Tag: classical-music
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June 11, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: ”Neither can his mind be thought to be in tune, whose words do jarre; nor hisreason in frame, whose sentence is preposterous.” — Ben Jonson BIRTHDAYS: 1572 Ben Jonson, English playwright, poet and actor. 1672 Francesco Antonio Bonporti, Italian priest and amateur composer, born in Padua, Republic of Venice. Serenata in…
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June 10, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “In reaction against the age-old slogan, “woman is the weaker vessel,” or the still more offensive, “woman is a divine creature,” we have, I think, allowed ourselves to drift into asserting that “a woman is as good as a man,” without always pausing to think what exactly we mean by that.…
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June 9, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.” — Epicurus BIRTHDAYS: 1588 Johann Andreas Herbst, German composer and Baroque music theorist, baptized in the Free Imperial City of Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire. “Gott hat unter uns aufgerichtet” 1597…
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June 8, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson BIRTHDAYS: 1625 Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Italian-French mathematician, astronomer and engineer who discovered four of Saturn’s moons, born in Perinaldo, Republic of Genova 1810 Robert Schumann, German composer, pianist, and…
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June 7, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “There is nothing quite so useless, as doing with great efficiency, something that should not be done at all.” — Peter Drucker BIRTHDAYS:1846 Władysław Górski, Polish violinist, composer and teacher. Mazurek Op. 2 nr 1 for violin and piano 1848 Paul Gauguin, French painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramist, and writer, whose work…
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June 6, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Let us not forget that violence does not and cannot exist by itself; it is invariably intertwined with the lie. They are linked in the most intimate, most organic and profound fashion: violence cannot conceal itself behind anything except lies, and lies have nothing to maintain them save violence. Anyone who…
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June 5, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.” — Elie Wiesel BIRTHDAYS: 1646 Elena Cornaro Piscopia, Venetian philosopher of noble descent who in 1678 became one of the first women to receive an academic degree from a university and the first to…
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June 4, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “The high minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.” — Aristotle BIRTHDAYS: 1910 Christopher Cockerell, English inventor (Hovercraft). MISCELLANEOUS: ATTENTION COLONISTS. Japanese company ispace will attempt historic moon landing on June 5 THE COVID 19 INJECTIONS AND LOCKDOWNS BEGAN ON MARCH 15, 2020. THE TRAGEDY…
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June 3, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.” — Thomas Sowell BIRTHDAYS: 1660 Johannes Schenck, Dutch born composer. Chaconne – Duo in RE 1726 James Hutton,…
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June 2, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.” — Baruch Spinoza BIRTHDAYS: 1448 Domenico Ghirlandaio [Bigordi], Italian Renaissance painter, and mentor of Michelangelo, born in Florence. 1857 Edward Elgar, Serenade for Strings in E minor, Op.20, and Pomp…
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