On this day in music history – Visions of Love: Mozart Arias, by Renée Fleming and Charles Mackerras (1996)

Visions of Love: Mozart Arias

by Renée Fleming and Charles Mackerras,

was released on September 17, 1996.

Track list:

Le nozze di Figaro: Giunse alfin il momento...Deh, vieni; Don Giovanni: In quali eccessi...Mi tradi; Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail: Ach, ich liebte, war so glucklich; Il re pastore: L’amero, saro costante - Renee Fleming/Krista Bennion Feeney; Die Zauberflote: Ach, ich fuhl’s, es ist verschwunden; La finta giardiniera: Geme la Tortorella; La finta giardiniera: Crudeli, fermate, crudeli, oh Dio! fermate-; La finta giardiniera: Ah, dal pianto, dal singhiozzo; Zaide: Ruhe sanft; Il sogno di Scipione: Lieve son al par del vento; Le nozze di Figaro: Giunse alfin il momento...Al desio; Con aria, K383: Nehmt meinen Dank.

On this day in music history – Guilty Pleasures, by Renée Fleming and Sebastian Lang-Lessing (2013)

Guilty Pleasures

by Renée Fleming and Sebastian Lang-Lessing,

was released on September 17, 2013.

Track list:

Berlioz: Les nuits d’été, Op. 7: 1. Villanelle; Duparc: Phidylé; Refice: Ombra di nube; Falla: Siete canciones populares españolas: 5. Nana; Falla: Siete canciones populares españolas: 6. Canción; Tchaikovsky: Undina: Undina’s Aria; Rachmaninoff: Sumerki (Twilight), Op. 21, No. 3; Delibes: Les Filles de Cadix; Delibes: Lakmé / Act 1: “Sous le dôme épais” (Flower Duet); Canteloube: Chants d’Auvergne: 7. La Delaissado; Canteloube: Chants d’Auvergne: 13. Malurous qu’o uno Fenno; Dvořák: Armida: “Za Štíhlou Gazelou”; Smetana: The Kiss (Hubicka) - Opera in 2 Acts: Lullaby; J. Strauss II: Walzer aus Wien: “Frag mich oft”; Wagner: Wesendonck Lieder, WWV 91: V. Träume; Corigliano: The Ghosts of Versailles / Act II: “Once There Was A Golden Bird”; Traditional: “O Danny Boy”.

Jean Craighead George, on writing:

 

To be a writer you should read, write and talk to people, hear their knowledge, hear their problems.

Be a good listener.
The rest will come.
- Jean Craighead George.

The value of reading and the power of imagination:

That moment when you're reading a book and the whole world around you doesn't exist anymore.

Recommended reading – Pulp

Pulp

by Charles Bukowski.
 
Published by Ecco.
Published in 1994.
Paperback.
 
ISBN-10: 9780876859261
ISBN-13: 978-0876859261
 
Description:
 
“Poet laureate of the down-and-out.” – LA Times.
 

Opening with the exotic Lady Death entering the gumshoe-writer's seedy office in pursuit of a writer named Cèline, this novel demonstrates Charles Bukowski's own brand of humor and realism, opening up a landscape of seamy Los Angeles.

 

Pulp is essential fiction from Buk himself.
 

Nicky Belane, private detective and career alcoholic, is a troubled man. He is plagued not just by broads, booze, lack of cash and a raging ego, but also by the surreal jobs he’s hired to do. Not only does he have to track down French classical author Cèline – who’s meant to be dead – but he also supposed to find the elusive Red Sparrow – which may or may not be real.

 

Pulp is Charles Bukowski’s brilliant, fantastical pastiche of a detective story.
 

Packed with wit, invention and Bukowski’s trademark lowlife adventures, it is the final novel by one of the most enjoyable and influential cult writers of the last century.

Born on this day – Isabel Jeans:

Isabel Jeans

Actress

September 16, 1891 – September 4, 1985

Credits:

A Breath of Scandal (1960); Alan Melville Takes You from A-Z (1959); Banana Ridge (1942); BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1953–1955); Breakdowns of 1938 (1938); Clouds of Witness (1972); Downhill (1927); Easy Virtue (1927); Elizabeth of Ladymead (1948); Fools for Scandal (1938); Further Adventures of a Flag Officer (1927); Garden of the Moon (1938); Gigi (1958); Good Girls Go to Paris (1939); Great Day (1945); Hard to Get (1938); Heavens Above! (1963); It Happened in Rome (1957); ITV Television Playhouse (1961); Loves of a Dictator (1935); Man About Town (1939); Modern Love (2006); Playhouse 90 (1959); Power Over Men (1929); Rolling in Money (1934); Romance and Reality (1921); Sally Bishop (1932); Secrets of an Actress (1938); Seven Deadly Sins (1966); Suspicion (1941); The Crouching Beast (1935); The Magic Christian (1969); The Profligate (1917); The Rat (1925); The Return of the Rat (1929); The Third Man (1959); The Triumph of the Rat (1926); Tilly of Bloomsbury (1921); True Fear: The Making of Psycho (2015); Victoria Regina (1961); Windsor Castle (1926); Words and Music (1959); Youth Takes a Fling (1938).

Born on this day – Lawrence Dobkin:

Lawrence Dobkin

Director

Actor

Writer

September 16, 1919 – October 28, 2002