09Sep09

It was an opening appearance of the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra, with Stowoski at his most majestic. The music was crashing and thunderous, when suddenly there fell an adrupt and complete silence, beginning a brief but absolute rest in the music.
Out of the stilly night there came a high-pitched feminine voice, full of reproach. "But," it said, "I always fry mine in lard."

1901, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec dies.

1941, Beginning of the Leningrad siege, an important strategy for Wehrmacht

1949, Richard Strauss dies.

1951, Michael Keaton is born.

1960, Hugh Grant is born.

1965 Arthur Ashe Jr. wins the first US Open Tennis Championship.

Quote for the day:
You can't keep a good golfer downtown.