The Seduction of Ingmar Bergman is the 22nd album by the American rock group Sparks, released on August 14, 2009. The duo's first work in the radio musical or pop opera genre, the album is built around an imaginary visit to Hollywood by Swedish film director Ingmar Bergman in the mid- 1950s. Its storyline focuses on the divides between European and American culture, between art and commerce. Unlike other Sparks albums, the work is conceived as a single piece, to be listened to as a whole, rather than a collection of stand-alone songs. The work was commissioned by Sveriges Radio Radioteatern, the radio drama department of Sweden's national radio broadcaster. First released in the Swedish broadcast version in August 2009, with an English-language version following in November 2009, it features a cast of Swedish and American actors and a variety of musical styles ranging from opera to vaudeville and pop. The album's recording was a collaborative effort, with music and English vocals recorded by Sparks in the United States, and Swedish vocals recorded by Sveriges Radio in Stockholm.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1816:
The United Kingdom formally annexed the Tristan da Cunha archipelago, ruling it from the Cape Colony in South Africa. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tristan_da_Cunha
1901:
Gustave Whitehead allegedly made a successful powered flight of his Number 21 aircraft in Fairfield, Connecticut, US; if true, this predates the Wright brothers by two years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Whitehead
1941:
After a secret meeting off the Canadian coast, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and US President Franklin D. Roosevelt (both pictured) issued the Atlantic Charter, establishing a vision for a post- World War II world despite the fact that the United States had yet to enter the war. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Charter
1973:
The current Constitution of Pakistan came into effect. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_Pakistan
1996:
Greek Cypriot refugee Solomos Solomou was shot to death by Turkish forces while trying to remove a Turkish flag from a flagpole in the United Nations Buffer Zone in Cyprus. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomos_Solomou
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
jiffy: 1. (colloquial) A very short, unspecified length of time. 2. (computing) A unit of time defined by the frequency of its basic timer – historically, and by convention, 0.01 of a second, but some computer operating systems use other values. 3. (electronics) The length of an alternating current power cycle (1/60 or 1/50 of a second). 4. (physics) The time taken for light to travel a specified distance in a vacuum, usually one centimetre, but sometimes one foot or the width of a nucleon. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/jiffy
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O, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive! --Walter Scott https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Walter_Scott