Music for a Time of War is a 2011 Oregon Symphony concert recording of
four compositions: Charles Ives' The Unanswered Question (1906), John
Adams' The Wound-Dresser (1989), Benjamin Britten's Sinfonia da Requiem
(1940) and Ralph Vaughan Williams' Symphony No. 4 (1935). The program
was performed on May 7 and May 8 under the artistic direction of Carlos
Kalmar at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall (pictured) in Portland,
Oregon, and again on May 12 at Carnegie Hall. A concert album, the
orchestra's first in eight years, was released five months later on CD
by Dutch record label PentaTone Classics. The live performances and
album received favorable reviews; the recording debuted at number 31 on
Billboard's Classical Albums chart, and made several lists of the best
classical recordings of 2011. The album earned two nominations from the
National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences for the 2013 Grammy
Awards, and producer Blanton Alspaugh received the Grammy for Producer
of the Year, Classical, for his contributions to this and other
recordings.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_for_a_Time_of_War>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1842:
A train derailed and caught fire in Paris, killing between 52
and 200 people.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Versailles_rail_accident>
1886:
In Atlanta, American pharmacist John Pemberton first sold his
carbonated beverage Coca-Cola (glass pictured) as a patent medicine,
claiming that it cured a number of diseases.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca-Cola>
1924:
Lithuania signed the Klaipėda Convention with the nations of
the Conference of Ambassadors, taking the Klaipėda Region (German:
Memelland) from East Prussia and making it into an autonomous region
under unconditional sovereignty of Lithuania.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaip%C4%97da_Convention>
1945:
A parade to celebrate the end of World War II turned into a
riot, followed by widespread disturbances and killings in and around
Sétif, French Algeria.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A9tif_and_Guelma_massacre>
1972:
Four members of Black September hijacked Sabena Flight 571 to
demand the release of 315 convicted Palestinian terrorists.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabena_Flight_571>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
quail:
1. (intransitive) To waste away; to fade, wither.
2. (transitive, now rare) To frighten, daunt (someone).
3. (intransitive) To lose heart or courage; to be daunted, fearful.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/quail>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there
would be no more wars.
--E. M. Forster
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/E._M._Forster>