Today's Birthdays in Music: October 7 (Dutoit, Ma)

1936 - Charles Dutoit, Lausanne, Switzerland; conductor

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A Glance Back (La Scena Musicale, April 2002)

Charles Dutoit talks about the music of Debussy and Ravel


Charles Dutoit conducts the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal as Ewa Podleś sings "La Mort de Cléopâtre" by Berlioz (2003)



1955 - Yo-Yo Ma, Paris, France; cellist

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Yo-Yo Ma plays the first movement of Elgar's Cello Concerto (Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conducted hy Daniel Barenboim, 1997)