“Out of the clear blue ether of the sky there seems to condense a wonderful yet at first hardly perceptible vision; and out of this there gradually emerges, ever more and more clearly, an angel host bearing in its midst the sacred Grail.” — R. Wagner
Born on this day in 1844 impresario Richard D’Oyly Carte.
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On this day in 1960 Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt‘s Fantasticks premiered at Greenwich Village’s Sullivan Street Playhouse.
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Birthday anniversaries of singer and actor Bing Crosby (1903), composer and conductor Alceo Galliera (1910), tenor Léopold Simoneau (1916) and lyricist and performer Betty Comden (1917).
