On this day in 1953 the musical Carnival in Flanders opened at the New Century Theater in New York, to run six performances.  Leading lady Dolores Gray won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical, the shortest-lived Tony-honored performance ever.

Born on this day in 1841 composer Antonín Dvorak

Born on this day in 1863 composer Gustavo E Campa

Born on this day in 1921 composer Hans Ulrich Engelmann

Happy 86th birthday conductor Christoph von Dohnányi

Happy 82nd birthday composer and festival director Eric Salzman

Happy 81st birthday composer Peter Maxwell Davies

Happy 67th birthday soprano Veronika Kincses

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