Tony's Garden

”The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.” — J.P. Morgan BIRTHDAYS: 1587 Ivan Lukačić, Croatian composer. Panis angelicus 1683 Johann David Heinichen, German Baroque composer and music theorist, born in Krössuln, Electorate of Saxony. Violin concerto in D major Seibel 224 1837 J.…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Gentlemen, you are about to embark on a course of studies which will occupyyou for two years. Together, they form a noble adventure. But I would like toremind you of an important point. Nothing that you will learn in the course ofyour studies will be of the slightest possible use to…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.” — Leonardo da Vinci BIRTHDAYS: 1452 Leonardo da Vinci, Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect. While his fame initially rested on his achievements as a painter, he has also become…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “The world is my country, science is my religion.” — Christiaan Huygens BIRTHDAYS: 1629 Christiaan Huygens, Dutch mathematician, physicist, engineer, astronomer, and inventor who is regarded as a key figure in the Scientific Revolution. 1638 Diogo Dias Melgás, Portuguese composer of sacred polyphonic music. Adoratio Crucis 1718 Emanuele Barbella, Neapolitan composer,…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.” — Henry David Thoreau BIRTHDAYS: 1743 Thomas Jefferson, American Founding Father and the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809.[6] He was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence. 1769 Thomas Lawrence, English portrait painter…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.” — Eric Hoffer BIRTHDAYS: 1661 Antoine Coypel, French painter and poet. 1681 Anne Danican Philidor, French composer. Sonate pour flûte à bec MISCELLANEOUS: ATTENTION ADULT CALIFORNIANS. Policies, not…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.” — Eric Hoffer BIRTHDAYS: 1661 Antoine Coypel, French painter and poet. 1681 Anne Danican Philidor, French composer. Sonate pour flûte à bec 1682 Jean-Joseph Mouret, French composer. Rondeau…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.” — Charles Baudelaire BIRTHDAYS: 1707 Michael Corrette, French organist (Church of Sainte-Marie du Temple -Paris, 1737-91), composer, and educator. Sonata n°1 Op.20 MISCELLANEOUS: ATTENTION COLONISTS. Jared Isaacman Future NASA…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “How does something immoral, when done privately, become moral when it is done collectively? Furthermore, does legality establish morality? Slavery was legal; apartheid is legal; Stalinist, Nazi, and Maoist purges were legal. Clearly, the fact of legality does not justify these crimes. Legality, alone, cannot be the talisman of moral people.”…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “No society can surely be flourishing and happy of which by far the greater part of the numbers are poor and miserable.” — Adam Smith BIRTHDAYS: 1692 Giuseppe Tartini, Venetian Baroque composer and violinist (Trillo del Diavolo), born in Piran, Republic of Venice. Sonata n. 5 op. 2 in La minore…