Today's the Day

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July 8th

The joint Feast Days of Irish saints, Cillian, Totnan, and Colonan - 7th Century missionaries sent to spread the gospel to the Franconians [northern Bavaria, including modern-day Nuremberg and Bayreuth]. They were all beheaded in Wurzburg on this date in 689 on the orders of Geilana, wife of Duke Gozbert. The Duke had converted from paganism after hearing Cillian; his wife had not - moreover Cillian had told Gozbert that he had committed a mortal sin by marrying his late brother's wife. Taking advantage of Gozbert's absence, Geilana took her revenge.

Also on this Date: as a prelude to the Siege of Jerusalem in the First Crusade, 15,000 starving Christian soldiers parade around the city walls of Jerusalem watched by city's Muslim defenders (1099 - "OK, lads - I know you're dying of hunger out here, but I've got a plan - we'll all march the two-and-a-half miles around the city; y'know - build yer strength up". No wonder the defenders watched them!); Vasco da Gama sets sail on his first voyage to establish a direct sea link between Europe and India (1497); John Nixon gives the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia (1776 - Church Bells are rung to celebrate the declaration: the Liberty bell is accounted one such); US Commodore orders his fleet to steam past Japanese defences and sail for the capital, Edo (1853 - his intention is to break Japanese isolationism and open Japan to Western "influence and trade"); the newly-formed Canadian Mounted Police begin their March West to deter a US invasion of Canadian territory following escalating armed conflict between US fur hunters and Canadian whisky traders (1874); white supremracists, attempting to deter black citizens from voting, murder 6 black members of the State Militia in the South Carolina town of Hamburg (1876); the first edition of the Wall Street Journal goes on sale (1889); 18-year-old May Sutton becomes the first American to win a Wimbledon singles trophy (1905); the Roswell Daily Record publishes a front-page story announcing that the Roswell Army Air Field has "captured [a] Flying Saucer" (1947); the Prohibition of Mixed Mariages Act, forbidding marriages between "European" and "non-European" poeple, comes into force in South Africa (1949); Palestine Liberation spokesman Ghassan Kanafani is incinerated by a car bomb planted by Israeli Intelligence officers (1972 - so is his 17-year-old niece); Adastrea, the smallest of Jupiter's inner moons is discovered in photographs taken by Voyager 2 (1979 - the first time a natural satellite has been discovered by a space probe); Shi'ite insurgents attempt to assassinate Sadam Hussein in the city of Dujail (1982); Atlantis is launched for the last mission of the NASA Space Shuttle programme (2011); in retaliation at the kidnapping and murder of three teenaged Israeli hitchikers the week before, the Israeli government launches a military operation in the Gaza Strip (2014); and, this time last year, the first boys from the football team trapped in the Tham Luang cave are brought to the surface.

Birthdays Today include: Artemisia Gentileschi (1593); Dominique Jean Larrey (1766); Ferdinanf von Zeppelin (1838); John D Rockefella (1839); Arthur Evans (1851); Käthe Kollwitz (1867); Percy Grainger (1882); Richard Aldington (1892); George Antheil (1900); Louis Jordan (1908); Marty Feldman (1934); Anjelica Houston (1951); Pauline Quirke (1959); Hanspeter Kyburz (1960); Beck Hansen (1970); Ellen MacArthur (1976);

Final Days for: Christian Huygens (1695); Elihu Yale (1721); Percy Bysshe Shelley (1822); Anthony Hope (1933); Havelock Ellis (1939); Moses Schorr (1941, in a Soviet Concentration Camp); Jean Moulin (1943); James Tate (2015); ... and exactly a year ago, Oliver Knussen.


and the Radio 3 Schedules for the morning of Sunday, 8th July, 1979 were:

Mozart Piano Concertos: Josepha Barbara Auernhammer Piano Sonata in A; Anton Stadler Trio in F for 3 Basset Horns; Mozart Pno Conc #15 in Bb, K450
Your Concert Choice: Prokofiev "Classical" Symph; Schumann Pno 5tet; four lieder by Brahms; Poulenc Pastorale & Toccata; Palmgre 3 Preludes from Op17; Sibelius Belshazzar's Feast Inc Music.
Music Weekly presented by Michael Oliver (with focus on John Ireland)
Cleveland Orchestra conducted by Georg Szell (Berg Vln Conc [with Rafael Druian]; Dvorak 'cello Concerto [with Rostropovich]) + Strong Talk; the first of 6 interval talks on fashion by Roy Strong. )

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The joint Feast Days of Irish saints, Cillian, Totnan, and Colonan - 7th Century missionaries sent to spread the gospel to the Franconians [northern Bavaria, including modern-day Nuremberg and Bayreuth]. They were all beheaded in Wurzburg on this date in 689 on the orders of Geilana, wife of Duke Gozbert. The Duke had converted from paganism after hearing Cillian; his wife had not - moreover Cillian had told Gozbert that he had committed a mortal sin by marrying his late brother's wife. Taking advantage of Gozbert's absence, Geilana took her revenge.

... harsh - but it was not until 1921 that the Deceased Brother's Widow's Marriage Act (11 & 12 Geo.5 c.24) was passed.

( ... Mme v wd not have existed had her grandfather not been able to benefit from the 1907 Deceased Wife's Sister's Marriage Act (7 Edw.7 c.47) .)

Also on this Date: as a prelude to the Siege of Jerusalem in the First Crusade, 15,000 starving Christian soldiers parade around the city walls of Jerusalem watched by city's Muslim defenders (1099 - "OK, lads - I know you're dying of hunger out here, but I've got a plan - we'll all march the two-and-a-half miles around the city; y'know - build yer strength up". No wonder the defenders watched them!)

... they should've had trumpets to blow.

https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/1611_Joshua-Chapter-6/

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[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

... harsh - but it was not until 1921 that the Deceased Brother's Widow's Marriage Act (11 & 12 Geo.5 c.24) was passed.

An "annual blister" before then, IIRC.

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An "annual blister" before then, IIRC.

... indeed so : saith wiki -

"In 1842 a Marriage to a Deceased Wife's Sister Bill was introduced and defeated by strong opposition. "Although seemingly a minor skirmish, [it] had far-ranging implications and was fought on the political scene almost annually for most of the Victorian period". Peter Ferriday observed in his biography of Edmund Beckett, 1st Baron Grimthorpe: "Was there a single eminent Victorian who did not at some time or other announce his views on the 'deceased wife's sister'? She was the teething ring of all Victorian controversialists...".

Widowers' desires to marry their sisters-in-law became the subject of particular agitation from the 1860s onwards and strong feelings were roused on both sides. However, it was to be nearly 50 years before the campaign for a change in the law was successful, despite the introduction of draft legislation in Parliament on many occasions. The lengthy nature of the campaign was referred to in the Gilbert and Sullivan opera Iolanthe (1882), in which the Queen of the Fairies sings "He shall prick that annual blister, marriage with deceased wife's sister"."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deceased_Wife%27s_Sister%27s_Marriage_Act_1907

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July 9th

The Feast Day of St Everilda, the 7th Century dughter of Wessex nobility, who fled from her family after her conversion by St Birnius, and settled in Everingham, a village in East Yorkshire (between York and Hull), where she founded a Nunnery.

Also on this Date: amir Timur ["Tamberlaine the Great"] destroys the city of Baghdad (1401 - he orders his soldiers that they should each bring him two severed heads, which means that they have not only to kill the citizens, but prisoners they have previously captured, and even their own wives and servants); the marriage of Henry VIII and Anne of Cleeves is annulled (1540); militant Dutch Calvinists execulte the 19 Catholic Martyrs of Gorkum for refusing to renounce their faith (1672 - tickets had been sold to "view" the clerics on their way to their trial, and the executions are in defiance of a request from King William that priests and monks should be left unmolested); the French National Assembly renames itself the National Constituent Assembly to emphasise its distinction from the King's previous assemblies (1789); the Act Against Slavery bans the slave trade in Upper Canada, and emancipates all slaves over the age of 25 (1793); Charles Maurice de Talleyrand takes office as the first Prime Minister of France (1815); Küçük Mehmet, pasha of Cyprus, orders the execution of 470 prominent Greek Cypriots in reprisal for their compatriots' joining the Greek Resisitance against the Ottoman Empire (1821); Siyyid `Alí Muhammad Shírází, the Bab, and founder of the Bayani faith [a forerunner of the Baha'i faith] is executed by firing squad for blasphemy and apostasy (1850 - on the same day, Zachary Taylor, 12th President of the United States, dies, four days after eating "copious amounts of raw fruit and iced milk" at the July 4th celebrations - should've stuck to fried chicken and chocolate!); the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution guarantees full citizenship rights to all black Americans (1868); the world's first international lawn tennis tournament begins at the All England Croquet and Lawn Tennis Club in Wimbledon, London (1877 - men's singles only: it still goes on for 10 days); 45 Christian men, women, and children are murdered by Boxer sympathisers in the city of Taiyuan in China (1900 - Western newspapers at the time claim that the deaths are executions ordered by the Governor of the region); explosions in the explosives store on board HMS Vanguard destroys the ship at Scapa Flow (1917 - it sinks immediately, killing all but 2 of the 845 men on board); a fire at the 20th Century Fox storage facility in New Jersey destroys all of the film company's archive of silent film (1937 - 13-year-old Charles Greeves dies as a result of burns inflicted as he tries to escape; his mother and brother are also injured); Allied Troops begin the Invasion of Sicily (1943 - six weeks later they have successfully repelled Fascist and Nazi troops); the Battle of Saipan ends as US troops defeat the 43rd Infantry Division of the Japanese Army, causing Prime Minister Tojo to resign (1944 - on the same day, Finnish troops repel the much larger forces of the invading Red Army, ending the two-week-long Battle of Tali-Ihantala; the largest battle in Nordic history so far); Bertrand Russell and Albert Einstein issue their joint Manifesto, urging world leaders to acknowledge the capacities of nuclear weapons and seek peaceful resolutions to International conflicts (1955); British Army snipers shoot and kill 5 Irish civilians and injure 2 others in the Springhill Estate in Belfast (1972 - three of the dead are teenagers, the oldest 16, two of whom are members of the IRA Youth wing; the adults include a Catholic Priest); Aribert Riemann's opera Lear, directed by Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, and with Fischer-Dieskau in the title role is premiered at the National Theatre, Munich, conducted by Gerd Albrecht (1978 - Julia Varady is Cordelia, and Helga Dernesh, Goneril); a lightning strike triggers a fire at York Minster, requiring 114 firefighters and tens of thousands of gallons of water to extinguish (1984 - repairs cost £2.25million - around £7million in today's money); the Homosexual Law Reform Act legalises homosexuality in New Zealand (1986); the Sri Lankan Air Force bomb the Church of St Peter & St Paul in the town of Navali - around 125 citizens seeking refuge from the violence of the Sri Lankan Civil War are killed in the bombing (1995); the first episode of Ricky Gervais & Stephen Merchant's The Office premieres on BBC2 (2001): the African Union is established in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (2002 - the 55-state membership replaces the 32-member Organisation of African Unity).

Birthdays Today include: Ann Radcliffe (1764); Matthew Lewis (1775); Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle (1809); Ottorino Respighi (1879); Barbara Cartland (1901); Elisabeth Lutyens (1906); Mervyn Peale (1911); Ingolf Dahl (1912); David Diamond (1915); Edward Heath (1916); Herbert Brün (1918); Pierre Cochereau (1924); Murphy Anderson (1926); Oliver Sacks (1933); Mercedes Sosa (1935); David Zinman (1936); David Hockney (1937); Tom Hanks (1956); Clive Stafford Smith (1959); Siân Berry (1974).

Final Days for: Stephen Langton (1228); Jan van Eyck (1441); Giovanni Bononcini (1747); Edmund Burke (1797); Alice Paul (1977); Randall Thompson (1984); Rod Steiger (2002).


And the Radio 3 Schedules for the morning of Sunday. 9th July were:

Handel's Opus 4: "2nd of 6 programmes" (Op 4 #2; and Telemann Concerto in D for trumpet, Violin & Strings)
Images: "3rd of 6 programmes of Debussy's complete Piano Music" (Ballade; Petite Suite; Children's Corner; Images [Set 2])
Your Concert Choice: Mendelssohn "Italian" Symph; Respighi S4tet; Liszt Romanian Rhapsody; Stanford Songs of the Sea; Grieg Song Arrangements Op 52, #1-4; Waxman "Carmen" Fantasy.
Music Weekly with Michael Oliver (a conversation with Odaline de la Martinez; David Charlton and Robert Lloyd give their thoughts on the future of Opera)
BBCSO conducted by Andrew Davis (Holst Egdon Heath; Elgar Sea Pictures [with Linda Finnie ] & Symph #2)

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July 10th

Twice a year, "cheviot's mountain lone" is enlivened with a great gathering of the hill shepherds, and a great bleating of many sheep. One meeting takes place on the very top of Cheviot on 10th July .... There are generally about 30 - 40 shepherds present, and sometines 400 sheep to be exchanged. The day begins with sports, for our hill shepherd is a great lover of sport. The real purpose, however, of these meetings is to restore lost sheep to their proper owners. Many a stray sheep gets far away from its proper feeding ground to another where it does not belong, and these are looked after by each shepherd until the half-yearly exchange takes place.

(Hastings Neville, A Corner in the North; Yesterday and Today with Border Folk [1909])

Also on this Date: the Great Fire of Suthwark [sic] destroys much of London, and results in many hundreds - possibly thousands - of deaths on London Bridge alone (1212); Henry VI is defeated at the Battle of Nottingham and taken prisoner by the Yorkist Duke of Wawick (1460); Lady Jane Grey begins her nine days' reign (1553); the first large-scale rebellion of Indian Sepoys, forbidden by new regulations to display religious marks on their foreheads, and ordered to trim their beards and moustaches, takes place in Vellore (1806 - the mutineers attack around 200 British soldiers, killing some of them, before the uprising is suppressed, and 100 of the rebels are themselves executed); Paul Verlaine shoots Arthur Rimbaud twice "in a drunken rage" (1873 - the incident results in minor wounds for Rimbaud and a two-year prison sentence for Verlaine); the highest temperature ever recorded on earth - 134 degrees F/57 C - is recorded in Death Valley, California (1913); an IRA ambush of RIC raiding party results in reprisals by Protestant loyalists against Catholic properties in Belfast, sparking a day of violence which leaves more than 17 people dead, over 100 injured, and about 1,000 homeless as around 200 houses are destroyed (1921); John Scopes goes on trial in Dayton Tennessee for having "taught evolution" in contravention of the Butler Act, forbidding teachers from denying Biblical accounts of the Creation (1925); Kevin O'Higgins, Vice-President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State is murdered by the IRA in retaliation at his ordering the execution of 77 political prisoners (1927); Philippe Petain assumes full control of Vichy France (1940); at least 340 Polish Jews are murdered in the town of Jedwabne by their neighbours under the supervision of Nazi police officers (1941 - 300 of the victims have been herded into a barn to be burnt alive); Telstar, the world's first communications satellite, is launched (1962); the National Women's Political Caucus is founded (1971); the Alexandra Palace catches fire [again] during a Jazz Festival, destroying half the building (1980 - during rebuilding, the ruins are used as sets for the film of 1984); French secret service agents bomb and sink the Greenpeace ship the Rainbow Warrior in Auckland Harbour, New Zealand, killing Dutch photographer Fernando Pereira (1985); Boris Yeltsin becomes the Russian Federation's first elected President (1991); former Panamanian ruler, Manuel Noriega is sentenced to 40 years' imprisonment for racketeering, drug smuggling, & money laundering (1992 - he serves 17 years); DNA analysis of a Neanderthal skeleton supporting the idea of a Mitochondrial Eve is reported in London (1997); the Roman Catholic diocese of Dallas pays over $23million to nine former altar boys who had been raped by former priest Rudolph Kos (1998); Erden Eruc begins his circumnavigation of the world (2007 - in five years and a fortnight, he will complete his travels, and become the first person to travel around the world solo using human power only); the last edition of The News of the World goes on sale (2011); and, this time last year, the last 4 members of the junior football team are rescued from the Tham Luang caves in Thailand.

Birthdays Today include: John Calvin (1509); Roger Cotes (1682); Camille Pissarro (1830); Henryk Wieniawski (1835); Nikola Tesla (1856); Jules Mouquet (1867); Marcel Proust (1871); Sergey Konenkov (1874); Otto Freundlich (1872); Ima Hogg (1882); Carl Orff (1895); John Wyndham (1903); Blind Boy Fuller (1904 - or, possibly, '07); Terry-Thomas (1911); Joe Shuster (1914); Reg Smthe (1917); Eunice Kennedy Shriver & Harvey Ball (smiley 1921); Jake LaMotta (1922); Fred Gwynne (1926); Josephine Veasey (1930); Alice Munro (1931); Helen Donath (1940); Arthur Ashe (1943); John Motson & Virginia Wade (both 1945); Neil Tennant (1954); Fiona Shaw (1958); John Simm (1970); Peter Serafinowicz (1972); ... today is the Centenary of Ian Wallace
... and Happy Birthday to Forumista Gabriel Jackson

Final Days for: Hadrian (138); George Stubbs (1806); Fernando Sor (1839); Louis Daguerre (1851); Donald Tovey (1940); Philippe Gaubert & Jelly Roll Morton (both 1941); Rued Langgaard (1952); Arthur Fiedler (1979); Werner Egk (1983); Winston Graham (2003); Roger Rees, Omar Sharif, and Jon Vickers (all 2005) ... and, 30 years ago today, it was "that's all, folks" for Mel Blanc.


And the Radio 3 Schedules for the morning of Thursday, 10th July, 1969 were:

Overture: "gramophone records"
Morning Concert: "gramophone records"
This Week's Composer: Debussy (including Cinq poemes de Charles Baudelaire; and Trois poemes de Mallarme).
Showcase: "a programme of recently released records"

Then over 6 hours of cricket.

[Padraig]

Final Days for Jelly Roll Morton (1941).

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

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Final Days for: Hadrian (138)...

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https://followinghadrian.com/2013/07/10/animula-vagula-blandula-hadrians-farewell-to-life/

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[Richard Tarleton]

Fernando Sor (1839)

Here's possibly Sor's best-known piece apart from his Studies - his Variations on a Theme from the Magic Flute. The theme starts at 1.45, after an introduction. Rather nicely played here.

Sor backed the wrong horse during the Peninsula War, and spent the rest of his life outside Spain.

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July 11th

It is World Population Day, a United Nations initiative to raise awareness of the issues caused by rising population, currently over 7.5billion - so perhaps not to be celebrated too enthusiastically. It might help to know that it is also the annual Day of the Bandoneon in Argentina, commomorating the birthday of Pichuco (Anibal Troilo), the bandoneon player and founder of the founder of the Orquestra Tipica in which Piazzolla (among others) played.

Also on this Date: the Battle of the Golden Spurs is fought between Flemish and French forces near the town of Kortrijk in Flanders [Courtrai in modern Belgium] (1302 - the result is a decisive, if unexpected, victory for the Flemish militia. The battle is named after the 500 pairs of spurs collected after the battle and placed in hmage in the Church of Our Lady in the town - 80 years later, French King Charles VI took possession of the spurs and ransacked the town after the Battle of Roosebeck); Pluto is closer to the sun than Neptune for the last time until 1979 (1735); Jean-Louis Pons discovers his first comet (1801 - he will discover another 36 during his lifetime, more than anybody else in history so far); Vice-President of the United States, Aaron Burr, fatally wounds Alexander Hamilton, former Secretary to the Treasury in a duel (1894 - both men have been running for Governor of New York, and Hamilton has publicly declatred Burr to be "unworthy" of the office, to which Burr takes exception); Yagan, native Australian wanted "dead or alive" for the murder of two white colonialists, is shot dead by two teenage white traders who had been pretending to shelter him from the law (1833); Waterloo Railway Station in London opens (1848 - Berlioz is on his first visit to London at this time, but makes no reference to the opening); Confederate forces begin an [unsuccessful] attempt to seize control of Washington DC at the Battle of Fort Stevens (1964); the city of Tijuana [6th largest in Mexico] is founded (1889); after many failed attempts, and facing bankruptcy, Mikimoto Kōkichi creates the first hemispherical cultured pearl (1893); Giovanni Agnelli founds the Fiat Car company (1899); a truce brings to an official end the Irish War of Independence after two-and-a-half years, and over 2,000 deaths (1921); the Hollywood Bowl opens (1922); Eric Lidell wins Gold Medal in the 400m at the Paris Olympics (1924 - in slow motion and accompanied by the Music of Vangelis, unless I've misunderstood); SS Exodus 1947 leaves the French port of Sète, claiming to be headed for Istanbul with 4,515 passengers (1947 - the passengers are all Jewish refugees, many of them Concentration Camp suvivors, and the ship is intending to take them to Palestine in defiance of a British blockade of the area to new immigrants - the ship is followed Royal Navy ships and RAF aircraft); the first editions of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, published by JB Lippincott & Co, go on sale (1960); David Bowie's Space Oddity is released (1969); the first game of the 1972 World Chess Championship between Booby Fischer and Boris Spassky takes place (the latter beats the former); Skylab burns up on re-entry to Earth's atmosphere (1979 - large fragments are scattered across Western Australia: nobody is hurt, and that isn't because of the special "Skylab Repellent Spray" aerosols that have been on sale); the Mayor of Oka in Quebec agrees to a request by the Oka Golf Association to expand the golf club into territory claimed by native American Mohawk people [who had a mere 6 - six - square kilometres of land left from from the 165 they had held before 1935]; his decision sparks violent confrontations between the Mohawks and the [military-backed] golfers (1990); the 11-day long Srebrenica Genocide begins (1995 - during that time, units of the Bosnian Serb Army, under the command of Ratko Mladic murder over 8,000 unarmed Bosniak men and boys - Srebrenica has been declared a "safe area" by the UN 2 years earlier); ... and, this time last year, over a hundred stone tools, dating from over 2million years ago, are discovered in Shangchen, central China, showing that hominims left Africa more than a quarter of a million years earlier than previously thought.

Birthdays Today include: Robert the Bruce (1274); Robert Greene (1558); Thomas Bowdler (1754); Antonio Carlos Gomes (1836); E. B. White (1899); Niño Ricardo (1904); Sergiu Celibidache (1912); Reg Varney (1916); Yul Brynner (1920); Nicolai Gedda (1925); Harold Bloom (1930); Giorgio Armani (1934); Bramwell Tovey (1953); Caroline Quentin (1960); Pauline McLynne (1962).

Final Days for: Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1593); George Gershwin (1937); Alexander Mosolov (1973); Pär Lagerkvist (1974); Laurence Olivier (1989); Jeremy Dale Roberts (2017)


And the Radio 3 Schedules for the morning of Wednesday, 11th July, 1979 were:

Your Midweek Choice: Handel "Water Music" Suite in G; Danzi Horn Sonata in Eb; Hummel Mandolin Concerto; Copland Billy the Kid Suite; Joplin Maple Leaf Rag, The Entertainer, & Ragtime Dance; Harris Symph #7.
This Week's Composer: Scriabin (3 Preludes from Op 42; Symph #3)
Piano Recital by John Clegg: Mozart Sonata in A (K331); Fauré Nocturnes #s 6 & 7; Medtner Sonate-Idylle.
Czech Choral Music sung by the BBC Singers conducted by Nicholas Cleobury (Dvorak 5 Songs of Nature, Op63; Novak 5 Songs Op71).
Music for Organ by RVW, Howells, Bairstow, & Bach. Played by Harrison Oxley.

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July 12th

The Feast Day of St Veronica, the patron saint of photographers, laundry workers, images [presumably not "graven" ones] and the French artisan weavers, the Mulquinerie. She isn't mentioned in the Bible, but the story goes that she took pity on Christ as he passed her on the way to Calvary, and wipred the sweat off his face - an image of which had become impressed upon the cloth. That's one story - another is that Christ, long before the time of the crucifixion, gave Beronike a portrait of himself on a cloth, which she used to cure the Emperor Tiberius, of whom she was a servant. This account originates in the apocryphal Acts of Pilate and elaborated in the 11th Century. Veronica may not have existed at all, but have been a mistranslation of the latin for the "true imnage" ["vera icon"] of Christ - and "she" has various other names in the different versions of her story - Faustina, Nike, Seraphia amongst them. The most characteristic pose of bullfighters - holding the cape at two corners in front of the body - is called the Veronique, after its similarities with iconography of the saint.

And Orangeman's Day in Ulster.

Also on this Date: Saladin accepts the terms of surrender of the city of Tyre to the Crusaders, ending the [nearly] two-year siege of the city (1191); Henry VIII's final wedding (1543 - to Catherine Parr, whose third marriage this is); the first edition of the Ostrog Bible, the first complete Bible in Old Church Slavonic, is published (1580); the French Revolutionary National Consituent Assembly passes the Civil Constitution of the Clergy Act, subordinating the Catholic Church to the Assembly (1790); Alfred Dreyfus is officially exonerated by a military commission (1906 - he returns to the Frnch Army the next day, promoted to Major, made a Knight of the legion of Honour, and put in charge of an artillery unit); over 1000 striking miners are illegally arrested and deported from the town of Bisbee in Arizona by hired mercenaries of the Phelps Dodge mining corporation (1917 - they are held captive at a local baseball ground, then deported 200 miles on cattle trucks to New Mexico, a 16-hour journey in which they are deprived of food and water); the Battle of Prokhorovka between Nazi and Soviet troops results in heavy loss of life, and a stalemate in which niether side achieves its objectives (1943); the Theresienstadt "Family Camp" is "closed" (1944 - a couple of sickening euphemisms there; Theresienstadt is the "showcase" camp that the Nazis used for propaganda purposes to show to the world the pleasant conditions enjooyed by prisoners in Nazi Concentration Camps; as the War hjad put an end to international visists, the "Family Camp" was no longer needed, so 8,500 inmates are gassed, and the remainder transported to other camps - many of them dying on the forced marches to get there); Britten's first chamber opera, The Rape of Lucretia is premiered at Glyndebourne, with Ferrier in the title role, conducted by Ansermet (1946); following the Israeli army's violent attacks on the city of Lydda, Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion orders the expulsion of all palestinian citizens from the area (1948); the Rolling Stones give their first public performance at the Marquee Club in Soho (1962); Ian Brady tells Myra Hindley that he wants to commit his first murder, so they abduct Pauline Reade, a 16-year-old friend of Hindley's younger sister, who becomes their first victim (1963); Peter Maxwell Davies' opera Taverner is premiered at Covent Garden, conducted by Edward Downes (1972); three brothers aged 9, 10, & 11 are murdered in a petrol bomb attack by the UVF (1998); and, this time last year, the Inflatable baby first appeared on London streets to greet Trump's first visit to the UK.

Birthdays Today include: Julius Caesar (probably - might be tomorrow; 100BCE); Josiah Wedgewood (1730); Claude Bernard (1813); Henry David Thoreau (1817); Eugène Boudin (1824); George Eastman (1854); Anton Arensky (1861); Stefan George (1868); Max jacob (1876); Tod Browning (1880); Leo B Mayer & Amedeo Modigliani (both 1884); George Butterworth (1885); Bruno Schulz (1892); Kirsten Flagstad, Buckminster Fuller, and Oscar Hammerstein II (all 1895);Pablo Neruda (1904); Randolph Quirk (1920); Alistair Burnet (1928); Van Cliburn (1934); Guy Woolfeden (1937); Wilko Johnson (1941); Anna Friel (1976); Malala Yousafzai (1997).

Final Days for: Erasmus (1536); Jean Picard (1682); Johann Joachim Quantz (1773); Robert Stevenson (1850); Gertrude Bell & Charles Wood (both 1926); Alfred Dreyfuss (1935 - 29 years to the day after his exoneration); Joseph Jongen (1953); DT Suzuki (1966); Lon Chaney jnr (1973); Kenneth More (1982); Gottfried von Einem (1996); Arkady Ostashev & Serge Lemoyne (both 1998); Fred Marcellino (2001); Benny Carter (2003); Betty Oliphant (2004); Nestor Basterretxea (2014).


And the Radio 3 Schedules for the morning of Wednesday, 12th July, 1989 were:

Morning Concert: RVW "Wasps" Ovt; Smetana Polka Op12; Tchaikovsky Dances from Eugene Onegin; Rimsky-Korsakoff Coq d'Or Suite; Handel Organ Concerto in C; Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody #2.
Composer of the Week: Chopin (Impromptu in Gb; Polonaise in Ab; Ballade in f; Sonata in B minor)
Guitar Recital by Costas Cotsiolis (Scarlatti/Brouwer Sonatas Ks208, & 14; Brouwer Tres Baladas del decameron; Negro/Brouwer Danza del alti piano; Ramirez/Pelegrini Alfonsina y el mar.
'cello & Piano: Gal Suite Op6; Brahms Sonata in D [composer's arrangement of the G major violin sonata].
Midweek Choice: Berlioz Les Franc-juges Ovt; Gershwin Do-do-do; Someone to Watch Over Me; Clap Yo' Hands (played by the composer); Schubert Mirjams Siegesgesang D942; DSCH 'cllo Conc #1; Brahms Symph #2

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On the Brahms' D major 'cello Sonata:

https://www.nytimes.com/1974/08/04/archives/happiness-is-playing-a-lost-brahms-cello-sonata.html

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Going back to July 11, George Gershwin going at the age of 38 - what he may have achieved had he lived twice that lifespan - when I mentioned that to Mrs C - she said - well he may have had a change of career, anyway and not written much more - maybe he’d have been a window cleaner - I was thinking more on whether he would have gone more int classical music composition writing, jazz or maybe musicals/opera!

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July 13th

On this Date: Girondin sympathiser Charlotte Corday stabs leading Jacobin Jean-Paul Marat to death as he takes a medicinal bath to help soothe his skin disease [possibly dermatitis herpetiformis] (1793); the Carabinieri [Montalbano's rivals] is founded (1814); the beginning of three days of violent riots in New York (1863 - initially protesting against conscription into the Union Army, it quickly deteriorates into racial conflict about jobs between white and black working-class men; around 1,000 people die, many of them killed by lynch mobs); British airship, R32 lands in Norfolk, having completed the first return transatlantic flight for such a craft (1919 - getting there and back has taken 4 days each - as long as it took Apollo 11 to get to the Moon and back); a sign advertising real estate development appears on the Santa Monica Mountain in Los Angeles: it reads "Hollywoodland" (1923); Frank Sinatra makes his first recordings, accompanied by the Harry James band (1939); the Night of the Long Knives, in which Prime Minister Harold Macmillan sacks seven members of his Cabinet (1962); unmanned Soviet Moon spacecraft, Luna 15, is launched (1969 - 3 days before Apollo 11); at a Senate investigation into the Watergate building break-in, Alexander Butterfield, former deputy assistant to President Nixon confirms the existence of recorded White House conversations between the President & his staff (1973); the International Benefit Concert Live Aid takes place (1985); Theresa May is appointed Prime Minister by the Queen (2016).

Birthdays Today include: John Dee (1527 - his eldest son, Arthur was born on his 52nd birthday in 1579); Thomas Rowladnson (1756); John Clare (1793); Sidney Webb (1859); George Lewis (1900); Kenneth Clerk (1903); Per Nørgård (1932); David Storey & Piero Mazoni (both 1933); Albert Ayler (1936); Patrick Stewart (1940); Harrison Ford & Roger McGuinn (both 1942); Erno Rubik (1944); Ian Hislop (1960); ... and Wole Soyinka will be 85 today

Final Days for: James Bradley (1762); Tȟašúŋke Kȟokípȟapi (1893); Arnold Schoenberg (1951); Frido Kahlo (1954); Carey Blyton (2002); Nadine Gordimer & Lorin Maazel (both 2014).


And the Radio 3 Schedule for the Morning of Sunday, 13th July, 1969 were:

What's New? "A programme of recent records" (including Mozart's Variations on a Minuet by Duport).
Bach Cantatas: BWVs 170 & 189, and P&F in a, BWV 543.
Your Concert Choice "a record request programme"
Music Magazine introduced by Julian Herbage
Amadeus S4tet: Haydn (unspecified 4tet) & Brahms (one of the 6tets with Cecil Aronowitz & William Pleeth)

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Tȟašúŋke Kȟokípȟapi (1893)

... ah, "They Fear Even His Horses" (and not, as often mistranslated, "Young Man Afraid Of His Horses".)

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