On this day in 1938, the Archbishop of Dubuque, Francis J. L. Beckman, denounced swing music as “a degenerated musical system… turned loose to gnaw away at the moral fiber of young people,” warning that it leads down a “primrose path to hell.”
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Born on this day in 1824 librettist Antonio Ghislanzoni
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Born on this day in 1825 composer Johann Strauss Jr
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWlqi2gChRY
Born on this day in 1838 composer Georges Bizet
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFOpFj602Bk
Born on this day in 1891 conductor Karl Elmendorff
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Born on this day in 1926 soprano Galina Vishnevskaya
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8o-tHIVZm30
Born on this day in 1926 soprano Anita Välkki
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jb2KaRyWE2U
Born on this day in 1940 soprano Hana Janku
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjoMIbuscLE
Happy 72nd birthday contralto Ortrun Wenkel
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5qv0VliMPo
Born on this day in 1943 tenor Giuliano Ciannella
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDizxMO0oI0
