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Nana @cko236.bsky.social · Feb 11
“In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins – not through strength but by perseverance.”

- Confucius
#Confucius #perseverance
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📆November 15, 1845 William Vincent Wallace, #conducts the #premiere of his first opera, "Maritana" at the #TheatreRoyal, Drury Lane in #London, England


#Wallace #Opera #Maritana
#MusicHistory
#TodayMusicHistory
#ClassicalMusic
#ClassicalMusicHistory
November 15, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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📆November 13, 1868 Gioachino Rossini died in Passy, a suburb of Paris aged 76. #Rossini famous for his 39 operas and composed variety of other pieces; songs, chamber music etc. Rossini was born March 29, 1792 in #Pesaro, #Italy

#Opera #Composer
#MusicHistory
#TodayMusicHistory
#ClassicalMusic
November 13, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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To all our Veterans, Thank you for your service!!!

"The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war." — General Douglas MacArthur

#VeteransDay
#ThankYouforYourService
#Veterans #Soldiers
November 11, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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📆November 11, 1974 Operatic soprano Maria Callas makes her final public appearance in #Sapporo, #Japan

#Opera #Soprano #MariaCallas
#TodayMusicHistory
#ClassicalMusic
#MusicHistory
November 11, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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📆November 11, 1901 Maurice Ravel's piano composition "Jeux d'eau" #premieres

#MauriceRavel #Piano
#PianoComposition
#MusicHistory
#TodayMusicHistory
#ClassicalMusic
#ClassicalMusicHistory
November 11, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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📆November 10, 1913 Arthur Nikisch leads the #BerlinPhilharmonic in one of the earliest #recordings of a complete #symphony - Ludwig van Beethoven's 5th

#ArthurNikisch
#Beethoven #5thSymphony
#MusicHistory
#TodayMusicHistory
#ClassicalMusic
#ClassicalMusicHistory
November 10, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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📆November 9, 1960 American bass baritone Paul Robeson gives the first #performance at the #SydneyOperaHouse, singing to workers from the #scaffolding during #construction of the #building

#PaulRobeson #BassBaritone
#Sydney #Singing
#MusicHistory
#ClassicalMusic
#TodayMusicHistory
November 9, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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📆November 9, 1964 Victor Borge’s “Comedy in Music - Opus 2" opens at #JohnGoldenTheatre, NYC; runs for 192 performances

#VictorBorge
#Comedy #Music #Opus2
#TodayMusicHistory
#ClassicalMusic
#MusicHistory
November 9, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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📆November 9, 1885 Edward Jakobowski's opera "Ermine" #premieres in #London at the #ComedyTheatre

#Jakobowski #Opera #Ermine
#MusicHistory
#TodayMusicHistory
#ClassicalMusic
#ClassicalMusicHistory
November 9, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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📆November 8, 1873 Ciro Pinsuti's opera "Il mercante di Venezia", based on William Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice" is first performed, at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Italy

#Pinsuti #Opera
#TodayInMusicHistory
#ClassicalMusicHistory
#MusicHistory
November 8, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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📆November 7, 1912 The #Deutsche #Opernhaus (now Deutsche Oper Berlin) opens in the Berlin neighborhood of #Charlottenburg, with a #production of Beethoven's Fidelio

#Beethoven #Fidelio #Opera
#TodayInMusicHistory
#ClassicalMusicHistory
#MusicHistory
November 7, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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📆November 6, John Philip Sousa American composer and march king born in #WashingtonD.C.
His contributions to military march music. His famous works The “Stars & Stripes Forever” and "Semper Fidelis," the official march of the U.S. Marine Corps.

#JohnPhilipSousa
#Composer
#MusicHistory #TodayHistory
November 6, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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📆November 5, 1846 Robert Schumann's 2nd Symphony in C #premieres at the #Gewandhaus in #Leipzig, #Germany, with Felix Mendelssohn conducting

#Symphony
#Schumann
#Mendelssohn
#TodayInMusicHistory
#ClassicalMusicHistory
#MusicHistory
November 5, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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📆November 5, 1955 The rebuilt Vienna State Opera reopens after being destroyed in World War II with Ludwig van Beethoven's "Fidelio"

#Vienna #StateOpera
#Opera #Beethoven
#Fidelio
#TodayInMusicHistory
#ClassicalMusicHistory
#MusicHistory
November 5, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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📆November 4, 1876 Johannes Brahms 1st Symphony in C #premieres in #Karlsruhe, Grand Duchy of Baden

#Brahms #Symphony
#TodayInMusicHistory#ClassicalMusicHistory
#MusicHistory
November 4, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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📆November 4, 1783 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Symphony No. 36" #premieres in #Linz, Austria

#Mozart #Symphony
#SymphonyNo36

#TodayInMusicHistory
#ClassicalMusicHistory
#MusicHistory
November 4, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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📆November 4, 1909 Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari's opera "Il Segreto di Susanna" (Susanna's Secret) is first #produced in #Munich, Germany

#Wolf-Ferrari #IlSegretodiSusanna
#TodayInMusicHistory#ClassicalMusicHistory
#MusicHistory
November 4, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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📆November 3, 1927 Rodgers & Hart's #musical "Connecticut Yankee", based on Mark Twain's "A #ConnecticutYankee In King Arthur's Court", opens at the #VanderbiltTheatre, #NYC; runs for 421 #performances

#Rodgers&Hart
#MarkTwain

#TodayInMusicHistory#ClassicalMusicHistory
#MusicHistory
November 3, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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📆 November 2, 1928 Dmitri #Shostakovich's 1st #Symphony #premieres in US with Leopold #Stokowski leading the #PhiladelphiaOrchestra at The Academy of Music, Philadelpha

#TodayinHistory
#MusicHistory
#ClassicMusicHistory
November 2, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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📆October 31, 1724 George Frideric Handel's opera "Tamerlano" #premieres at the #King'sTheatre in London
#Handel #Opera #Tamerlano
#TodayInHistory
#MusicHistory
#ClassicalMusic
Frideric Handel
October 31, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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📆October 30, 1896 Amy Beach's "Gaelic Symphony," the first major work by an #American female composer, debuts by the #BostonSymphony Orchestra and receives "public and journalistic acclaim"

#AmyBeach #Composer #Pianist #Symphony
#TodayInMusicHistory#ClassicalMusicHistory
#MusicHistory
October 30, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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📆October29, 1829 Maria Anna Mozart, #Austrian #pianist and #Wolfgang's sister died aged 78, and was buried in St Peter's Cemetery, #Salzburg. She was born on July 30, 1751.

#MariaAnnaMozart
#TodayInMusicHistory#ClassicalMusicHistory
#MusicHistory
October 29, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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📆October29, 1787 Opera "Don Giovanni," with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and a #libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte, #premieres at the #NationalTheater of #Bohemia in #Prague

#Mozart #DonGiovanni #Opera
#TodayInMusicHistory#ClassicalMusicHistory
#MusicHistory
October 29, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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📆October28, 1893 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky conducts the first #performance of his #Symphony No. 6 in B minor, "Pathetique," in #StPetersburg, #Russia, 9 days before his death

#Tchaikovsky #Symphony
#Pathetique
#Todayinhistory #ClassicalMusicHistory
#MusicHistory
October 28, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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📆October28,
1915 Richard Strauss' tone poem "Eine Alpensinfonie (An Alpine Symphony)" #premieres in #Berlin

#RichardStrauss #Symphony #EineAlpensinfonie#Todayinhistory #MusicHistory#ClassicalMusicHistory
October 28, 2025 at 10:10 AM