Birthday anniversaries of poet and librettist Francis Burdett Money-Coutts (1852), composers Alberto Franchetti (1860), Arthur Benjamin (1893), Pablo Sorozábal (1897), and Josef Tal (1910), tenor József Simándy (1916), mezzo-sopranos Maureen Lehane (1932) and Ruth Hesse (1936), and bass-baritone Leonid Mikhailovich Kharitonov (1933)

Photo: Ken Howard

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