httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXINp5iuUyw
Birthday anniversaries of composers Giovanni Perluigi da Palestrina (1525), Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809) and Luigi Dallapiccola (1904).
Born on this day in 1887 poet and expatriate Gertrude Stein.
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXINp5iuUyw
Birthday anniversaries of composers Giovanni Perluigi da Palestrina (1525), Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809) and Luigi Dallapiccola (1904).
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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