Saturday, January 21, 2017

Today's Birthdays

Henri Duparc (1848-1933)
Alexander Tcherepnin (1899-1977)
Webster Booth (1902-1984)
Placido Domingo (1941)
Richie Havens (1941-2013)
Edwin Starr (1942-2003)
Suzanne Mentzer (1957)
Frank Ticheli (1958)

and

Louis Menand (1952)

and from the Composers Datebook:

On this day in 1904, Janacek's opera "Jenufa" was premiered in Brno at the National Theater.

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