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Nick Bottom is an ass for love in Shakespeare's A Midsummer
Night's Dream, for which Felix Mendelssohn wrote incidental
music--including the famous "Wedding March"--in 1842. |
Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
G. E. Moore (1873; died October 24, 1958) English philosopher;
Principia Ethica; "The Refutation of Idealism"; "A Defence of Common Sense"; "A Proof of the External World"
Died on this day:
Felix Mendelssohn (1847; born February 3, 1809) German composer;
A Midsummer Night's Dream;
The Hebrides;
Songs Without Words; violin concerto
Wilfred Owen (1918; born March 18, 1893) English poet; "Dulce et Decorum est"; "Insensibility"; "Anthem for Doomed Youth"; "Futility"; and "Strange Meeting"
Gabriel Faure (1924; born May 12, 1845) French composer;
Pavane;
Requiem; songs "Après un Rêve," "Clair de Lune"
Michael Crichton (2008; born October 23, 1942) American author who wrote
The Andromeda Strain;
The Terminal Man;
Jurassic Park;
Rising Sun;
The Lost World
Bonus Classic:
Seneca the Younger (c. 4 BCE-65 CE) Roman Stoic philosopher;
Moral Essays;
Epistles;
Tragedies
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