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On this day in history, artistic world premieres rang with new technologies
Today, Oct. 6, is the coincidental anniversary of two distinct, epochal musical debuts: the first performance, in 1600, of Jacopo Peri’s “Euridice,” the earliest surviving opera, and the 1927 premiere of “The Jazz Singer,” the first feature-length “talking picture,” boasting synchronized, audible dialogue and singing. The latter is regarded as both an artistic and technological …
