Today's the Day

[Alain Maréchal]

AN Other pedant thanks for the correction.

ps. I not sure your admirable post mentioned that, consequent to (or on, it is an anglicism that defeats me) today is Fête nationale/nationale feestdag/Nationalfeiertag. Also the accession of King Philippe.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

ps. I not sure your admirable post mentioned that, consequent to (or on, it is an anglicism that defeats me) today is Fête nationale/nationale feestdag/Nationalfeiertag. Also the accession of King Philippe.

It does now.

("As a consequence"/"In consequence", perhaps.)

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

July 22nd

Ratcatcher's Day for those who prefer Browning's version of the Pied Piper story to that of the Grimm Brothers (those of the different persuasion celebrate the Festival on 26th June - those who don't like children probably celebrate on both dates).

Pi Approximation Day (22/7)

And, the (somewhat busy) Feast Day of Mary Magdalene - patroness of Apothecaries, converts, contemplatives, glove makers, hairdressers, perfumeries, people ridiculed for their piety, pharmacists, penitents, tanners, those afflicted by sexual temptation, and women.

Also on this Date: the Massacre at Béziers, where 20,000 citizens of the town in Toulouse were murdered by Crusaders under the command of Abbot Arnaud Amalric (1209 - the massacre is part of a Crusade by the Catholic Church against the Cathar movement; Amalric gives the soldiers the infamous command to kill all the citizens, not just the "heretics", as "God will know His own" and the "innocent" victims will go to Heaven); William Wallace is defeated by the army of Edward I at the Battle of Falkirk (1298); English & Scottish commissioners agree to the terms of what would become the Acts of Union at the end of negotiations in London (1706 - the Scots accept the Hanoverian dynasty as their monarchs, and receive a guarantee of of access to Colonial markets in exchange); Alexander Mackenzie becomes the first person to complete a transcontinental crossing of North America (1793); an area of Ohio is given the name Cleveland, after the name of the leader of the Surveyors of the area (1796 - he is too polite to point out that they have spelt his name - "Cleaveland" - incorrectly); Nelson launches the Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife against a Spanish fleet (1797 - the Spanish win the battle 3 days later, and it costs Nelson an arm and ... well, just an arm, actually); Clara Schumann & Hermann Levi give the first [private] performance of Brahms' Sonata in f, Op 34b (1864); 21 motorists compete in [probably] the world's first car race from Paris to Rouen (1894 - the winner takes 6hrs 48minutes to complete the 78 mile course; which gives an average of around 11mph - allowing for the 90 minute lunch break all the competitors took); the House of Lords rules that Unions are liable for loss of profits resulting from strike action (1901 - this creates greater support for the growing Labour Party, and is overturned five years later); unidentified bombers detonate a device killing 10 people and wounding 40 others at a parade in San Francisco (1916 - the Parade is held in anticipation of the US entry into WW1!); Manuel de Falla y Matheu's ballet El sombrero de tres picos, with choreography by Massine and sets designed by Picasso, is premiered at the Alhambra Theatre, London, conducted by Ansermet (1919 - Ansermet has stepped in for the Composer at the last minute, as Falla has been called home to be with his dying mother); Wiley Post becomes the first person to complete a solo circumnavigation of the world by aircraft (1933 - the trip has taken him just under 8 days); Allied troops capture Palermo from Axis control (1943 - on the same day, Nazi troops shoot at and beat protestors in Athens trying to prevent the expansion of the Bulgarian Occupation; 22 people are killed, over 200 others injured); the Committee of National Liberation is proclaimed in Poland, exercising control of territory liberated from the Nazis, and beginning nearly half-a-century of Communist rule in the country (1944); militant Zionists bomb the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, then the administrative headquarters of the British authorities (1946 - 91 people are killed, and 46 more injured); Ed Wood's film Plan 9 From Outer Space, starring Bela Lugosi - later given the accolade "worst film ever made" - is released (1959 - Lugosi had died in 1956, and Wood has included unused footage from an earlier film to pad out the story and get Lugosi's name on the posters - some of Lugosi's scenes actually feature Wood covering his face with a cape - there is also another world premiere on that day: Britten's Missa Brevis is performed at a service in Westminster Cathedral, directed by George Malcolm); police gunmen, searching for the perpetrators of the failed bombings in London of the day before, shoot innocent Brazilian tourist Jean Charles de Menezes eleven times [7 of them shots to the head] on an Underground train (2005); a neo-Nazi terrorist kills 77 people and injures over 300 others in Oslo and at a Workers' Youth League Summer Camp on the island of Utøya, 24 miles from the city (2011).

Birthdays Today include: Friedrich Bessel (1784); Spilliam Wooner (1844); Selman Waksman (1888); James Whale (1889); Licia Albanese (1909); Ruthie Tompson (1910); Bryan Forbes (1926); Jimmy Hill (1928); Don Patterson (1936); Terence Stamp (1938); George Clinton (1941); Willem Dafoe (1955); Rhys Ifans (1967).

Final Days for: Cassius Marcellus Clay (1903); Carl Sandburg (1967); Sacha Distel (2004); Dika Newlin (2006).


And the Radio 3 Schedules for the morning of Saturday, 22nd July, 1989 were:

Morning Concert: Ropartz Prelude, Marine et Chansons; Schumann Introduction & Allegro de Concert in d; Strauss Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme Suite, Op 60; Chausson Viviane Op 5; Liszt Mephisto Waltz #1.
Howard Shelley & Hilary Macnamara: Ferguson Partita; Rachmaninov Symphonic Dances.
Record Release: Brahms Tragic Ovt; Marais Couplets de folie; Fauré Requiem; Mulet Carillon-sortie; Spohr Clarinet Conc #1; Beethoven Pno Son in E Op 109; Rossini La calunnia (from II Barbiere di Siviglia); Kalinnikov Symph #1.

[LMcD]

Ratcatcher's Day for those who prefer Browning's version of the Pied Piper story to that of the Grimm Brothers (those of the different persuasion celebrate the Festival on 26th June - those who don't like children probably celebrate on both dates).

Pi Approximation Day (22/7)

And, the (somewhat busy) Feast Day of Mary Magdalene - patroness of Apothecaries, converts, contemplatives, glove makers, hairdressers, perfumeries, people ridiculed for their piety, pharmacists, penitents, tanners, those afflicted by sexual temptation, and women.

Also on this Date: the Massacre at Béziers, where 20,000 citizens of the town in Toulouse were murdered by Crusaders under the command of Abbot Arnaud Amalric (1209 - the massacre is part of a Crusade by the Catholic Church against the Cathar movement; Amalric gives the soldiers the infamous command to kill all the citizens, not just the "heretics", as "God will know His own" and the "innocent" victims will go to Heaven); William Wallace is defeated by the army of Edward I at the Battle of Falkirk (1298); English & Scottish commissioners agree to the terms of what would become the Acts of Union at the end of negotiations in London (1706 - the Scots accept the Hanoverian dynasty as their monarchs, and receive a guarantee of of access to Colonial markets in exchange); Alexander Mackenzie becomes the first person to complete a transcontinental crossing of North America (1793); an area of Ohio is given the name Cleveland, after the name of the leader of the Surveyors of the area (1796 - he is too polite to point out that they have spelt his name - "Cleaveland" - incorrectly); Nelson launches the Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife against a Spanish fleet (1797 - the Spanish win the battle 3 days later, and it costs Nelson an arm and ... well, just an arm, actually); Clara Schumann & Hermann Levi give the first [private] performance of Brahms' Sonata in f, Op 34b (1864); 21 motorists compete in [probably] the world's first car race from Paris to Rouen (1894 - the winner takes 6hrs 48minutes to complete the 78 mile course; which gives an average of around 11mph - allowing for the 90 minute lunch break all the competitors took); the House of Lords rules that Unions are liable for loss of profits resulting from strike action (1901 - this creates greater support for the growing Labour Party, and is overturned five years later); unidentified bombers detonate a device killing 10 people and wounding 40 others at a parade in San Francisco (1916 - the Parade is held in anticipation of the US entry into WW1!); de Falla's ballet El sombrero de tres picos, with choreography by Massine and sets designed by Picasso, is premiered at the Alhambra Theatre, London, conducted by Ansermet (1919 - Ansermet has stepped in for the Composer at the last minute, as Falla has been called home to be with his dying mother); Wiley Post becomes the first person to complete a solo circumnavigation of the world by aircraft (1933 - the trip has taken him just under 8 days); Allied troops capture Palermo from Axis control (1943 - on the same day, Nazi troops shoot at and beat protestors in Athens trying to prevent the expansion of the Bulgarian Occupation; 22 people are killed, over 200 others injured); the Committee of National Liberation is proclaimed in Poland, exercising control of territory liberated from the Nazis, and beginning nearly half-a-century of Communist rule in the country (1944); militant Zionists bomb the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, then the administrative headquarters of the British authorities (1946 - 91 people are killed, and 46 more injured); Ed Wood's film Plan 9 From Outer Space, starring Bela Lugosi - later given the accolade "worst film ever made" - is released (1959 - Lugosi had died in 1956, and Wood has included unused footage from an earlier film to pad out the story and get Lugosi's name on the posters - some of Lugosi's scenes actually feature Wood covering his face with a cape - there is also another world premiere on that day: Britten's Missa Brevis is performed at a service in Westminster Cathedral, directed by George Malcolm); police gunmen, searching for the perpetrators of the failed bombings in London of the day before, shoot innocent Brazilian tourist Jean Charles de Menezes eleven times [7 of them shots to the head] on an Underground train (2005); a neo-Nazi terrorist kills 77 people and injures over 300 others in Oslo and at a Workers' Youth League Summer Camp on the island of Utøya, 24 miles from the city (2011).

Birthdays Today include: Friedrich Bessel (1784); Spilliam Wooner (1844); Selman Waksman (1888); James Whale (1889); Licia Albanese (1909); Ruthie Tompson (1910); Bryan Forbes (1926); Jimmy Hill (1928); Don Patterson (1936); Terence Stamp (1938); George Clinton (1941); Willem Dafoe (1955); Rhys Ifans (1967).

Final Days for: Cassius Marcellus Clay (1903); Carl Sandburg (1967); Sacha Distel (2004); Dika Newlin (2006).


And the Radio 3 Schedules for the morning of Saturday, 22nd July, 1989 were:

Morning Concert: Ropartz Prelude, Marine et Chansons; Schumann Introduction & Allegro de Concert in d; Strauss Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme Suite, Op 60; Chausson Viviane Op 5; Liszt Mephisto Waltz #1.
Howard Shelley & Hilary Macnamara: Ferguson Partita; Rachmaninov Symphonic Dances.
Record Release: Brahms Tragic Ovt; Marais Couplets de folie; Fauré Requiem; Mulet Carillon-sortie; Spohr Clarinet Conc #1; Beethoven Pno Son in E Op 109; Rossini La calunnia (from II Barbiere di Siviglia); Kalinnikov Symph #1.

If I may mention a couple of jazzmen: Sonny Stitt (died 22.07.1982) and Illinois Jacquet (died 22.07.2004)

[John Wright]

de Falla's ballet ...........

Falla

in Spanish one drops the de when addressing as surname only.


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[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

If I may mention a couple of jazzmen: Sonny Stitt (died 22.07.1982) and Illinois Jacquet (died 22.07.2004)

You most certainly may

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

in Spanish one drops the de when addressing as surname only.

I wasn't writing in Spanish!

(Duly corrected - thank you.)

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

July 23rd

The joint Feast Day of Saints Rasyphus & Ravennus, British-born saints who fled their native land when the English came over here, taking our jobs, not bothering to learn the language. They founded a hermitage in Gaul, where they became renowned as healers, before being beheaded by Goth followers of Arianism (a belief Bede gets very cross about). The story goes that they had been thrown onto rocks, hitting their heads which caused dents in the rocks, but didn't harm the two saints - so they were decapitated instead.

Also on this Date: Bonnie Prince Charlie lands in Eriskay in the Upper Hebrides (1745); the British North American Act of Union unites the separate colonies of Upper and Lower Canada into the single Province of Canada (1840); Chile & Argentina agree to a defined border between the two countries in the Boundary Treaty of 1881; the Chinese Communist Party is established at its first National Congress in Shanghai (1921 - the French Police harrass the meetings, so a week later, the Congress moves to Jiaxing); the Bombay Radio Company begins broadcasting (1927); defying the advice of his generals, Hitler orders the splitting of the Army Group South in order to launch two offensives - Operation Edelweiss [to capture the Azerbaijan oil fields] and Operation Fischreiher [to march on Stalingrad] (1942 - the split fatally weakens the 6th Army); the Trial of Marshal Petain for Treason begins (1945); 21-year-old Grace Bumbry becomes the first black singer to perform at Bayreuth (1961 - she sings Venus in Wieland Wagner's production of Tannhauser, conducted by Sawallisch); Telstar transmits the first Transatlantic television signals (1962 - part of the broadcast includes President Kennedy dnying that there were plans to devalue the dollar, causing an immediate strengthening of the currency on the World Markets, making clear the economical power of international telecommunications); five days of rioting begin in Detroit after police raid an illegal all-night bar (1967 - over a thousand buildings are burnt, 43 people are killed, and 342 injured - on the same day, an Israeli passenger plane is hijacked by members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - five weeks later, everybody on board is released unharmed in exchange for the release of 16 Palestinian prisoners); the Greek Fascist junta comes to an end, following the humiliation of the failed attempted coup d'etat in Cyprus the week earlier (1974); Vietnamese citizen Phạm Tuân becomes the first Asian in space as a member of the Soviet Soyuz-37 mission (1980); during filming of Twilight Zone: the Movie, a helicopter crashes, killing three actors (1982 - two of them are 7 and 6-year-old Vietnamese children, whom director John Landis has hired without completing compulsory Labor Laws); Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger [the future Pope Benedict XVI, and "the main intellectual force in the Roman Catholic Church since 1980] heads a Vatican Committee that decrees that if homosexuals and non-married couples are denied some rights, that doesn't count as discrimination (1992); Alan Hale in New Mexico, and Thomas Bopp in Arizona both independently discover the new comet that now bears their joint name (1995 - Bopp does not even own a telescope, but has been using one owned by a friend: he sends news of his discovery to the Central Bureau of Astronomical Telegrams by telegram, which amuses the director of the Bureau, as e-Mails had almost completely replaced telegrams - Hale had sent 5 e-Mails giving details and updates of his observations in the time that Bopp's telegram had arrived at the Bureau); Eileen Collins becomes the first female Commander of a Space Shuttle mission (1999 - the mission is to deploy the Chandra X-Ray Observatory); Earth-like planet Kepler 452b [sometimes called "Coruscant" by Star Wars enthusiasts] is [probably] discovered orbiting a star in the constellation of Cygnus by the Space Telescope Kepler (2015 - with the fastest space crafts we have at the moment, it would take about 26 million years to reach the planet, which is over 1400 light years away) ... and, this time last year, Nick Drnaso's Sabrina becomes the first graphic novel to be nominated for the Booker Prize (it doesn't reach the Shortlist, but the publicity means that it outsells all 6 that do).

Birthdays Today include: Étienne-Louis Malus (1775); Philipp Otto Runge (1777); Franz Berwald (1796); Édouard Colonne (1838); Peder Severin Krøyer(1851); Francesco Cilea (1866); Raymond Chandler (1888); Louis T Wright (1891); Haile Selassie (1892); Michael Foot (1913); Ben Weber (1916); Leon Fleischer & Vera Rubin (both 1928); Richard Rogers (1933); Maria João Pires & Edward Gregson (both 1944); David Essex (1947); Jo Brand (1957); Susan Graham (1960); Woody Harrelson (1961); Alain Lefèvre (1962); Peter Seymour Hoffman (1967); ... and Daniel Radcliffe is 30 today.

Final Days for: Domenico Scarlatti (1757); DW Griffith (1948); Montgomery Clift (1966); Georges Auric (1983); Kazimierz Sikorski (1986); Jean Muir (1996); Eudora Welty (2001); Leo McKern (2002); Amy Winehouse (2011); Dora Bryan (2014).


And the Radio 3 Schedules for the morning of Wednesday, 23rd July, 1969 were:

Overture ("gramophone records")
Your Midweek Choice ("a request programme of gramophone records")
This Week's Composer: Brahms (Capriccio in d; Intermezzo in a; Capriccio in g [from the 7 Fantasien Op. 116]; Horn 3o Op 40).
Folk Songs from Canada: Ep 4 - Love Ballads & Laments.
Historic Organs: Herzogenburg (Herbert Tachezi plays Music by Speth, Froberger, Krieger. Pachelbel, and Fischer).
Haydn's Piano Trios: in g, H XV 1; & in D H XV 7. (3rd of 12 programmes)
Northern Prom: BBCNSO/Meredith Davies (no works specified - recorded in Leeds Town Hall)

[LezLee]

The wonderful Rufus Wainwright is 46 today.

[Petrushka]

.
Wednesday, 23rd July, 1969

And on that very day I left school! 50 years today, chucked out into the big, wide world and told to sink or swim. Those days of the Moon landing and my leaving school are very vivid in my memory and it's impossible to believe it's 50 years go.

[cloughie]

The wonderful Rufus Wainwright is 46 today.

He’s only wonderful if you like his voice - I prefer the musical output of his mum, aunt and dad, and Len’s original of Hallelujah!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

July 24th

The Feast Day of Saint Declan of Ardmore, the 5th [or, possibly, 6th] Century Irish evangelist, orn in Munster, and a contemporary of St Patrick [or, possibly, St David]. He is credited with bringing the Gospel to the people of Munster, and was very popular in the centuries after his death. 9th Century St Oengus writing of him
If thou hast a right, O Erin to a champion of battle to aid thee thou hast the head of a hundred thousands: Declan of Ardmore!

And the Feast Day of 5th [definitely] Century Cornish Saint Menefrida, daughter of King Brychan Brycheiniog - and, indeed, more is known of her father than of her: all William of Worcestor could find to say of her in the 15th Century is that she was "a Virgin, not a martyr".

More is known about St Christina the Astonishing, who died in 1171 at the age of 21, but who was restored to life during her funeral service to join in the singing of her own Te Deum - and lived for another 50-odd years. She spent much of those years recounting what she had seen of Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory during her death, and said that she had been given the choice either to remain in heaven, or to return to her mortal life to perform penance for those souls trapped in Purgatory - and chose the latter. Her penance including throwing herself into bonfires to suffer hours of excrutiating pain, but always come out completely unharmed. She would also fling herself into millstreams, allowing her body to be battered around by the mill wheels, and come out dripping but unharmed. And she provoked dogs to bite her, and then show that the attacks had not damaged her flesh. She is the Patron of Millers, of people with mental disorders, and of those who care for them.

Also on this Date: Edward I captures Stirling Castle, the last stronghold of Scottish resistance to English rule (1304 - the success is in no small part due to the use of the War Wolf [the largest Trebuchet ever built); lowland and highland clans engage in the ferocious Battle of Harlaw, North of Aberdeen (1411); Mary Stuart is forced to abdicate in favour of her 1-year-old son, James (1567); with the Treaty of Georgievsk, Eastern Georgia renounces its centuries-old ties with Persia, and becomes a protectorate of Tsarist Russia (1783); the Harrisburg Pennsylvanian newspaper conducts the first known Opinion Poll of its readers, showing that Andrew Jackson had a 2:1 lead in the contest for the US Presidency (1824); Brigham Young enters the Salt Lake Valley, with 148 of his followers, after a 17-month expedition (1847 - the day is celebrated as Pioneers' Day by Mormons); the Window Tax, unpopular in Britain for over 150 years, is abolished (1851 - strictly speaking, it is replaced by a Tax on Inhabited Houses); Tennessee becomes the first of the Confederate States to be readmited to the Union after the American Civil War (1866); Peruvian innkeeper Melchor Arteaga accompanies American explorer Hiram Bingham III to the site of Machu Picchu (1911 - the Americans are actually taken into the site by an 11-year-old son of a local farming couple); the Trial begins of Mata Hari [Margaaretha Zelle] as a German spy, responsible for the deaths of at least 50,000 Allied soldiers (1917 - "a harlot, maybe - but never a spy" she is reputed to have exclaimed during the Trial); the Treaty of Lausanne is signed, agreeing the boundaries of modern Turkey (1923); the Menin Gate War Memorial to the Missing opens in Ypres (1927); the highest temperatures reached in the Dust Bowl heat wave are recorded (1935 - 109 °F/43 °C in Chicago; 104 °F/40 °C in Milwaukee); Strauss' opera Friedenstag is premiered at the National Theatre in Munich, conducted by Clemens Krauss (1938); Operation Gomorrah, at the time the heaviest aerial bombardment in history, begins (1943 - British & Canadian planes bomb the city over the next 8 days, and American planes continue the attacks during the seven nights in between); Soviet troops liberate the Majdanek Extermination Camp near the city of Lubin in Poland, where at least 78,000 prisoners had been killed since it had opened, three years earlier (1944); Fred Zinneman's film High Noon, starring Gary Cooper & Grace Kelly, is released (1952); at the American National Exhibition of household labor-saving devices, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev and US Vice-president Richard Nixon publicly argue their nations' technological advances (1959); French President Charles de Gaulle stirs things up in Canada by calling "Long Live Free Quebec!" to a crowd in Montreal (1967 - on the same day, the first modern Hospice [St Christopher's in Sydenham] is officially opened [it has been receiving and caring for patients for 11 days before this]); Apollo 11 safely splashes down in the North Pacific Ocean (1969); the US Supreme Court orders President Nixon to hand over the subpoenaed White House tapes (1974); Krzysztof Penderecki's Viola Concerto ["Elegy for Simon Bolivar"] is premiered in Caracas, with soloist José Vasques, and conductor Eduardo Ran (1983); the 13th Commonwealth Games opens in Edinburgh (1986); American mountaineer Hulda Crooks reaches the top of Mount Fuji (1987 - she is 91, and remains the oldest person to climb to the summit of the mountain); Steven Spielberg's film, Saving Private Ryan, starring Tom Hanks, is released (1998 - porn films with similar titles quickly follow); Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha becomes Prime Minister of Bulgaria (2001 - he had been deposed as King Simeon II when the Bulgarian monarchy was abolished in 1946, and he remains the only [ex]monarch in history so far to [re]gain political power through democratic elections).

Birthdays Today include: Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar Palacios Ponte y Blanco ("generally known as Simón Bolívar", as WIKI helpfully notes, 1783 - his birth is commemorated in Bolivia, Venezuela, Colombia, & Ecuador); Alexandre Dumas ("père"? "No - just the one" - 1802: 200 years later to the day, his remains are reinterred at a televised ceremony in the Panthéon); Adolphe Adam (1803); Jan Gotlib Bloch (1836); Alphonse Mucha (1860); Frank Wedekind (1864); Ernest Bloch (1880); Robert Graves (1895); Amelia Earhart (1897); Zelda Fitzgerald (1900); Frances Oldham Kelsey (1914); Robert Farnon (1917); Ruggiero Ricci (1918);Giuseppe Di Stefano (1921); William Weaver (1923); Wilfred Josephs (1927); Peter Serkin (1947); Chris Smith (1951); Elisabeth Moss & Anna Paquin (both 1982); ... and Jennifer Lopez is 50 today.

Final Days for: Oswulf, King of Northumbria (759 - murdered less than a year after coming to power ... I'm sayin' nothin'); John Salusbury (1612); Benedetto Marcello (1739); Max von Schillings (1933); Alan Rawsthorne (1971); Peter Sellers (1980); Isaac Bashevis Singer (1991); Richard Doll (2005); Albert Ellis (2007); Norman Dello Joio (2008); Garry Davis (2013 - 3 days before his 92nd birthday); Marni Nixon (2016); ... and, this time last year, WW2 pilot Mary Ellis, aged 101.


And the Radio 3 Schedules for the Morning of Thursday, 24th July, 1969 were:

Overture ("gramophone records")
Morning Concert ("gramophone records")
This Week's Composer: Brahms (6 lieder & Violin Sonata in d, Op 103)
Showcase ("a programme of recently-released gramophone records")
...
followed by over 7 hours of cricket - which meant that, as Apollo 11 splashed down in the North Pacific Ocean at 3:50pm BST, Radio 3 wasn't broadcasting Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Stravinsky or whoever - but New Zealand vs England from Lord's.)

[gurnemanz]

Frank Wedekind who gave us Lulu and Spring Awakening had a remarkable life. His perhaps unexpected first name is explained in this Wiki snippet:

Benjamin Franklin Wedekind was born on July 24, 1864 in Hanover, German Confederation. His mother was Swiss and became pregnant with him in San Francisco. His father, a German, had a Swiss castle in which Wedekind grew up. Until World War I, when he was forced to obtain a German passport, he was an American citizen and traveled throughout Europe. He lived most of his adult life in Munich, though he had a brief period working in advertising, for the Maggi soup firm, in Switzerland in 1886. Having worked in business and the circus, Wedekind went on to become an actor and singer.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

[burning dog]

followed by over 7 hours of cricket - which meant that, as Apollo 11 splashed down in the North Pacific Ocean at 3:50pm BST, Radio 3 wasn't broadcasting Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Stravinsky or whoever - but New Zealand vs England from Lord's.)

Test Match Special (1957) predated afternoon classical music (1965) on the Third Programme frequencies. Afternoons were blank apart from cricket at one time. It appears that popular classical music ( Mozart, Beethoven etc. not light classical ) was often broadcast on the Home Service before 1965. This was a surprise to me. I presume that while TMS survived on R3 it was still a case of music being broadcast when there was no cricket rather than the reverse. I'm not sure whether or when TMS was only on AM rather than FM. It seems that the "Golden Age of Radio Three/ Third Programme" as a station for Classical Music and serious Jazz started in the 70s.

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

"Robert Hudson was responsible for the launch of TMS, writing to his Outside Broadcasts boss Charles Max-Muller in 1956, proposing broadcasting full ball-by-ball coverage of Tests rather than only covering fixed periods, and suggesting using the Third Programme (as BBC Radio 3 was then known) frequency, since at that time the Third Programme only broadcast in the evening."

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

"The network was broadly cultural, a Leavisite experiment dedicated to the discerning or "high-brow" listener from an educated, minority audience. Its founders' aims were seen as promoting "something fundamental to our civilisation" and as contributing to "the refinement of society".[2] Its musical output provided a wide range of serious classical music and live concerts, as well as contemporary composers and jazz, popular classical music such as Beethoven, Mozart and Tchaikovsky primarily remained on the Home Service until 1964. Voice formed a much higher proportion of its output than the later Radio 3, with specially commissioned plays, poetry readings, talks and documentaries."