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Saturday, November 29, 2008

Today's Birthday in Music: November 29 (Donizetti)

1797 - Gaetano Donizetti, Bergamo, Italy; composer

Wikipedia
Donizetti Foundation website

Sextet from Lucia di Lammermoor (Greg Turay, Ruth Ann Swenson, Beth Clayton, Valerian Ruminski, Kim Josephson, Eric Cutler; Julius Rudel conducting.  Richard Tucker Gala, Avery Fisher Hall, N.Y., 2001)


Duet from Don Pasquale Act 3 (Beverley Sills and Gabriel Bacquier, 1979)

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