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1957 Birth of Russian violinist Shlomo MINTZ, in Moscow. 
Philip Glass is without a doubt America’s most famous living composer of classical music. In fact, he may be America’s only famous living composer of classical music—the single one who would draw nods of recognition (or irritation) if you were to start waving eight-by-ten glossies of modern-music masters at passersby in Times Square. His Hollywood film scores, his collaborations with pop stars such as David Bowie and Linda Ronstadt, his ubiquity as a purveyor of motorized musical melancholy, all have placed him at an altitude of celebrity that eludes even the loftiest of his colleagues—Steve Reich, John Adams, Elliott Carter, and the rest.
an American child prodigy composer who entered the Juilliard School in 2002 and has composed numerous works.
He came to the world's attention in part through the sponsorship of Juilliard instructor Samuel Zyman, who lauded Greenberg's youthful talent during a CBS News 60 Minutes broadcast on November 28, 2004, and again on November 26, 2006. "We are talking about a prodigy of the level of the greatest prodigies in history, when it comes to composition. I am talking about the likes of Mozart, and Mendelssohn, and Saint-Saëns."
Georges Bizet is opera’s one-hit wonder, right? Wrong, toreador breath. More than a decade before “Carmen,” the French composer who would die at 36 wrote what remains one of the most tuneful operas in the repertoire. Granted “The Pearl Fishers,” which the Lyric Opera of Kansas City opens Saturday at the Lyric Theatre, suffers from dramatic and narrative flaws. (“The action strains credulity at times,” wrote Hugh MacDonald with inimitable British understatement.)
South Florida airwaves, marking the debut of WKCP 89.7 FM, and ending the long absence of full-time classical music on local radio. American Public Media Group, the parent corporation of Minnesota Public Radio and several other stations, purchased the outlet, formerly WMCU, for $20 million from Trinity International University last month, with the intent of flipping its format from a Christian-oriented outlet to a public radio station dedicated to 24/7 classical music.
Ursula Vaughan Williams, who wrote librettos for her composer husband and produced his biography, has died at age 96. [photo: Vaughan Williams with his second wife, Ursula, and Sir John Barbirolli during a rehearsal of Sea Symphony in Manchester, 1951] Joan Ursula Penton Vaughan Williams (née Lock, first married name Wood, second married name Vaughan Williams) (March 15, 1911 – October 23, 2007) was an English poet and author, and biographer of her second husband, the composer Ralph Vaughan Williams.
Czech composer Petr Eben, whose wide variety of music has been performed around the globe, has died. He was 78. Eben died late Wednesday [24 OCT 2007] at his home in Prague, his son Marek told the CTK news agency Thursday. He was battling an unspecified long-term illness. Born Jan. 22, 1929, Eben showed a musical talent at early age. He was able to play piano at age 6 and organ at 9. A year later, he composed his first musical pieces.
1908 Birth of Ukrainian baritone opera singer IGOR GORIN who found fame in the United States and became a music teacher at THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA after his retirement from performing. 
1940 radio performance [Introduction by actor Henry Hull]
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1926 Birth of Russian soprano Galina VISHNEVSKAYA in Leningrad. Debut in 1953 as Tatiana in Tchaikovsky's Eugen Onegin at Bolshoi Opera. m-Russian cellist and conductor M. Rostropovich in 1955. MET: Début: Nov. 6, 1961 [Aida] Aida, 2 seasons (1961-62, 74-75) 6 perf., 3 works.
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