martedì 26 maggio 2009
venerdì 1 maggio 2009
Interesting People in Gemini
DANNY ELFMAN
May 29, 1953
Amarillo, Texas
Best known for his work in collaboration with director Tim Burton, composer Danny Elfman created one of the most distinctive bodies of work in contemporary film music, bringing his talents to a dark fantasy world populated by superheroes, monsters and freaks. He was the son of novelist Blossom Elfman.
PRISCILLA LANE (Priscilla Mullican)
June 12, 1915 Indianola Iowa
April 4, 1995 Andover Massachusetts
5' 2½"
Priscilla Lane attended the Eagin School of Dramatic Arts in New York before she began touring with her sisters. She was a popular singer with her sisters and, after 5 years, she was signed to a Hollywood contract with Warner Brothers in 1937. Her first film was Varsity Show (1937) where she had the hard task of portraying a singer with the Fred Waring Band. Priscilla was to play the nice girl against the temperamental star played by her sister Rosemary Lane. She would team with her two sisters, Rosemary Lane and Lola Lane, to make a series of drama's beginning with the film Four Daughters (1938). In most of her films, all Priscilla had to do was to look attractive and give a good supporting performance. In Arsenic and Old Lace (1944), which was release 3 years after it was filmed, she would play the fiancee of Cary Grant. When Alfred Hitchcock was unable to get Barbara Stanwyck, he cast Priscilla in Saboteur (1942) where she was on the run with the hero. By that time, her movie career was almost finished and she would appear in just a couple of films over the next five years before retiring in 1948.
Col. Joseph A. Howard, USAF May 22 1942 her husband was also a Gemini
BASIL RATHBONE
June 13, 1852. Sherlock Holmes
SAUL BELLOW
June 10, 1915
He was an acclaimed Canadian-born American writer.
MOONDOG
was the pseudonym of Louis Thomas Hardin
May 26, 1916–September 8, 1999
a blind American composer, musician, cosmologist, poet, and inventor of several musical instruments. Although these achievements would have been considered extraordinary for any blind person, Moondog further removed himself from society through his decision to make his home on the streets of New York for approximately twenty of the thirty years he spent in the city. The public began to appreciate the extent of Moondog's talents only in the final decades of Moondog's life, primarily because of his stubborn refusal to wear anything other than his own home-made clothes,[citation needed] all based on his own interpretation of the Norse god Thor. Indeed, he was known for much of his life as 'The Viking of 6th Avenue"
May 29, 1953
Amarillo, Texas
Best known for his work in collaboration with director Tim Burton, composer Danny Elfman created one of the most distinctive bodies of work in contemporary film music, bringing his talents to a dark fantasy world populated by superheroes, monsters and freaks. He was the son of novelist Blossom Elfman.
PRISCILLA LANE (Priscilla Mullican)
June 12, 1915 Indianola Iowa
April 4, 1995 Andover Massachusetts
5' 2½"
Priscilla Lane attended the Eagin School of Dramatic Arts in New York before she began touring with her sisters. She was a popular singer with her sisters and, after 5 years, she was signed to a Hollywood contract with Warner Brothers in 1937. Her first film was Varsity Show (1937) where she had the hard task of portraying a singer with the Fred Waring Band. Priscilla was to play the nice girl against the temperamental star played by her sister Rosemary Lane. She would team with her two sisters, Rosemary Lane and Lola Lane, to make a series of drama's beginning with the film Four Daughters (1938). In most of her films, all Priscilla had to do was to look attractive and give a good supporting performance. In Arsenic and Old Lace (1944), which was release 3 years after it was filmed, she would play the fiancee of Cary Grant. When Alfred Hitchcock was unable to get Barbara Stanwyck, he cast Priscilla in Saboteur (1942) where she was on the run with the hero. By that time, her movie career was almost finished and she would appear in just a couple of films over the next five years before retiring in 1948.
Col. Joseph A. Howard, USAF May 22 1942 her husband was also a Gemini
BASIL RATHBONE
June 13, 1852. Sherlock Holmes
SAUL BELLOW
June 10, 1915
He was an acclaimed Canadian-born American writer.
MOONDOG
was the pseudonym of Louis Thomas Hardin
May 26, 1916–September 8, 1999
a blind American composer, musician, cosmologist, poet, and inventor of several musical instruments. Although these achievements would have been considered extraordinary for any blind person, Moondog further removed himself from society through his decision to make his home on the streets of New York for approximately twenty of the thirty years he spent in the city. The public began to appreciate the extent of Moondog's talents only in the final decades of Moondog's life, primarily because of his stubborn refusal to wear anything other than his own home-made clothes,[citation needed] all based on his own interpretation of the Norse god Thor. Indeed, he was known for much of his life as 'The Viking of 6th Avenue"
sabato 16 febbraio 2008
martedì 9 gennaio 2007
Classical Music Gemini's A-B
Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni 14 June 1671-Venice
Mikhael Glinka ! June 1804-Russia
Robert Schumann 8 June 1810-Austria
Robert Wagner 22 May 1813-
Charles Gounod 17 June 1818-Paris
Jacques Offenbach 21 June 1819-Cologne
Edvard Hagerup Grieg 15 June 1843-Norway
Sir Edward Elgar 2 June 1857-Worcester
Richard Strauss 11 June 1864-Munich
Carl Nielsen 9 June 1865-Denmark
Igor Stravinsky 17 June 1882-
Aram Ilyich Khachaturian 6 June 1903-Armenia
Gyogry Ligeti 28 May 1923-France
Haba Alois 21 June 1893-Czech
Frantisek Skroup 3 June 1801-Czech
Jan Vaclav Stamitz (Johann Wenzel) 19 June 1717-Czech
Romuald Twardowski 17 June 1930-Poland
Johann Georg Ahle 12 June 1651-Germany
Mehmet Aktug 30 May 1959-Turkey
Isaac Albèniz- 29 May 1860-Spain
Anatoly Alexandrov 25 May 1888-Russia
Franghiz Ali- Zadeh 28 May 1947-Baku
Birgitte Alsted 15 June 1942-Denmark
Louis Andriessen 6 June 1939- Netherlands
Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach 21 June 1732-Germany
Ernst Bacon 26 May 1898-USA
Livio Baldissera 17 June 1947-Venice
Alexandra Barkovskaya 25 May 1980-Belarus
Agustin Barrios Mangorè 23 May 1885-Paraguay
Robert Russell Bennett 15 June 1894-USA
Fred Jonny Berg 27 May 1973- Norway
Michael Berkeley 29 May 1948-England
Boris Berlin 27 May 1907-Russia
Charles Roland Berry 25 May 1957-Boston
Konrad Boehmer 24 May 1941- Berlin
William Bolcom 26 May 1938-USA
Willem Frederik Bon 15 June 1940-Netherlands
Anthony Bonello 15 June 1970-Malta
Antonio Maria Bononcini 18 June 1677- Italy
Francesco Antonio Bonporti 11 June 1672-Italy
Brenta Gaston 10 June 1902-Belgium
Emily Anna Bridges 29 May 1977-USA http://emilyannabridges.com/
Gregers Brinch 2 June 1964-Denmark
Colin Brumby 18 June 1933-Australia
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