Today's the Day

[vinteuil]

Birthdays Today include: Harri Webb (1920)

... well I knew Cliff Richard was getting on - I hadn't imagined he was ninety nine!



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[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

We're all going on a ... Saga Holiday

[LMcD]

We're all going on a ... Saga Holiday

As it happens, we are in the near future, well aware that SAGA probably doesn't stand for what one of our friends suggested it might.

[johncorrigan]

Birthdays Today Buddy Holly (1936);

The day the music lived?

[un barbu]

On This Date: Perkin Warbeck lands in Cornwall at the start of his second attempt to claim the English crown (1497 - he is declared "Richard IV" on Bodmin Moor)

Not to be confused with Perkin Warmnel, Perbeck, Wimneck, Warmneck and Lamkin, to say nothing of Permnel ('who had been dead all the time really, like Queen Anne.'.

[gurnemanz]

The day the music lived?

I've been raving on ever since.

[cloughie]

The day the music lived?

1978 the day the Moon went out!

[johncorrigan]

1978 the day the Moon went out!

No Substitute, cloughie.

[cloughie]

Not to be confused with Perkin Warmnel, Perbeck, Wimneck, Warmneck and Lamkin, to say nothing of Permnel ('who had been dead all the time really, like Queen Anne.'.

But her legs live on!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

10th September

World Suicide Prevention Day

Also on This Date: the synod of the Council of Agde decides, amongst other things, to prohibit marriage between cousins (506); Thomas Wolsey is made a Cardinal by Pope Leo X (1515); the US navy defeats a fleet of 6 ships of the Royal Navy at the Battle of Lake Erie (1812); Berlioz's opera Benvenuto Cellini is premiered at the Academie Royale de Musique, Paris, conducted by Francois Habeneck (1838); Elias Howe receives a patent for his design for a Sewing Machine (1846); a posse of over 100 men summoned by the sherrif of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania opens fire on a group of unnarmed miners, mostly immigrants from Eastern Europe, striking for better working conditions at the Lattimer Mine, killing 19 of them and injuring dozens of others (1897 - on the same day, London cabbie George Smith becomes the first person to be charged with being drunk in charge of a cab, when after "2 or 3 beers" he swerves his cab from one side of the road to the other, and drives at 8 mph across the footpath in New Bond Street - he points out to the judge that he has never been so charged before: the judge points out that the law is new and no one has been so charged before - furthermore, he has been charged with being drunk several times before; "Yes - but none of them in charge of a cab!" he is fined 20s); HMS Oxley becomes the first Royal Navy submarine to be sunk in World War 2 when it is torpedoed by ... Royal Navy submarine, HMS Triton (1939); the Wehrmacht, assisted by Italian Fascists, take control of Rome (1943); Vidkun Quisling is found guilty of for collaborating with Hitler in the nazi invasion of Norway and is sentenced to death (1945); the Gibraltar Sovereignty Referendum results in 12,138 Gibraltarians voting to maintain British Sovereignty, as against 44 voting for Spanish sovereignty on a 96.5% turnout (1967); murderer Hamida Djandoubi becomes the last person to be executed in Western Europe (1977 - and the last person to be guillotined in France); Picasso's Guernica leaves New York to be permanently homed in Spain (1981); Maxwell Davies' 4th Symphony is premiered at the Henry Wood Proms by the Scottish Chamber Orchestra conducted by the composer (1989); the former Ellis Island Immigration Depot reopens as a museum (1990); it's the economy, stupid: Lucy's Psychiatric fees in the Peanuts comic strip rise from 5c to 47 (1992); the first episode of The X-Files is broadcast in the United States (1993); Switzerland becomes a full member of the United Nations (2002); the first testing of the Large Haldron Collider at CERN in Switzerland (2008 - the Earth doesn't disappear).

Birthdays Today include: Nicholas Lanier (1588); Henry Purcell (1659); Niccolò Jommelli (1714); Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis (1875); Hilda Doolittle (1886); Franz Werfel (1890); Adele Astaire (1896); Cyril Connolly (1903); Boris Tchaikovsky (1925); Beryl Cook (1926); Arnold Palmer (1929); Diddy David Hamilton (1938); Roy Ayers (1940); Stephen Jay Gould & Christopher Hogwood (both 1941); Thomas Allen (1944); José Feliciano (1945); David Poutney (1947); Judy Geeson (1948); Medea Benjamin (1952); Colin Firth (1960); Guy Ritchie (1968).

Final Days for: William Morgan (1604); Émilie du Châtelet (1749); Mary Wollstonecraft (1797); Simon Sechter (1867); Hans Swarowsky (1975); Norah Lofts (1983); Anita Roddick (2007); Vernon Handley (2008).


... and the Radio 3 Schedules for the morning of Wednesday, 10th September, 1969 were:

Overture: Handel Berenice Ovt; JC Bach Sinfonia Concertante in C; Mozart Divertimento in D K251; .
Your Midweek Choice: Beethoven Pno Son in c, Op10 #1; Berlioz Melodies irlandaises; Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody #6.
This Week's Composer: Handel (Dixit Dominus)
Folk Songs from Canada Ep9: "Sociable & Social Songs".
Historic Organs: Michel Chapius plays works by Couperin on the organ of Saint-Maximin.
Haydn Pno 3os played by the Oromonte 3o - 10th of 12 programmes (in Bb, H xv 20; in G H xv 25)
Orchestral Records: Satie Parade; Poulenc Pno Conc; Ives Symph #2; Gould Spirituals

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

11th September

The Feast Day of Saint Deiniol, the British bishop whose family were driven fromn their ancestral home by the English invaders, forcing them to move to Powys. Taking holy orders, Deiniol became the first Bishop of Bangor, and Bangor Cathedral is dedicated to him - as are many churches in Wales, including that in Hawarden, where Gladstone spent his retirement, and it was Gladstone who founded the St Deiniol Library for Arts students in the village (very useful, too, for Family Historians researching Welsh ancestors - you can stay overnight, if you wish).

Also on This Date: an alliance of Germanic "Barbarian" tribes ambush and destroy three Roma legions at the Battle of Teutoburg Forest, now in Lower Saxony (9 - "Rome's greatest defeat"); Scottish and English forces fight at the Battle of Sterling Bridge (1297 - the result is a victory for the Scots); three members of the Cenci family are beheaded in in Rome on the Pope for the murder of their father - a man who was infamous for his brutal treatment of his family [he had frequently raped his daughter Beatrice, who is one of the executed] (1599 - the fourth of the accused, 12-year-old Bernardo, is spared, but is forced to watch the torture and execution of his siblings, is sentenced to become a galley slave, and the family property confiscated and given to ... the Pope); the 4 month Siege of Malta ends with the arrival of a relief army which attacked the Ottoman invaders, who had already begun to abandon their siege, killing thousands of them (1656); Cromwell's troops breach the town walls of Drogheda, ending the week-long siege: he orders his troops to spare none of the garrison, resulting in the slaughter of more than 3500 Irish Catholics and Roaylaist supporters (1649); Stephen Foster's Oh, Susanna is first performed by a vocal quintet in an Ice Cream parlour in Pittsburgh (1847); Jenny Lind gives her first concert in the United States in Castle Garden, New York (1960 - 4,476 tickets are sold for the fist event, which raises over $24,000 for charity [which is about £640,000 in today's money]); the original FA Cup is stolen from a Birmingham shop window where it had been on display following Aston Villa's victory - it is never recovered (1895); Saint Saens conducts the premiere of his Oratorio The Promised Land in Gloucester Cathedral, as part of the Three Choiurs Festival (1913); Enid Blyton's Five on a Treasure Island is published by Hodder & Stoughton (1942); Stravinsky's opera The Rake's Progress is premiered at La Fenice, Venice, conducted by the Composer (1951); having decided that Love Me Do would be the Beatles' first release for EMI, George Martin re-records it, replacing Ringo Starr with sessions professional Andy White (1962 - "He has apologised several times since, has old George, but it was devastating—I hated the bugger for years; I still don't let him off the hook!" - Ringo is given a tambourine as consolation prize); following a military coup sponsored and supported by the US Government, Chilean Socialist President Salvador Allende commits suicide (1973 - "Workers of my country, I have faith in Chile and its destiny. Other men will overcome this dark and bitter moment when treason seeks to prevail. Keep in mind that, much sooner than later, the great avenues will again be opened through which will pass free men to construct a better society. Long live Chile! Long live the people! Long live the workers!"); Janet Parker, a medical photographer at the University of Birmigham School of medicine, becomes the last person to die from smallpox, after being exposed to a strain of the virus a month earlier (1978 - her father had died of a heart attack the week before having been to visit his dying daughter, and her boss had commited suicide when he heard that she was going to die); the Scottish Devolution Referendum results in a 75% vote for the creation of a Scottish Parliament with tax-levying powers (1997); the 9/11 Attacks by al-Qaeda terrorists in the United States results in the deaths of 2,977 people and the 19 terrorists (2001); the Channel Tunnel is closed for 2 days following a fire reaching 1000C on a Eurotunnel train carrying HGV vehicles and their drivers (2008); two fires, resulting from managemnet ignoring safety regulations, break out in gament factories in Karachi and Lahore in Pakistan, causing 289 workers, and injuring more than 600 others (2012).

Birthdays Today include: James Thomson (1700); William Boyce (1711); Joanna Baillie (1762); Mungo park (1771); Friedrich Kuhlau (1786); Eduard Hanslick (1825); O Henry (1862); DH Lawrence (1885); Theodor W. Adorno (1903); Lev Oborin (1907); Alvar Lidell (1908); Herbert Lom & Jessica Mitford (both 1917); Arvo Pärt (1935); Brian De Palma (1940); Brian Perkins (1943); Franz Beckenbauer (1945); Catherine Bott (1952).

Final Days for: François Couperin (1733); Robert W Service (1958); Nikita Khruhschev (1971); William Alwyn (1985); Erich leinsdorf (1993); Jessica Tandy (1994); Donald Sinden (2014).


... and the Radio 3 Schedules for the morning of Tuesday, 11th September, 1979 were:

Overture: Boyce Symph #7 in Bb; Richter Flute Conc in D; Schumann Ovt, Scherzo & Finale; Berlioz King Lear Ovt; Saint-Saens 7tet in Eb; Ravel D&C Suite #2.
This Week's Composer: Balakirev (Symphonic Poem "Russia"; Songs; Symphonic Poem "Tamar")
Now & Then: Merlot 3o (Schubert Auf dem Strom; Salter 3 Songs; Berlioz Le Jeune Pâtre Breton; Blake Watkins All that we Read in their Smiles)
16th & 17th Century Keyboard Music played by Ralph Downes (Antonio de Cabezon Tiento del cuarto tono, Diferencias cavallero; Merulo Cajizon a 4 dita La Leonora; Andrea Gabrieli Pass'e mezzo antico; Frescobaldi Capriccio sopra il Cucho; Peter Philips Pasamezzo pavana)
De Volharding: Andriessen Dat gebeurt in Vietnam, On Jimmy Yancey, Voor Sater; de Vries Difficulties; Mengelberg Dressoir; Breuker Two Tangos from ' Woycek '.
Cardiff Midday Prom: Dvorak Slavonic Rhapsody #2 in G; Czech Suite (BBCWSO/Bryden Thomson).

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Stephen Foster's Oh, Susanna is first performed by a vocal quintet in an Ice Cream parlour in Pittsburgh (1847)

[johncorrigan]

Me ageing blues calendar informs me that Barbecue Bob was born 11th September 1902 in Walnut Grove, Georgia, ferney. His nickname was derived from his working as a cook in a barbecue restaurant and you can see him here playing a guitar and wearing a full-length white apron and cook's hat...'Going up the Country'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQxXJz2I9Vs

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Thanks jc - Mr Bob has never before crossed my path

[johncorrigan]

Thanks jc - Mr Bob has never before crossed my path

Born Robert Hicks, ferney, and during his life a very fine and successful example of the piedmont country blues. Bob recorded a lot of tunes (about 60 sides) but died at the rather unripe age of only 29, which might explain why he was passed over and kind of forgotten.