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1907 Birth of Fort, Luigi (t) (1907-1976) It. (69) b. Turin, Nov. 2, 1907; d. Milan, Feb. 6, 1976
1907 Birth of Björling, Sigurd (b) (1907-1983) Swed. b. Stockholm
1907 FP of FALL: "Die Dollarprinzessin" Vienna (1907)
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1907 Birth of composer Rio GEBHARDT. d-1944. 
1957 Birth of Russian violinist Shlomo MINTZ, in Moscow. 
Philip Glass is without a doubt America’s most famous living composer of classical music. In fact, he may be America’s only famous living composer of classical music—the single one who would draw nods of recognition (or irritation) if you were to start waving eight-by-ten glossies of modern-music masters at passersby in Times Square. His Hollywood film scores, his collaborations with pop stars such as David Bowie and Linda Ronstadt, his ubiquity as a purveyor of motorized musical melancholy, all have placed him at an altitude of celebrity that eludes even the loftiest of his colleagues—Steve Reich, John Adams, Elliott Carter, and the rest. 
Jay Greenberg, composer
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Georges Bizet is opera’s one-hit wonder, right? Wrong, toreador breath. More than a decade before “Carmen,” the French composer who would die at 36 wrote what remains one of the most tuneful operas in the repertoire. Granted “The Pearl Fishers,” which the Lyric Opera of Kansas City opens Saturday at the Lyric Theatre, suffers from dramatic and narrative flaws. (“The action strains credulity at times,” wrote Hugh MacDonald with inimitable British understatement.) 
South Florida airwaves, marking the debut of WKCP 89.7 FM, and ending the long absence of full-time classical music on local radio. American Public Media Group, the parent corporation of Minnesota Public Radio and several other stations, purchased the outlet, formerly WMCU, for $20 million from Trinity International University last month, with the intent of flipping its format from a Christian-oriented outlet to a public radio station dedicated to 24/7 classical music. 