JANUARY 2021 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 Milt Jackson, 1923 Sir Michael Tippett, 1905
3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Victor Borge, 1909 Giovanni Pergolesi, 1710 Alexander Scriabin, 1872 Francis Poulenc, 1899 Lowell Mason, 1792 Joan Baez, 1941 Stephen Stills, 1945 Lionel Newman, 1916 Earl Scruggs, 1924 Ulysses Simpson Kay, Elvis Presley, 1935 Dave Matthews, 1967 A.R. Rahman, 1967 1917 Jean-Pierre Rampal, 1922 Tommy Johnson, 1935
10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Maxwell “Max” Roach, Reinhold Glière, 1875 Albert Schweitzer, 1875 Gene Krupa, 1909 Ethel Merman, 1909 1924 Billy Butterfield, 1917 Marilyn Horne, 1934 Rod Stewart, 1945
17 18 19 20 21 22 23 Eartha Kitt, 1927 Emmanuel Chabrier, Janis Joplin, 1943 Walter Piston, 1894 Placido Domingo, 1941 Samuel Cook, 1931 Muzio Clementi, 1752 1841 Dolly Parton, 1946 Robert Palmer, 1949
24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Norman Dello Joio, 1913 Stéphane Grappelli, 1908 Wolfgang Amadeus Arthur Rubinstein, 1887 Leslie Bricusse, 1931 Neil Diamond, 1941 Eddie Van Halen, 1955 Mozart, 1756 Jerome Kern, 1885
31 Franz Schubert, 1797 Philip Glass, 1937 Phil Collins, 1951
Copyright © 2020-2021 Plank Road Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved. FEBRUARY 2021 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 5 6 Francesco Stradivari, Jascha Heifetz, 1901 Felix Mendelssohn, 1809 Erich Leinsdorf, 1912 Robert “Bob” Marley, 1671 Graham Nash, 1942 Luigi Dallapiccola, 1904 1945 Victor Herbert, 1859 Shakira, 1977 Natalie Cole, 1950 James P. Johnson, 1894 Renata Tebaldi, 1922
7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Eubie Blake, 1883 John Williams, 1932 Alban Berg, 1885 Leontyne Price, 1927 Sergio Mendez, 1941 Roy Harris, 1898 Garth Brooks, 1962 Carole King, 1942 Reena Esmail, 1983
14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Michael Praetorius, 1571 John Corigliano, 1938 Arcangelo Corelli, 1653 Yoko Ono, 1933 Smokey Robinson, 1940 Carl Czerny, 1791 Harold Arlen, 1905 Alec Wilder, 1907 Teresa Jennings, 1956 Karl Hitzemann, 1965
21 22 23 24 25 26 27 Léo Delibes, 1836 Zitkála-Šá, 1876 George Frideric Handel, Michel Legrand, 1932 George Harrison, 1943 Michael Bolton, 1954 Enrico Caruso, 1873 Andrés Segovia, 1893 1685 Rupert Holmes, 1947 Marian Anderson, 1897
28 29 Gioacchino Rossini, 1792 Jimmy Dorsey, 1904
Copyright © 2020-2021 Plank Road Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved. MARCH 2021 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 5 6 Frédéric Chopin, 1810 Bedrich Smetana, 1824 Margaret Bonds, 1913 Antonio Vivaldi, 1678 Heitor Villa-Lobos, 1887 Kiri Te Kanawa, 1944 Glenn Miller, 1904 Kurt Weill, 1900 Mario Davidovsky, 1934 Harry Belafonte, 1927
7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Maurice Ravel, 1875 Carl Philipp Emanuel Samuel Barber, 1910 Carl Ruggles, 1876 Thomas Arne, 1710 Bach, 1714 Randolph Ornette Henry Cowell, 1897 Francis Hall Johnson, Alan Hovaness, 1911 Coleman, 1930 Bobby McFerrin, 1950 1888
14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Georg Philipp Telemann, Christa Ludwig, 1928 Élisabeth Jacquet de La Nikolai Rimsky- Max Reger, 1873 Sister Rosetta Tharpe, 1681 Guerre, 1665 Korsakov, 1844 1915 Dame Elizabeth Johann Strauss, Sr., 1804 Nat “King” Cole, 1917 Charley Pride, 1934 Maconchy, 1907 Quincy Jones, 1933
21 22 23 24 25 26 27 Johann Sebastian Bach, Stephen Sondheim, 1930 Arturo Toscanini, 1867 Pierre Boulez, 1925 Ferde Grofé, 1892 1685 Andrew Lloyd Webber, Béla Bartók, 1881 Diana Ross, 1944 Sarah Vaughan, 1924 Modest Mussorgsky, 1839 1948 Aretha Franklin, 1942 Mstislav Rostropovich, Marian McPartland, 1918 Elton John, 1947 1927
28 29 30 31 Rudolf Serkin, 1903 William Walton, 1902 Franz Joseph Haydn, Richard Rodney Bennett, 1732 1936
Copyright © 2020-2021 Plank Road Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved. APRIL 2021 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 Ferruccio Busoni, 1866 Marvin Gaye, 1939 Sergei Rachmaninoff, 1873
4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Elmer Bernstein, 1922 Herbert von Karajan, Gerry Mulligan, 1927 Billie Holiday, 1915 Florence Price, 1887 Mandy Moore, 1984 Chen Yi, 1953 1908 André Previn, 1929 Ravi Shankar, 1920 Merle Haggard, 1937
11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Joss Stone, 1987 Imogen Holst, 1907 Morton Subotnick, 1933 Bessie Smith, 1894 Henry Mancini, 1924 Herbert “Herbie” R. Carlos Nakai, 1946 Hancock, 1940 DJ Kool Herc, 1955 Vince Gill, 1957
18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Franz von Suppé, 1819 Germaine Tailleferre, Lionel Hampton, 1908 Dame Ethel Smyth, DBE, Sergei Prokofiev, 1891 Joe Henderson, 1937 Leopold Stokowski, 1882 1892 Tito Puente, 1923 1858 Roy Orbison, 1936 John Williams (guitarist), Dudley Moore, 1935 Luther Vandross, 1951 Sir Yehudi Menuhin, 1916 1941 Charles Mingus, 1922 Barbra Streisand, 1942 Michael Colgrass, 1932 Glen Campbell, 1936
25 26 27 28 29 30 Ella Fitzgerald, 1917 Wallingford Riegger, 1885 Franz Lehár, 1870 Albert King, 1923 Edward Kennedy Robert Shaw, 1916 Ellington, 1899 Willie Nelson, 1933 Zubin Mehta, 1936 Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, 1939
Copyright © 2020-2021 Plank Road Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved. MAY 2021 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 Kate Smith, 1909
2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Alessandro Scarlatti, 1660 Bing Crosby, 1903 Marianna Martines, 1744 Johannes Brahms, 1833 Louis Gottschalk, 1829 Lorenz Hart, 1895 Pete Seeger, 1919 Maynard Ferguson, 1928 Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Robert Leroy Johnson, James Brown, 1933 1840 1911
9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Billy Joel, 1949 Milton Babbitt, 1916 Irving Berlin, 1888 Jules Massenet, 1842 Sir Arthur Sullivan, 1842 Otto Klemperer, 1885 Maria Theresia William Grant Still, Jr., Gabriel Fauré, 1845 Gil Evans, 1912 Tania León, 1943 von Paradis, 1759 1895 Stevie Wonder, 1950 Arthur Berger, 1912
16 17 18 19 20 21 22 Woody Herman, 1913 Erik Satie, 1866 Thomas “Fats” Waller, Richard Wagner, 1813 Janet Jackson, 1966 Peter Mennin, 1923 1904 Sean Gill, 1976
23 24 25 26 27 28 29 Bob Dylan, 1941 Beverly Sills, 1929 Miles Davis, 1926 Thea Musgrave, 1928 György Ligeti, 1923 Isaac Albéniz, 1860 Mike Wilson, 1957 Eric Korngold, 1897 Yannis Xenakis, 1922
30 31 Benny Goodman, 1909 Louise Farrenc, 1804 Peter Yarrow, 1938
Copyright © 2020-2021 Plank Road Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved. JUNE 2021 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 5 Mikhail Glinka, 1804 Edward Elgar, 1857 Brent Michael Davids, 1959
6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Aram Khatchaturian, George Szell, 1897 Tomaso Albinoni, 1671 Carl Nielsen, 1865 Frederick Loewe, 1901 Richard Strauss, 1864 Chick Corea, 1941 1903 Robert Schumann, 1810 Cole Porter, 1891 Judy Garland, 1922 Vincent Persichetti, 1915 Les Paul, 1915 Charles Wuorinen, 1938
13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Carlos Chávez, 1899 Edvard Grieg, 1843 Francis “Frank” Johnson, Charles Gounod, 1818 Sammy Cahn, 1913 Donald Riggio, 1926 Otto Luening, 1900 1792 James Weldon Johnson, Joan Trimble, 1915 Errol Garner, 1921 1871 Jim Pepper, 1941 Igor Stravinsky, 1882 Paul McCartney, 1942
20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Jacques Offenbach, 1819 Harry Partch, 1901 Carly Simon, 1945 Jacob Druckman, 1928 Lionel Richie, 1949
27 28 29 30 George Theophilus Richard Rodgers, 1902 Leroy Anderson, 1908 Lena Horne, 1917 Walker, 1922 Bernard Herrmann, 1911
Copyright © 2020-2021 Plank Road Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved. JULY 2021 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 Thomas A. Dorsey, 1899 Christoph W. von Gluck, Leos Janácek, 1854 1714 Ruth Crawford Seeger, Frederick Fennell, 1914 1901 Pete Fountain, 1930
4 5 6 7 8 9 10 William Byrd, 1623 (date Wanda Landowska, 1879 Gustav Mahler, 1860 Percy Grainger, 1882 Ottorino Respighi, 1879 Carl Orff, 1895 of death)* Gordon Jacob, 1895 Gian Carlo Menotti, 1911 Louis Ballard, 1931 David Diamond, 1915 Arlo Guthrie, 1947 Stephen Collins Foster, Paul Jennings, 1948 Doc Severinsen, 1927 Zhou Long, 1953 1826 Ringo Starr, 1940
11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Anna Thorvaldsdottir, Van Cliburn, 1934 Karl Erb, 1877 Woody Guthrie, 1912 Julian Bream, 1933 Pinchas Zukerman, 1948 Peter Schickele, 1935 1977 Linda Ronstadt, 1946 P.D.Q. Bach, 1??? Phoebe Snow, 1952
18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Carlos Santana, 1947 Isaac Stern, 1920 Ernest Bloch, 1880 Billy Taylor, 1921 Peter Serkin, 1947
25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Jerod Impichchaachaaha’ Serge Koussevitsky, 1874 Frank Loesser, 1910 David Sanborn, 1945 Tate, 1968 Mick Jagger, 1943
Copyright © 2020-2021 Plank Road Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved. AUGUST 2021 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Lionel Bart, 1930 Arthur Bliss, 1891 Tony Bennett, 1926 Louis Armstrong, 1901 Barbara Strozzi aka Karel Husa, 1921 Jerry Garcia, 1942 William Schuman, 1910 Barbara Valle, 1619 Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Caroline Adelaide Shaw, 1935 1982
8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Cécile Chaminade, 1857 Whitney Elizabeth Alexander Glazunov, J. Rosamond Johnson, Giovanni Gabrieli, 1612 John Ireland, 1879 Houston, 1963 1865 1873 (date of death)* Kathleen Battle, 1948
15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Jacques Ibert, 1890 Bill Evans, 1929 Antonio Salieri, 1750 Lili Boulanger, 1893 Lukas Foss, 1922 Tan Dun, 1957 William “Count” Basie, Oscar Peterson, 1925 1904
22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Claude Debussy, 1862 Ernst Krenek, 1900 Stephen Paulus, 1949 Leonard Bernstein, 1918 Branford Marsalis, 1960 Rebecca Clarke, 1886 Shania Twain, 1965 Karlheinz Lester Young, 1909 Stockhausen, 1928 Ann Murray, 1949
29 30 31 Charlie Parker, 1920 Itzhak Perlman, 1945
Copyright © 2020-2021 Plank Road Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved. SEPTEMBER 2021 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 Johann Pachelbel, 1653 Lili’uokalani, 1838 Nicolo Amati, 1596 Anton Bruckner, 1824 Engelbert Humperdinck, Darius Milhaud, 1892 1854 Beyoncé, 1981 Seiji Ozawa, 1935 Leonard Slatkin, 1944
5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Johann Christian Bach, Joan Tower, 1938 Walter “Sonny” Rollins, Anton Dvorak, 1841 Girolamo Frescobaldi, Jose Feliciano, 1945 1735 1930 Patsy Cline, 1932 1583 Giacomo Meyerbeer, Buddy Holly, 1936 1791 Amy Beach, 1867 John Cage, 1912
12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Clara Wieck Schumann, Luigi Cherubini, 1760 Bruno Walter, 1876 Nadia Boulanger, 1887 St. Hildegard von Bingen, Francesca Caccini, 1587 1819 Jessye Norman, 1945 Charlie Byrd, 1925 1179 (date of death)* Arnold Schoenberg, 1874 B. B. King, 1925 David Ellsworth, 1953 Mel Torme, 1925 John Riggio, 1968
19 20 21 22 23 24 25 F. “Jelly Roll” Morton, Gustav Holst, 1874 John Coltrane, 1926 Fisher Tull, 1934 Jean-Philippe Rameau, 1885 Ray Charles, 1930 1683 Julio Iglesias, 1943 Dimitri Shostakovich, 1906 Bruce Springsteen, 1949 Glenn Gould, 1932
26 27 28 29 30 George Gershwin, 1898 Gabriela Frank, 1972
Copyright © 2020-2021 Plank Road Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved. OCTOBER 2021 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 Paul Dukas, 1865 Sting (Gordon Sumner), Vladimir Horowitz, 1904 1951
3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Gwen Stefani, 1969 Bob Geldolf, 1951 William Billings, 1746 Heinrich Schütz, 1585 Camille Saint-Saëns, 1835 John Mellencamp, 1951 John Lennon, 1940 Yo Yo Ma, 1955 Michael W. Smith, 1957
10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Giuseppe Verdi, 1813 George Bridgetower, 1778 Ralph Vaughan Williams, Art Tatum, 1909 Kaija Anneli Saariaho, Paul Creston, 1906 Art Blakey, 1919 1872 Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, 1952 Thelonious Monk, 1917 Luciano Pavarotti, 1935 1948
17 18 19 20 21 22 23 Chuck Berry, 1926 Charles Ives, 1874 George Solti, 1912 Franz Liszt, 1811 Ned Rorem, 1923 Jacques Carpentier, 1933 Robert Craft, 1923 J. B. “Dizzy” Gillespie, “Weird Al” Yankovic, Wynton Marsalis, 1961 1917 1959 Esperanza Emily Malcolm Arnold, 1921 Spalding, 1984 Lera Auerbach, 1973
24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Luciano Berio, 1925 Johann Strauss, Jr., 1825 Domenico Scarlatti, 1685 Niccolo Paganini, 1782 Howard Hanson, 1896 George Crumb, 1929 Georges Bizet, 1838 Mahalia Jackson, 1911 Missy Mazzoli, 1980
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Copyright © 2020-2021 Plank Road Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved. NOVEMBER 2021 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 5 6 Anne Ellsworth, 1963 Johnny Richards, 1911 Vincenzo Bellini, 1801 Art Garfunkle, 1941 Adolphe Sax, 1814 Vladimir Ussachevsky, John Philip Sousa, 1854 1911 Gus Kahn, 1886
7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Joan Sutherland, 1926 Judith Lang Zaimont, Princess Anna Amalia of François Couperin, 1668 Alexander Borodin, 1833 Joni Mitchell, 1943 1945 Prussia, 1723 Ennio Morricone, 1928 Neil Young, 1945 Bonnie Raitt, 1949 Tim Rice, 1944
14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Leopold Mozart, 1719 W. C. Handy, 1873 David Amram, 1930 Carl Maria von Weber, Tawnie Olson, 1974 Johann Hummel, 1778 Paul Hindemith, 1895 1786 Fanny Mendelssohn Ignace Jan Paderewski, Hensel, 1805 1860 Aaron Copland, 1900 Eugene Ormandy, 1899 Ellis Marsalis, Jr., 1934 Johnny Mercer, 1909 Wendy Carlos, 1939
21 22 23 24 25 26 27 Coleman Hawkins, 1904 Hoagy Carmichael, 1899 Manuel de Falla, 1876 Scott Joplin, 1868 Virgil Thomson, 1896 Tina Turner, 1939 James “Jimi” Hendrix, Benjamin Britten, 1913 Jerry Bock, 1928 Theodore “Teddy” Shaw Amy Grant, 1960 1942 Gunther Schuller, 1925 Krzysztof Penderecki, Wilson, 1912 1933
28 29 30 Jean-Baptiste Lully, 1632 Gaetano Donizetti, 1797 Randy Newman, 1943 Billy Strayhorn, 1915
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1 2 3 4 Bette Midler, 1945 Anton von Webern, 1883 Maria Callas, 1923 Irving Fine, 1914 Jay-Z, 1969
5 6 7 8 9 10 11 José Carreras, 1946 Dave Brubeck, 1920 Pietro Mascagni, 1863 Jean Sibelius, 1865 Joshua Bell, 1967 César Franck, 1822 Hector Berlioz, 1803 Bright Sheng, 1955 Ernst Toch, 1887 Mieczyslaw Weinberg, Olivier Messiaen, 1908 Elliott Carter, 1908 1919 Morton Gould, 1913 Rachel Portman, 1960 James Galway, 1939
12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Frank Sinatra, 1915 Christopher Parkening, Stan Kenton, 1911 Ludwig van Beethoven, Antonio Stradivari, 1644 Toshiko Akiyoshi, 1929 1947 1770 Edward MacDowell, 1860 Dionne Warwick, 1940 Zoltán Kodály, 1882 James Fletcher Julie Giroux, 1961 Alice Parker, 1925 Henderson, 1897 Julia Wolfe, 1958
19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Joseph “King” Oliver, John Harbison, 1938 Frank Zappa, 1940 Giacomo Puccini, 1858 Libby Larsen, 1950 Orlando Gibbons, 1583 1881 Michael Tilson Thomas, Edgar Varese, 1883 Chevalier de Saint- Fritz Reiner, 1888 1944 Georges, 1745 Cab Calloway, 1907 Jimmy Buffett, 1946 Barbara Ann Mandrell, 1948
26 27 28 29 30 31 Phil Spector, 1940 Roger Sessions, 1896 Pablo Casals, 1876 Dmitri Kabalevsky, 1904 Odetta Gordon, 1930 John Denver, 1943 Jennifer Higdon, 1962
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