Birthdays
1758 - Noah Webster, Jr., American lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English-language spelling reformer, prolific writer. He has been called the "Father of American Scholarship and Education." His "Blue-backed Speller" books taught five generations of American children how to spell and read.
1821 - Albert Franz Doppler, Polish composer and flautist. He was a flute virtuoso best known for his flute music. He also wrote one German and several Hungarian operas for Budapest, all produced with great success. His ballet music was popular during his lifetime.
1854 - Oscar Wilde, Irish playwright, novelist, and poet. A celebrated poet and playwright, he was best known for his wit. His only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, was written in a form of a fable and tells a much darker story. (Oscar Wilde Biography: His "Wild" Life. YouTube, uploaded by Biographics. Accessed October 16, 2018. Here's his "The Happy Prince" from wilde-online.info.)
1925 - Dame Angela (Brigid) Lansbury DBE, British-American-Irish actress in theatre, television and film, Famous for Murder, She Wrote, as Jessica Fletcher, and as Mame in the original 1966 Broadway musical Mame. Her career has spanned eight decades. She received an Honorary Oscar and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) and has won five Tony Awards, six Golden Globes, and an Olivier Award. She was nominated for numerous other awards, including the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress on three occasions, and various Primetime Emmy Awards on eighteen occasions, and a Grammy Award. In 2014, Lansbury was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II. (The Legendary Dame Angela Lansbury Talks about her Career. Uploaded by picturefan2009. Mame - Angela Lansbury - If He Walked into my Life (Very rare rehearsal take, recorded during the first rehearsal for the musical "Mame." Uploaded by orvgg. Accessed October 16, 2019.)
1956 - Marin Alsop, American conductor, the first woman to win the Koussevitzky Prize for conducting and the first conductor to be awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. She is music director laureate of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and chief conductor of the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Ravinia Festival. She was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2008 and to the American Philosophical Society in 2020. (Trailblazing conductor Marin Alsop's message on breaking the glass ceiling. Youtube, uploaded by ABC News. Oct 16, 2022. Dvorák: Symphony No. 9, Peabody Symphony Orchestra (PSO), Marin Alsop. Youtube, uploaded by Peabody Institute of the John Hopkins University. Accessed October 16, 2022)
1958 - Tim Francis Robbins, Academy Award winning American actor, screenwriter, director, producer, and musician. He is notable for his portrayal of Andy Dufresne in the film The Shawshank Redemption. His other roles include starring as Nuke LaLoosh in Bull Durham, Jacob Singer in Jacob's Ladder, Griffin Mill in The Player, Dave Boyle in Mystic River, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, and Harlan Ogilvy in War of the Worlds. He also directed the films Bob Roberts and Dead Man Walking. He received an Academy Award nomination for Best Director for Dead Man Walking. For TV, he played Secretary of State Walter Larson in the HBO comedy The Brink, and in Here and Now portrayed Greg Boatwright.
1962 - Dmitri Aleksandrovich Hvorostovsky, Russian operatic baritone. He came to international prominence in 1989 when he won the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition, beating local favourite Bryn Terfel in the final round. His performance included Handel's "Ombra mai fu" and "Per me giunto...O Carlo ascolta" from Verdi's Don Carlos. In later years his repertoire almost entirely consisted of Verdi operas. He won First Prizes at both the Glinka Vocal Competition in 1987 and the Toulouse Singing Competition in 1988. His highest awards in Russia include the Glinka State Prize in 1991 and the People's Artist of Russia honorary title in 1995.
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More birthdays and historical events, October 16 - On This Day
Quote: "To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that's all." - Oscar Wilde
Featuring: (Albert) Franz Doppler, Composer & Flautist
Franz Doppler (16 October 1821 - 27 July 1883), was born in Poland in Lemberg (Austrian Empire), now Lviv, Ukraine. He was a flute virtuoso, a composer best known for his flute music, and a brilliant orchestrator. He also wrote one German and Hungarian operas for Budapest, with great success. His ballet music was popular during his lifetime. Doppler composed chiefly for the flute, as well as opera, composing many pieces including concertos, flute duets, played by himself and his brother Karl. His work contains aspects of Russian and Hungarian music. His operas included Judith (his only German opera), and a Russian work entitled Benyovsky. He wrote seven operas and fifteen ballets in total.
1791 - Wolfgang A Mozart's Clarinet Concerto in A major, K.622, is first performed in Prague (citation needed, refer resource Wiki from the 'clarinet concerto' link.)
1793 - Marie Antoinette, wife of King Louis XVI of France, is executed by guillotine, without proof of her crimes.
1847 - Charlotte Brontë publishes her famous classic novel Jane Eyre.
1925 - Richard Strauss's Perergon zur Symphonia domestica, for piano left-handand orchestra, is first performed, in Dresden, with Paul Wittgenstein (who commissioned the work) as soloist.
1978 - Polish Cardinal Karol Wojtyla is appointed Pope John Paul II, the first non-Italian pope since Pope Adrian VI in 1523.
1995 - More than 250,000 African Americans gather in Washington D.C. for the Million Man March.
On October 16, 1995, a march happened in Washington D.C.'s National Mall. It is known as "The Million Man March," one of the largest marches ever seen in the U.S. in which more than 250,000 African Americans gathered for a peaceful day of praying, speeches, singing, in a successful awareness-raising campaign for race relations.
As a result of the march, race issues were brought out to the fore. It is believed that the march contributed to building a stronger community among African Americans, and also a greater awareness of racial injustices in a wider community.
1996 - In Guatemala City, more than 80 people are crushed to death and 180 injured when 47,000 soccer fans squeeze into the 36,000-seat Mateo Flores Stadium.
Video Credit:
Albert Franz Doppler Hungarian Pastorale Fantasy for flute and piano. YouTube, uploaded by Aleksandr Haskin. Accessed 16 October, 2017. (Forbidden City Concert Hall, Beijing China Young Concert Artists Chamber Music Festival Aleksandr Haskin, flute Louis Schwizgebel-Wang, piano. June, 2012)
Featuring: (Albert) Franz Doppler, Composer & Flautist
Franz Doppler (16 October 1821 - 27 July 1883), was born in Poland in Lemberg (Austrian Empire), now Lviv, Ukraine. He was a flute virtuoso, a composer best known for his flute music, and a brilliant orchestrator. He also wrote one German and Hungarian operas for Budapest, with great success. His ballet music was popular during his lifetime. Doppler composed chiefly for the flute, as well as opera, composing many pieces including concertos, flute duets, played by himself and his brother Karl. His work contains aspects of Russian and Hungarian music. His operas included Judith (his only German opera), and a Russian work entitled Benyovsky. He wrote seven operas and fifteen ballets in total.
Historical Events
1791 - Wolfgang A Mozart's Clarinet Concerto in A major, K.622, is first performed in Prague (citation needed, refer resource Wiki from the 'clarinet concerto' link.)
1793 - Marie Antoinette, wife of King Louis XVI of France, is executed by guillotine, without proof of her crimes.
1847 - Charlotte Brontë publishes her famous classic novel Jane Eyre.
1925 - Richard Strauss's Perergon zur Symphonia domestica, for piano left-handand orchestra, is first performed, in Dresden, with Paul Wittgenstein (who commissioned the work) as soloist.
1978 - Polish Cardinal Karol Wojtyla is appointed Pope John Paul II, the first non-Italian pope since Pope Adrian VI in 1523.
1995 - More than 250,000 African Americans gather in Washington D.C. for the Million Man March.
On October 16, 1995, a march happened in Washington D.C.'s National Mall. It is known as "The Million Man March," one of the largest marches ever seen in the U.S. in which more than 250,000 African Americans gathered for a peaceful day of praying, speeches, singing, in a successful awareness-raising campaign for race relations.
As a result of the march, race issues were brought out to the fore. It is believed that the march contributed to building a stronger community among African Americans, and also a greater awareness of racial injustices in a wider community.
1996 - In Guatemala City, more than 80 people are crushed to death and 180 injured when 47,000 soccer fans squeeze into the 36,000-seat Mateo Flores Stadium.
Video Credit:
Albert Franz Doppler Hungarian Pastorale Fantasy for flute and piano. YouTube, uploaded by Aleksandr Haskin. Accessed 16 October, 2017. (Forbidden City Concert Hall, Beijing China Young Concert Artists Chamber Music Festival Aleksandr Haskin, flute Louis Schwizgebel-Wang, piano. June, 2012)
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.
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.
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