Tuesday, September 26, 2023

On this day in music history - Mahler: Symphony No. 4; Berg: Sieben frühe Lieder, by Renée Fleming ... (2005):

The album Mahler: Symphony No. 4; Berg: Sieben frühe Lieder,
by Renée Fleming, Claudio Abbado and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra,
was released on September 26, 2005.

On this day in television history - Star Trek: Enterprise (2001 - 2005)


Star Trek: Enterprise,
created by Rick Berman and Brannon Braga,
was released in the United States on September 26, 2001,
and ran for four seasons until May 13, 2005.
Music by Dennis McCarthy, Jay Chattaway, Brian Tyler, John Frizzell, Mark McKenzie, David Bell, Velton Ray Bunch, Kevin Kiner, Paul Baillargeon.
Opening theme: Faith of the Heart by Russell Watson.
End theme: Archer's Theme by Dennis McCarthy.


Cast:
Scott Bakula, Jolene Blalock, John Billingsley, Dominic Keating, Anthony Montgomery, Linda Park, Connor Trinneer, Nathan Anderson, Vaughn Armstrong, Molly Brink, Joanna Cassidy, Jeffrey Combs, Steven Culp, Daniel Dae Kim, Jim Fitzpatrick, John Fleck, Gary Graham, James Horan, Ken Lally, Scott MacDonald, Ada Maris, Sean McGowan, Randy Oglesby, Eric Pierpoint, Michael Reilly Burke, Daniel Riordan, Tucker Smallwood, Kellie Waymire, Joseph Will, Derek Magyar, Matt Winston, Rick Worthy, Kara Zediker.

On this day in music history - Renée Fleming, by Renée Fleming and Charles Mackerras (2000):

The album Renée Fleming,
by Renée Fleming and Charles Mackerras,
was released on September 26, 2000.

On this day in movie history - The Room (2000):


The Room,
a ten-minute short directed by Rutger Hauer and Erik Lieshout,
written by Erik Lieshout,
based on a story by Harry Mulisch,
was released in the United States on September 26, 2000.
Music by Dyzack.


Cast:
Rutger Hauer, Mattijn Hartemink.

On this day in television history - Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987 - 1994):


Star Trek: The Next Generation,
created by Gene Roddenberry,
was released in the United States on September 26, 1987,
and ran for seven seasons until May 23, 1994.
Music by Alexander Courage and Jerry Goldsmith.


Cast:
Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Denise Crosby, Michael Dorn, Gates McFadden, Diana Muldaur, Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner, Wil Wheaton, John de Lancie, Whoopi Goldberg, Majel Barrett, Brian Bonsall, Rosalind Chao, Denise Crosby, John de Lancie, Jonathan Del Arco, Michelle Forbes, Whoopi Goldberg, Ashley Judd, Andreas Katsulas, Barbara March, Colm Meaney, Eric Menyuk, Lycia Naff, Natalia Nogulich, Robert O'Reilly, Suzie Plakson, Dwight Schultz, Carel Struycken, Tony Todd, Gwynyth Walsh, Patti Yasutake, Ken Thorley, Daniel Davis.

On this day in movie history - Union City (1980):


Union City,
directed and written by Mark Reichert,
based on the short story Union City: The Corpse Next Door by Cornell Woolrich,
was released in the United States on September 26, 1980.
Music by Chris Stein.


Cast:
Dennis Lipscomb, Debbie Harry, Terry Walsh, Cynthia Crisp, Taylor Mead, Sam McMurray, Charles Rydell, Sally MacLeod, Irina Maleeva, Everett McGill, Terina Lewis, Wolfgang Zilzer, Arthur McFarland, CCH Pounder, Asha Robinson, Todd Rolle, Rachel Raymon, Rene Raymon, Granada Stephens, Rahsaan Curry, Isha Gaddy, Tony Azito, Pat Benatar, Marie McGee, Katya Colman, Richard McGonagle, Bobby Fields, Mary Blake, Anthony Luizzi, Lenore Luizzi, Kathy Wahlin, Evan Mirand, Marcus Reichert.

Born on this day – Olivia Newton-John:


Olivia Newton-John

Singer

Writer

Actress

September 26, 1948 – August 8, 2022

Born on this day – Donna Douglas:


Donna Douglas

Actress

Singer

September 26, 1932 – January 1, 2015

Born on this day – Julie London:


Julie London

Actress

Singer

September 26, 1926 – October 18, 2000

Born on this day – Philip Bosco:


Philip Bosco

Actor

September 26, 1930 – December 3, 2018

Born on this day – Marty Robbins:


Marty Robbins

Singer

Songwriter

Actor

Instrumentalist

NASCAR racing driver

September 26, 1925 – December 8, 1982

Born on this day – Barbara Britton:


Barbara Britton

Actress

September 26, 1920 – January 17, 1980

Born on this day – T. S. Eliot:


T. S. Eliot

Writer

September 26, 1888 – January 4, 1965

Credits:

Prufrock and Other Observations (1917); Ara Vus Prec. (1919); The Waste Land (1922); Poems 1909-1925 (1925); Journey of the Magi (1927); A Song for Simeon (1928); Animula (1929); Selected Poems (1930); Ash Wednesday (1930); Marina (1930); Triumphal march (1931); Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939); East Coker (1941); The Dry Salvages (1941); T.S. Eliot's Little Gidding (1942); Four Quartets (1943); Burnt Norton (1943); Collected Poems of T. S. Eliot: 1909-1935 (1945); The Undergraduate Poems of T. S. Eliot (1948); The Complete Poems and Plays (1952); The Cultivation of Christmas Trees (1954); Collected Poems, 1909-1962 (1963); Poems Written In Early Youth (1967); The Poems of T. S. Eliot (2018); Eeldrop and Appleplex & Ezra Pound (1917); Sweeney Agonistes (1932); The Rock (1934); Murder in the Cathedral (1935); The Family Reunion (1939); The Cocktail Party (1949); The Confidential Clerk (1950); The Film of Murder in The Cathedral (1952); The Elder Statesman (1959); Collected Plays (1962); The Complete Plays of T. S. Eliot (2014); Ezra Pound (1918); The Sacred Wood and Major Early Essays (1920); Homage to John Dryden (1924); John Dryden (1924); Shakespeare and the Stoicism of Seneca (1927); For Lancelot Andrewes (1928); Dante (1929); Thoughts after Lambeth (1931); Charles Whibley: A Memoir (1931); Essays On Elizabethan Drama (1932); After Strange Gods (1934); Essays Ancient and Modern (1936); Christianity and Culture (1939); Idea of a Christian Society (1939); A Choice of Kipling's Verse (1941); Introducing James Joyce (1942); Reunion By Destruction (1943); What is a classic? (1945); Notes Towards a Definition of Culture (1948); Milton; Annual Lecture on a Master Mind (1948); From Poe to Valery (1948); The Aims of Poetic Drama (1949); Selected Essays (1950); Poetry and Drama (1951); An Address to Members of the London Library (1952); The Value and Use of Cathedrals in England To-Day (1952); American Literature and the American Language (1953); The Three Voices of Poetry (1954); Religious Drama: Mediaeval and Modern (1954); The Literature of Politics (1955); The Frontiers of Criticism (1956); On Poetry And Poets (1957); Geoffrey Faber, 1889-1961 (1961); George Herbert (1962); The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism (1964); To Criticize the Critic and Other Writings (1965); Elizabethan Essays (1969); The Classics And The Man Of Letters (1974); Knowledge and Experience in the Philosophy of F.H. Bradley (1989); The Letters of T.S. Eliot: Volume 1 (1988); The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 2 (2009); The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 3 (2012); The Letters of T. S. Eliot: Volume 4 (2013); The Letters of T. S. Eliot: Volume 5 (2014); The Letters of T. S. Eliot: Volume 6 (2016); Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 7 (2017); Letters of T. S. Eliot: Volume 8 (2019); The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 9 (2021); Identity And Self Respect (1952); Writers At Work: The Paris Review Interviews (1957); The Caedmon Treasury of Modern Poets Reading Their Own Poetry (1992); Watch for the Light: Readings for Advent and Christmas (2001); Writers: Their Lives and Works (2018).

Born on this day – George Gershwin:


George Gershwin

Composer

Pianist

September 26, 1898 – July 11, 1937

Born on this day – Gladys Brockwell:


Gladys Brockwell

Actress

September 26, 1894 – July 2, 1929

Born on this day – Johnny Appleseed:


Johnny Appleseed

Missionary

Gardener

September 26, 1774 – March 18, 1845

Born on this day – Saint Francis of Assisi:


Saint Francis of Assisi

September 26, 1181 – October 3, 1226