Previous posts for April 4th may be found here: Elmer Bernstein (2019), Stephen Storace (2020), and Sheku Kanneh-Mason (2021)
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Pierre Monteux (4 April 1875 – 1 July 1964) was a French (later American) conductor.
Style Points
Monteux "was never an ostentatious conductor ... [he prepared] his orchestra in often arduous rehearsals and then [used] small but decisive gestures to obtain playing of fine texture, careful detail and powerful rhythmic energy." -- Grove Music Online, as qtd in Wikipedia
Monteux, who’d you know in a flash,
When you saw his distinctive mustache,
Would stand in command
Of his orchestral band,
With a calm self-effacing panache.
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Eugène Bozza (4 April 1905 – 28 September 1991) was a French composer and violinist. He was one of the most prolific composers of chamber music for wind instruments.
Knowing the Territory
[H]e is best known outside of France for more modest woodwind and brass pieces in a highly accessible, elegant, lyrical style. Some have become standard student test works; others, for wind quintet, saxophone quartet, and various unusual instrumental combinations, are favorite faculty recital items. – eugenebozza.com
In a studio or class
Where they teach the winds and brass,
Listen and you’ll there’s lotsa
Pieces there by Eugene Bozza.
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