On this day in music history:

Visions of Love: Mozart Arias by Renée Fleming & Charles Mackerras (1996)

Guilty Pleasures by Renée Fleming & Sebastian Lang-Lessing (2013)

Visions of Love: Mozart Arias

Album by Renée Fleming and Charles Mackerras,

released September 17, 1996.

Track list: Le nozze di Figaro: Giunse alfin il momento...Deh, vieni; Don Giovanni: In quali eccessi...Mi tradi; Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail: Ach, ich liebte, war so glucklich; Il re pastore: L’amero, saro costante - Renee Fleming/Krista Bennion Feeney; Die Zauberflote: Ach, ich fuhl’s, es ist verschwunden; La finta giardiniera: Geme la Tortorella; La finta giardiniera: Crudeli, fermate, crudeli, oh Dio! fermate-; La finta giardiniera: Ah, dal pianto, dal singhiozzo; Zaide: Ruhe sanft; Il sogno di Scipione: Lieve son al par del vento; Le nozze di Figaro: Giunse alfin il momento...Al desio; Con aria, K383: Nehmt meinen Dank.

Guilty Pleasures

Album by Renée Fleming and Sebastian Lang-Lessing,

released September 17, 2013.

Track list: Berlioz: Les nuits d’été, Op. 7: 1. Villanelle; Duparc: Phidylé; Refice: Ombra di nube; Falla: Siete canciones populares españolas: 5. Nana; Falla: Siete canciones populares españolas: 6. Canción; Tchaikovsky: Undina: Undina’s Aria; Rachmaninoff: Sumerki (Twilight), Op. 21, No. 3; Delibes: Les Filles de Cadix; Delibes: Lakmé / Act 1: “Sous le dôme épais” (Flower Duet); Canteloube: Chants d’Auvergne: 7. La Delaissado; Canteloube: Chants d’Auvergne: 13. Malurous qu’o uno Fenno; Dvořák: Armida: “Za Štíhlou Gazelou”; Smetana: The Kiss (Hubicka) - Opera in 2 Acts: Lullaby; J. Strauss II: Walzer aus Wien: “Frag mich oft”; Wagner: Wesendonck Lieder, WWV 91: V. Träume; Corigliano: The Ghosts of Versailles / Act II: “Once There Was A Golden Bird”; Traditional: “O Danny Boy”.

On this day in television history - Everybody Loves Raymond (1996 - 2005):

Everybody Loves Raymond

was released on September 13, 1996,

and ran for nine seasons until May 16, 2005.

Cast:

Ray Romano, Patricia Heaton, Brad Garrett, Doris Roberts, Peter Boyle, Monica Horan, Madylin Sweeten, Sawyer Sweeten, Sullivan Sweeten, Katherine Helmond, Philip Rosenthal, Robert Culp, Chris Elliott, Fred Willard, Kevin James, Fred Stoller, Jon Manfrellotti, Amy Aquino, Andy Kindler, Bob Odenkirk, Tom McGowan, Skyler Gisondo, Charles Durning, Julie Hagerty, Len Lesser, Victor Raider-Wexler, Dave Mallow, Sarah Rush, Alex Meneses, Sherri Shepherd, Tina Arning, Stephanie Courtney, Sam Anderson.

On this day in music history - A Woman and a Man, by Belinda Carlisle (1996):

A Woman and a Man

Album by Belinda Carlisle,
released September 11, 1996.

Track list:

In Too Deep; California; A Woman And A Man; Remember September; Listen To Love; Always Breaking My Heart; Love Doesn’t Live Here; He Goes On; Kneel At Your Feet; Love In The Key Of C; My Heart Goes Out To You.

On this day in the Star Trek universe:

Star Trek (1966)
Star Trek: Voyager (1995 & 1996)

Star Trek

Season 1. Pilot episode.

Episode entitled: The Cage.

Released at the Cleveland, Ohio, World Science Fiction Convention on September 4, 1966.

Directed by Robert Butler.

Written by Gene Roddenberry.

Created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Alexander Courage.

Cast: Jeffrey Hunter, Susan Oliver, Leonard Nimoy, Majel Barrett / M. Leigh Hudec, John Hoyt, Peter Duryea, Laurel Goodwin, John Burnside, Carol Daniels, Michael Dugan, Joe Evans, Sandra Lee Gimpel, Clegg Hoyt, Anthony Jochim, Bob Johnson, Jon Lormer, Ed Madden, William McCarter, Joseph Mell, Leonard Mudie, William H. O'Brien, Robert Phillips, Janos Prohaska, Adam Roarke, Gene Roddenberry, Serena Sande, Rube Schaffer, Georgia Schmidt, Felix Silla, Malachi Throne, Meg Wyllie.

Star Trek: Voyager

Season 2. Episode 2.

Episode entitled: Initiations.

Released September 4, 1995.

Directed by Winrich Kolbe.

Created by Rick Berman, Michael Piller, Jeri Taylor.

Written by Kenneth Biller, Lisa Klink.

Based on Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Dennis McCarthy.

Cast: Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Biggs-Dawson, Jennifer Lien, Robert Duncan McNeill, Ethan Phillips, Robert Picardo, Tim Russ, Garrett Wang, Aron Eisenberg, Patrick Kilpatrick, Tim de Zarn, Majel Barrett, Tarik Ergin, Heather Ferguson, Norman Alexander Gibbs, Julie Jiang, Jordan Monheim, Louis Ortiz, Rob Plaza, Daunette Saunders, Jeff Witzke.

Star Trek: Voyager

Season 3. Episode 1.

Episode entitled: Basics, Part II.

Released September 4, 1996.

Directed by Winrich Kolbe.

Created by Rick Berman, Michael Piller, Jeri Taylor.

Written by Michael Piller, Lisa Klink.

Based on Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Dennis McCarthy.

Cast: Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Biggs-Dawson, Jennifer Lien, Robert Duncan McNeill, Ethan Phillips, Robert Picardo, Tim Russ, Garrett Wang, Brad Dourif, Anthony De Longis, Martha Hackett, Nancy Hower, Simon Billig, Scott Haven, David Cowgill, Michael Bailey Smith, John K. Shull, Russ Fega, Majel Barrett, Tarik Ergin, Heather Ferguson, Jennifer Gundy, Susan Henley, Kerry Hoyt, Donald R. Jankiewicz, Pat Jankiewicz, Emily Leibovitch, Susan Lewis, Dennis Madalone, Linda L.C. Madalone, Mark Major, Lorin McCraley, Tom Morga, Louis Ortiz, Shepard Ross, Charles Spector, John Alex Tampoya.

Recommended reading - The Mammoth Book of Pulp Fiction (1996):

The Mammoth Book of Pulp Fiction

Hardboiled writing from Dashiell Hammett, Donald E. Westlake, Mickey Spillane, John D. MacDonald, Jim Thompson and many more…

Edited by Maxim Jakubowski.

Mammoth Books.

Published 1996.

ISBN-10: 0786703008

ISBN-13: 978-0786703005

Back cover description:

Fast action and wild, wild pleasure: a massive collection of seven decades of pure, unadulterated pulp fiction.

The paper may have yellowed and crumbled away but the stories and a thousand thrills still hit the spot. Join the shady operators, voluptuous molls, ruthless big shots, crooked and sometimes honest cops on a rollercoaster ride through the mean streets of popular literature in the company of such superlative writers as: Dashiell Hammett, Donald E. Westlake, Ross Macdonald, Charles Willeford, David Goodis, Frederic Brown, Robert Bloch, Karlan Ellison, John D. MacDonald, Jim Thompson, William P. McGivern, Lawrence Block, Bill Pronzini, Mickey Spillane.

And twenty other leading lights of the hardboiled school of writing, as the action moves back from the silver screen to the pages where it all began, Just watch out for open windows and flying bullets!

Contents:

Acknowledgements; Introduction; Too Many Have Lived, by Dashiell Hammett; Flight to Nowhere, by Charles Williams; Black, by Paul Cain; Finders Killers! by John D. MacDonald; Murder’s Mandate, by W. T. Ballard; Cigarette Girl, by James M. Cain; The Getaway, by Gil Brewer; Preview of Murder, by Robert Leslie Bellem; Forever After, by Jim Thompson; The Bloody Tide, by Day Keene; Death Comes Gift-Wrapped, by William P. McGivern; The Girl Behind the Hedge, by Mickey Spillane; Enter Scarface, by Armitage Trail; A Candle for the Bag Lady, by Lawrence Block; Black Pudding, by David Goodis; A Matter of Principal, by Max Allan Collins; Citizen’s Arrest, by Charles Willeford; Sleeping Dog, by Ross Macdonald; The Wench is Dead, by Fredric Brown; So Dark for April, by Howard Browne; We Are All Dead, by Bruno Fischer; Death is a Vampire, by Robert Bloch; Divide and Conquer, by Jack Ritchie; A Real Nice Guy, by William F. Nolan; Stacked Deck, by Bill Pronzini; So Young, So Fair, So Dead, by John Lutz; Effective Medicine, by B. Traven; Killing Bernstein, by Harlan Ellison; The Second Coming, by Joe Gores; Hibiscus and Homicide, by William Campbell Gault; Hell on Wheels, by Thomas S. Roche; Ordo, by Donald E. Westlake.

On this day in movie history - The Frighteners (1996 movie & novel):

The Frighteners

directed by Peter Jackson,

written by Fran Walsh and Peter Jackson,

was released in the United States on July 19, 1996.
Music by Danny Elfman.

Cast:

Michael J. Fox, Trini Alvarado, Peter Dobson, John Astin, Jeffrey Combs, Dee Wallace Stone, Jake Busey, Chi McBride, Jim Fyfe, Troy Evans, Julianna McCarthy, R. Lee Ermey, Elizabeth Hawthorne, Angela Bloomfield, Desmond Kelly, Jonathan Blick, Todd Rippon, John Sumner, Michael Robinson, Jim McLarty, Anthony Ray Parker, Paul Yates, Melanie Lynskey, John Leigh, Nicola Cliff, Ken Blackburn, Stuart Devenie, Genevieve Westcott, K.C. Kelly, Leslie Wing, Leslie Klein, Frank Edwards, Alan O’Leary, Danny Lineham, Charlie McClellan, William Pomeroy, George Port, Billy Jackson, Sophie Watkins, Taea Hartwell, Max Grover, George Grover, Tony Hopkins, Lewis Martin, Clay Nelson, Matthew Chamberlain, Vivienne Kaplan, Liz Mullane, Matt Aitken, Grae Burton, Michael Elsworth, Nic Farra, Peter Jackson, Rhys Jordan, Paul Kingdom, Isaac Lucas, Michael Maxwell, Bryce McCawe, Nicolas Pegg, April Phillips, Tracey Savage, Jeff Slaven, Clinton Ulyatt, Fran Walsh.

Recommended reading:

The Frighteners

By Michael Jahn.

Published by Boulevard Book.

Published 1996.

Movie tie-in.

ISBN-10: 0157297187

ISBN-13: 9780157297188

Description:

When a serial killer reaches out from beyond the grave and, in the guise of the Grim Reaper, embarks on a New England killing spree, it is up to a hapless young man with special powers, aided by some friendly earthbound spirits, to stop him.

On this day in movie history - Escape Clause (1996):

Escape Clause

directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith,

written by Danilo Bach,

was released in the United States on July 14, 1996.

Music by Richard Marvin and Ken Thorne.

Cast:

Andrew McCarthy, Paul Sorvino, Connie Britton, Kate McNeil, Stan Egi, Kenneth Welsh, John Evans, Peter Donaldson, Victor A. Young, Sean Dick, Dawn Greenhalgh, Chantel Dick, Lupe Arenas, Tara Rosling, Peter Langley, Claire Rankin, Yanira Contreras, Stephen Bogaert, Roger Honeywell, Ron Hartmann, Bob Clout, Robbie Rox, Gord Mackenzie, Phillip Jarrett, Scott Wickware, John Boylan, Shawn Lawrence, Chuck Shamata, Laura Catalano, Carol Chwaiewsky, Tricia Brioux, Garnet Harding, Djanet Sears, Stephanie Roth Haberle, Linda Goranson, Julie Evans.

On this day in music history:

Walk in the Sun by Sue Foley (1996)

Sacred Alliance by Anima (2015)

Walk in the Sun

Album by Sue Foley,

released July 9, 1996.

Track list: Try to Understand; Give It to Me; Walk in the Sun; The Snake; Wayward Girl; The Wind; Lover’s Call; Better; Train to Memphis; Love Sick Child; Long Distance Lover.

Sacred Alliance

Album by Anima,

released July 9, 2015.

Track list: Great Mother’s Dominion; Surrender; Sewa; Sacred Lands; Offering; Camino De Pedro; Gonawindua; Kogi Transmission; Ancestral Fathers of the Stars.

On this day in movie history - Stanley Kubrick: The Invisible Man (1996):

Stanley Kubrick: The Invisible Man

documentary directed and written by Paul Joyce,

was released in the United Kingdom on June 20, 1996.

Cast:

Ken Adam, Garrett Brown, Arthur C. Clarke, Shelley Duvall, R. Lee Ermey, James B. Harris, Michael Herr, Diane Johnson, Stanley Kubrick, Malcolm McDowell, Matthew Modine, Jonathan Pryce, Leonard Rosenman, Kate Sheldon, Bryan Singer, David Thomson.

On this day in music history:

The Spell by Kevin Braheny & Tim Clark (1996)

Confluence by Nancy Rumbel, David Michael, & Benjy Wertheimer (2019)

The Spell

Album by Kevin Braheny and Tim Clark,

released May 21, 1996.

Track list: The Magician; A Perfect Evening For Flying Carpets; Time In The Mirror (Transporter Version); Palace Of Dreams; The Spell; Merlin’s Last Voyage; The Sail Of Argo Navis; Sorceror’s Parade.

Confluence

Album by Nancy Rumbel, David Michael, & Benjy Wertheimer,

released May 21, 2019.

Track list: Confluence; Mirage; Daybreak; Incantation; Sea Star; Silver and Gold; Elixir; Falling Leaves; Saraswati’s Grace; Taking Wing; Bobo’s Farewell; Kim’s Tango.

On this day in movie history - Moonshine Highway (1996):

Moonshine Highway

directed and written by Andy Armstrong,

was released in the United States on May 5, 1996.
Music by Steve Dorff.

Cast:

Kyle MacLachlan, Randy Quaid, Maria del Mar, Alex Carter, Gary Farmer, Jeremy Ratchford, Leslie Carlson, Dennis Fitzgerald, Raliegh Wilson, Michael Copeman, Jody Racicot, Rick Roberts, Lori Hallier, Eleanor Joy Lind, Dick Callahan, Doug Lennox, David Cronenberg, Beau Starr, Andy Armstrong, Stuart Hughes, J. Winston Carroll, Todd Schroeder, Mike Lee, Jason Deline.

On this day in movie history - Mulholland Falls (1996):

Mulholland Falls

directed by Lee Tamahori,

written by Pete Dexter,

based on a story by Pete Dexter and Floyd Mutrux,

was released in the United States on April 26, 1996.
Music by Dave Grusin.

Cast:

Nick Nolte, Melanie Griffith, Chazz Palminteri, Michael Madsen, Chris Penn, Treat Williams, Jennifer Connelly, Daniel Baldwin, Andrew McCarthy, John Malkovich, Kyle Chandler, Ed Lauter, Larry Garrison, Chelsea Harrington, Johnna Johnson, Rick Johnson, Britt Burr, Melinda Clarke, Ernie Lively, Richard Sylbert, Michael Krawic, Titus Welliver, Robert Peters, William M. Thigpen, Drew Pillsbury, Brad Hunt, Aaron Neville, Buddy Joe Hooker, Eddie Caicedo, Price Carson, Azalea Davila, Suzanne Solari, Alisa Christensen, Bruce Dern, Louise Fletcher, Khris Kaneff, Sharmagne Leland-St. John, Rob Lowe, Johnny Martin, William Petersen, Lisa Rhyne, Randall Rutledge, Christopher Warner.

Star Trek: Voyager (1996)

These Are The Voyages / book (2013)

Star Trek: Voyager

Season 2. Episode 22.

Episode entitled: Innocence.

Released April 8, 1996.

Directed by James L. Conway.

Created by Rick Berman, Michael Piller, Jeri Taylor.

Written by Lisa Klink, Anthony Williams.

Based on Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Jay Chattaway.

Cast: Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Biggs-Dawson, Jennifer Lien, Robert Duncan McNeill, Ethan Phillips, Robert Picardo, Tim Russ, Garrett Wang, Marnie McPhail, Tiffany Taubman, Sarah Rayne, Tahj Mowry, Richard Garon, Patrick Barnitt, Minh Collins, Tarik Ergin, Kerry Hoyt, Louis Ortiz, Gordon Simmons, Ian Spelling, Simon Stotler, Scott Strozier.

These Are The Voyages

By Marc Cushman & Susan Osborn.

The Original Series, Season One.

These Are The Voyages series.

Published by Jacobs Brown Press.

Expanded, Revised edition.

Published 2013.

Paperback.

ISBN-10: 0989238121

ISBN-13: 978-0989238120

Description:

"The level of research is astounding ... an incredible job ... The reviews are wonderful and well deserved." – Leonard Nimoy.

"The definitive look at the original series hadn't been written - until now. An exhaustive, episode-by-episode history." – Jeff Bond, Geek Magazine.

"The best book ever written on Star Trek!" – Scott Mantz, Access Hollywood.

"Trek fans will die and get beamed up to heaven!" – Billy Heller, New York Post.

"Everything there is to know about TOS Season One. A great read! I guarantee it!" – Walter Koenig.

In the 1980s Gene Roddenberry and Robert H. Justman gave Marc Cushman permission to write the definitive history of the first Star Trek. They backed their stamp of approval by providing documentation never before shared with the public. These are the Voyages, published in three volumes - one designated for each season of TOS - will take you back in time and put you into the producers' offices, the writers' room, onto the soundstages, and in front of your TV sets for the first historic broadcasts. Included are hundreds of memos between Roddenberry and his staff, production schedules, budgets, fan letters, behind-the-scenes images, and the TV ratings, documenting the making of each episode of the "Classic 79" in staggering detail. Buckle your seat belts, the trek of a lifetime begins here.