Happy 68th birthday conductor Valery Gergiev.

Happy 73rd birthday soprano Jeannine Altmeyer.

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Birthday anniversaries of composer Vicente Martín y Soler (1754), lyricist Lorenz Hart (1895), soprano Aulikki Rautawaara (1906); conductors Charles Bruck (1911), Anton Guadagno (1925) and Horst Stein (1928).