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15 first-night flops |
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April 30, 1902: The premiere of Debussy's Pelleas et Melisande |
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Bernstein's Mass premiered |
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Bridgetower and Beethoven sparkle in Kreutzer premiere |
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Britten's War requiem premiered may 30, 1962 |
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Bruckner's Ninth gets a posthumous... |
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Bruckner's Third symphony premiered: december 16, 1877 |
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Cage bemuses New York with the sound of silence: August 1952 |
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City of light |
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December 22, 1808: Beethoven's fifth- and sixth, and mass in C, and... |
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For unto Ireland, Handel's Messiah is born in Dublin |
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From variety to verismo |
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Gershwin gives the world premiere of Rhapsody... |
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Handel's Messiah: April 13, 1742: "The most finished piece of musick" |
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Mahler's Symphony No. 8 premiere |
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Mephistopheles endures a truly diabolical reception |
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Monteverdi's Orfeo: February 24, 1607 |
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October 25, 1875: Tchaikovsky's First piano concerto |
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Prokofiev's Kije sleigh-rides through the Russian snow |
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Protecting veil: September 9, 1989: A John Tavener premiere |
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Rite of spring |
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Rossini's Barber of Seville premiered |
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Threepenny opera premiered august 31, 1928 |
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Vaughan Williams's Tallis Fantasia... |
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Vienna gives Bruckner's Third a wretched... |
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Work to rally the troops - but which troops?: Shostakovich's Leningrad Symphony: US premiere July 19, 1942 |
