Happy 57th birthday Harry Connick Jr.
Birthday anniversaries of poet Pierre de Ronsard (1524), composers William Boyce (1711), Valentino Fioravanti (1764), Friedrich Kuhlau (1786), Ignaz Lachner (1807), and Harry Somers (1925), writer D.H. Lawrence (1885), baritone Tiyt Kuusik (1911), tenor Gösta Björling (1912), and bass Clfford Grant (1930)
Happy 99th birthday lyricist Alan Bergman
Photo: Roberto Masotti/Arvo Pärt Center
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.
Parterre Box concludes the thrilling first year of Talk of the Town by inviting your lightning rod opinions on several more categories of operatic argumentation.
