The February 25th 1986 #PeoplePower in the #Philippines was the first successful non-violent 'People Power' revolution in the modern era, which became an inspiration for many starting with the 1987 South Korean uprising.
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Richard Strauss - 5 Lieder, Op. 48
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, baritone &
Gerald Moore, piano
EMI 1969
Oh this is nice!
"Journey through the Computer History Museum's vast collection of archival materials, objects, and oral histories and learn about the visionaries, innovations, and untold stories that revolutionized our digital world."
People have strange heroic ideas about the Viking Period. The reason is that they specifically read *heroic* literature, much of it written as historical semi-fiction hundreds of years later. It's like basing your ideas about the 1100s on Walter Scott.
Viking Period archaeology in Scandinavia is deeply unheroic. It concerns itself overwhelmingly with the non-Viking activities of farmers.
Most runestones deal with modest land inheritance.
New Wikipedia article on the 1971 Fifth Street Women's Building Takeover ✅
At midnight on January 1, 1971, over 100 women occupied 330 East Fifth Street, a derelict building in Manhattan that had previously been a welfare office. A coalition of 40 feminist groups had asked city officials if they could start a women's center in an abandoned government property. When it became clear the city wasn't interested in giving women the resources they needed, they decided to make them.
They occupied the building for 13 days, establishing a food co-op, daycare, medical clinic, and lesbian center. Women gave and received practical demonstrations in carpentry, plumbing, first aid, karate, and art. The group operated non-hierarchically, with women rotating shifts as guards, facilitators, and coordinators.
City officials were initially open to negotiating with the feminists, but abruptly changed course after the organizers refused to give the welfare office information about women who came to Fifth Street to receive services. The police shut down the women's building a few days later. 24 women were arrested, but most of their charges were dropped because they turned their backs to cameras and came to court wearing makeup, high heels, and coiffed hair. The police didn't recognize their alleged attackers. 330 East Fifth Street was demolished and turned into a police parking lot. (Truly you cannot make this shit up.)
#Wikipedia #Feminism #History #WomensHistory
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_Street_Women%27s_Building_Takeover?wprov=sfla1
An article from last year that celebrates the 40th anniversary of ".com".
"Four decades ago, the first domain was registered and the initial batch of top-level domains came to be. Nearly a billion domains have been registered since then."
https://www.dotcom.press/history-of-domains
So it was only yesterday when I learned that some of the spiritual and work songs sung by Black slaves here in the US were used to communicate messages and directions on how to escape.
"Harriet Tubman; a significant American Abolitionist who saved many enslaved Africans from slavery through the Underground Railroad used songs such as “Go Down Moses," to indicate safety and “Wade in the Water” to signal escapees to get in the water to hide their scent."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songs_of_the_Underground_Railroad
#TIL #history #BlackHistory #UndergroundRailroad #slavery #music #songs
Fuente del Ángel Caído, fountain in Madrid.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuente_del_%C3%81ngel_Ca%C3%ADdo
#art #history: i need to tell you about hazel scott, who was born #otd in 1920. not only could she play two steinways simultaneously, but check out her perfect eyeliner flick.
this trinidadian dynamo really should be on your radar. hazel was committed to civil rights & even had her own telly programme, 'the hazel scott show'. it was axed when she appeared before the house un-american activities committee because she'd been a vocal opponent of mccarthyism & of racial segregation.
#hazelScott
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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Scheherazade, Op. 35
Samuel Thaviu , Solo violin
William Steinberg, Conductor
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
Recorded January 11, 1955
I think i need a new #introduction , mostly because i want to.
Heyho, i'm Urban from #tyrol and I've
- played Bass in my old band and still making sound
(https://reaperscall.bandcamp.com/track/from-the-void)
- made a short film a long time ago called "Endstation"
(https://youtu.be/0hfm5e_BNxE)
- wrote some short stories and made one issue of a zine
- made a blog
- been struggling with Depression probably my whole life, so that stopped me from making more
So, what else?
Also a father who likes #metal and #music in general, #cooking, #baking, #history, #gaming and #hiking.
I follow people who i find interesting and If you want to follow me, be my guest.
Be nice to each other
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Arrigo Boito "Mefistofele"
Lyric Opera of Chicago
8th October 1965, Chicago
Mefistofele: Nicolai Ghiaurov
Faust: Alfredo Kraus
Margherita: Renata Tebaldi
Elena: Elena Souliotis
Martha: Mary McKenzie
Wagner: Piero De Palma
Pantalis: Margaret Roggero
Nereo: Herbert Krauss
Chorus and Orchestra of the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Chicago
Conductor.............Nino Sanzogno
49 years ago
The first all-female punk rock group The Slits made their live debut, opening for The Clash at the Harlesden Coloseum (often cited as the Roxy Club) London, March 10 & 11, 1977
Buzzcocks and Subway Sect were also on the bill
📸 Ian Dickson
#punks #punkrock #theslits #history #punkrockhistory
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Giuseppe Verdi "Un Ballo in Maschera"
Wiener Staatsoper
16th December 1976, Vienna
Gustaf III: Carlo Bergonzi
Amelia: Montserrat Caballe
Rene Ankarstrom: Kostas Paskalis
Ulrica: Eva Randova
Oscar: Edita Gruberova
Samuel/Graf Horn/Hastings: Alfred Sramek
Tom/Graft Warting/Berkley: Peter Wimberger
...
Chorus and ORchestra of the Wiener Staatsoper, Vienna
Conductor............Alfredo Silipigni
A once-grand synagogue, converted into a swimming pool. Now abandoned and decaying. Somewhere in Poland.
Built at the start of the 20th century, this Polish synagogue was stripped and desecrated by Nazi forces, who converted it into a swimming pool for soldiers.
It remained a community pool for 50 years post-war. Now privately owned and hollowed out by a 2023 fire, the building stands as a sad ruin.
#Poland #History #Holocaust #AbandonedPlaces #Urbex #UrbanExploration #Ruins #LostPlace
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The very first website is 35 years old today, and you can still visit it at http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html!
"On August 6, 1991, the first website was introduced to the world. [It] contained information about the World Wide Web Project. It launched at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, CERN, where it was created by British computer scientist @timbl."
Happy birthday, web!
#art #history: if most of the people born into privilege were like nancy cunard (born #otd in 1896), maybe we wouldn't have such an itchy collective guillotine finger. this fashionable fash-basher & anti-racism campaigner (& heir to the cunard shipping line) was a writer who became a muse to man ray, james joyce & langston hughes.
when she wasn't busy being effortlessly avant-garde, nancy worked as a translator for the french resistance.
#nancyCunard #antiFascist #antiRacist #poetry
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Giacomo Puccini "La Boheme"
Metropolitan Opera House
12th April 1969, New York
Mimi: Renata Tebaldi
Rodolfo: Franco Corelli
Musetta: Clarice Carson
Marcello: Mario Sereni
Schaunard: Russell Christopher
Colline: Bonaldo Giaiotti
Benoît: Paul Plishka
Alcindoro: Lorenzo Alvary
...
Chorus and Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera House, New York
Conductor - Kurt Adle
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Hans Pfitzner - "Palestrina"
Karl Ridderbusch
Bernd Weikl
Heribert Steinbach
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Victor von Halem
John von Kesteren
Peter Meven
Hermann Prey
Nicolai Gedda
Helen Donath
Brigitte Fassbaender
...
Tölzer Knabenchor
Chor und Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Rafael Kubelik
(1973)
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Giovanni Paisiello - "Nina, o sia la Pazza per amore"
Jeanne Marie Bima - Nina, amante di Lindoro
Gloria Banditelli - Susanna, governante di Nina
William Matteuzzi - Lindoro, amante di Nina/Un Pastore
Natale De Carolis - Conte, padre di Nina
Alfonso Antoniozzi - Giorgio, balio del Conto
Hungarian Chamber Chorus (Gabór Oláh: Chorus Master)
Concentus Hungaricus
Hans Ludwig Hirsch
(1992)
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Georges Bizet - "Carmen"
Teresa Berganza .......... Carmen, a gypsy
Plácido Domingo .......... Don José, a corporal
Sherrill Milnes .......... Escamillo, a bullfighter
Ileana Cotrubas .......... Micaëla, a country girl
Yvonne Kenny .......... Frasquita, a gypsy
...
London Symphony Orchestra
Claudio Abbado
(1977)
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Jacques Offenbach "Les Contes d'Hoffmann"
Metropolitan Opera House
29th November 1973, New York
Hoffmann: Plácido Domingo
Olympia, Giulietta, Antonia, Stella: Joan Sutherland
Coppélius, Dapertutto, Miracle, Lindorf: Thomas Stewart
Nicklaus: Huguette Tourangeau
Spalanzani: Nico Castel
...
Chorus and Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera House, New York
Conductor........... Richard Bonynge
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Franz Liszt - Piano Sonata in B minor - Autograph Score
Claudio Arrau, piano
Studio Philips recording 1970
'i stood on a hill in jerusalem today, looking over the border, the arab-israeli border. there is really something frightening about it. there is something insane about it, something which breaks the heart.'
i love james baldwin - today & every day. he is so necessary.
#botd #art #history #literature #palestine #jamesBaldwin
(meanderings about james, below.)
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Giuseppe Verdi "Simon Boccanegra"
Theatre d'Avignon
20th February 1983, Avignon
Amelia: Ghena Dimitrova
Simon Boccanegra: Renato Bruson
Gabrielle: Beniamino Prior
Fiesco: Bonaldo Giaiotti
Paolo: Felice Schiavi
Chorus and Orchestra of the Theatre d'Avignon, Avignon
Conductor..........Alain Guingal