Birthdays
1811 - Franz Liszt, Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor, music teacher, arranger, and organist of the Romantic era. He was also a writer, a philanthropist, a Hungarian nationalist and a Franciscan tertiary. He gained renown in Europe during the early 19th century for his prodigious virtuosic skill as a pianist. He was a friend, musical promoter and benefactor to many composers of his time, including Frédéric Chopin, Richard Wagner, Hector Berlioz, Robert Schumann, Camille Saint-Saëns, Edvard Grieg, Ole Bull, Joachim Raff, Mikhail Glinka, and Alexander Borodin. Liszt was one of the most prominent representatives of the New German School (Neudeutsche Schule). He produced extensive and diverse body of work which influenced contemporaries and anticipated 20th-century ideas and trends. Among Liszt's musical contributions were the symphonic poem and radical innovations in harmony. (Liszt: Bénédiction de Dieu dans la solitude (Hough). YouTube, uploaded by A.X. Kumar. Accessed October 22, 2018.)
1844 - Sarah Bernhardt, French stage actress (22 or 23 Oct), starred in some of the most popular French plays of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including La Dame Aux Camelias by Alexandre Dumas, fils, Ruy Blas by Victor Hugo, Fédora and La Tosca by Victorien Sardou, and L'Aiglon by Edmond Rostand. She also played male roles, including Shakespeare's Hamlet. Rostand called her "the queen of the pose and the princess of the gesture", while Hugo praised her "golden voice". She made several theatrical tours around the world, and was one of the first prominent actresses to make sound recordings and to act in motion pictures. (Movie Legends - Sarah Bernhardt. Uploaded by Movie Legends. Accessed October 22, 2015.)
1917 - Joan Fontaine (born: Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland), British-American actress, best known for her starring roles in cinema during the Classical Hollywood era. Fontaine appeared in more than 45 feature films in a career that spanned five decades. Sister of another famous actress, Olivia de Havilland.
1919 - Doris May Lessing CH OMG (née Tayler), British-Zimbabwean (Rhodesian) novelist. She was born to British parents in Iran, where she lived until 1925 as her family moved to Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), eventually moving to London in 1949. Her novels include The Grass Is Singing, the sequence of five novels collectively called Children of Violence, The Golden Notebook, The Good Terrorist, five novels collectively known as Canopus in Argos: Archives, The Fifth Child, and Love, Again. Lessing was awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature, the oldest person ever to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. She was also awarded the David Cohen Prize for a lifetime's achievement in British literature. In 2008, The Times ranked her fifth on a list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".
1925 - Milton Ernest "Robert" Rauschenberg, American painter and graphic artist whose early works anticipated the Pop art movement. He is well known for his "Combines", a group of artworks which incorporated everyday objects as art materials and which blurred the distinctions between painting and sculpture. The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation fosters the legacy of the artist's life, work, and philosophy.
1938 - Sir Derek Jacobi, CBE, (born Derek George Jacobi), English actor and stage director. A "forceful, commanding stage presence", Jacobi has enjoyed a successful stage career, appearing in such stage productions as Hamlet, Uncle Vanya, and Oedipus the King.
1943 - Catherine Deneuve (born Catherine Fabienne Dorléac), French actress, considered one of the greatest European actresses. She gained recognition for her portrayal of icy, aloof and mysterious beauties for various directors. In 1985, she succeeded Mireille Mathieu as the official face of Marianne, France's national symbol of liberty. A 14-time César Award nominee, she won for her performances in Truffaut's The Last Metro (1980), for which she also won the David di Donatello for Best Foreign Actress, and Régis Wargnier's Indochine (1992). Deneuve made her film debut aged 13 and came to prominence in Jacques Demy's 1964 musical The Umbrellas of Cherbourg. ('Umbrellas of Cherbourg' | Critics' Picks | The New York Times. Accessed Oct. 22, 1918.) She was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress for Belle de Jour, and the Academy Award for Best Actress for Indochine. She also won the 1998 Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival for Place Vendôme
1963 - Brian Boitano (born Brian Anthony Boitano), American figure skater from Sunnyvale, California. He is the 1988 Olympic champion, the 1986 and 1988 World Champion, and the 1985–1988 U.S. National Champion. He turned professional following the 1988 season. He returned to competition in 1993 and competed at the 1994 Winter Olympics, where he placed sixth.
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More birthdays and historical events, October 22 - On This Day
1836 - Sam Houston becomes the President of Texas. The state became a breakaway republic for nearly a decade after the Texas Revolution.
1881 - The Boston Symphony Orchestra presents its first concert.
1883 - The Metropolitan Opera House in New York opens with Charles Gounod's opera Faust. (French Chorus presents Gounod's Faust "Soldiers Chorus")
1962 - U.S. President J.F. Kennedy announces the discovery of Soviet missile sites in Cuba. The Cuban Missile Crisis develops. JFK demands publicly that they be removed, and for six days the world totters on the brink of nuclear war. Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet leader, blinks first and agrees to remove the missiles.
1962 - Over thirty poets take part in the U.S. Library of Congress's first National Poetry Festival.
1964 - Existentialist philosopher and writer Jean-Paul Sartre turns down the Nobel Prize in Literature.
1964 - Akira Miyoshi's Concerto for Orchestra is first performed, in Tokyo.
Resources:
1. Asiado, Tel. The World's Movers and Shapers. New Hampshire: Ore Mountain Publishing House (2005)
2. Britannica. www.britannica.com
Historical Events
1836 - Sam Houston becomes the President of Texas. The state became a breakaway republic for nearly a decade after the Texas Revolution.
1881 - The Boston Symphony Orchestra presents its first concert.
1883 - The Metropolitan Opera House in New York opens with Charles Gounod's opera Faust. (French Chorus presents Gounod's Faust "Soldiers Chorus")
The "Met" Auditorium, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.
1962 - U.S. President J.F. Kennedy announces the discovery of Soviet missile sites in Cuba. The Cuban Missile Crisis develops. JFK demands publicly that they be removed, and for six days the world totters on the brink of nuclear war. Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet leader, blinks first and agrees to remove the missiles.
1962 - Over thirty poets take part in the U.S. Library of Congress's first National Poetry Festival.
1964 - Existentialist philosopher and writer Jean-Paul Sartre turns down the Nobel Prize in Literature.
1964 - Akira Miyoshi's Concerto for Orchestra is first performed, in Tokyo.
Resources:
1. Asiado, Tel. The World's Movers and Shapers. New Hampshire: Ore Mountain Publishing House (2005)
2. Britannica. www.britannica.com
3. Chambers Biographical Dictionary, 19th Ed. London:
Chambers Harrap, 2011
4. Dateline. Sydney: Millennium House, (2006)
5. Grun, Bernard. The Timetables of History, New 3rd Revised Ed. Simon & Schuster/Touchstone (1991)
6. Wikipedia. en.wikipedia.org
4. Dateline. Sydney: Millennium House, (2006)
5. Grun, Bernard. The Timetables of History, New 3rd Revised Ed. Simon & Schuster/Touchstone (1991)
6. Wikipedia. en.wikipedia.org
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