Observances of several designated "days" for May 14 (some of them are silly; many are obscure):

National Buttermilk Biscuit Day

National Dance Like a Chicken Day

National Day of the Nature Parks

Windmill Day (in The Netherlands)

National Apron Day

National Pharmacy Day (in Turkey)

National Women's Check-Up Day

and The Monday of American Craft Beer Week.

• Richmond Symphony Orchestra Chorus / Alleuia
• Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Heinrich Schiff, Kurt Masur / Don Quixote, op. 35 (including the Battle with the Windmills)
• Erich Kunz, Orchestra and Chorus of the Vienna State Opera / Dudeldei--Dark Brown Beer
• London Philharmonic, Bryden Thomson / Nature Poem for Orchestra (Nympholept)
• Berlin Academy for Ancient Music / The Burlesque of Don Quixote (more windmills)
• Kronos Quartet / Good Medicine
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In the first hour, a trio of Italian composers working in other countries (Boccherini and Scarlatti in Spain; Castelnuovo-Tedesco in the U.S.).  After 1 PM, a handful of "Perpetual Motion" pieces.  All Russian music after 2 PM.

Thanks to everyone who became a new or renewing member during our recently concluded (and successful) campaign.  And thank yourself, too, for bringing more music and news to yourself and others.

• Neal Cary, Richmond Symphony, Arthur Post / Cello Concerto in B-flat major
• Trevor Pinnock / Sonatas in C major and B flat major, K. 460 and 544
• Ann Mason Stockton, Felix Slatkin / Concertino for Harp, String Quartet, and Three Clarinets
• Emanuel Ax, The Cleveland Quartet / Quintet in E flat major, op. 44
• Pauline Oostenrijk, Nieuw Sinfonietta Amsterdam / Oboe Concerto in F major
• Anonymous Four / Ave regina celorum
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• Baltimore Symphony, David Zinman / Rodeo
• London Philharmonic Orchestra, Adrian Boult / Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
• Recording Arts Orchestra of Los Angeles, John Williams / Celebrate Discovery
• Royal Artillery Band, Major Geoffrey Kingston / High Flight
• Schlierbacher Chamber Orchestra / Symphony No. 45 in f sharp minor, 'Farewell'
• Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Sir neville Marriner / Bolero
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• Neal Cary, Richmond Symphony, Steven Smith / Cello Concerto No. 1 in D Major
• Francesco Nicolosi / Eight Variations in A Major, K460
• Trio Sonnerie / Parisian Suite No. 2 in b minor
• Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood / Symphony No. 36 in E Flat Major
• Kathleen Battle, Wynton Marsalis, Orchestra of St. Luke's, John Nelson / Let the Bright Seraphim
• I Salonisti / Nearer My God to Thee
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