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September 2000:
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday         1 Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake" 4 Shostakovich: "The Gadfly" 5 Franz Liszt 6 Faure: "Pelleas et Melisande" 7 Haydn 8 Dvorak 11 Smetana: "Ma Vlast" ("My Homeland") 12 Verdi's "La Traviata" 13 Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition" 14 Berlioz' "Symphonie Fantastique" 15 Shostakovich's "Festival Overture" 18 Engelbert Humperdinck: Hansel and Gretel 19 Sibelius: Karelia 20 Dimitri Kabalevsky: Colas Breugnon 21 Gustav Holst 22 Johann Strauss, Jr. 25 Glenn Gould 26 Schumann's 2nd Symphony 27 Rimsky-Korskakov's "Flight of the Bumblebee" 28 Beethoven's 3rd Symphony 29 Debussy's daughter For more classical facts, be sure to visit our Music Trivia quizzes!

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