Today's the Day

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Napoleon had written to Tipu from Egypt on Jan 25, 1799, announcing his imminent 'arrival on the shores of the Red Sea with a numerous and invincible army, animated with the desire of delivering you from the iron yoke of England' - the letter never got there, as it was intercepted (as was most of Napoleon's mail from Egypt) by the Royal Navy . The British commander at Seringapatam was a young Lieutenant General named Sir Arthur Wellesley

Soon afterwards events back in France proved more pressing, and Napoleon abandoned what was left of his army in Egypt to head for home with a handful of his generals, evading the Royal Navy, in two slow-moving Venetian frigates (Napoleon's fleet in Egypt having earlier been completely destroyed by Nelson at the Battle of Aboukir Bay).

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Europe Day - I'm sayin' nowt - and International Midwives' Day. It's also St George's Day ... in Palestine.

Also on this Date: English rebel barons renounce their alliegience to King John in the beginning of steps leading to Magna Carta (1215); Kublai is crowned 5th Khagan ["great khan"] of the Mongol Empire (1260 - he looks around and thinks "What this place could do with is a stately pleasure dome"); Christopher Colubus lands in Xajmaca [Jamaica] on his second voyage to the West Indies (1494); Charles I dissolves the Short Parliament (1640); Charles I surrenders himself to the Scottish Presbyterian Army (1646); Cromwell proclaims his Act of Pardon and Grace to the People of Scotland, exonerating them from any crimes committed during the Civil War (1654 - except for members of the Royal Family, and those who had had their property confiscated, those who had been fined ... and amyone else it was more convenient for him not to pardon); Louis XVI summons the Estates General for the first time in 175 years (1789 - the King's attempts to dismiss it five weeks later signals the start of the French Revolution); Jews in the Swiss canton of Aargau are granted greater rights of citizenship (1809 - they are still not permitted to leave the boundaries of the Canton for another third of a Century); Belgium opens a railway line between Brussells and Mechelen, the first in Europe outside of Britain (1835); Giuseppe Garibaldi sets sail from Genoa to begin a campaign that will lead to the independent Kingdom of Italy (1860); Cinco di mayo - initially commemorating the victory of the Mexican army against much larger French forces at the Battle of Puebla (1862 - now a carnival for Mexicans and Mexican-Americans); 7 people are shot dead by Wisconsin National Guardsmen after a strike for better conditions is called by 12,000 workers (1886); Tchaikovsky conducts the opening ceremony of the New York Music Hall, later named Carnegie Hall (1891); fingerprint evidence is first used to gain a conviction for murder in the trial of the Stratton brothers at the Old Bailey (1905); the first issue of Pravda is published in St Petersburg (1912); Italian immigrants Sacco and Vanzetti are arrested by Massachsetts police charged with robbery and murder (1920); Chanel Number 5 goes on sale for the first time to a select number of customers of couturier, Coco Chanel (1921); High School Supply Teacher John T Scopes is charged with teaching about Evolution in contravention of the Tennessee Butler Act prohibiting this in Tennessee schools (1925); Virginai Woolf's To the Lighthouse is first published (1927); Milhaud's opera Christophe Colomb is premiered at the Staatsoper Berlin (1930 - on the very same day, Amy Johnson sets off from Croyden airport; when she arrives in Darwin, three weeks later, she becomes the first woman pilot to fly solo from England to Australia); Mussolini's troops occupy Addis Ababa (1936); Norwegian troops surrender to the German Army (1940 - on the same day, Norwegian refugees form a Government-in-Exile in London); five years to the day since his exile, Emperor Haile Selassi returns to Addis Ababa (1941); 270 women, children, and elderly citizens of the Greek village of Kleisoura are massacred by Nazi troops in reprisal at the shooting of 3 German soldiers (1944 - the order for the massacre is given by Karl Schumars, who enjoyed himself so much, he orders a repeat performance later in the year at Distomo); members of the Czech Resistance begin the Prague Uprising against the Nazi occupiers (1945 - on the smae day, British troops liberate Denmark from German occupation; and a Japanese fire bomb kills 6 people in Oregon [the only citizens killed on the US mainland in the whole of the War] - and US and German troops co-operate with French Prisoners-of-War to fight off an attack from Nazi loyalists with a particularly poor sense of reality at Castle Itter in Austria); Bhumibol Adulyadej is crowned as King of Thailand (1950 - he had begun his 70-year reign four years earlier, but they take their time over coronations in Thailand); Alan Shepherd becomes the first American to travel into space (1961); the SAS ends the Iranian Embassy siege, storming the Embassy after one of the hostages has been killed (1980 - a further hostage, and five of the terrorists are killed in the rescue); IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands starves to death in HM Prison Maze in Northern Ireland (1981); Henze's opera Das Verratene Meer is premiered at the Deutsche Oper, Berlin, conducted by Marcus Stenz, and produced by Götz Friedrich (1990); a riot breaks out in the St Helens district of Washington DC after a Salvadorean man resisting arrest for drunken disorderly behaviour is shot by a roockie police officer at the Cinco di Mayo celebrations (1991); Tony Blair wins his third term as Prime Minister (2005); Mass Protests begin in Greece following the imposition of austerity measures by the Greek government (2010); twenty-two people are drowned when a yacht and a dinghy, both overfilled with illegal immigrants, capsize in the Aegean Sea off the coast of the Greek island of Samos.

Birthdays Today include: Johann Adolph Scheibe (1708); Thomas Linley (1756); Soren Kierkegaard (1813); Karl Marx (1818); Viktor Hartmann (1834); Nellie Bly (1864); Hans Pfitzner (1869); Blind Willie McTell (1898); Floyd Gottfredson (1905); Kurt Böhme (1908); Tyrone Power (1918); Irene Gut Opdyke (1922); Richard Wollheim (1923); Stan Goldberg (1932); Eddie Linden (1935); Patrick Gowers (1936); Delia Derbyshire (1937); Ray Gosling (1939); Michael Lindsay-Hogg (1940); Tammy Wynette (1942); Michael Palin (1943); Roger Rees (1944); Cyprien Katsaris (1951); Richard E Grant (1957); James Cracknell (1972);

Final Days for: Napoleon (1821); Violet Jessopp (1971); Irving Howe (1993); Giulietta Simionato (2010 - exactly one week to the day before her 100th birthday); and Isao Tomita (2016)


And the Radio 3 schedules for the morning of Saturday, 5th May, 1979 were:

Aubade: Villa-Lobos Bachianas Brasileiras #1; Poulenc Le bal masqué; Lennon/McCartney Yesterday; WC Handy St Louis Blues (both performed by the 12 'cellists of the BPO); Gounod Ballet Music, Faust.
Record Review: Holst's Planets, BaLed by Edward Greenfield; new recordings of pre-Classical Music reviewed by Lionel Salter.
Release: Elizabethan settings of poems by the Earl of Essex and by Sir Walter Raleigh; and Songs from Shakespeare's plays.
Nursery Rhymes for Wind 5tet (wih/without Soprano) by Berio and Robin Holloway.
Robin Ray "presents for your pleasure a weekly selection of popular classics, in performances chosen from over 75 years of gramophone recordings".

[Bryn]

Europe Day - I'm sayin' nowt - and International Midwives' Day. It's also St George's Day ... in Pakestine.

Make your mind up.

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Make your mind up.

duly corrected

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Soon afterwards events back in France proved more pressing, and Napoleon abandoned what was left of his army in Egypt to head for home with a handful of his generals, evading the Royal Navy, in two slow-moving Venetian frigates (Napoleon's fleet in Egypt having earlier been completely destroyed by Nelson at the Battle of Aboukir Bay).

... the Battle of Aboukir Bay (also known as the Battle of the Nile) was also the occasion of one of the worst examples of 'modern' heraldry. The old Nelson arms had already been messed about with when he was made a Knight of the Bath in 1797; when he was elevated to the peerage as Baron Nelson of the Nile in 1798 it was further botched with the addition of 'a chief undulated argent, and thereon waves of the sea with a palm-tree between a disabled ship on the dexter side and a battery in ruins on the sinister, all proper.' (There was further messing about when the title passed to his brother, rendering his arms almost illegible heraldically; things were tidied up subsequently.)

https://www.theheraldrysociety.com/articles/lord-nelsons-arms/

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[cloughie]

Marisa Robles, many of us will have recordings by her, her beautiful playing - 82 today - is she still playing? I often feel for harpists who have to arrive so much earlier than the rest of the orchestra to tune their instrument!

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6th May

International No-Diet Day, celebrating the human body in all its shapes and sizes, and promoting healthy eating which doesn't put comercial ideas of "beauty" before health and well-being.
The Feast Day of St Evodius, successor ti St Peter as Bishop of Antioch, and one of the few early saints to die of natural causes rather than suffering a painful execution.

And it's St George's Day ... in Serbia.

Also on this Date: Alfred the Great defeats the Great Heathen Army at the Battle of Edington leading, possibly, to the Treaty of Wedmore, in which Guthrum, the leader of his Viking enemies, is baptised, accepts Alfred as his father, and promises never to attack Wessex again (878); Holy Roman Emperor Charles V leads an army of mercenaries to defeat Roman troops and sack the city (1527); Inca warriors begin an eleven-month [and ultimately unsuccessful] attack to regain the city of Cusco from Spanish control and restore the Incan Empire (1536); Christopher Smart is admitted to St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics as a "curable patient" (1757 - he is later proclaimed "incurable" and moved to Mr Potter's Asylum, where he is confined until 1763); the first edition of the New York Herald is published (1835); the Penny Black postage stamp, on sale since the beginning of the month, becomes valid for use (1840); Frederick Cavendish, Chief Secretary for Ireland and his Under-Secretary, Thomas Henry Burke, are stabbed to death by Irish Nationalists in Dublin's Phoenix Park as they walk to the Lord Lieutenant's residence (1882 - Cavendish had been appointed to the post only hours before - on the same day, the Chinese Exclusion Act, prohibiting Chinese immigration into the United States comes into force, AND Queen Victoria, on an official visit to Chingford [you wouldn't want to go there on any other pretext] declares the "beautiful" Epping Forest, "The People's Forest", dedicated " to the use and enjoyment of my people for all time"); the Exhibition Universal opens in Paris using the arches of the newly-opened Eiffel Tower as entranceway (1889 - it is here that Debussy and others first hear Javanese Gamelan performances); Leoncavallo's La Boheme is premiered at La Fenice (1897); the new Russian Constitution is adopted, in which the Tsar agrees to share power with an elected parliament - something he proves <ahem> constitutionally incapable of doing (1906); Edward VII dies and is succeeded by George V (1910); 21 Lebanese Nationalists seeking independence from the Ottoman Empire are beheaded in Martyrs' Square on the orders of Ahmed Djemal Pasha ["as-saffah": "the bloodthirsty"] (1916); Sinclair Lewis refuses a Pulitzer Prize offered for his novel Arrowsmith, as he objects to the institution (1926 - it would have given him $1,000 - worth over £10,000 in today's money); the book-burning enthusiasts of the Nazi German Students' Union storm the Berlin Institute of Sex Research (1933); the Works Progress Administration agency begins operations to find public service work for millions of low and un-skilled unemployed workers (1935); German airship the Hindenburg catches fire as it comes in land in New Jersey - the flame destroys the craft in seconds, killing 35 of the 97 people on board, and one worker on the ground (1937); Dutch novelist Maurits Dekker is given a 50-day prison sentence and fined 100 guilders for "insulting a friendly head of state" (1938 - he has written an article describing Hitler as "a clown, a liar, and a coward"); John Steinbeck is awarded a Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Grapes of Wrath (1940); Bob Hope gives his first show for the United Services Organization (1941 - over the next 50 years, he will give 56 more such shows for serving US troops); Mildred Gillars, "Axis Sally", the American "Lord Haw-Haw", broadcasts her last propaganda speech (1945); EDSAC [the Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator] runs its first programs at the University of Cambridge, calculating tables of square numbers (1949 - that's the date, not an example); Roger Bannister runs a mile in under 4 minutes (1954 - 3/5 of a second "under"); Princess Margaret marries Anthony Armstrong-Jones (1960 - the first televised Royal Wedding, it receives over 20million viewers; on the same day the Civil Rights Act comes into force in the United States [it is because this Act has been ignored that the Children's Crusade in Alabama was necessary]); Joe Orton's Entertaining Mr Sloane is premiered at the New Arts Theatre, London (1964); Myra Hindley and Ian Brady, "two sadistic killers of the utmost depravity", are sentenced to Life Imprisonment for the murders of five children between 1963-65 (1966); the "Hitler Diaries" are exposed as a hoax (1983); on Tony Blair's 44th birthday, and four days after becoming Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown makes the Bank of England independent of the Government in setting monetary policy (1997); the first elections are held for the new Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly (1999 - power is transferred from Westminster on 1st July); Pope John Paul II becomes the first Pontiff to enter a Mosque during an official visit to Syria (2001); 82 of the 276 schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram three years earlier are released in exchange for five BH leaders (2017 - and, on the same day, the French Government pass legislation requiring any commercial photos of models that have been digitally altered to appear thinner or thicker to bear the warning "photographie retouchée") ... and it's 25 years since the opening of the Channel Tunnel.

Birthdays Today include: Pope marcellus I (1501 - he died five days before his 54th birthday); Anton Raaff (1714); Maximilien Robespierre (1758); Sigmund Freud and Robert Peary (both 1856); Gaston Leroux (1868); Rudolph Valentino (1895); Raymond Bailey (1904); Andre Weil (1906); Carmen Cavallero and Stewart Grainger (1913); Orson Welles and George Perle (both 1915); Godfrey Ridour (1918); Erich Fried (1921); Ariel Dorfman (1942); George Clooney (1961); Jaime Winstone (1985); ... and Jan Erik Mikalsen is 40 today

Final Days for: James Tyrell (1502); Giaches de Wert (1596); Henry David Thoreau (1862); L Frank Baum (1919); Konstantin Somov (1939); Maurice Maeterlinck (1949); Maria Montessori (1952); Wilfrid Hyde-White (1991); Marlene Dietrich (1992); Ann Todd (1993); Leonard Salzedo (2000); Curtis Harrington (2007); ... and, five years ago today, Antony Hopkins.


And the Radio 3 schedules for the morning of Saturday, 6th May, 1989 were:

Morning Concert: Weber Preciosa Ovt; Strauss Horn Concerto #1 in Eb; Grieg Piano Concerto; Nielsen Two Fantasias, Op 2.
The Week on 3 presented by Malcolm Ruthven.
BBCSSO conducted by Christopher Seaman (Berlioz Hungarian March; Wagner Siegfried Idyll; Debussy Iberia; Chabrier Espana.
Saturday Review presented by Stephen Johnson (Bach's Goldberg Vars BaLed by Nicholas Anderson; Record Releases of [the original, Mediaeval] Carmina Burana; and Music by Victoria, CPE Bach [his Concerto in A], Beethoven [S4tet Op 95), and ending with a complete broadcast of Mravinsky's recording of Shostakovich's 8th Symphony).

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May 7th

The Feast Day of St John of Beverley; the 8th Century Bishop, friend of Bede - whom he ordained as a Deacon and a Priest. Renowned in his lifetime for his charitable works, his diligence, his scholarship ... and his miracles, which continued after his death on this date in 721. He was canonised in 1037, and was a favourite of Edward I, who had a Chantry in Beverley Minster created in the saint's name after he had prayed to the Saint before each of his Scottish campaigns. John brought pilgrims to Beverley, and, instead of the tithes and levies required from most Yorkshire towns and cities to pay for the Kings' armies, all that was required of Beverley was that they send a single soldier, carying the banner of John. His shrine is still in Beverley Minster.

Also on this Date: Isaac of Diocaesarea leads a Jewish rebellion against the Roman Emperor Constantine II, who had tolerated and even promoted Christian anti-semitic persecution and violence (351); an earthquake destroys the [poorly designed] dome of the Basilica of the Hagia Sophia in Byzantium (558); the three-month long Siege of Malaga, the first conflict in which ambulances were used to transport injured soldiers to medical centres, begins (1487); the Theatre Royal, Bridges Street opens in London (1663 - after it burns down nine years later, it is rebuilt on the exact same site, but with the entrance door in a different position, and so becomes the "Theatre Royal, Drury Lane"); the 13th Century Codex Gigas ("Giant Book"), the largest extant(-ish) mediaeval illustrated manuscript is rescued from a fire that burns down the Royal Library ion Stockholm by a librarian who hurls it out of a window (1697 - the book injures a passer-by, and is itself damaged in the impact, losing some of its pages, and damaging its binding; Music magpie describe its condition as "Used-Very Good"); the traditional date for marking the founding of the city of New Orleans (1718); resentful of British General Jeffrey Amherst's arrogant treatment of them, Odawan war chief Pontiac leads a raid on garrison Fort Detroit, beginning the three-year-long Pontiac War (1763); HMS Victory is launched (1765 - forty years before the Battle of Trafalgar; Horatio Nelson is a six-year-old with both eyes and arms); the very first Presidential Inaugural Ball is held in New York, one wek after Washington's inauguration (1789); Robespierre replaces Catholicism with the Cult of the Supreme Being as the State religion of the new French Republic (1794); Beethoven's Ninth Symphony is premiered at the Theater am Kärntnertor, Vienna with the composer conducting the orchestra [who follow the beat of assistant conductor Michael Umlauf] (1824 - 195 years ago today); the clipper City of Adelaide is launched (1864 - still in service today, the world's oldest surviving clipper); Ferdinand Cohen-Blind fires five bullets at Prussian Chancellor Otto von Bismarck (1866 - Bismarck suffers only superficial wounds - Cohen-Blind cuts his own throat whilst in Police custody); Lalo's opera Le Roi d'Ys is premiered at the Lyric Theatre in Paris (1888); Russian physicist Alexander Popov demonstrates his invention of a primitive radio receiver in St Petersburg (1895); German submarine U-20 torpedos and sinks ocean liner RMS Lusitania, killing nearly 1200 passengers, 128 of them American citizens (1915 - the act turn American public opinion against Germany - on the same day, the Japanese Prime Minister sends an ultimatum to China, demanding 13 greater control of Chinese affairs and territories - as this is a reduction of an earlier 21-demand ultimatum, the beseiged Chinese ruler acquiesces; the day is known in China as National Day of Humiliation); with the Treaty of Moscow, the Bolshevik government of Russia acknowledges the independence of Georgia, with its Menshevik government (1920 - well, until February 15th the next year, when the Red Army invades); 18-year-old American murderer Francis Crowley holds a two-hour gun fight with 300 police officers, who fire 700 rounds of ammunition at him, as well as tear gas canisters [most of which he chucks back at them] - the gunfight ends when he surrenders, having been shot four times (1931 - the incident has drawn a crowd of 15,000 onlookers, who probably find the whole thing better than the movies); the Luftwaffe arrives in Spain to help Franco (1937); in Rheims, General Alfred Jodl, Chief of Staff of the German Armed Forces, signs the instruments of unconditional surrender, ending the War in Europe, effective from the next day (1945 - five years earlier, Jodl had confidently predicted that "the final German victory over England is now only a question of time"; he was arrested for War Crimes two weeks later, found guilty at the Nuremberg trials and Hanged at Nuremberg Prison on 16th October, 1946 - also on 7th may, 1945, the US Navy sinks the Japanese Aircraft Carrier Shōhō, and Frank Martin's "oratorio breve" In Terra Pax is premiered in Geneva with Ansermet conducting the Orchester de la Suisse Romande); the Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corporation is founded, with a workforce of around 20 people (1946 - twelve years later [and with a significant increase in workforce] it renames itself "Sony"); the Congress of Europe meets for the first time at the Hague (1948; it establishes the idea of the College of Europe, and, working on a Wartime initiative from Winston Churchill, that of the Council of Europe); British Electrical Engineer, Geoffrey Dummer publishes a paper outlining for the first time the concept of the microchip (1952); Robert Lowell is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his collection The Dolphin (1974); Stockhausen's Montag from Licht is premiered at La Scala Milan (1988 - a Saturday); the fifth and last Space Shuttle Endeavour is launched on its first mission (1992 - like Morse, it is named after Captain Cook's ship, which is why it has the corr --- err --- British spelling of the name - on the same day, three MacDonalds staff are killed and a fourth left permanently disabled after a botched armed hold-up); a joint sting operation by Norwegian and British police results in the safe recovery of one of Munch's The Scream paintings (1994 - the painting had been stolen from the Oslo National Gallery in February whilst security guards were watching televised coverage of the opening of the Winter Olympics; the thieves leaving a note where the painting had been "Thanks for the poor security"); Luc Besson's film The Fifth Element is released (1997); Pope John Paul II becomes the first Pope in nearly a thousand years to visit an Orthodox country when he visits Romania (1999 - on the same day, a NATO aircraft "inadvertently" bombs the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade, killing three Chinese citizens and wounding 20 others); Vladimir Putin begins his first official term as President of the Russian Federation (2000 - he had been "Acting President" since Boris Yeltsin had suddenly resigned at the very beginning of the year); an arson attack on a Chinese passenger plane results in the aircraft crashing into Bohai Bay near the city of Dalian, killing all 112 people on board (2002); Nicholas Berg, a Jewish American radio-tower repairman is beheaded by militant jihadist group Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad in Iraq (2004 - the murder is filmed and released on the internet); Israeli archeologists uncover the tomb of Herod the Great [the one in the Nativity Plays, who orders the massacre of the innocents after being visited by the Magi] (2007); Dmitry Medvedev begins his four-year term as President of Russia - and not the puppet of Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin at all, am I Vlad? (2008); Vladimir Putin is sworn in for his third term as President of Russia (2012 - his pupp ... Prime Minister is one Dmitry Medvedev; the two men might be forgiven for felling a sense of deja-vu six years later [elections have been moved from four to six years apart] when Putin is sworn in for his fourth term as President with Medvedev as Prime Minister - curiously, on this date in 2012, paeleoclimatologists [now that's something that was never mentioned in Careers Guidance Meetins] claim that research suggests that prehistoric global warming may have been caused by dinosaur flatulence); defying poll predictions of another hung parliament, David Cameron wins the 2015 General Election with a Tory majority in the House of Commons (2015 - freed of the shackles of the coalition with the Lib-Dems, he is able to pursue some harmless personal policies that he's been thinking of to bring his Party into line); 39-year-old Emmanuel Macron becomes the youngest President of France in history [so far] when he wins the 2017 election with a 66% share of the total vote - with a result like that, how can he fail to maintain the love and support of the French people over the next five years?

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contd (busy day!)

Birthdays Today include: Carl Heinrich Graun (1704); Thomas Reid (1710); David Hume (1711); Robert Browning (1812); Brahms (1833); Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840); Mary Eliza Mahoney (1845); Rabindranath Tagore (1861); Clarence Dickinson (1873); Gabby Hayes (1885); Harry McShane (1891); Josip Tito (1892); Alfred Gerrard (1899); Gary Cooper (1901); Edwin H Land (1909); Huw Wheldon (1916); David Tomlinson (1917); Eva Peron (1919); Asa Briggs 91921); Anne Baxter (1923); Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1927); Derek Taylor (1932); Cornelius Cardew (1936); Angela Carter (1940); Peter Carey (1943); Christy Moore (1945); Michael Rosen (1946); Nicholas Hytner (1956); Adam Bernstein (1960).

Final Days for: Ottaviano Petrucci (1539); David Fabricus (1617); Johann Jakob Froberger (1667); Pietro Nardini (1793); Niccolò Piccinni (1800); Leopold Koželuch (1818); Antonio Salieri (1825); Caspar David Friedrich (1840); James George Frazer (1941); Felix Weingartner (1942); Colin Blakely and Paul Popham (both 1987); Clement Grrenberg (1994); Allan MacLeod Cormack (1998); Douglas Fairbanks jnr (2000); Xavier Montsalvatge (2002); Waldemar Milewicz (2004); and both Seve Ballesteros and George Webley (2011).


And the Radio 3 schedules for the morning of Monday, 7th May, 1979 were:

Overture: Vivaldi Violin concerto in C Op 8 #12; Beethoven Andante favori; Dvorak Five Bagatelles, Op 47; Moszkowski Spanish Dances (Book 1).
Morning Concert: Bach Sinfonia (Cantata BWV 29); Chopin Andante spiannato & Grande polonaise; Mozart Sinfonia Concertante in Eb.
This Week's Composer: Brahms (the complete D minor Piano Concerto).
Talking About Music with Antony Hopkins
Music for Organ played by Colin Andrews: Paul Patterson Fluorescence; Bach Chorale Prelude (BWV 622); Fugue a la Gigue (BWV 577); Chorale Preludes (BWV 645 & 655); Gaston Litaize Prelude and danse fuguée
Budapest Symphony Orchestra conducted by Gyorgy Lehel: Haydn Symphony No 93; Bartok Piano Concerto #3 (with Andras Schiff); Debussy La mer; Ravel Daphhis and Chloë Suite #2 (with an interval talk by Peter Cropper about "Taking Risks").

[greenilex]

Salaams to Robert Lowell and happy birthday to Michael Rosen.

Must try and get hold of the prize-winning Lowell anthology.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

... and Happy Birthday to our own Edgley Rob

[Pabmusic]

... and Happy Birthday to our own Edgley Rob

I second that.

https://soundcloud.com/pabmusic-445605675/happy-birthday-arr-p-brookes

[Pabmusic]

Ferney,

We are rapidly approaching International Masturbation Day (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Masturbation_Day) on 28 May. It's since grown (pardon ) to International Masturbation Month. Are you intending to mention it? Should we be practising?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Almost certain to be mentioned Onan appropriate Thread, Pabs.

[burning dog]

I d have thought like "White History Month" it was unnecessary

"One night, when I was about 13-years-old, my dad caught me doing unspeakable things to myself and said, “You know, if you keep that up you’re going to go blind.” And I said, 'Dad, I’m over here.'"