12 19 p.m.: This story has been updated to include SiriusXM Radio's Elvis Presley 80th birthday programming.
To that point, Briggs says that she and her coworkers also embrace less formal programs to help recognize and reward each other, such as their so-called "birthday angel" program where people anonymously give birthday gifts to each other.
In honor of his 90th birthday, the program will also include Dello Joio symphonic band pieces and another vocal work.
In celebration of Martin Luther King's Birthday, the program will also feature a discussion of his legacy with Taylor Branch, the author of "The King Years: Historic Moments in the Civil Rights Movement"; Joseph A. Califano Jr., the former secretary of health, education and welfare; and James Peterson, the director of Africana studies and an English professor at LeHigh University.
A recent concert at the 92nd Street Y, with a top-notch roster of musicians under the artistic direction of the cellist Fred Sherry, played an Elliott Carter birthday tribute program that included five engrossing and ingenious scores that Mr. Carter wrote this year, as well as a major work for tenor and chamber orchestra from 2010 in its premiere performance.
In honor of Stalvey's upcoming 75th birthday, several programs during the season that ended in May included his compositions: "Prevue," "A Fragment of Silence," "PLC Extract," "String Quartet 1989," "Changes," "Exordium/Genesis/Dawn" and "Pound Songs". Among his other works are "Ex Ferus" for six cellos or string sextet (1982) and "In Time and Not" for multimedia ensembles (1970).
At Eastman, he gave his last major recital in February, two days before his 90th birthday, in a program of Schubert.
The dynamic group of African-American and Latina wind players pays tribute to her on what would have been her hundred-and-first birthday with a program of music, dance, and film at the Apollo Theatre.
(Tommasini 20100708 Classical Music - Aston Magna (Friday and Saturday) This venerable early-music group celebrates Pergolesi's 300th birthday with a program that includes "La Serva Padrona," the comic opera, and "Orfeo," a lesser-known cantata.
