We mark the birth of The Duke on April 29, 1899 125 years ago today in Washington D.C. By The Duke, we are not here referring to the actor John Wayne (who was born on May 26, 1907, in Winterset

I am writing this post from my hotel room in what is presently (but sadly, not for long) warm and sunny Vienna. As I mentioned last week, I will be here for eight days acting as color commentator f

We mark the death on April 8, 1858 166 years ago today of the Austrian composer, editor, and music publisher Anton Diabelli in Vienna, at the age of 76. Born on September 5, 1781, his enduring fa

On April 1, 2017 7 years ago today Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman, 1941) was awarded his Nobel Prize in Literature in a private ceremony held at an undisclosed location in Stockholm, Swede

We mark the birth on March 25, 1867 157 years ago today of the cellist and conductor Arturo Toscanini, in the city of Parma, in what was then the Kingdom of Italy. He died, at the age of 89, on J

We mark the birth of the Russian composer Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov on March 18, 1844: 180 years ago today. Born in the Russian town of Tikhvin roughly 120 miles east of St. Petersburg

We mark the first performance on March 11, 1851 173 years ago today of Giuseppe Verdis opera Rigoletto at Venices storied Teatro la Fenice: The Phoenix Theater. We set the scene. The year was

We mark the first performance of the ballet Swan Lake on March 4, 1877: 147 years ago today. Premiered at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow, with music by Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893), choreograp

We mark the premiere on February 26, 1935 89 years ago today of Georges Bizets Symphony in C. The premiere took place in Basel, Switzerland, in a performance conducted by Felix Weingartner (1863

I am aware that Valentines Day is already 5 days past, but darned if the romantic warm n fuzzies arent still lingering with me like a rash from poison oak. As such, I will be excused for offering