Personalities
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Weekly Woman: Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel
The Aristipposian Poet Club presents a room with the music of Fanny Mendelssohn. Today — Thursday November 11 2021, at 6pm EST, on Clubhouse
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“The Human Crisis” — lecture by Albert Camus, in New York, on March 28 1946
Ladies and Gentlemen: when I was invited to give a series of lectures in the United States of America, I felt some doubt and hesitation. I am really not old enough to give lectures, and I am more at ease with the process of thinking than I am making categorical statements… since I don’t feel…
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The little ghost who gifted Coltrane, Parker, Getz, Coleman, and Rollins
Antoine-Joseph Sax was born on this day in 1814, in Dinant (Netherlands, today Belgium) to Charles-Joseph Sax, and Marie-Joseph Masson, both instrument designers of traditional instruments. Adolphe, as he was called, began making his own instruments, entering two flutes and a clarinet into a competition by the age of 15. Subsequently he studied both instruments,…
