Archive for June 20, 2009

This Day in Music…June 20

1756 – Composer Joseph Martin Kraus was born.

1819 – Composer Jacques Offenbach was born.

1937 – W2XBS (later WCBS-TV) televised the first TV operetta. The work was the “Pirates of Penzance” by Gilbert and Sullivan.

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