Tag: music
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March 13, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Quality is not an act, it is a habit.” — Aristotle BIRTHDAYS: 1700 Michel Blavet, French composer. Sonata Nr. 4 in g minor “La Lumague” 1855 Percival Lowell, American businessman, author, mathematician, and astronomer who fueled speculation that there were canals on Mars, and furthered theories of a ninth planet within…
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March 12, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Authority that does not exist for Liberty is not authority but force.” — Lord Acton BIRTHDAYS: 1710 Thomas Arne, English composer. Rule Britannia 1788 Pierre-Jean David d’Angers], French sculptor. 1824 Gustav Kirchhoff, German physicist (spectroscopy, coined “black body” radiation), born in Königsberg, Kingdom of Prussia. 1835 Simon Newcomb, Canadian-American scientist, mathematician…
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March 11, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.” — Thomas Sowell BIRTHDAYS: 1811 Urbain Jean Joseph le Verrier, French astronomer (made calculations that proved existence of Neptune) 1903 James Franklin Hyde, American chemist and inventor. He…
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March 10, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Freedom of the mind requires not only, or not even specially, the absence of legal constraints but the presence of alternative thoughts. The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities.” — Allan Bloom BIRTHDAYS: 1844…
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March 9, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.” — Aristotle BIRTHDAYS: 1454 Amerigo Vespucci, Italian explorer and navigator from the Republic of Florence for whom “America” is named. 1910 Samuel Barber, American…
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March 8, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Governments never learn; only people learn.” — Milton Friedman BIRTHDAYS: 1560 Don Carlo Gesualdo, Italian Prince of Venosa and composer, born in Venosa, Kingdom of Naples. Plange Quasi Virgo, and Moro, lasso, al mio duolo, and O Vos Omnes, and Tenebrae Factae Sunt, and Omnes amici mei 1714 Carl Philipp Emanuel…
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December 22, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Relativity applies to physics, not to ethics” — Albert Einstein BIRTHDAYS: 1400 Luca della Robbia, Italian sculptor. 1702 Jean-Étienne Liotard, Swiss-French painter, art connoisseur, and dealer 1723 Carl Friedrich Abel, German composer, born in Köthen, Anhalt-Köthen, Holy Roman Empire. Quartet G dur allegro moderato. 1858 Giacomo Puccini, Italian composer known primarily…
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December 21, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.” — Frank Zappa BIRTHDAYS: 1401 Masaccio, Italian painter. 1616 Pietro Andrea Ziani, Italian organist and composer. Exultate Gaudete, and Sonata XVIII a 5 Les Plaisirs du Parnasse, and Sonata VII and 3 in D 1628 Samuel Friedrich…
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December 13, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed.” — Robert Heinlein BIRTHDAYS: 1740 Franz Xaver Schnitzer, German composer. Sonata in Fa Maggiore 1797 Heinrich Heine, German poet and lyricist (Schubert, Liszt) 1836 Franz von Lenbach, German painter. 1838 Alexis de Castillon, French composer. Sonnet Mélancolique, and Piano Quintet in…
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