Saturday, October 11, 2008
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In 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue Song
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Maurice Abravanel - American. Born, Jan. 6, 1903 in Salonika, Greece. Died, September, 1993. In 1936 he came to US and conducted the Metropolitan Opera. In 1938 he left the Met to conduct Broadway. In 1949, received a Tony Award for conducting of Regina. 1970, served as a member of the first music panel of the National Endowment for the Arts. 1991, awarded the National Medal of the Arts. Abravanel's family were Sephardic Jews. He was a descendant of Don Isaac Abravanel, born in 1438, who, as finance minister to Queen Esabella of Spain, arranged funding for the first voyage of Christopher Columbus. In 1492 Columbus Sailed the Ocean Blue Story.



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