by Tim | May 22, 2025 | Inspiration, Music, Opera, Theatre, Writing
On May 22, 1813, Richard Wagner was born in Leipzig, Germany. He would go on to become one of the most influential and controversial figures in the history of Western music. Wagner’s operas and musical theories revolutionized the art form, pushing boundaries in...
by Tim | May 21, 2025 | Music, Opera, Theatre, Writing
Ferruccio Busoni’s opera Doktor Faust, left unfinished at his death in 1924, had its posthumous premiere on May 21, 1925, in Dresden. Busoni, an Italian composer, pianist, and visionary musical thinker, was fascinated by themes of ambition, knowledge, and the...
by Tim | May 20, 2025 | Film, Technology, Theatre, Writing
The creation of the Kinetoscope was largely the work of William Kennedy Laurie Dickson, a brilliant Scottish inventor who joined Thomas Edison’s laboratory in 1883. Although Edison conceptualized the idea of a device that could “do for the eye what the...
by Tim | May 7, 2025 | Music, Theatre, Writing
On May 7, 1840, in Votkinsk, Russia, the world welcomed a composer whose emotionally rich and melodically powerful music would shape classical music for generations: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. He was born into a middle-class family, the second of six surviving...
by Tim | May 5, 2025 | Acting, Music, Theatre, Writing
On May 5, 1955, the musical Damn Yankees opened at New York City’s 46th Street Theatre. The production ran for an impressive 1,022 performances and won seven Tony Awards, including Best Musical. With music and lyrics by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross, choreography...
by Tim | May 1, 2025 | Acting, Film, Theatre, Writing
Imagine crafting a phrase so powerful it enters everyday language. Joseph Heller did just that with Catch-22—a term now synonymous with absurd, circular logic and no-win situations. Born in Brooklyn in 1923 to empoverished Russian-Jewish immigrants, Heller’s early...
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