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On Tuesday, Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Elliott Carter celebrates his 99th birthday by attending the first U.S. staging of his characteristically dense opera "What Next?" It's 40 minutes of musical searching by a handful of characters brought together in a car accident. The production includes soprano and new-music specialist Susan Narucki, plus the Juilliard-affiliated ensemble AXIOM and conductor Jeffrey Milarsky. 
One of just two surviving pages from a Mozart manuscript has been sold at an auction in London for £110,900. The folio, from the composer's draft for the Sinfonia Concertante, has set a new record for a single page of his work, which has stood since 1998. The item was purchased from Sotheby's by dealers based in London who were bidding on behalf of a private client. The violin, viola and orchestral work was composed in 1779, securing Mozart's standing as a great composer aged 23.
Veronica Borisovna Dudarova was born on December 5, 1916, in Baku (the capital of Azerbaijan)...Dudarova is an outstanding symphony conductor of our time. She is registered in the Guinness Book of Records as the only woman in the world to have headed large philharmonic orchestras for over half a century.
1907 Birth of Hungarian composer Gyorgy RANKI in Budapest. d-Budapest, 1992. Popular works include Don Quixote y Dulcinea.
Frank Guarrera [photo c 1953], a lyric baritone who sang at the Metropolitan Opera for nearly 30 years, died on Friday 23 NOV 2007, at his home in Bellmawr, N.J. He was 83. With his slender but firm voice and winning stage presence, Mr. Guarrera was a fixture at the Met in a number of roles: Escamillo in “Carmen” (his debut role in 1948), Marcello in “La Bohème,” Valentin in “Faust.” His final role at the Met was Gianni Schicchi, which he last sang in 1976. After his retirement from the stage, he taught at the University of Washington in Seattle for 10 years, a stint that ended when his wife, Adelina, suffered a stroke and he brought her back to the East to care for her; she died in 2000.
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