Claudio Monteverdi's opera Arianna, written for a ducal wedding, is performed before 6,000 guests in Mantua--5/28/1608. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, German baritone, conductor and author of books on music, is born in Berlin. In World War II he was an English prisoner--5/28/1925. Thea Musgrave, Scottish composer and teacher who frequently conducts the premieres of her major compositions, is born in Edinburgh. In her "space music" the instrumentalists often move around the orchestra or concert hall--5/27/1928. Fela Sowande, Nigerian composer who was trained in London, is born in Oyo--5/29/1905.

H. Leslie Adams

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