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German composer and music theorist
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2017-05-13 14:00:07
I am terrified at the thought that so much hideous and bad music will be put on records forever
Born on this day in 1842 composer Arthur Sullivan. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5CcORoKZvI Born on ths day in 1876 composer Raoul Laparra. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIqyOtBnOQ0 Born on this day in 1937 conductor Judith Somogi. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QKjPR57xB4 Happy 82nd birthday baritone Dominic Cossa. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZEtREQxHjE Born on this day in 1938 tenor Ludovic Spieß. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gLm13k4l18 Happy 68th birthday conductor Jane Glover. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nAk8fNces0
2016-05-13 14:40:14
After all we have each of us only eight notes to work upon
Born on this day in 1842 composer Arthur Sullivan. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5CcORoKZvI Born on ths day in 1876 composer Raoul Laparra. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9NMuPDDP9A Born on this day in 1937 conductor Judith Somogi. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QKjPR57xB4 Happy 81st birthday baritone Dominic Cossa. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZEtREQxHjE Born on this day in 1938 tenor Ludovic Spieß. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gLm13k4l18 Happy 67th birthday conductor Jane Glover. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nAk8fNces0
2016-01-07 16:00:46
Rescue me
Fidelio but with an unhappy ending, Bedrich Smetana’s stirring Dalibor opens 2016’s “Trove Thursday” in a 1968 German-language broadcast from Bavarian Radio. Starring Met stalwart Sándor Kónya and the evanescent African-American soprano Felicia Weathers, it’s led by the great Czech conductor Rafael Kubelik. When those who frequented the Met under Rudolf Bing go on (and they do go on) about those halcyon days, the Hungarian tenor is a singer whose name rarely seems to come up. In fact, he performed nearly 300 times over fourteen seasons with the company in New York and on tour (including four new production premieres) in a wide variety of roles from Parsifal and Bacchus to Radames and Calaf. Although he made LPs of operettas and of highlights of Italian operas in German, he’s today best known for his Wagner heroes. Kónya recorded Lohengrin for RCA under Erich Leinsdorf but that performance is less […]
2015-05-13 13:00:09
Women want love to be a novel
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