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Today is December 22, and on this day in 1858 Giacomo Puccini was born. Even a partial list of Puccini’s works reads like an “Opera’s Greatest Hits” list:…

Francis Poulenc didn’t have to depend on composition for his living—he was the heir to the fortune of the Rhône-Poulenc pharmaceutical company—but he…

Today is the birthday of the composer Gustav Holst, born in Gloucestershire, England on September 21, 1874. Holst was remarkably prolific: he wrote eight…

Today is Abraham Lincoln’s birthday, and I wonder if you knew that our sixteenth president was a great music lover. Not only that, he was an opera lover.…

Today is January 27, and it’s Mozart’s birthday. I know I don’t have to tell you how wonderful Mozart’s music is to listen to… but if you’re not a…

Jay Keck, who works for the South Carolina Wildlife Federation, called recently to thank me for re-upping my membership. As we chatted, he told me his…

Today is the birthday of George Washington, so I thought I’d talk about… Alexander Reinagle. And in case this doesn’t seem like the most obvious choice to…

I hope you’ll join me today in celebrating the birthday of Felix Mendelssohn. Mendelssohn was born in Hamburg on February 3, 1809. By the time he was…

Hello Gardeners, I’m Amanda McNulty with Clemson Extension and Making It Grow. Dogwood anthracnose, with the frightening name Discula distructiva, was…

It’s Beethoven’s birthday today. He was born in Bonn, Germany, on December 16, 1770. Now many people know that at a certain point Beethoven became deaf.…