Pärt and parcel
Happy 89th birthday composer Arvo Pärt
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXu42eKb4f4
Happy 57th birthday Harry Connick Jr.
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYlsPKJSNQQ
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
WindyCityOperaman
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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