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Pajama Party: Cultural Bites for the Clinomaniac and Dysaniac
Welcome to an intimate marathon, with all kinds of pleasures for the mind, the spirit, and the body. Whether you are a clinomaniac, and passionately desire to stay in bed, or a dysaniac with overwhelming difficulties leaving it, if you stay in bed with us for the next hours, all you will get is the…
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Joan Sutherland *XI 7 1926 — The Life You Give
Joan Sutherland, in full Dame Joan Alston Sutherland, born November 7, 1926, in Sydney, Australia, is the operatic soprano who was considered the leading coloratura of the 20th century. The daughter of a gifted singer, she studied piano and voice with her mother until 1946, when she won a vocal competition and began studying voice…
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Adolphe Sax *XI 6 1814 — The Life You Give
Adolphe Sax, born Antoine-Joseph Sax, November 6, 1814, in Dinant, Belgium, is the maker of musical instruments and inventor of the saxophone. Sax was the son of Charles Joseph Sax (1791–1865), a maker of wind and brass instruments, as well as of pianos, harps, and guitars. Adolphe studied the flute and clarinet at the Brussels…














