I am always acting
Born on this day in 1899 composer, playwright and actor Noel Coward
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Born on this day in 1770 composer Ludwig van Beethoven
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLRMTD3eY5w
Birthday anniversaries of composers Adrien Boieldieu (the father, not the son) (1775) and Zoltán Kodály (1882), conductor Artur Bodanzky (1877), and tenors James McCracken (1926), Donald Grobe (1929) and Philip Langridge (1939)
Happy 92nd birthday composer Rodion Konstantinovich Shchedrin
Happy 78th birthday conductor and harpsichordist Trevor Pinnock
And a happy birthday to our very own Camille
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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