THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it makes a better soup.”

― H.L. Mencken

BIRTHDAYS:

1576 Thomas Weelkes, English organist and madrigal composer. To shorten winter’s sadness, and The Nightingale

1811 Évariste Galois, mathematician (French; group theory)

1815 Ernesto Camillo Sivori, composer (Italian violinist). Romance sans paroles op.23 Nr.1

1825 Johann Strauss Jr., composer (Austrian; “Waltz King”). Die Fledermaus – Overture, and The Beautiful Blue Danube

1838 Georges Bizet, composer (French; Carmen). “L’amour est un oiseau rebelle”, and The Pearl Fishers “Je crois entendre encore”

MISCELLANEOUS:

INTERESTING.

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