Respighi's birthday

NO. Not the guy who runs the pizza parlor. The composer. 131 years ago today. The guy in the picture .... smiling ... always smiling.

He wrote swell music. Just gorgeous stuff. Here are a couple snipets - the 2nd movement from the "Pines of Rome" or perhaps this prelude to "The Birds"... well a lot of stuff.

Lots of people were born on this day - by last estimate there are about 20 million 7-9ers alive today.  Hopefully we will get lucky again.

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