Tag: music
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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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