Music History on February 20
Posted on August 29, 2024
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| Billy Koelling
February 20 Calendar Giulio Cesare in Egitto 1724 George Frideric Handel's opera "Giulio Cesare in Egitto" premieres at the King's Theatre in Haymarket, London
Barber of Seville 1816 Gioachino Rossini's comic opera "Barber of Seville" premieres at the Teatro Argentina in Rome, Italy
Symphony No. 4 1881 Conductor Hans Richter leads the Vienna Philharmonic in premiere of Anton Bruckner's "Symphony No. 4", in Vienna, Austria-Hungary
Lady Windermere's Fan 1892 Comedy "
[Read More]Music: James Taylor: One Man's Family of Rock
Posted on August 29, 2024
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| Patria Henriques
THE 1960s reverberated to rock. The walloping folk rock of Bob Dylan sang a striking counterpoint to the sweet-sour, sometimes thunderous eloquence of the Beatles at their best; the psychedelic star shells launched by the Jefferson Airplane soared over the Beelzebub beat and leer of the Rolling Stones. And now, suddenly, the ’70s have brought a startling change. Over the last year a far gentler variety of rock sound has begun to soothe the land.
[Read More]Music: New Flagstad? | TIME
Posted on August 29, 2024
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| Martina Birk
When Kirsten Flagstad in 1935 made her Metropolitan Opera debut in Wagner’s Die Walkuere, the audience cheered and the press groped for comparisons with “the irrecoverable magic” of Swedish-born Soprano Olive Fremstad.* Last week another Swedish Wagnerian soprano strode the Met’s stage, and this time the comparison was to the “incomparable” Flagstad herself. The debutante: 41-year-old Birgit Nilsson, whose appearance in a new production of Tristan und Isolde touched off the kind of debut furor the Met’s Wagnerians have not witnessed in a quarter-century.
[Read More]OIL: Hero of Spindletop - TIME
Posted on August 29, 2024
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| Billy Koelling
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"The Whole Honor." Ironically, much of this bypassed Pattillo Higgins. Even before the first Spindletop gusher blew in, he had been elbowed aside by Anthony Lucas. It was called the "Lucas well," not the Higgins well. Higgins had to sue to get his share from the Lucas well, finally settled for about $300,000. When he tried to form a new company in 1902, suspicious Beaumonters, wary of the sharpsters that had flocked in, were calling the whole operation "
[Read More]Pay Phone Booth History: Where Was the 1st Public Telephone?
Posted on August 29, 2024
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| Tandra Barner
Do you have a question about history? Send us your question at history@time . com and you might find your answer in a future edition of Now You Know.
These days, the history of the phone booth seems to be coming to an end, at least in American cities. Widespread use of mobile phones has made it less and less necessary to provide another way for people to make or take a call while out and about.
[Read More]Review: Britney Spears Memoir Details Complicated Life
Posted on August 29, 2024
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| Martina Birk
Britney Spears knows what it means to be deprived of adulthood. As told in her highly anticipated memoir, The Woman in Me, hers is a tale of rapid maturity followed by arrested development, freedom followed by imprisonment. In the book, Spears likens herself to Benjamin Button, a character who ages backward through time.
Thrust into the limelight at just 16 years old with the 1998 single “...Baby One More Time,” Spears quickly broke the sales record for songs by female artists.
[Read More]Scrapping Asylum Will Empower the Cartels
Posted on August 29, 2024
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| Tandra Barner
For Biden and the Democrats, everything—the president's foreign policy agenda, the prospect of a government shutdown, even holding onto the White House—seems to be riding on negotiations around border and asylum policy, spurred on by the unprecedented numbers of migrants and asylum arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border. Although immigration hawks have made noise about a border crisis for years—often, in a cynical bid to drum up votes—it’s undeniable that in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, irregular migration—primarily from crisis-stricken countries in Latin America and the Caribbean—has reached unprecedented, unmanageable proportions: in December, U.
[Read More]Streamers Put Commercials in Movies, Top Series Where Ads Were Once Forbidden
Posted on August 29, 2024
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| Tandra Barner
The television industry’s annual “upfront” is usually a place where advertisers get to preview new series and specials, not blockbuster movies, so NBC raised eyebrows Monday when one of the first previews it showed to an audience at Radio City Music Hall was of the coming Universal film “Wicked.
[Read More]The Best Game of Thrones Halloween Costumes
Posted on August 29, 2024
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| Kelle Repass
October 31, 2018 10:34 AM EDT
Forget goblins, ghouls and zombies—unless they’re ice zombies, that is. In the years since Game of Thrones premiered, Game of Thrones Halloween costumes have become one the holiday’s most popular looks.
Each year on October 31, droves of Game of Thrones fans don their best Westeros-inspired costumes to celebrate the spookiest day of the year. From Jon Snow to Daenerys Targaryen to Cersei Lannister, the beloved HBO series has supplied a plethora of iconic Halloween costumes for both men and women.
[Read More]The Boxing Match That Lasted 111 Rounds
Posted on August 29, 2024
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| Billy Koelling
September 7, 1892 — American world heavyweight boxing champion John L. Sullivan lost his title on this day – and it was mainly the fault of an English aristocrat.
Sullivan was a bare-knuckle fighter who had learned to scrap in the bars of Boston where he would declare that he “could lick any man in the house.” He became known as the “Boston Strong Boy”.
Then in 1882, he took on Paddy Ryan, the American world heavyweight champion, in Mississippi City.
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