Ligeti, split
On this day in 1968, Stanley Kubrick‘s classic science-fiction movie 2001: A Space Odyssey premiered at the Uptown Theater in Washington D.C.

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Born on this day in 1805 writer and librettist Hans Christian Andersen.
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLo9-2BK7ec
Born on this day in 1840 novelist Emile Zola.
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvopwKZ3hhs
Born on this day in 1892 baritone George Cehanovsky.
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aIFoYC0bEQ
Born on this day in 1892 bass-baritone Rudolf Bockelmann.
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPD1db8Ut9Y
Born on this day in 1905 conductor Kurt Herbert Adler.
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fG3W17u8nzw
Born on this day in 1928 tenor Alain Vanzo.
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPOg4a6IphQ
Happy 89th birthday soprano April Cantelo.
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7tl03bs-fg
Born on this day in 1928 tenor Fritz Uhl.
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ey_WI74fcO0
Happy 87h birthday mezzo-soprano Barbro Ericson.
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHTPpYENa-k
WindyCityOperaman
Dan Soda (Windy City Operaman) is a Chicago native whose first visit to opera was at age 17 and Massenet’s Werther with Troyanos and Kraus. Nothing was ever the same. Opera and concert performances, recordings and video are an obsession. He prepares Parterre Box’s daily birthday and anniversary tributes. He also enjoys concerts, live theater and movies.
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