March 8th
Internationals Women's Collaborational Brew Day. Nothing to do with Tea - brewsters (women "brewmasters") across the globe simultaneously create a craft beer to the same recipe; there's been a Pale Ales, a Red Ale, a Gose - and this year, the theme is "Forage Ale", incorporating local herbs, fruits, spices, and even wild yeast.
No women Saints have their Feast Day today - but it is Saint Philemon the Actor's: a 4th Century Egyptian actor who was martyred in the last year of Emperor Diocletian's reign (305) and who is the Patron Saint of Actors. (WIKI says that he was converted by St Apollonius, and that they died on the same day - but WIKI also claims that Apollonius died in 187!
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Also on this Date: the Conocation of Canterbury creates the title Supreme Head of the Church in England (1531); Johannes Kepler unravels his Third Law of Planetary Motion (1618); with the death of William III, his late wife's sister becomes Queen Anne of England, Scotland, and Ireland (1792); the first abolitionist tract is published by an anonymous writer, believed by some to be Thomas Paine (1777); the first orchestral Concert given by the Royal Philharmonic Society is given in London; symphonies by Haydn and Beethoven are performed, and Johann Peter Salomon is "conductor" (1813); the new York Stock Exchange is founded (1817); Strauss' Don Quixote is premiered in Cologne (1898); Sibelius' 2nd Symphony is premiered in Helsinki, the composer conducting (1902); Enescu's first two Romanian Dances Op11, and his First Orchestral Suite Op9 are all premiered in Bucharest, condicted by the composer (1903); Elgar's Introduction & Allegro is premiered in the Queen's Hall, London by the strings of the LSO, conducted by the composer (1905); an International Women's Day march in St Petersberg turns into a demonstration against the Tsar, the War, and the shortage of bread, starting the first Russian Revolution of 1917; the first modern Arab state, the Kingdom of Syria, is established (1920); the Suez Canal is reopened after the Suez Crisis, when Israeli forces agree to withdraw from Egyptian territory (1957); a coup d'etat brings the Ba'ath Party to power in Syria (1963); Charles de Gaulle Airport opens in Paris (1974); the first episode of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is broadcast (1978); Philips publicly demonstrate the prototype of the Compact Disc in Eindhoven, and Wolfgang Rihm's opera Jakob Lenz is premiered in Hamburg (both 1979); the Coen brothers' Fargo is released in the US (1996); and Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 from Kuala Lumpur, destined for China, disappears over the Indian Ocean (2014).
Birthdays Today include: Carlo Gesualdo (1566); Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714); Oliver Wendell Holmes (1841); Kenneth Grahame (1859); Otto Hahn (1879); Charlotte Whitton (1896); Paula Strasberg (1909); Alan Hovhaness (1911); Ivor Keys (1919); Cyd Charisse (1922); Anthony Caro (1924); Lynn Seymour and Robert Tear (both 1939); Norman Stone (1941); Lynn Redgrave (1943); Micky Dolenz and Sylvia Wiegand (both 1945); Gyles Brandreth and Jonathan Sachs (both 1948); and Christian Wolff is 85 today.
Final Days for: Veit Bach (founder of the dynasty - 1619); Christopher Wren (1723); Ferdinand von Zeppelin (1917); William Taft (1930); Othmar Schoeck (1957); Thomas Beecham (1961); Harold lloyd (1971); William Walton (1983); Billy Eckstine (1993); Joe DiMaggio (1990); Adam Faith (2003); George martin (2016); and today is the 150th anniversary of the death of Hector Berlioz.
And the Radio 3 schedules for the morning of Saturday, 8th March, 1969 were:
Berlioz: Corsaire Ovt; Te Deum; King Lear Ovt; Requiem (complete).
Record Review: Stephen Walsh BaLed Mahler's 3rd Symphony (! how many available versions were there in 1969?); Pauls Tilley reviews recent organ records.
(and then six hours of Sport
)
Internationals Women's Collaborational Brew Day. Nothing to do with Tea - brewsters (women "brewmasters") across the globe simultaneously create a craft beer to the same recipe; there's been a Pale Ales, a Red Ale, a Gose - and this year, the theme is "Forage Ale", incorporating local herbs, fruits, spices, and even wild yeast.
No women Saints have their Feast Day today - but it is Saint Philemon the Actor's: a 4th Century Egyptian actor who was martyred in the last year of Emperor Diocletian's reign (305) and who is the Patron Saint of Actors. (WIKI says that he was converted by St Apollonius, and that they died on the same day - but WIKI also claims that Apollonius died in 187!
)Also on this Date: the Conocation of Canterbury creates the title Supreme Head of the Church in England (1531); Johannes Kepler unravels his Third Law of Planetary Motion (1618); with the death of William III, his late wife's sister becomes Queen Anne of England, Scotland, and Ireland (1792); the first abolitionist tract is published by an anonymous writer, believed by some to be Thomas Paine (1777); the first orchestral Concert given by the Royal Philharmonic Society is given in London; symphonies by Haydn and Beethoven are performed, and Johann Peter Salomon is "conductor" (1813); the new York Stock Exchange is founded (1817); Strauss' Don Quixote is premiered in Cologne (1898); Sibelius' 2nd Symphony is premiered in Helsinki, the composer conducting (1902); Enescu's first two Romanian Dances Op11, and his First Orchestral Suite Op9 are all premiered in Bucharest, condicted by the composer (1903); Elgar's Introduction & Allegro is premiered in the Queen's Hall, London by the strings of the LSO, conducted by the composer (1905); an International Women's Day march in St Petersberg turns into a demonstration against the Tsar, the War, and the shortage of bread, starting the first Russian Revolution of 1917; the first modern Arab state, the Kingdom of Syria, is established (1920); the Suez Canal is reopened after the Suez Crisis, when Israeli forces agree to withdraw from Egyptian territory (1957); a coup d'etat brings the Ba'ath Party to power in Syria (1963); Charles de Gaulle Airport opens in Paris (1974); the first episode of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is broadcast (1978); Philips publicly demonstrate the prototype of the Compact Disc in Eindhoven, and Wolfgang Rihm's opera Jakob Lenz is premiered in Hamburg (both 1979); the Coen brothers' Fargo is released in the US (1996); and Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 from Kuala Lumpur, destined for China, disappears over the Indian Ocean (2014).
Birthdays Today include: Carlo Gesualdo (1566); Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714); Oliver Wendell Holmes (1841); Kenneth Grahame (1859); Otto Hahn (1879); Charlotte Whitton (1896); Paula Strasberg (1909); Alan Hovhaness (1911); Ivor Keys (1919); Cyd Charisse (1922); Anthony Caro (1924); Lynn Seymour and Robert Tear (both 1939); Norman Stone (1941); Lynn Redgrave (1943); Micky Dolenz and Sylvia Wiegand (both 1945); Gyles Brandreth and Jonathan Sachs (both 1948); and Christian Wolff is 85 today.
Final Days for: Veit Bach (founder of the dynasty - 1619); Christopher Wren (1723); Ferdinand von Zeppelin (1917); William Taft (1930); Othmar Schoeck (1957); Thomas Beecham (1961); Harold lloyd (1971); William Walton (1983); Billy Eckstine (1993); Joe DiMaggio (1990); Adam Faith (2003); George martin (2016); and today is the 150th anniversary of the death of Hector Berlioz.
And the Radio 3 schedules for the morning of Saturday, 8th March, 1969 were:
Berlioz: Corsaire Ovt; Te Deum; King Lear Ovt; Requiem (complete).
Record Review: Stephen Walsh BaLed Mahler's 3rd Symphony (! how many available versions were there in 1969?); Pauls Tilley reviews recent organ records.
(and then six hours of Sport
)
Leinsdorf was recorded in 1968 - whether or not it had reached the shops by March '69, I don't know. Abravenal's wonderful recording was recorded in '69, so probably wouldn't've featured. The was also a VSO/Adler recording from 1951, but whether that was at all available for this review ... ? 
Don't worry you're not alone - both I and another Zulu-bore in our close family circle watch the films on the anniversaries every year albeit on different sides of the Atlantic 
) - I'm currently reading Adam Zamoyski's new biog 'Napoleon - The Man Behind The Myth', and very good it is too. "Josephine was thirty-two and, as Barras put it, growing precociously decrepit 
. She had never been a beauty...." and, to cut a long story short, resorted instead to every art of the courtesan to entrance. She was also careful to keep her mouth shut when she smiled to conceal her rotten teeth. She had, erm, been round the track a few times, whereas Napoleon was a bit of a newbie.
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