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On this day in 1944 the Aaron Copland/Martha Graham ballet Appalachian Spring had its premiere in Washington DC

Birthday anniversaries of conductor Antonino Votto (1896) and soprano Käthe Heidersbach (1897)

Happy 78th birthday countertenor and conductor René Jacobs
Happy 69th birthday baritone François Le Roux

Two other Broadway Premieres:
In 1940, Cole Porter‘s Panama Hattie
In 1949, Kurt Weill and Maxwell Anderson‘s Lost in the Stars

Photo: Joan Marcus

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