On this day in music history - I Want Magic! American Opera Arias, by Renée Fleming and James Levine (1998)

I Want Magic!: American Opera Arias

by Renée Fleming and James Levine,

was released on September 15, 1998.

Track list:

Wuthering Heights: I Have Dreamt; The Ballad of Baby Doe: The Letter Song; The Medium: Monica’s Waltz; Porgy and Bess: Summertime - Renee Fleming/New York Voices/Teddy Swarrer; Porgy and Bess: My Man’s Gone Now - Renee Fleming/New York Voices/Teddy Swarrer; Candide: Glitter and Be Gay; Susannah: Ain’t It a Pretty Night; Susannah: The Trees on the Mountains; The Rake’s Progress: No Word from Tom... I Go, I Go to Him; Vanessa: He Has Come, He Has Come; A Streetcar Named Desire: I Want Magic!

On this day in music history - Evolution, by Anastacia (2017)

Evolution

by Anastacia,

was released on September 15, 2017.

Track list:

Caught in the Middle; Redlight; Stamina; Boxer; My Everything; Nobody Loves Me Better; Reckless; Not Coming Down; Before; Pain; Why; Boomerang; Higher Livin’.

On this day in music history - La Belle Époque: The Songs of Reynaldo Hahn, by Susan Graham (1998)

La Belle Époque: The Songs of Reynaldo Hahn

by Susan Graham,

was released on September 15, 1998.

Track list:

À Chloris; Le Rossignol des lilas; L’Énamourée; Trois Jours de vendange; Études Latines: “Lydé”; Études Latines: “Tyndaris”; Études Latines: “Phyllis”; Les Fontaines; L’Automne; Infidélité; Dans la nuit; D’une prison; Quand la nuit n’est pas étoilée; Fumée; Le Printemps; Je me souviens; Quand je fus pris au pavillon; Paysage; Fêtes galantes; Nocturne; Mai; L’Heure exquise; Offrande; Si mes vers avaient des ailes.

Betsy Byars, on writing:

 

When I type a title page,

I hold it and I look at it and I think,
I just need four thousand sentences to go with this and I’ll have a book.
- Betsy Byars.

Recommended reading - Great Tales of Crime and Detection

Great Tales of Crime and Detection

Edited by Charles Ardai.
 
Published by Bbs Pub Corp.
Published in 1995.
Hardcover.
 
ISBN-10: 0883657716
ISBN-13: 978-0883657713
 
Description:
 

A collection of mysteries from a host of best-selling mystery writers features tales by Dick Francis, Graham Greene, Lawrence Bloch, Sarah Paretsky, Loren D. Estleman, John Lutz, Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Allan Poe, and others.

 

Contents:
 

Introduction, by Robert Bloch; Foreword, by John Lutz; Out the window, by Lawrence Block; Major crimes, by Loren D. Estleman; Silent warning, by William J. Carroll, Jr.; The Third Man, by Graham Greene; The Cross of Lorraine, by Isaac Asimov; Nameless Enemy, by Miriam Allen DeFord; Tragedy of a Handkerchief, by Michael Innes; UNC Foils Show Foe, by John Jakes; Dangerows Widows, by Mignon G. Eberhardt; Ride the Lightning, by John Lutz; Till Tuesday, by Jeremiah Healy; The Day of the Losers, by Dick Francis; The Case of the Pietro Andromache, by Sara Paretsky; Susu and the 8:30 Ghost, by Lillian Jackson Braun; The Investigation of Things, by Charles Aardai; The Trailor Murder Mystery, by Abraham Lincoln; The Importance of Trifles, by Avram Davidson; The Double-Barrelled Detective Story, by Mark Twain; The Adventure of the Oval Window, by John H. Ddirckx; Your Appointment is Cancelled, by Antonia Fraser; Le Chateau de L'Arsenic, by Georges Simenon; The Nine Mile Walk, by Harry Kemelman; Crime in Rhyme, by Robert Bloch; The Purloined Letter, by Edgar Allan Poe; The Man with the Twisted Lip, by Arthur Conan Doyle.

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Born on this day – Carroll John Daly:

 

Carroll John Daly

Writer

September 14, 1889 – January 16, 1958

Credits:

Books:

Better Corpses (1940); Man in the Shadows (1928); Mr. Strang (1936); Murder at Our House (1950); Murder from the East (1935); Murder Won’t Wait (1933); Ready to Burn (1951); Tainted Power (1931); The Amateur Murderer (1933); The Emperor of Evil (1937); The Hidden Hand (1929); The Mystery of the Smoking Gun (1936); The Snarl of the Beast (1927); The Tag Murders (1930); The Third Murderer (1931); The White Circle (1926).

Movies and television:

Ticket to a Crime (1934).