Tag: classical-music
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December 18, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “By refocusing our space program on Mars for America’s future, we can restore the sense of wonder and adventure in space exploration that we knew in the summer of 1969. We won the moon race; now it’s time for us to live and work on Mars, first on its moons and…
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December 17, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.” — George Orwell BIRTHDAYS: 1706 Émilie du Châtelet, French mathematician and physicist (Institutions de Physique; translation of Newton’s Principia). 1749 Domenico Cimarosa, Italian composer (Il Matrimonio Segreto), born in Aversa, Kingdom of…
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December 16, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “There are books in which the footnotes, or the comments scrawled by some reader’s hand in the margin, are more interesting than the text. The world is one of those books.” — George Santayana BIRTHDAYS: 1770 Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer and pianist of the late Classical and early Romantic eras,…
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December 15, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “There is, however, hope for any person who wants to remain an individual. He can assert himself and refuse to conform. He’ll be on his own, that’s true, but while he will not have the security enjoyed by those who do conform, there will be no limits to what he may…
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December 14, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.” — G.K. Chesterton BIRTHDAYS: 1546 Tycho Brahe, Danish nobleman and astronomer whose meticulously calibrated naked-eye observations achieved unprecedented accuracy for the era, providing the empirical dataset that Johannes Kepler used to formulate the laws of planetary motion. 1789 Maria Szymanowska, a pioneering Polish…
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December 13, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Seriousness shows itself more majestically when laughter leads the way.” — Heinrich Heine BIRTHDAYS: 1740 Franz Xaver Schnitzer, German composer, born in Bad Wurzach, County of Waldburg-Zeil, Holy Roman Empire. IV.Intermezzoaus der Sonate I, C-Dur, and “Minuetto” aus der Sonate C-Dur 1797 Heinrich Heine, German poet, journalist, essayist, and literary critic…
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December 12, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Any fool can know. The point is to understand.” — Albert Einstein BIRTHDAYS: 1685 Lodovico Giustini, Italian composer, born in Pistoia, Grand Duchy of Tuscany. Sonata number 6 1799 Karl Briullov, a leading Russian painter of the Romantic movement, celebrated for his dramatic history paintings, portraits, and contributions to monumental art…
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December 11, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy.” — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn BIRTHDAYS: 1725 George Mason, American Founding Father, Virginia planter, and statesman best known for authoring the Virginia Declaration of Rights in 1776, a foundational document that articulated principles of individual liberty and government by consent, directly…
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December 10, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “I dwell in possibility…” — Emily Dickinson BIRTHDAYS: 1815 Ada Lovelace, English mathematician and writer, the only legitimate child of the poet Lord Byron and his wife Anne Isabella Milbanke, a woman with mathematical training. 1822 César Franck, Belgian-born composer, pianist, organist, and music teacher who became a central figure in…
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December 9, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Make yourself useful: go out and help someone.” — Kat Timpf BIRTHDAYS: 1608 John Milton, English poet, polemicist, scholar, and civil servant under the republican Commonwealth of England, whose epic Paradise Lost (1667) recasts the biblical Fall of Man as a profound exploration of human disobedience and divine justice, cementing his…
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