Birthdays - Lois and Bob

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26 November 2016
A Birthday Anniversary

Lois Hunt
American operatic lyric soprano
(26 November 1924 - 6 July 2009)

Louis Hunt, soprano (1958)

One Kiss 3'38
(Hammerstein & Romberg)

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26 November 2016
A Birthday Anniversary

Robert Goulet
American singer and actor
(26 November 1933 - 30 October 2007)

Robert Goulet (1960)

C'est Moi 3'28"
(Lerner & Loewe)


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Johnny Mercer Birthday Anniversary 2016

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18 November 2016
A Birthday Anniversary

Johnny Mercer
America's most prolific songwriter and lyricist
(18 November 1909 - 25 June 1976)

Fred Waring
and The Pennsylvanians (1997)

Autumn Leaves 3'09
(Kosma, Prevert, and Mercer)

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18 November 2016
A Birthday Anniversary

Johnny Mercer
America's most prolific songwriter and lyricist
(18 November 1909 - 25 June 1976)

The Norman Luboff Chorus (1962)

That Old Black Magic 3'01"
(Arlen & Mercer)


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Alex and Hank

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12 November 2016
A Birthday Anniversary

Alexander Borodin
Russian Romantic Era composer
(12 November 1833 - 27 September 1887)

James Last
and His Orchestra

Notturno (1998 recording)
(after Borodin, String Quartet No. 2)
2'48"


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12 November 2016
A Birthday Anniversary

Henry Jerome
trumpeter and orchestra leader
(12 November 1917 - 23 March 2011)

Blue Moon (1960 recording)
(Rodgers & Hart)
2'00"


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This Democracy of Clouds in Full Hurricane

"These waves; this ebb and flow; this terrible go-and-come; this noise of every gust; these lights and shadows; these vegetations belonging to the gulf; this democracy of clouds in full hurricane; these eagles in the foam; these wonderful gatherings of stars reflected in one knows not what mysterious crowd by millions of luminous specks, heads confused with the innumerable; those grand errant lightnings which seem to watch; these huge sobs; these monsters glimpsed at; this roaring, disturbing these nights of darkness; these furies, these frenzies, these tempests, these rocks, these shipwrecks, these fleets crushing each other, these human thunders mixed with divine thunders, this blood in the abyss; then these graces, these sweetnesses, these fêtes these gay white veils, these fishing-boats, these songs in the uproar, these splendid ports, this smoke of the earth, these towns in the horizon, this deep blue of water and sky, this useful sharpness, this bitterness which renders the universe wholesome, this rough salt without which all would putrefy, these angers and assuagings, this whole in one, this unexpected in the immutable, this vast marvel of monotony inexhaustibly varied, this level after that earthquake, these hells and these paradises of immensity eternally agitated, this infinite, this unfathomable,—all this can exist in one spirit..."

Victor Hugo
1864

Vincenzo Bellini's Birthday Anniversary

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3 November 2016
A Birthday Anniversary

Vincenzo Bellini
Italian opera composer
(3 November 1801 - 23 September 1835)

Roger Lord, oboe
Neville Marriner, conducting (1964)
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields

Concerto in E-flat Major for Oboe and Strings
First Movement Excerpt: "Maestoso e deciso"
(Bellini)
3'26"

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3 November 2016
A Birthday Anniversary

Vincenzo Bellini
Italian opera composer
(3 November 1801 - 23 September 1835)

Montserrt Caballe, soprano
Shirley Verrett, messo-soprano

From the opera, "Norma"
Excerpt: "Mira, o Norma" duet (1991)
(Bellini)
2'09"


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