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RALEIGH - It's usually Robert Ward in the audience, listening to musicians play what he has written. But on his 90th birthday, the roles were reversed. Close to 300 admirers -- many of them the Triangle's most accomplished musicians and opera singers -- rose to their feet in an ovation and an operatic round of "Happy Birthday" while the Pulitzer Prize-winning composer had the stage all to himself. ...MORE... | Google Links | BUY Robert Ward
Northeast Los Angeles is the epicenter of an unparalleled cultural revolution – and its leader is a Latina woman. Sonia Marie de León de Vega is a member of a very small and select group of women in the United States in charge of a high-ranking orchestra. Her mission, she says, is only one: To bring classical music to her community, to Latinos. A consummate orchestra and opera conductor, she is also the founder of the “Santa Cecilia Orchestra” of Eagle Rock. ...More... | Google Links | BUY Latina Power
Lina Bruna Rasa was born on 24 Sept 1907 in Padua, Italy (Padova) and began musical studies at the age of fourteen. It was very apparent from the beginning that she was a dramatic soprano and that her instincts as an actress would play a major role in her stage development. So impressed were her teachers, that she was persuaded to make an unscheduled debut at Venice’s Teatro La Fenice on 20 May 1925, singing “Suicidio” from La Gioconda. Lina was seventeen years old! Google Links | BUY Vintage Opera and Lina Bruna RASA
1907 Birth of Czech soprano Jarmila NOVOTNA [photo] in Prague. d- 1994. 1907 Birth of Greek bass Nicola MOSCONA in Athens. d-Philadelphia, 17 SEP 1975. MET: Début: Dec. 19, 1937.
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Austrian composer and organist Anton Bruckner spent most of his life quietly composing, but now he’s regarded as one of 19th-century’s great symphonic masters. Anton Bruckner did not win wide recognition for many years, but is now regarded as one of the great symphonic composers of the 19th century. ...MORE... | Google Links | BUY Bruckner
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When he bought Canada's only privately owned English-language classical station from Trumar Communications last year for $12 million, Moses Znaimer told the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission that he had three main goals: Attract younger audiences, sell more advertising aimed at mature listeners and acquire new licences. The current changes target baby boomers in particular. Znaimer and his sister Libby, who can be heard on-air, are calling this audience "Zoomers – boomers with zip,".
1874 Birth of British composer, conductor and teacher Gustav Theodore HOLST in Cheltenham. d-London, 25 MAY 1934. Google Links | BUY Gustav Holst
1918 Birth in Zelazowa Wola, Poland of naturalized Mexican violinist Henryk SZERYNG (SHER' ing). d-Kassel, 3 MAR 1988. Google Links | BUY Henryk SZERYNG
Henryk Szeryng plays Brahms Hungarian Dance No. 17
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