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Saturday, August 2, 2008

Today's Birthdays in Music: August 2 (Bliss, Janowitz)

1891 - Arthur Bliss, London, England; composer

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Allegro Furioso movement of Bliss's Piano Quartet in A (Chamber Domaine at Gresham College, London, 2007)



1937 - Gundula Janowitz, Berlin, Germany; opera and concert soprano

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Gundula Janowitz sings "Ach ich fuhl's" from Mozart's Die Zauberflöte (Aix-en-Provence, 1963)

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