May 29 Dateline

Birthdays

1860 - Isaac Albeniz (born Isaac Manuel Francisco Albéniz y Pascual, Spanish virtuoso pianist, composer, and conductor. He is one of the foremost composers of the Post-Romantic era who also had a significant influence on his contemporaries and younger composers. He is best known for his piano works based on Spanish folk music idioms. Transcriptions of many of his pieces, such as Asturias (Leyenda), Granada, Sevilla, Cadiz, Córdoba, Cataluña, Mallorca, and Tango in D, are important pieces for classical guitar, though he never composed for the guitar. The personal papers of Albéniz are preserved, among other institutions, in the Biblioteca de Catalunya.

 1892 - Frederick Schiller Faust, pen name is "Max Brand" becomes "king of the pulp writers". American author known primarily for his Western stories. As Max Brand, he created the popular fictional character of young medical intern Dr. James Kildare for a series of pulp fiction stories. Faust's Kildare character was subsequently featured over several decades in other media, including a series of American theatrical movies by Paramount Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), a radio series, two television series, and comics.Faust used many other pseudonyms including George Owen Baxter, Evan Evans, George Evans, Peter Dawson, David Manning, John Frederick, Peter Morland, George Challis, Peter Ward and Frederick Frost.

1897 - Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Austrian-American composer and conductor. A child prodigy, he became one of the most important and influential composers in Hollywood history. He was a noted pianist and composer of classical music, along with music for Hollywood films, and the first composer of international stature to write Hollywood scores.  (Toscha Seidel (violin) - Korngold, "Much Ado About Nothing" Suite 3, Op. 11- III, Daniel Kurganov. Accessed May 29, 2019. (VIOLANTA Korngold – Teatro Regio Torino. Uploaded by OperaVision. Accessed May 29, 2020.)

1903 - Bob Hope, KBE, KC*SG, KSS (born Leslie Townes Hope), British-American stand-up Comedian, Vaudevillian, actor, singer, dancer, athlete, and author. With a career that spanned nearly 80 years, Hope appeared in more than 70 short and feature films, with 54 feature films with Hope as star, including a series of seven "Road" musical comedy movies with Bing Crosby as Hope's top-billed partner.  In addition to hosting the Academy Awards show 19 times, more than any other host, he appeared in many stage productions and television roles, and was the author of 14 books. The song "Thanks for the Memory" was his signature tune. 

1917 - John Fitzgerald Kennedy, often referred to by his initials as JFK or by the nickname Jack. He was an American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from 1961 until his assassination near the end of his third year in office. Kennedy was the youngest person to assume the presidency by election. He was also the youngest president at the end of his tenure, and his lifespan was the shortest of any president. Kennedy served at the height of the Cold War, and the majority of his work as president concerned relations with the Soviet Union and Cuba. A Democrat, he represented Massachusetts in both houses of the U.S. Congress prior to his presidency.
 

1958 - Annette Carol Bening, American actress. She was nominated for the 1987 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her Broadway debut in Coastal Disturbances and for the 2019 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for All My Sons. She is a four-time Academy Award nominee for the films: The Grifters, American Beauty, Being Julia, and The Kids Are All Right. In 2006, she received a film star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Bening won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role for American Beauty, two Golden Globe Awards for Being Julia and The Kids Are All Right, and was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for Mrs. Harris. In 2019, she played the roles of Supreme Intelligence and Mar-Vell / Wendy Lawson in the Marvel Cinematic Universe's Captain Marvel, which became her highest grossing release. Annette Being is married to actor Warren Betty.

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More birthdays and historical events today, May 29 - On This Day

 

Feature: 

 

Sharing a favourite tango music of Albeniz I grew up listening to. (I don't know the performing pianist.)  Enjoy!

Historical Events

1453 - Constantinople falls to Muhammad II, ending the Byzantine Empire.

1919 - Charles Strite patents a pop-up toaster.

1953 - Edmund Hillary of New Zealand and Tensing Norgay of Nepal become first people to conquer Mt. Everest.

1957 - Architect Frank Lloyd Wright, at 89 years old, travels to Iraq to design an opera house for Baghdad which is never built.

1990 - Boris N. Yeltsin is elected President of the Russian Republic in the third round of balloting by the Russian Parliament.


Video Credit:

 
Albeniz - Tango. YouTube, uploaded by Classical Music. Accessed May 29, 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 & Schuster/Touchstone (1991)
6. Wikipedia. en.wikipedia.org. 



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