DECEMBER 2008 BIRTHDAYS
 December Birthdays | |
| 8 | CARLA MAFFIOLETTI |
| 14 |
KLAARTJE POLMAN |
| 15 |
ED FARRINGTON |
| 16 | JEAN PHILIPPE RIEU |
| 25 | FRANK STEIJNS |
| 29 | STEPHANIE DETRY |
| 31 | MARGRIET VAN LEXMOND |
December Birthdays | |
| 8 | CARLA MAFFIOLETTI |
| 14 |
KLAARTJE POLMAN |
| 15 |
ED FARRINGTON |
| 16 | JEAN PHILIPPE RIEU |
| 25 | FRANK STEIJNS |
| 29 | STEPHANIE DETRY |
| 31 | MARGRIET VAN LEXMOND |
I know she is not with them, but Carla's birthday is December 8.
Thank You Viriginia ! I added her name and birthdate to the Entry for Bill.
Any Fans out there want to add their Birthday? You can enter it on the main Birthday Page, or let us know here
Happy Birthday Carla!
May you have all your Dreams come True
HAPPY BIRTHDAY CARLA, WE LOVE YOU AND THINK OF YOU. HOPE, YOU READ OUR BLOG. ENJOY YOUR BIRTHDAY!
Happy Birthday Carla. I hope you have many more of these wonderful, beautiful days!
Thanks for the Jean Philippe, Shirley!
A VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU CARLA!
I HOPE YOU HAVE A WONDERFUL DAY!
MAY ALL YOUR DREAMS COME TRUE, AND
I WISH HAPPINESS FOR YOU ALWAYS.
STOP BY AND SEE US SOMETIME! J
Querida Carla, te desejo toda a felicidade do mundo no seu aniversário.
Parabéns
To all the JSO & Jean Philippe, I wish you as beautiful a life as your music has given me. Thank you for the music and HAPPY BIRTHDAY.
Ira Gershwin
Lyrical composer, best remembered for his compositions with his equally talented younger brother, George Gershwin. They are responsible for such hit songs as "Someone to Watch over Me" (1926), "Love Walked In" (1937), "Love is Here to Stay" (1937), "Rhapsody in Blue" (1924), and for such musicals as "Of Thee I sing" (1931 - the first musical to ever win a Pulitzer Prize), and "Porgy and Bess" (1935).
Born in New York City to Russian-Jewish immigrant parents, he was trained on the piano early by his mother, who felt music was important to a growing child. While attending the City College of New York, he began writing verse and short poetry bits to the various newspapers. After college, while working as a desk attendant in a Turkish Bath, he began a tentative collaboration with his brother, George, and their first song together, "The Real American Folk Song is a Rag"(1919) was heard in Nora Bayes' "Ladies First" (1919). For a while, Ira used the pseudonym of Arthur Francis, combining the first names of his brother, Arthur, and sister, Frances. Under this pen name, he supplied lyrics for the Broadway show "Two Little Girls in Blue" (1921). By 1924, he began a successful collaboration with his brother, George, and dropped the use of his nom de plume. After George's death in 1937, Ira continued to collaborate with such composers as Harold Arlen, Vernon Duke, Kurt Weil, Jerome Kern, and Harry Warren. For his achievements in film scoring, Ira Gershwin was nominated three times for Academy Award Oscars, for the songs "They Can't Take That Away From Me", "Long Ago and Far Away," "and "The Man That Got Away." In 1966, he received an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Maryland. In 1992, a Tony Award for best musical was given to "Crazy For You" (1992), which Ira had written the lyrics for. Ira continuously watched over the Gershwin legacy by donating manuscripts and materials that he and his brother, George, had collaborated on to the Library of Congress, to become part of the American Heritage. Ira Gershwin would die in his sleep in 1983 at his home in Beverly Hills, California, the home that he shared with his wife of 56 years, Leonore. In 1973, the US Postal Service honored the Gershwins with an 8-cent postage stamp in the American Art series. In 1985, Congress awarded a Congressional Gold Medal to the Gershwin brothers, to honor their contribution to the American Spirit. In 1998, the men won a posthumous special Pulitzer Prize, which was awarded on the centennial of his brother's birth.
Karl Haas
Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
Wayne County Michigan, USA
Revered radio personality and musician whose syndicated program “Adventures in Good Music” was the longest running and most popular daily classical radio program in both national and international broadcast history. Karl brought musical enjoyment and appreciation of classical music to millions of connoisseurs and laymen, and was for many years the most listened to classical music radio program in the world, carried by hundreds of stations in the United States, Australia, Mexico, Panama and world-wide via Armed Forces Radio. Mr. Haas had a great talent for informing, inspiring and delighting his listeners with his vast knowledge of music. Haas began his broadcasting career in 1950 hosting a weekly preview of Detroit Symphony Orchestra concerts. In 1959, Adventures in Good Music was born when WJR, Detroit, offered him a prime-time morning slot to create a one-hour program of classical music and commentary. Born in Speyer am Rhein, Germany, where his mother instructed his first piano lessons, young Karl formed a piano trio with some local friends at age 12. He later studied at the Mannheim Conservatory and the University of Heidelberg. With the increase of Nazism, Mr. Haas and his family fled Germany in 1936 for the USA, where he studied at Detroit's Netzorg School of Music with frequent visits to New York to study under legendary pianist, Artur Schnabel. "Adventures in Good Music" has twice won the coveted George Peabody Award for excellence in broadcasting. The French Government presented Mr. Haas with both the "Officier d'académie" and "Chevalier de l'ordre des arts et lettres" awards; Germany awarded him the "First Class Order of Merit." In 1991 Mr. Haas received the National Endowment for the Humanities' prestigious Charles Frankel Award at a White House ceremony. He also has received eight honorary doctorates and several other academic awards. His popular book, "Inside Music" (1984), is now in its tenth printing and is currently being published in Italian.
Dear Carla, I wish you the happiest birthday and lots of success in your career, miss you in the André concerts, come back to us !!!!!!! Inge and Vic Cossette
Dear Carla ,
An André concert just isn't complete without a solo from you.
I've attended 3 concerts, all here in Phoenix, Arizona.
Only once, in Dec 2005, have you been part of the concert & you didn't have any solos.
I'm really hoping you will be part of the upcoming 23 June 2009 concert here in Phoenix & that you will sing SOLO.
DEAR KLAARTJE
I HOPE YOU HAVE THE VERY BEST BIRTHDAY YET.
MAY YOUR DAY BE FILLED WITH HAPPINESS
DEAR EDWIN - THANK YOU FOR HELPING US IN WWII. I WISH THIS TO BE YOUR BEST BIRTHDAY EVER WITH MANY MORE TO FOLLOW.
Hello Dear Edwin,
I hope this birthday will be filled with love and laughter and that all your wishes come true. Thank you for your service to our country.
Happy Birthday dear Kaartje. I hope you have a wonderful day and many more to come. Thank you for the music.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY KLAARTJE! MANY, MANY MORE. THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THE WONDERFUL MUSIC.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY EDWIN. THANKS FOR YOUR SERVICE. ENJOY MANY, MANY MORE!
Happy Birthday Edwin! Thank you for your service to our country. From one André Rieu Fan to another.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY KLAARTJE!
THANK YOU FOR ALL THE MUSIC!
I HOPE YOUR DAY IS A BEAUTIFUL ONE!
BEST WISHES ALWAYS!
A SPECIAL HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU EDWIN!
I HOPE YOU HAVE A WONDERFUL TIME WITH
FAMILY AND FRIENDS ON YOUR SPECIAL DAY.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE TO OUR
COUNTRY, YOU TRULY MADE A DIFFERENCE! J
Happy Birthday Klaartje .
Thanks for being part of the west coast tour in 2007. I saw & photographed you in Dec 2007 here in Phoenix.
I hope you will be part of the 23 June 2009 concert here in Phoenix.
I have center section, front row seats & will be looking to photograph you again in your traditional orange colored gown
HAPPY BIRTDAY! JEAN PHILIPPE RIEU. THANKS FOR THE BEAUTIFUL COMPOSITIONS!
Happy Birthday Jean Philippe. Thank you so much for the beautiful music.
Happy Birthday to "all" of our December
BIRTHDAY hero's who have given us many years and hours of Beautiful music to soothe our souls and bring so much happiness to our planet for "Peace On Earth, Good Will Towards" all our friends, family and new Aussie Fans all over the world. May we never loose the smiles and good feelings that our JSO Family bring to everyone. Love & Peace
HAPPY BIRTHDAY JEAN-PHILIPPE!!
I WISH YOU ALL THE BEST AND HAPPINESS ALWAYS.
AND BEAUTY IN YOUR MUSICAL COMPOSITIONS,YOU HAVE WRITTEN SO MUCH ABOUT LOVE AND PEACE,
HAPPINESS
THAT I WISH THE SAME TO YOU ON THIS YOUR BIRTHDAY.
MAY YOUR BIRTHDAY BRING YOU ALL YOUR HEARTS DESIRE!
HAVE A VERY FUN DAY!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY JEAN PHILIPPE
THANK YOU FOR THE BEAUTIFUL MUSIC
MAY YOUR DAY BE FILLED WITH HAPPINESS
Arthur Fiedler
Born in Boston, Massachusetts, the son Emanuel Fiedler, an Austrian-born violinist, and a pianist mother. In 1909, his father took him to Berlin to study violin with Willy Hess. Fiedler also studied chamber music with Ernst von Dohnányi at the Royal Academy in Berlin. He returned to the United States in 1915 and joined the Boston Symphony Orchestra as second violin under conductor Karl Muck.
In 1924, he formed the Boston Sinfonietta, a chamber music orchestra. He later organized a series of free outdoor summer concerts at the Esplanade on the Charles River in Boston. In 1930, Fiedler was appointed the eighteenth conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra. Fiedler deliberately kept performances informal and light and made the Pops the best-known orchestra in the country. Under Fiedler’s direction, the Boston Pops made more recordings than any other orchestra in the world. During his long tenure at the head of the Pops, sales of albums recorded by them exceeded $50 million.
His unique style, musicality, and the appealingly informality in which he presented his concerts made Fiedler a great popularizer of classical music. Fiedler’s popularity also labeled him a rarity; a classical crossover superstar. His many albums on RCA Victor, Polydor, and Deutsche Gramaphon records included "Strauss Family Waltzes," "Old-Timer's Night at the Pops," "Gaite Parisienne," "Evening at Pops," "'Pops' Goes the Trumpet", "Fiedler's All-Time Favorites," "Star Dust," "Irish Night at the Pops," and, "The Best of Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops." His Esplanade concert of July 4, 1976, was heard by over 400,000 people and was entered into the Guinness Book of World Records the largest single audience for a classical music concert.
Fiedler would also appear with the San Francisco Symphony in pops programs from 1951 to 1978. He made guest appearances with other orchestras including the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, and the New York Philharmonic.
In 1954 the city of Boston dedicated the Arthur Fiedler Foot Bridge on the Charles River. He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom at a White House ceremony in 1977, and that same year was given the Freedoms Foundation American Exemplar Award. He directed the Pops for almost fifty years, five seasons longer than all of his predecessors combined. He died in Brookline, Massachusetts following surgery at age 85. Such was his fame; his passing was mourned world wide. He was honored posthumously, being pictured on a 32¢ US postage stamp in the Legends of American Music series, and issued in September of 1997.
Death: July, 19, 1979
THANK YOU MODERATOR PRUDENCE. THE BOSTON POPS. ALWAYS GOOD MUSIC.
HAPPY HEAVENLY BIRTHDAY ARTHUR FIEDLER
THANK YOU FOR THE MUSIC
I was fortunate enough to attend a Boston Pops concert, conducted by Arthur Fiedler in 1957.
As usual, the concert started EXACTLY, on time & with a stirring MARCH
thank you Arthur
I loved this grand old man! From the first time I ever heard him & then saw him on TV with his 4th of July concerts. You know he reminds me a lot of our own Andre. He was trained in classical music too, but chose to keep his performances informal & light. and like Andre, he was often crticized for "watering down" the music, but he knew what he liked and did it his way & millions of people agreed. Happy Birthday Mr Fiedler!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY KLAARTJE
HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY EDWIN
THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE
MAY YOU HAVE MANY MANY MORE WONDERFUL BIRTHDAYS
HAPPY BIRTHDAY JEAN-PHILIPPE
BEST WISHES FOR A GREAT BIRTHDAY
Dear Frank,
I wish you a heavenly birthday.
Lovely regards
Adriana
A Very Happy Birthday to you Frank Steijns!
Thank you for all the fun, happiness and laughter you bring to us, and most of all,
thank you for the beautiful music!
I so enjoy the carillon and of course your violin music.
My best wishes to you for a fun day and I hope you
receive everything your heart desires!
Happy Birthday FRANK!
Thank you for the Wonderful Bells
And JSO Music!
Happy Birthday, Frank!
I hope today is memorable in some way. And I know you will ALWAYS be HOME for your birthdays
Thank you for allowing me to take your photo, along with Sanne & Mirusia, at the Phoenix M & G back in Dec 2007.
I have front row tickets to the upcoming Phoenix concert on 23 June 2009 & will look forward to seeing you & hearing your music.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY FRANK
YOU MAKE THE BELLS SING. THANK YOU. HAVE A GOOD AND HAPPY DAY
CONSTANCE
Happy Birthday Frank. Thank you so much for the beautiful music.
May you have many more! Big Hugs
Happy Birthday Margriet
I know you have been with Andre from the very beginning. Your loyalty to Andre is legendary.
I've seen you at 3 concerts here in Phoenix & am looking forward to seeing & hearing you a 4th time on 23 June 2009.
I took a great photo of you & Tanja. Both of you are giving me a big smile & looking right into the lens of my camera.
Yes, that photo has been added to a select few photos that have been put on my JSO photo T-shirt.
I hope today is memorable & in some way although you are probably preparing for the 1 Jan concert in Germany
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO STEPHANIE DETRY
Happy Birthday Stephanie
Many More!
Happy Birthday Stephanie. Thank you for the beautiful music. Hope you have many more.