MUSIClassical ALLEGRO
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A full 30 years after her death, diva Maria Callas, the most celebrated opera singer of the post-World War II period, remains both a favourite for opera-lovers and a legend outside the world of classical music. A figure of high drama both on and off-stage, Callas died alone in her Paris apartment aged only 53 on September 16, 1977. "The gods were bored, they beckoned back their voice," couture supremo Yves Saint Laurent said at the time. Recordings of Callas, a versatile soprano with an unforgettable voice, have since featured almost permanently on music publisher EMI's catalogue, which estimates world sales up until now at around 30 million albums. "What is extraordinary is that even three decades after her death Callas continues to speak to people, even to those who weren't even born when she died," Alain Lanceron, vice-president of EMI Classics Google Links | BUY Maria Callas
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1737 Birth of Austrian composer Johann Michael HAYDN in Rohrau. Brother of Franz Joseph, friend of Mozart. Concertmaster to the Archbishop of Salzburg. d-Salzburg, 10 AUG 1806. Singspiel: "Rebekka als Braut" (Salzburg, 1766); "Der Traum" (1767); "Die Hochzeit auf der Alm" (Salzburg, 1768); "Die Wahrheit der Natur" (Salzburg, 1769); "Hermann, ein Beyspiel der Liebe zum Vaterlande" (1773); "Der Bassgeiger zu Wörgl" (c.1773-5); "Titus, der standhafte Christ" (Lost, 1774); "Abels Tod" (c.1778); "Der englische Patriot" (c.1779): "Andromeda e Perseo" (Salzburg, .1787); "Die Ährenleserin" (Salzburg, 1788). 
1819 Birth of German pianist, teacher and composer Clara Wieck (Veek) SCHUMANN in Leipzig. m-Robert Schumann. d-Frankfurt-am-Main, 20 MAY 1896...
Pianist Leon Fleisher, actor Steve Martin, singers Diana Ross and Brian Wilson and film director Martin Scorsese will share the 30th annual honors of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in December. 
Zdenek Macal, chief conductor of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, the country's most prestigious, announced to the orchestra members on Saturday that he was leaving the post, Daniel Sobotka, an aide to Czech Philharmonic's director Vaclav Riedlbauch, told CTK today [11 SEP 2007]. ...
1786 Birth of German-Danish pianist and composer 
1941 Birth of English conductor, harpsichordist and musicologist Christopher HOGWOOD in Nottingham.
Antonin Dvorák's biography - his life and works. He is best known for Symphony No.9, 'From the New World,' and his nationalistic outlook of using folk music. Antonin Dvorák, Czech composer with the widest international renown due to his masterpiece Symphony No.9, 'From the New World,' is equally known for incorporating folk music into his classical works by using Bohemian and Slavonic folk songs and dances. Dvorák was born in Nelahozeves, Bohemia (now Czech Republic) on September 8, 1841, 
Legendary Italian conductor Claudio Abbado has announced that he has cancelled planned appearances in New York in October due to ill-health. 