Today's the Day

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

20th January is the eve of St Agnes' Day - a Roman saint who was tortured and killed by her family because she refused to marry the husband set aside for her; her preference was to maintain her chastity for her Christian Faith. As a consequence, young unmarried women would use this evening to pray to her to show them their future husband in a dream this night. (Don't ask me for the logic in appealing to this particular Saint for the granting of this particular request.) Sometimes a little extra "help" was added to the prayers - including the baking of a "dumb" or "Dutch" cake (half flour, half salt! AND involving twirling round and round during the baking process and adding more salt: St Agnes should be the patroness of hypertension), and/or throwing hemp seeds () over the shoulder so that the face of the future husband might be seen in the dust that arose as a result.

Keats' poem (see "Poetry" Thread) gives in its entirety an example of what I suspect must have been many young men who used the occasion to "cheat" - in the poem, the "hero" hides in the heroine's bedroom, and makes sure that his is the first face she sees on waking. Cad!


AND

On Radio 3 this day fifty years ago, the morning schedules from 7:00am - Noon consisted of

Overture ("from gramophone records")
Morning Concert (James Loughran conducting the BBCSSO)
This Week's Composer (Bach)
The Master Pianists (Godowski and Hoffmann
Talking About Music (Antony Hopkins)
Music Making (Iain Hamilton and Beethoven)
From the Proms

[vinteuil]

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http://ww1.antiochian.org/node/17341

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes_of_Rome

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[ ... I was going to congratulate you, on the Poetry thread, for getting the date ]



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[Padraig]

20th January is the eve of St Agnes' Day

I've read your Poetry post ferney. Happy memories. I have not read much of Keats since school, but I bought a beautifully bound volume of his poetry as a present for someone who loved him. I wonder, more than 60 years later, where she is now.

And I don't think I was listening to the radio that day fifty years ago. Apart from work, there were four children under seven years of age demanding attention. Those were the days.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

http://ww1.antiochian.org/node/17341

Ah! My apologies to Agnes' family.

(And thank you )

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I've read your Poetry post ferney. Happy memories. I have not read much of Keats since school, but I bought a beautifully bound volume of his poetry as a present for someone who loved him. I wonder, more than 60 years later, where she is now.

And I don't think I was listening to the radio that day fifty years ago. Apart from work, there were four children under seven years of age demanding attention. Those were the days.

Lovely response, Padriag - thank you.

[french frank]

My mother used to reckon that January 21st was when the 'lighter nights' first became noticeable.

[Edgy 2]

On Radio 3 this day fifty years ago, the morning schedules from 7:00am - Noon consisted of

Overture ("from gramophone records")
Morning Concert (James Loughran conducting the BBCSSO)
This Week's Composer (Bach)
The Master Pianists (Godowski and Hoffmann
Talking About Music (Antony Hopkins)
Music Making (Iain Hamilton and Beethoven)
From the Proms

[Pulcinella]

20th January is the eve of St Agnes' Day - a Roman saint who was tortured and killed by her family because she refused to marry the husband set aside for her; her preference was to maintain her chastity for her Christian Faith. As a consequence, young unmarried women would use this evening to pray to her to show them their future husband in a dream this night. (Don't ask me for the logic in appealing to this particular Saint for the granting of this particular request.) Sometimes a little extra "help" was added to the prayers - including the baking of a "dumb" or "Dutch" cake (half flour, half salt! AND involving twirling round and round during the baking process and adding more salt: St Agnes should be the patroness of hypertension), and/or throwing hemp seeds () over the shoulder so that the face of the future husband might be seen in the dust that arose as a result.

Keats' poem (see "Poetry" Thread) gives in its entirety an example of what I suspect must have been many young men who used the occasion to "cheat" - in the poem, the "hero" hides in the heroine's bedroom, and makes sure that his is the first face she sees on waking. Cad!


AND

On Radio 3 this day fifty years ago, the morning schedules from 7:00am - Noon consisted of

Overture ("from gramophone records")
Morning Concert (James Loughran conducting the BBCSSO)
This Week's Composer (Bach)
The Master Pianists (Godowski and Hoffmann
Talking About Music (Antony Hopkins)
Music Making (Iain Hamilton and Beethoven)
From the Proms

20 January 1969 was a Monday, by the way.

[teamsaint]

20 January 1969 was a Monday, by the way.

Are you one of those people who can work this sort of thing out in your head instantly ?

[Pulcinella]

Are you one of those people who can work this sort of thing out in your head instantly ?

No!
That's where Google comes in handy.
Just thought it was worth looking up, as that didn't seem like a Sunday morning schedule to me.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

21st January

Well today is St Agnes' Day - hope everyone had pleasant dreams last night!

It's also Midwives' Day in Bulgaria, Grandmother's Day in Poland, and National Hugging Day in the US - so good luck with that and to all American Forumistas!

Birthdays, too, of among others Henri Duparc, Stonewall Jackson, Rasputin (NS), Telly Savalas, and Benny Hill.

And on Radio 3 on this day, forty years ago (a Sunday) the pre-noon schedules were:

Forty Years of Heifetz (Beethoven and Vieuxtemps)
Your Concert Choice (Haydn Organ Concerto, Prokofiev 1st PnoConc, Kodaly Conc for Orch)
Music Weekly
From the Proms (Schumann Manfred Ovt, Iain Hamilton Cleopatra)

[french frank]

No!
That's where Google comes in handy.
Just thought it was worth looking up, as that didn't seem like a Sunday morning schedule to me.

Or the Genome:

Sunday 19th Jan, 1969:

8.00 : NEWS; WEATHER
8.04 : WHAT'S NEW?
A weekly programme of recent records
9.00 : NEWS; WEATHER
9.04 : HAYDN'S PIANO TRIOS
Third of twelve weekly programmes played by the OROMONTE PIANO Trio
Trio in F sharp minor (H.XV.26)
9.19*Trio in D minor (H.XV.23)
H.XV.26 broadcast on July 28. 1968; H.XV.23 on October 6, 1968
G minor (H.XV. 19); C major (H.XV. 27)
9.45 : YOUR CONCERT CHOICE
A request programme of gramophone records
11.00 : MUSIC MAGAZINE
Record Review
ALAN BLYTH JOAN CHISSELL and EDWARD GREENFIELD
Introduced by JULIAN HERBAGE
11.50 : BACH
The 48 Preludes and Fugues played by DENIS MATTHEWS (piano)
Book l, Nos. 7-12
Second in a series of eight programmes
12.25 : SHOSTAKOVICH STRING QUARTETS
played by the BORODIN STRING QUARTET
Part 1 Quartet No. 6, in G major
Op. 101 (1956) 12.55 : BILLY BUDD ⓢ
Music by Benjamin Britten
AMBROSIAN OPERA CHORUS
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Conducted by the composer

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Yes - I'm getting my information from the Genome, although I'm also having to translate much of the information into English.

[cloughie]

Or the Genome:

Sunday 19th Jan, 1969:

8.00 : NEWS; WEATHER
8.04 : WHAT'S NEW?
A weekly programme of recent records
9.00 : NEWS; WEATHER
9.04 : HAYDN'S PIANO TRIOS
Third of twelve weekly programmes played by the OROMONTE PIANO Trio
Trio in F sharp minor (H.XV.26)
9.19*Trio in D minor (H.XV.23)
H.XV.26 broadcast on July 28. 1968; H.XV.23 on October 6, 1968
G minor (H.XV. 19); C major (H.XV. 27)
9.45 : YOUR CONCERT CHOICE
A request programme of gramophone records
11.00 : MUSIC MAGAZINE
Record Review
ALAN BLYTH JOAN CHISSELL and EDWARD GREENFIELD
Introduced by JULIAN HERBAGE
11.50 : BACH
The 48 Preludes and Fugues played by DENIS MATTHEWS (piano)
Book l, Nos. 7-12
Second in a series of eight programmes
12.25 : SHOSTAKOVICH STRING QUARTETS
played by the BORODIN STRING QUARTET
Part 1 Quartet No. 6, in G major
Op. 101 (1956) 12.55 : BILLY BUDD ⓢ
Music by Benjamin Britten
AMBROSIAN OPERA CHORUS
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Conducted by the composer

Whatever happened to the Oromonte Piano Trio?

[french frank]

Whatever happened to the Oromonte Piano Trio?

Dunno, never heard of them - I had to check that the spelling was correct (unlike the Borooin Quartet).