Today in Music History for Nov. 17: In 1938, singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot, who became Canada's most famous, and arguably most important, pop musician in the late 1960s, was born in Orillia, Ont.

“A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical” was created in collaboration with Diamond himself, and will be at the Schuster Center Nov. 28-Dec. 1 as part of Dayton Live’s Broadway in Dayton Series.