Birthdays
1853 - David Belasco, American theatrical producer, impresario, director and playwright. He was the first writer to adapt the short story Madame Butterfly for the stage, and he launched the theatrical career of many actors, including James O'Neill, Mary Pickford, Lenore Ulric and Barbara Stanwyck.
1883 - Alfredo Casella, Italian composer, arranger, pianist and conductor. He developed a deep admiration for Debussy's output after hearing Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune in 1898, but pursued a more romantic vein (stemming from Strauss and Mahler) in his own writing of this period, rather than turning to impressionism. His first symphony of 1905 is from this time, and it is with this work that Casella made his debut as a conductor when he led the symphony's premiere in Monte Carlo in 1908.(Alfredo Casella - Symphony No.1 in B-minor, Op.5 (1906), uploaded by KuhlauDilfeng4. Accessed July 25, 2015. Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma.Conductor: Francesco La Vecchia.)
1934 - Don Ellis (born Donald Johnson Ellis), American jazz trumpeter, drummer, composer, and bandleader. He is best known for his musical experimentation, particularly in the area of time signatures. He also worked as a film composer, contributing a score to 1971's The French Connection and 1973's The Seven-Ups.
1978 - Louise Joy Brown, English woman who was the first human to have been born after conception by in vitro fertilisation, or IVF. On the 25th July 2018 Louise celebrated her 40th birthday. marking the 40th year since the first successful treatment of IVF at Bourn Hall Clinic in the UK. Louise would spend most of the year travelling the world talking about her life and experiences in the fertility spotlight.
Lefties:
None known
Listening Pleasure:
Mozart - Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K550. YouTube, uploaded by Am4d3usMOz4rt. Accessed July 25, 2018. The 4 movements: 1. Molto Allegro 2. Andante 3. Menuetto; Allegretto 4. Allegro assai.
Other Link:
Mozart Symphonies Nos. 39-41
1788 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart completes his humanity's masterpiece, the 40th Symphony, the "Great G-minor Symphony," No. 40, KV 550. The composition occupied an exceptionally productive period for the composer for just a few weeks in 1788, during which time he also completed the 39th and 41st symphonies (26 June and 10 August, respectively). Note July 25, 2016: At first I was hesitant to include this due to arguments from some Mozart biographers about the dates. Thanks to a Mozartian friend, Cristina Iordache, for sharing the information from researches of musicologist Dr. Michael Lorenz.
1797 - Admiral Nelson is badly wounded in his right arm as he leads a disastrous assault on the Spanish city of Santa Cruz, Tenerife. A musket ball shatters his bone and opens a major artery. To save his life, his arm is amputated without anesthetic on board HMS Theseus.
1943 - As Italian forces take heavy losses and the allies invade Italy in World War II, Benito Mussolini is arrested and removed from power by his own party. shortly after, he is rescued by German paratroopers.
1959 - The hovercraft makes its first journey from England to France, crossing the channel between Calais and Dover in tow hours three minutes. Christopher Cockerell, the inventor, is a passenger.
1976 - Philip Glass's music drama Einstein on the Beach is first performed at the Festival at Avignon, France.
1978 - Louise Joy Brown, the first baby conceived through in vitro fertilization (IVF), is born in England. She was normal except that she had been conceived outside her mother's body. Doctors Patrick Steptoe and Robert Edwards took an egg from Lesley, Louise's mother, who had blocked fallopian tubes, and fertilized it with sperm from John, the baby's father, in a laboratory vessel. The embryo was implanted in Lesley Brown's womb two days later.
2000 - Concorde Flight 4590 crashes after take-off from Paris airport. All the 109 people on board are killed, along with four people in the hotel the plane hits.
Resources:
Mozart - Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K550. YouTube, uploaded by Am4d3usMOz4rt. Accessed July 25, 2018. The 4 movements: 1. Molto Allegro 2. Andante 3. Menuetto; Allegretto 4. Allegro assai.
Other Link:
Mozart Symphonies Nos. 39-41
Historical Events
1788 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart completes his humanity's masterpiece, the 40th Symphony, the "Great G-minor Symphony," No. 40, KV 550. The composition occupied an exceptionally productive period for the composer for just a few weeks in 1788, during which time he also completed the 39th and 41st symphonies (26 June and 10 August, respectively). Note July 25, 2016: At first I was hesitant to include this due to arguments from some Mozart biographers about the dates. Thanks to a Mozartian friend, Cristina Iordache, for sharing the information from researches of musicologist Dr. Michael Lorenz.
1797 - Admiral Nelson is badly wounded in his right arm as he leads a disastrous assault on the Spanish city of Santa Cruz, Tenerife. A musket ball shatters his bone and opens a major artery. To save his life, his arm is amputated without anesthetic on board HMS Theseus.
1943 - As Italian forces take heavy losses and the allies invade Italy in World War II, Benito Mussolini is arrested and removed from power by his own party. shortly after, he is rescued by German paratroopers.
1959 - The hovercraft makes its first journey from England to France, crossing the channel between Calais and Dover in tow hours three minutes. Christopher Cockerell, the inventor, is a passenger.
1976 - Philip Glass's music drama Einstein on the Beach is first performed at the Festival at Avignon, France.
1978 - Louise Joy Brown, the first baby conceived through in vitro fertilization (IVF), is born in England. She was normal except that she had been conceived outside her mother's body. Doctors Patrick Steptoe and Robert Edwards took an egg from Lesley, Louise's mother, who had blocked fallopian tubes, and fertilized it with sperm from John, the baby's father, in a laboratory vessel. The embryo was implanted in Lesley Brown's womb two days later.
2000 - Concorde Flight 4590 crashes after take-off from Paris airport. All the 109 people on board are killed, along with four people in the hotel the plane hits.
Resources:
1. Asiado, Tel. The World's Movers and Shapers. New Hampshire: Ore Mountain Publishing House (2005)
2. Chambers Biographical Dictionary, 19th Ed. London: Chambers Harrap, 2011
3. Dateline. Sydney: Millennium House, (2006)
4. Grun, Bernard. The Timetables of History, New 3rd Revised Ed. Simon & Schuster/Touchstone (1991)
5. Wikipedia. en.wikipedia.org
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