JANUARY 2018 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 5 6 Milt Jackson, 1923 Sir Michael Tippett, 1905 Victor Borge, 1909 Giovanni Pergolesi, 1710 Alexander Scriabin, Stephen Stills, 1945 Lionel Newman, 1916 1872 Earl Scruggs, 1924
7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Francis Poulenc, 1899 Lowell Mason, 1792 Joan Baez, 1941 Rod Stewart, 1945 Reinhold Glière, 1875 Ulysses Simpson Kay, 1917 Elvis Presley, 1935 Dave Matthews, 1967 Jean-Pierre Rampal, 1922 Tommy Johnson, 1935
14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Albert Schweitzer, 1875 Gene Krupa, 1909 Ethel Merman, 1909 Eartha Kitt, 1927 Emmanuel Chabrier, 1841 Janis Joplin, 1943 Walter Piston, 1894 Billy Butterfield, 1917 Marilyn Horne, 1934 Dolly Parton, 1946 Robert Palmer, 1949
21 22 23 24 25 26 27 Placido Domingo, 1941 Muzio Clementi, 1752 Norman Dello Joio, 1913 Stéphane Grappelli, 1908 Wolfgang Amadeus Neil Diamond, 1941 Eddie Van Halen, 1955 Mozart, 1756 Jerome Kern, 1885
28 29 30 31 Arthur Rubinstein, 1887 Leslie Bricusse, 1931 Franz Schubert, 1797 Philip Glass, 1937 Phil Collins, 1951
Copyright © 2017-2018 Plank Road Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved. FEBRUARY 2018 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 Francesco Stradivari, 1671 Jascha Heifetz, 1901 Felix Mendelssohn, 1809 Victor Herbert, 1859 Graham Nash, 1942 Luigi Dallapiccola, 1904 James P. Johnson, 1894 Shakira, 1977 Renata Tebaldi, 1922
4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Erich Leinsdorf, 1912 Natalie Cole, 1950 Eubie Blake, 1883 John Williams, 1932 Alban Berg, 1885 Leontyne Price, 1927 Garth Brooks, 1962 Carole King, 1942
11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Sergio Mendez, 1941 Roy Harris, 1898 Michael Praetorius, John Corigliano, 1938 Arcangelo Corelli, 1653 1571 Alec Wilder, 1907 Harold Arlen, 1905
18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Yoko Ono, 1933 Smokey Robinson, 1940 Carl Czerny, 1791 Léo Delibes, 1836 George Frideric Handel, Michel Legrand, 1932 Teresa Jennings, 1956 Andrés Segovia, 1893 1685 Rupert Holmes, 1947 Karl Hitzemann, 1965
25 26 27 28 29 George Harrison, 1943 Michael Bolton, 1954 Enrico Caruso, 1873 Gioacchino Rossini, 1792 Jimmy Dorsey, 1904
Copyright © 2017-2018 Plank Road Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved. MARCH 2018 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 Frédéric Chopin, 1810 Bedrich Smetana, 1824 Glenn Miller, 1904 Kurt Weill, 1900 Harry Belafonte, 1927
4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Antonio Vivaldi, 1678 Heitor Villa-Lobos, 1887 Kiri Te Kanawa, 1944 Maurice Ravel, 1875 Carl Philipp Emanuel Samuel Barber, 1910 Mario Davidovsky, Bach, 1714 1934 Alan Hovaness, 1911
11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Carl Ruggles, 1876 Thomas Arne, 1710 Georg Philipp Christa Ludwig, 1928 Nat “King” Cole, 1917 Henry Cowell, 1897 Telemann, 1681 Bobby McFerrin, 1950 Johann Strauss, Sr., 1804 Quincy Jones, 1933
18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Nikolai Rimsky- Max Reger, 1873 Johann Sebastian Bach, Stephen Sondheim, 1930 Korsakov, 1844 1685 Andrew Lloyd Webber, Modest Mussorgsky, 1839 1948 Marian McPartland, 1918
25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Arturo Toscanini, 1867 Pierre Boulez, 1925 Ferde Grofé, 1892 Rudolf Serkin, 1903 William Walton, 1902 Franz Joseph Haydn, Béla Bartók, 1881 Diana Ross, 1944 Sarah Vaughan, 1924 Richard Rodney 1732 Aretha Franklin, 1942 Mstislav Rostropovich, Bennett, 1936 Elton John, 1947 1927
Copyright © 2017-2018 Plank Road Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved. APRIL 2018 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Ferruccio Busoni, 1866 Marvin Gaye, 1939 Elmer Bernstein, Herbert von Karajan, 1908 Gerry Mulligan, 1927 Billie Holiday, 1915 Sergei Rachmaninoff, 1922 André Previn, 1929 1873 Merle Haggard, 1937
8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Mandy Moore, 1984 Joss Stone, 1987 Imogen Holst, 1907 Morton Subotnick, 1933 Vince Gill, 1957
15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Bessie Smith, 1894 Henry Mancini, 1924 Franz von Suppé, 1819 Dudley Moore, 1935 Lionel Hampton, 1908 Leopold Stokowski, 1882 Tito Puente, 1923 Luther Vandross, 1951
22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Sir Yehudi Menuhin, 1916 Sergei Prokofiev, 1891 Joe Henderson, 1937 Ella Fitzgerald, 1917 Charles Mingus, 1922 Roy Orbison, 1936 John Williams Albert King, 1923 Michael Colgrass, 1932 (guitarist), 1941 Glen Campbell, 1936 Barbra Streisand, 1942
29 30 Wallingford Riegger, 1885 Franz Lehár, 1870 Edward Kennedy Robert Shaw, 1916 Ellington, 1899 Willie Nelson, 1933 Zubin Mehta, 1936
Copyright © 2017-2018 Plank Road Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved. MAY 2018 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 5 Kate Smith, 1909 Alessandro Scarlatti, 1660 Bing Crosby, 1903 Maynard Ferguson, 1928 Lorenz Hart, 1895 Pete Seeger, 1919 James Brown, 1933
6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Johannes Brahms, 1833 Louis Gottschalk, 1829 Billy Joel, 1949 Milton Babbitt, 1916 Irving Berlin, 1888 Jules Massenet, 1842 Peter Ilyich Gabriel Fauré, 1845 Tchaikovsky, 1840
13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Sir Arthur Sullivan, Otto Klemperer, 1885 Arthur Berger, 1912 Woody Herman, 1913 Erik Satie, 1866 1842 Janet Jackson, 1966 Peter Mennin, 1923 Gil Evans, 1912 Stevie Wonder, 1950
20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Thomas “Fats” Waller, 1904 Richard Wagner, 1813 Bob Dylan, 1941 Beverly Sills, 1929 Miles Davis, 1926 Sean Gill, 1976
27 28 29 30 31 Thea Musgrave, 1928 György Ligeti, 1923 Isaac Albéniz, 1860 Benny Goodman, 1909 Peter Yarrow, 1938 Mike Wilson, 1957 Eric Korngold, 1897 Yannis Xenakis, 1922
Copyright © 2017-2018 Plank Road Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved. JUNE 2018 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 Mikhail Glinka, 1804 Edward Elgar, 1857
3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Aram Khatchaturian, 1903 George Szell, 1897 Tomaso Albinoni, 1671 Carl Nielsen, 1865 Vincent Persichetti, 1915 Robert Schumann, 1810 Cole Porter, 1891 Les Paul, 1915 Charles Wuorinen, 1938
10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Frederick Loewe, 1901 Richard Strauss, 1864 Chick Corea, 1941 Carlos Chávez, 1899 Edvard Grieg, 1843 Judy Garland, 1922 Donald Riggio, 1926 Otto Luening, 1900 Errol Garner, 1921
17 18 19 20 21 22 23 Charles Gounod, 1818 Sammy Cahn, 1913 Jacques Offenbach, 1819 Igor Stravinsky, 1882 Paul McCartney, 1942 Lionel Richie, 1949
24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Harry Partch, 1901 Carly Simon, 1945 Jacob Druckman, 1928 Richard Rodgers, 1902 Leroy Anderson, 1908 Lena Horne, 1917 Bernard Herrmann, 1911
Copyright © 2017-2018 Plank Road Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved. JULY 2018 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Thomas A. Dorsey, 1899 Christoph W. von Gluck, Leos Janácek, 1854 * William Byrd, 1623 (date Wanda Landowska, 1879 Gustav Mahler, 1860 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
8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Percy Grainger, 1882 Ottorino Respighi, 1879 Carl Orff, 1895 Van Cliburn, 1934 Karl Erb, 1877 Woody Guthrie, 1912 David Diamond, 1915 Arlo Guthrie, 1947
15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Julian Bream, 1933 Pinchas Zukerman, 1948 Peter Schickele, 1935 Carlos Santana, 1947 Isaac Stern, 1920 Linda Ronstadt, 1946 P.D.Q. Bach, 1??? Phoebe Snow, 1952
22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Ernest Bloch, 1880 Serge Koussevitsky, Billy Taylor, 1921 1874 Peter Serkin, 1947 Mick Jagger, 1943
29 30 31 Frank Loesser, 1910 David Sanborn, 1945
Copyright © 2017-2018 Plank Road Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved. AUGUST 2018 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 Lionel Bart, 1930 Arthur Bliss, 1891 Tony Bennett, 1926 Louis Armstrong, 1901 Jerry Garcia, 1942 William Schuman, 1910
5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Karel Husa, 1921 Cécile Chaminade, 1857 Alexander Glazunov, 1865
12 13 14 15 16 17 18 * Giovanni Gabrieli, John Ireland, 1879 Jacques Ibert, 1890 Bill Evans, 1929 Antonio Salieri, 1750 1612 (date of death) Kathleen Battle, 1948 Lukas Foss, 1922 Oscar Peterson, 1925
19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Lili Boulanger, 1893 Claude Debussy, 1862 Ernst Krenek, 1900 Stephen Paulus, 1949 Leonard Bernstein, 1918 William “Count” Basie, Karlheinz 1904 Stockhausen, 1928
26 27 28 29 30 31 Branford Marsalis, 1960 Ann Murray, 1949 Shania Twain, 1965 Charlie Parker, 1920 Itzhak Perlman, 1945
Copyright © 2017-2018 Plank Road Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved. SEPTEMBER 2018 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 Johann Pachelbel, 1653 Engelbert Humperdinck, 1854 Seiji Ozawa, 1935 Leonard Slatkin, 1944
2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Nicolo Amati, 1596 Anton Bruckner, 1824 Johann Christian Bach, Buddy Holly, 1936 Anton Dvorak, 1841 Darius Milhaud, 1892 1735 Patsy Cline, 1932 Giacomo Meyerbeer, 1791 Amy Beach, 1867 John Cage, 1912
9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Girolamo Frescobaldi, 1583 Jose Feliciano, 1945 Clara Wieck Schumann, Luigi Cherubini, 1760 Bruno Walter, 1876 1819 Jessye Norman, 1945 Arnold Schoenberg, 1874 Mel Torme, 1925
16 17 18 19 20 21 22 Nadia Boulanger, 1887 David Ellsworth, 1953 F. “Jelly Roll” Morton, 1885 Gustav Holst, 1874 Charlie Byrd, 1925 John Riggio, 1968 B. B. King, 1925
23 24 25 26 27 28 29 John Coltrane, 1926 Fisher Tull, 1934 Jean-Philippe Rameau, George Gershwin, 1898 Ray Charles, 1930 1683 Julio Iglesias, 1943 Dimitri Shostakovich, 1906 Bruce Springsteen, 1949 Glenn Gould, 1932
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Copyright © 2017-2018 Plank Road Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved. OCTOBER 2018 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 5 6 Paul Dukas, 1865 Sting (Gordon Gwen Stefani, 1969 Bob Geldolf, 1951 Vladimir Horowitz, 1904 Sumner), 1951
7 8 9 10 11 12 13 William Billings, 1746 Heinrich Schütz, 1585 Camille Saint-Saëns, 1835 Giuseppe Verdi, 1813 Art Blakey, 1919 Ralph Vaughan Art Tatum, 1909 John Mellencamp, 1951 John Lennon, 1940 Paul Creston, 1906 Williams, 1872 Yo Yo Ma, 1955 Thelonious Monk, 1917 Luciano Pavarotti, 1935 Michael W. Smith, 1957
14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Chuck Berry, 1926 Charles Ives, 1874 Jacques Carpentier, 1933 Robert Craft, 1923 Wynton Marsalis, 1961
21 22 23 24 25 26 27 George Solti, 1912 Franz Liszt, 1811 Ned Rorem, 1923 Luciano Berio, 1925 Johann Strauss, Jr., 1825 Domenico Scarlatti, 1685 Niccolo Paganini, 1782 J. B. “Dizzy” Gillespie, 1917 “Weird Al” Yankovic, 1959 George Crumb, 1929 Georges Bizet, 1838 Mahalia Jackson, 1911 Malcolm Arnold, 1921
28 29 30 31 Howard Hanson, 1896
Copyright © 2017-2018 Plank Road Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved. NOVEMBER 2018 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 Anne Ellsworth, 1963 Johnny Richards, 1911 Vincenzo Bellini, 1801 Vladimir Ussachevsky, 1911
4 5 6 7 8 9 10 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
11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Alexander Borodin, 1833 Leopold Mozart, 1719 W. C. Handy, 1873 David Amram, 1930 Neil Young, 1945 Johann Hummel, 1778 Paul Hindemith, 1895 Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, 1805 Aaron Copland, 1900 Wendy Carlos, 1939
18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Carl Maria von Weber, Hoagy Carmichael, 1899 Manuel de Falla, 1876 Scott Joplin, 1868 1786 Benjamin Britten, 1913 Jerry Bock, 1928 Ignace Jan Paderewski, Gunther Schuller, 1925 Krzysztof Penderecki, 1860 1933 Eugene Ormandy, 1899 Johnny Mercer, 1909
25 26 27 28 29 30 Virgil Thomson, 1896 Tina Turner, 1939 Jean-Baptiste Lully, 1632 Gaetano Donizetti, 1797 Amy Grant, 1960 Randy Newman, 1943 Billy Strayhorn, 1915
Copyright © 2017-2018 Plank Road Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved. DECEMBER 2018 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
1 Bette Midler, 1945
2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Anton von Webern, 1883 Maria Callas, 1923 José Carreras, 1946 Dave Brubeck, 1920 Pietro Mascagni, 1863 Jean Sibelius, 1865 Irving Fine, 1914 Ernst Toch, 1887 Mieczyslaw Weinberg, 1919 James Galway, 1939
9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Joshua Bell, 1967 César Franck, 1822 Hector Berlioz, 1803 Frank Sinatra, 1915 Christopher Stan Kenton, 1911 Olivier Messiaen, 1908 Elliott Carter, 1908 Dionne Warwick, 1940 Parkening, 1947 Morton Gould, 1913
16 17 18 19 20 21 22 Ludwig van Beethoven, Antonio Stradivari, 1644 Fritz Reiner, 1888 John Harbison, 1938 Frank Zappa, 1940 Giacomo Puccini, 1858 1770 Edward MacDowell, 1860 Michael Tilson Edgar Varese, 1883 Zoltán Kodály, 1882 Thomas, 1944
23 24 25 26 27 28 29 Libby Larsen, 1950 Orlando Gibbons, 1583 Phil Spector, 1940 Roger Sessions, 1896 Pablo Casals, 1876 Cab Calloway, 1907 Jimmy Buffett, 1946 Barbara Ann Mandrell, 1948
30 31 Dmitri Kabalevsky, 1904 Odetta Gordon, 1930 John Denver, 1943
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