RETURN OF EASTERN STANDARD TIME – SET YOUR CLOCK BACK ONE HOUR
1739 Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf – Austrian composer and violinist (d.1799); an important composer of the Classical era; in 1784, four of the greatest composers of the age played string quartets together: Dittersdorf playing first violin, Joseph Haydn second violin, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart viola and Dittersdorf’s student, Johann Baptist Wanhal, cello; finished his autobiography just three days before he died.
1873 first performance of Johannes Brahms's Variations on a Theme by Haydn by the Vienna Philharmonic, Felix Otto Dessoff conducting; eight variations on a theme (the St. Anthony Chorale) from a wind divertimento formerly attributed to Joseph Haydn.
1880 John Foulds – English composer and conductor (d.1939); wrote light music and theater scores, but his interest in music of India inspired works like Three Mantras for Orchestra and Wordless Chorus (1930).
1915 Douglas Lilburn – New Zealand composer (d.2001); student of Ralph Vaughan Williams at the Royal College of Music in the 1930s.
1929 Harold Farberman – American composer, conductor, and percussionist (died November 24, 2018); author of The Art of Conducting Technique.
1937 Artur Rodzinski conducts a dress rehearsal broadcast of the NBC Symphony, an orchestra formed specifically for the famous Italian conductor Arturo Toscanini; Pierre Monteux led the first ‘official’ broadcast on November 13th; Toscanini's debut orchestra occurred on Christmas Day, 1937.