On this day in music history - The album, Portrait, by Susan Graham (2007)

Portrait

Album by Susan Graham,

released July 16, 2007.

Track list:

Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), opera, K. 492; Voi che sapete, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Non so più cosa son, cosa faccio, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Alcina, opera, HWV 34; Di te mi rido, by George Frederick Handel; Mi lusinga il dolce affetto, by George Frederick Handel; Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, for voice & piano, by Ned Rorem; Early in the Morning, for voice & piano, by Ned Rorem; O you whom I often and silently come, for voice & piano (from “Poems of Walt Whitman”), by Ned Rorem; La Damnation de Faust, for mezzo-soprano, tenor, baritone, bass, chorus and orchestra, (“légende dramatique”) H. 111 (Op. 24); Autrefois un roi de Thulé, by Hector Berlioz; Béatrice et Bénédict, opera, H. 138; Dieu! Que viens-je d’entendre?, by Hector Berlioz; Dead Man Walking, opera, by This journey. This journey to Christ, by Jake Heggie; Who will walk with me?, by Jake Heggie; He will gather us around, by Jake Heggie; Zigeunerlieder (8), for voice & piano (arranged from Op. 103); Kommt dir manchmal in den Sinn, by Johannes Brahms; Rote Abendwolken ziehn am Firmament, by Johannes Brahms; Early Songs (7), for voice & piano (or orchestra); Die Nachtigal, by Alban Berg; Traumgekrönt, by Alban Berg; Im Zimmer, by Alban Berg; Poèmes (5) de Baudelaire, song collection for voice & piano, L. 64; Harmonie du soir, by Claude Debussy; Le Jet d’eau, by Claude Debussy; The Circus Band, song for voice & piano, S. 229 (K. 6B20), by Charles Ives; The Cage, song for voice & piano, S. 221 (K. 6B42), by Charles Ives; Ciboulette, operetta in 3 acts; C’est pas Paris, c’est sa banlieue, by Reynaldo Hahn; Toi c’est moi, operetta; Vagabonde, by Moisés Simóns.

On this day in music history - The album Illumination, by Jennifer Thomas (2012)

Illumination

by Jennifer Thomas

was released on July 16, 2012.

Track list:

Etude for the Dreamer; After the Storm; Illumination; Gymnopédie No. 1; New Life; Beyond the Summit; Into the Forest; Secrets; Toccata and Fugue; Rainforest; Fire Dance; Pachelbel’s Canon (a Duet); Across the Starlit Sky; Requiem for a Dream; Sonata Minoré; Eventide; New World Symphony.

Introvert insight:

In my quiet, I was working something out.

- Keanu Reeves.

 

I'm constantly around people that talk a lot but say nothing.

A sad case.

- Henry Rollins.

Do you hate people?

I don't hate them ... I just feel better when they're not around.

- Charles Bukowski.

People empty me.

I have to get away to refill.

- Charles Bukowski.

Stephen King, on writing:

 

In both writing and sleeping, we learn to be physically still at the same time we are encouraging our minds to unlock from the humdrum rational thinking of our daytime lives.
- Stephen King.

Recommended reading – Beeswax Alchemy (2015)

Beeswax Alchemy:
How to Make Your Own Soap, Candles, Balms, Creams, and Salves from the Hive

by Petra Ahnert.

 
Paperback.
 
ISBN-10: 1592539793
ISBN-13: 978-1592539796
 
Description:
 

“This is the book I’ve been waiting thirty years for. Excellent instructions. Bountiful information. Beautifully done.” – Kim Flottum, beekeeper; author of The Backyard Beekeeper, Better Beekeeping, and The Backyard Beekeeper’s Honey Handbook; and editor of Bee Culture magazine.

 

Create natural beeswax products for health and home.
 

Beeswax is truly the miracle of the beehive. Although honeybees use it to build their hives and protect their young, you can use it to make everything from candles to lip balm to decorative fabric.

 

Regardless of whether you are a veteran beekeeper or someone who just likes the way beeswax looks and smells, you’ll learn from apiarist and entrepreneur Petra Ahnert, who will teach you how to transform this miraculous material into the beautiful, useful, and unexpected.

 

Inside you’ll find:

• An introduction to beeswax’s form and functions.
• Tips and techniques for transforming beeswax into useful products for home and health.
• Detailed recipes to get you started crafting your own soaps, balms, salves, and more.

Born on this day – Fanny Schreck:

Fanny Schreck

Actress

July 15, 1877 – December 11, 1951

Credits:

Alles aus Liebe (1943); Der Herr im Haus (1940); Die Koffer des Herrn O.F. (1931); Die Nichte aus USA (1937); Die Stimme aus dem Äther (1939); Die Talfahrt des Severin Hoyey (1922); Eine Stunde (1940); Matrimonial Strike (1935); Nosferatu vs. Father Pipecock & Sister Funk (2014); Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (1922); Rote Mühle (1940); Silvesternacht am Alexanderplatz (1939); That really old vampire movie (2014); The Girl from the Marsh Croft (1935); The Hunter of Fall (1936).

Born on this day – Marjorie Rambeau:

Marjorie Rambeau

Actress

July 15, 1889 – July 6, 1970

Credits:

20 Mule Team (1940); A Man Called Peter (1955); A Modern Hero (1934); A Tailor Made Man (1931); Abandoned (1949); Any Number Can Play (1949); Army Wives (1944); Bad for Each Other (1953); Breakdowns of 1938 (1938); Broadway (1942); Compression (1995); Dizzy Dames (1935); East of the River (1940); First Lady (1937); Forever Female (1953); General Electric Theater (1953–1956); Grand Canary (1934); Great Day (1930); Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence (1939); Hell Divers (1931); Her Man (1930); In Old Oklahoma (1943); Inspiration (1931); It's Murder She Says... (1945); Laugh It Off (1939); Laughing Sinners (1931); Left Over Ladies (1931); Lux Video Theatre (1956); Man of a Thousand Faces (1957); Man's Castle (1933); Mary Moreland (1917); Merrily We Live (1938); Min and Bill (1930); Motherhood (1917); National Red Cross Pageant (1917); Oh, What a Night! (1944); Palooka (1934); Primrose Path (1940); Ready for Love (1934); Salome, Where She Danced (1945); Santa Fe Marshal (1940); Silence (1931); Slander (1957); Son of India (1931); Starland Review No. 5 (1922); Strangers May Kiss (1931); Strictly Personal (1933); Sudden Money (1939); Syncopating Sue (1926); The Common Cause (1919); The Dazzling Miss Davison (1917); The Debt (1917); The Easiest Way (1931); The Ford Television Theatre (1955–1956); The Fortune Teller (1920); The Greater Woman (1917); The Lucky Stiff (1949); The Mirror (1917); The O. Henry Playhouse (1957); The Rains Came (1939); The Secret 6 (1931); The View from Pompey's Head (1955); The Walls of Jericho (1948); The Warrior's Husband (1933); This Is Your Life (1956–1959); This Modern Age (1931); Three Sons o' Guns (1941); Tobacco Road (1941); Torch Song (1953); Trader Horn (1931); Tugboat Annie Sails Again (1940); Under Pressure (1935); Woman Against Woman (1938).