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1898 Birth of American composer and pianist George GERSHWIN in Brooklyn, NY. aka Jacob Gershovitz. d-LA, CA, 11 JUL 1937. Google Gershwin | BUY George Gershwin
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Wednesday [26 SEP 2007] marks the 50th anniversary of the first staging of the Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim and Arthur Laurents musical West Side Story. It's been performed globally and translated into languages as diverse as Czech and Korean. 
Anna Netrebko and Nathan Gunn are both hugely successful singers with the kind of camera-melting good looks that many pop idols would kill for. But you're not likely to see them on MTV. That's because Gunn and Netrebko, both 36, are opera stars, who happen to get as much attention for their pulchritude as they do for their vocal prowess...
1907 FP of Jean Sibelius' Third Symphony, in Helsinki. Composer conducting. The Symphony No. 3 in C Major Op. 52 by Sibelius is a good-natured, triumphant, and deceptively simplistic piece written in 1907. The first performance was given by the Helsinki Philharmonic Society conducted by the composer on 25 September 1907. The first recording was made by Robert Kajanus with the London Symphony Orchestra for the HMV label in January 1934...
RALEIGH - It's usually Robert Ward in the audience, listening to musicians play what he has written. But on his 90th birthday, the roles were reversed. Close to 300 admirers -- many of them the Triangle's most accomplished musicians and opera singers -- rose to their feet in an ovation and an operatic round of "Happy Birthday" while the Pulitzer Prize-winning composer had the stage all to himself. 
Northeast Los Angeles is the epicenter of an unparalleled cultural revolution – and its leader is a Latina woman. Sonia Marie de León de Vega is a member of a very small and select group of women in the United States in charge of a high-ranking orchestra. Her mission, she says, is only one: To bring classical music to her community, to Latinos. A consummate orchestra and opera conductor, she is also the founder of the “Santa Cecilia Orchestra” of Eagle Rock. 
Lina Bruna Rasa was born on 24 Sept 1907 in Padua, Italy (Padova) and began musical studies at the age of fourteen. It was very apparent from the beginning that she was a dramatic soprano and that her instincts as an actress would play a major role in her stage development. So impressed were her teachers, that she was persuaded to make an unscheduled debut at Venice’s Teatro La Fenice on 20 May 1925, singing “Suicidio” from La Gioconda. Lina was seventeen years old! 
1907 Birth of Czech soprano 
Austrian composer and organist Anton Bruckner spent most of his life quietly composing, but now he’s regarded as one of 19th-century’s great symphonic masters. Anton Bruckner did not win wide recognition for many years, but is now regarded as one of the great symphonic composers of the 19th century. 