Other lives – May 2013
15. 6. 2013 | Rubriky: Articles,Lives
[by Kate Hickson, Powys, Wales] These remembrances remain in a state of flux as news comes in, details get corrected, information emerges and useful weblinks appear.
23 May – On this date in 1913, Le Sacre du printemps (‘The Rite of Spring’) received its premiere at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées on the avenue Montaigne in Paris’ 8th arrondissement. Its music is by Igor Stravinsky: its choreography by Vaslav Nijinsky: its performers the Ballets russes company under Serge Diaghilev. It was the sensation of the company’s 1913 season.
25 May – The Tamil playback singer T.M. Soundararajan , born on 24 March 1922 in Madurai in the Madras Presidency, died aged 91 in Chennai.
30 May – Proinsias Ó Conluain, the RTÉ broadcaster, documentary-maker (subjects include the singer Eddie Butcher and the folksong collector Capt. Francis O’Neill, among others) and folksong collector (notably from the singer Róise Bean Uí Ghrianna) died at the age of 93.