History
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Today I have been symphonically preparing for an Anton Bruckner Day
Today I have been listening to several symphonies of this music genius, born September 4 of 1824. Join us at the Birthday and Celebration Club, at 12 midday EST, on Clubhouse.
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The Calutron Girls — this day, on 1942
The ‘Calutron Girls’ monitoring a mass spectrometer during the “Manhattan Project”. Gladys Owens, in the foreground, did not know what she was involved with until seeing this picture on a tour fifty years later. On this day of 1942, the ‘Manhattan Project’ commences, with the aim to deliver an atomic bomb
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“Israel in Egypt”, first known classical music recording — June 29 1888
“Israel in Egypt”, catalogued HWV 54, was composed by Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759) in 1739, and composed that year on April 4th. The oratorio was scored in English for soloists, choir and orchestra, in 46 movements. Join us listening to this early piece on Clubhouse, June 29, at 1 pm EST https://www.clubhouse.com/join/birthday-celebration/TVDR6CTS/mZgb381b
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Earthly Paradise, the Art of Song Singing
On June 21 of 1868 was the world premiere of “Die Meistersänger von Nürnberg”. Join us on Clubhouse to celebrate four hours in the mastery of song singing, as Richard Wagner understood it in word and sound. https://www.clubhouse.com/event/PN6GzDJR
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Happy Birthday, Robert Schumann!
Alfred Brendel at the Piano, to celebrate the poetic music of Robert Schumann, on clubhouse: June 8, at 5:30 pm EST https://www.clubhouse.com/join/birthday-celebration/bCaEwehM/xevrK39Q
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The Soul is unbound
Ever since we have been traveling this globe, our exposure to the exotic or merely to the other (individual, culture, tradition, belief), has left us impressed, influenced, at least touched. Henry F. Gilbert was born 1868 in Somerville, a town in the Boston metropolitan area where I lived in the mid 1980s. He attended the…
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Deliciousness makes us human
Once upon a time we ate raw, then we cooked. Later on we began adding herbs, spices, parts of flowers, seeds, and other tiny parts of nature to our food. Our palate and our knowledge expanded as a result. It is this expansion and refinement on basic products that made us the demanding and complex…
Sila Blume 