Richard Pennycuick ([log in to unmask]) wrote: Deryk Barker: > >>Of course the fact that like Gerhard (and Shostakovich and Rameau and >>Glenn Gould) I was born on September 25 has nothing to do with it. > >To which you can add Pichl, Gershwin and J Strauss I. The only I long thought Gershwin, but Baker's says he's September 26 - as IIRC was Alfred Cortot. Jacques Thibaud (of the Cortot, Thibaud, Casals trio) was 24th. Or the other way round. >composer I >know of born on my birthday was Draeseke, like Deryk another Libran, FWIW. I'm still trying to absorb his massive Christus, which I acquired 2nd-hand about a year ago. Deryk Barker [log in to unmask]