Tag: music
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September 9, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” — Leo Tolstoy BIRTHDAYS: 1583 Girolamo Frescobaldi, Italian keyboard virtuoso (organist at St. Peter’s Basilica, 1608-28 and 1634-43), and late Renaissance/early Baroque composer, born in Ferrara, Duchy of Ferrara. Non vi partite. 1618 Joan Cererols, Catalan musician, composer…
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September 8, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.” — Arnold Toynbee BIRTHDAYS: 1672 Nicolas de Grigny, French organist and composer. Cromorne en taille à 2 parties, and Ave Maris Stella (11:04), and Tierce en Taille 1841 Antonín Dvořák, Czech composer. Slavonic Dance No. 10, and Slavonic dances…
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September 7, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Be as decent as you can. Don’t believe without evidence. Treat things divine with marked respect — don’t have anything to do with them. Do not trust humanity without collateral security; it will play you some scurvy trick. Remember that it hurts no one to be treated as an enemy entitled…
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September 6, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “I have never understood why it is ‘greed’ to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else’s money.” — Thomas Sowell BIRTHDAYS: 1620 Isabella Leonarda, Italian religious composer, born in Novara, Duchy of Milan. Sonata Duodecima 1627 Pierre Verdier, French composer working…
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September 5, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “That without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, moribund.” — Anthony Bourdain BIRTHDAYS: 1600 Loreto Vittori, Italian composer and mezzo-soprano singer, baptized in Spoleto, Umbria, Papal States. Lungi dal mio bel Sole 1694 František Václav Míča, Moravian-Czech conductor and composer, born…
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September 4, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference.” — Elie Wiesel BIRTHDAYS: 1622 Jacob Hintze, German composer, born in Bernau, Electorate of…
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September 3, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Democracy extends the sphere of individual freedom, socialism restricts it. Democracy attaches all possible value to each man; socialism makes each man a mere agent, a mere number. Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word: equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks…
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September 2, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a…
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September 1, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today. The Western world has lost its civic courage . . . . Such a decline in courage is particularly noticeable among the ruling and intellectual elite, causing an impression of a loss…
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August 31, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “The act of reaching into one’s own pockets to help a fellow man in need is praiseworthy and laudable. Reaching into someone else’s pocket is despicable.” — Walter Williams BIRTHDAYS: 1741 Jean-Paul-Égide Martini [Johann Paul Aegidius Martin], French composer (Plaisir d’amour), born in Freystadt, Electorate of Bavaria, Holy Roman Empire. Plaisir…
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