Today's Birthdays in Music: August 13 (Battle, Grove)
1948 - Kathleen Battle, Portsmouth, U.S.A.; opera and concert soprano
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Kathleen Battle sings:
with Pavarotti, "Prendi, per me sei libero" from Donizetti's L'Elisir d'Amore (Metropolitan Opera, 1990)
"Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" (National Centre of Performing Arts, Beijing, June 2008)
1820 - George Grove, London, England; musicologist (Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians)
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Kathleen Battle sings:
with Pavarotti, "Prendi, per me sei libero" from Donizetti's L'Elisir d'Amore (Metropolitan Opera, 1990)
"Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" (National Centre of Performing Arts, Beijing, June 2008)
1820 - George Grove, London, England; musicologist (Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians)
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Grove's Dictionary
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