THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“Thieves of private property pass their lives in chains; thieves of public property in riches and luxury.”

― Cato the Elder

BIRTHDAYS:

39 Lucan (Marcus Annaeus Lucanus), Roman poet (Bellum Civile / Pharsalia)

1560 Annibale Carracci, Italian painter (Baroque; founder of the Bolognese school)

1587 Samuel Scheidt, German Baroque composer and organist. O Nachbar Roland, and Suite für Blechbläser for Brass, and Bergamasca

1656 Georg Reutter, Austrian composer and organist. “Offesi, il veggo, il so”, and Missa a 4 voci G-Dur – “Agnus Dei” “Dona nobis pacem”

1689 – Jan Josef Ignác Brentner, Bohemian composer. Malé allegro – Concerto I. G moll – Bourrée

1801 Vincenzo Bellini, Italian opera composer (Norma, La Sonnambula). Bellini, Ah! non giunge uman pensiero, and Bellini: I Capuleti e i Montecchi – Oh, quante volte, and “Casta diva” from “Norma”

MISCELLANEOUS:

WOW, TALK ABOUT GETTING A SECOND OPINION. Woman has six brain MRIs for migraines—then doctors look somewhere else