Birthdays
1892 - Richard Tauber, Austrian film actor and tenor who sung in light operas especially Mozart's and Lehar's. Listen to Tauber sing "You are my heart's delight", from the operetta Land of Smiles (Land des Lächelns), composed by Franz Lehar. Richard Tauber sings Schubert's "Serenade". YouTube, uploaded by dorje1975. Accessed May 16, 2021. Sorry, the recording is not too good, but Tauber's singing is highly comfortable; strain-free. Moving and soothing.
1905 - Henry Jaynes Fonda, American actor who had a career that spanned five decades in Hollywood. Fonda cultivated a strong, appealing screen image in several films now considered to be classics, earning one Academy Award for Best Actor on two nominations. His early career peaked with his Academy Award-nominated performance as Tom Joad in The Grapes of Wrath, about an Oklahoma family who moved to California during the Dust Bowl 1930s. This film is widely considered to be among the greatest American films.
1919 - Liberace (Władziu Valentino Liberace), American pianist, singer and actor. A child prodigy of Italian and Polish origin, Liberace enjoyed a career spanning four decades of concerts, recordings, television, motion pictures, and endorsements. At the height of his fame, he was the highest-paid entertainer in the world, with established concert residencies in Las Vegas, and an international touring schedule. Liberace embraced a lifestyle of flamboyant excess both on and off stage, acquiring the nickname "Mr. Showmanship".
1929 - Adrienne Rich (born Adrienne Cecile Rich), American poet, essayist and feminist. She was called "one of the most widely read and influential poets of the second half of the 20th century", and was credited with bringing "the oppression of women and lesbians to the forefront of poetic discourse." She criticized rigid forms of feminist identities, and valorized what she coined the "lesbian continuum," a female continuum of solidarity and creativity that impacts and fills women's lives. Her first collection of poetry, A Change of World, was selected by renowned poet W. H. Auden for the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award. She famously declined the National Medal of Arts, protesting the vote by House Speaker Newt Gingrich to end funding for the National Endowment for the Arts.
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Feature:
Liberace, the flamboyant piano prodigy performing Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's "Waltz of the Flowers" (1892), a piece of orchestral music from the second act of Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker ballet.
1770- Marie Antoinette, aged 14, marries the future King Louis XVI of France, aged 15.
1929 - Hollywood stages an experimental publicity stunt for the movie industry at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. This later evolves into the Academy Awards extravaganza.
1985 - Michael Jordan is named NBA Rookie of the Year.
1988 - The U.S. Surgeon General declares that nicotine's "pharmacological and behavioral processes" are addictive in ways similar to heroin and cocaine.
1989 - Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev meets with Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping, formally ending a 30-year rift.
Video Credit:
Rare Liberace - Tchaikovsky's "Waltz of the Flowers". YouTube, uploaded by Lib Thack. Accessed 16 May 2017.
Resources:
1. Asiado, Tel. The World's Movers and Shapers. New Hampshire: Ore Mountain Publishing House (2005)
Liberace, the flamboyant piano prodigy performing Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's "Waltz of the Flowers" (1892), a piece of orchestral music from the second act of Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker ballet.
Historical Events
1770- Marie Antoinette, aged 14, marries the future King Louis XVI of France, aged 15.
1929 - Hollywood stages an experimental publicity stunt for the movie industry at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. This later evolves into the Academy Awards extravaganza.
1985 - Michael Jordan is named NBA Rookie of the Year.
1988 - The U.S. Surgeon General declares that nicotine's "pharmacological and behavioral processes" are addictive in ways similar to heroin and cocaine.
1989 - Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev meets with Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping, formally ending a 30-year rift.
Video Credit:
Rare Liberace - Tchaikovsky's "Waltz of the Flowers". YouTube, uploaded by Lib Thack. Accessed 16 May 2017.
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 Timestables of History, New 3rd Revised Ed. Simon and Schuster/Touchstone (1991)
6. Wikipedia. en.wikipedia.org.
3. Chambers Biographical Dictionary, 19th Ed. London: Chambers Harrap, 2011
4. Dateline. Sydney: Millennium House, (2006)
5. Grun, Bernard. The Timestables of History, New 3rd Revised Ed. Simon and Schuster/Touchstone (1991)
6. Wikipedia. en.wikipedia.org.
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