1912 Jacques Carpentier, 1933 Robert Craft, 1923 J. B. “Dizzy” Gillespie, Wynton Marsalis, 1961 1917 Malcolm Arnold, 1921

22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Franz Liszt, 1811 Ned Rorem, 1923 Luciano Berio, 1925 Johann Strauss, Jr., 1825 Domenico Scarlatti, 1685 Niccolo Paganini, 1782 Howard Hanson, 1896 “Weird Al” Yankovic, 1959 George Crumb, 1929 Georges Bizet, 1838 Mahalia Jackson, 1911

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Copyright © 2016-2017 Plank Road Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved. NOVEMBER 2017 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 Anne Ellsworth, 1963 Johnny Richards, 1911 Vincenzo Bellini, 1801 Vladimir Ussachevsky, 1911

5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Art Garfunkle, 1941 Adolphe Sax, 1814 Joan Sutherland, 1926 Judith Lang Zaimont, 1945 François Couperin, 1668 John Philip Sousa, 1854 Joni Mitchell, 1943 Bonnie Raitt, 1949 Ennio Morricone, 1928 Gus Kahn, 1886 Tim Rice, 1944

12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Alexander Borodin, 1833 Leopold Mozart, 1719 W. C. Handy, 1873 David Amram, 1930 Carl Maria von Weber, Neil Young, 1945 Johann Hummel, 1778 Paul Hindemith, 1895 1786 Fanny Mendelssohn Ignace Jan Paderewski, Hensel, 1805 1860 Aaron Copland, 1900 Eugene Ormandy, 1899 Wendy Carlos, 1939 Johnny Mercer, 1909

19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Hoagy Carmichael, 1899 Manuel de Falla, 1876 Scott Joplin, 1868 Virgil Thomson, 1896 Benjamin Britten, 1913 Jerry Bock, 1928 Amy Grant, 1960 Gunther Schuller, 1925 Krzysztof Penderecki, 1933

26 27 28 29 30 Tina Turner, 1939 Jean-Baptiste Lully, 1632 Gaetano Donizetti, 1797 Randy Newman, 1943 Billy Strayhorn, 1915

1 2 Bette Midler, 1945

3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Anton von Webern, 1883 Maria Callas, 1923 José Carreras, 1946 Dave Brubeck, 1920 Pietro Mascagni, 1863 Jean Sibelius, 1865 Joshua Bell, 1967 Irving Fine, 1914 Ernst Toch, 1887 Mieczyslaw Weinberg, 1919 James Galway, 1939

10 11 12 13 14 15 16 César Franck, 1822 Hector Berlioz, 1803 Frank Sinatra, 1915 Christopher Stan Kenton, 1911 Ludwig van Beethoven, Olivier Messiaen, 1908 Elliott Carter, 1908 Dionne Warwick, 1940 Parkening, 1947 1770 Morton Gould, 1913 Zoltán Kodály, 1882

17 18 19 20 21 22 23 Antonio Stradivari, 1644 Fritz Reiner, 1888 John Harbison, 1938 Frank Zappa, 1940 Giacomo Puccini, 1858 Edward MacDowell, 1860 Michael Tilson Edgar Varese, 1883 Thomas, 1944

24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Libby Larsen, 1950 Orlando Gibbons, 1583 Phil Spector, 1940 Roger Sessions, 1896 Pablo Casals, 1876 Dmitri Kabalevsky, 1904 Cab Calloway, 1907 Jimmy Buffett, 1946 Barbara Ann Mandrell, 1948

31 Odetta Gordon, 1930 John Denver, 1943