On this day in 1954 Britten’s Turn of the Screw premiered in Venice.

Birthday anniversaries of conductor and composer Vittorio Gui (1885), tenor and priest José Mojica (1896), composer and administrator Rolf Liebermann and composer and conductor Lehman Engel (both 1910), commentator, writer and musicologist Deryck Cooke (1919) and singer/actor Harve Presnell (1933).

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