On this day in music history - Hidden Sky, by Jami Sieber (2004):

Hidden Sky

Album by Jami Sieber,

Released October 5, 2004.

Track list:

Maenam; Out of the Mist; Homage; Sukhothai Rain; Red Moon; Common Music; In the Silence; Prayer 1; Hidden Sky; Mandlovu Mind; Arms of the Mother; Prayer 2; Hidden Sky.

On this day in music history - Handel Arias, by Renée Fleming and Harry Bicket (2004):

Handel Arias

Album by Renée Fleming and Harry Bicket,

released September 14, 2004.

Track list:

Oh sleep, why dost thou leave me?; Endless pleasure...; Scoglio d’immota fronte; Quando spieghi i tuoi tormenti; “Ombra mai fù”; “To fleeting pleasures make your court”; “Lascia ch’io pianga”; Dunque, I laci d’un volto, Ah! Crudel; Let The Bright Seraphim; “V’adoro, pupille”; Da tempeste il legno infranto; Ritorna, oh caro e dolce mio Tesoro; Sommo rettor del cielo, d’una torbida sorgente; Pensieri; Bel Piacere; Calm thou...Convey me to some peaceful shore.

On this day in movie history - Dead Birds (2004):

Dead Birds

directed by Alex Turner,

written by Simon Barrett,

was released at the Toronto International Film Festival in Canada on September 13, 2004.
Music by Peter C. Lopez.

Cast:

Henry Thomas, Patrick Fugit, Nicki Aycox, Michael Shannon, Muse Watson, Mark Boone Junior, Isaiah Washington, Harris Mann, Melanie Abramoff, Donna Biscoe, Brian Bremer, Russell Durham Comegys, David Dwyer, Michael Faella, Steve Green, Douglas M. Griffin, Drew Hall, Evan Hipps, Sydney Jones, Terry Jones, Danny Kamin, Mikal Kartvedt, Ted Manson, Ken McGhee, Michael Purnell, Sam Rhymes, Bret Roberts, Terrie Thompson, Sam Breslin Wright, Allan B. Holt, Robbie (the dog).

Recommended reading - The Longman Anthology of Detective Fiction (2004):

The Longman Anthology of Detective Fiction

By Deane Mansfield-Kelley and Lois A. Marchino.

Paperback.

Published by Pearson.

Published in 2004.

ISBN 13: 9780321195012

ISBN 10: 0321195019

Description:

A detective fiction anthology filled with award winning short stories, information on the authors who wrote them, discussion about the history and evolution of the genre, and important literary criticism.

Recommended reading - Fifty Best Mysteries (2004):

Fifty Best Mysteries

Edited by Eleanor Sullivan.

Published by Da Capo Press.

Published 2004.

Paperback.

ISBN-10: 078671347X

ISBN-13: 978-0786713479

Description:

Fifty Best Mysteries is a Who’s Who of mystery from the pages of the leading magazine in the field. Showcasing the best short fiction published in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine over a range of fifty years, this book is a treasure trove for mystery lovers everywhere. As editor Eleanor Sullivan writes, “I took the task by decades and decided to go after solid and entertaining stories by regular and significant contributors, stories that reflected the time in which they were written and the best work being produced in that decade.” To this end, Sullivan has collected an astounding array of talent, from early works by John Dickson Carr, Margery Allingham, Anthony Boucher, and Ngaio Marsh in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s, to later selections by Patricia Highsmith, Robert Bloch, Ruth Rendell, Donald E. Westlake, and Simon Brett that appeared over the next two decades.

Contents: The clue of the red wig / John Dickson Carr — Lost star / C. Daly King — The Bloomsbury wonder / Thomas Burke — Dressing-up / W. R. Burnett — Malice domestic / Philip MacDonald — I can find my way out / Ngaio Marsh — The fourth degree / Hugh Pentecost — Midnight adventure / Michael Arlen — A study in white / Nicholas Blake — The phantom guest / Frederick Irving Anderson — As simple as ABC / Ellery Queen — Money to burn / Margery Allingham — The gentlest of brothers / David Alexander — One-way street / Anthony Armstrong — Murder at the dog show / Mignon G. Eberhart — Always trust a cop / Octavus Roy Cohen — The withered heart / Jean Potts — The girl who married a monster / Anthony Boucher — Between eight and eight / C. S. Forester — Knowing what I know now / Barry Perowne — Change of climate / Ursula Curtiss — Life in our time / Robert Bloch — The special gift / Celia Fremlin — A neat and tidy job / George Harmon Coxe — Run—if you can / Charlotte Armstrong — Line of communication / Andrew Garve — Danger at Deerfawn / Dorothy B. Hughes — The man who understood women / A. H. Z. Carr — Revolver / Avram Davidson — The eternal chase / Anthony Gilbert — Reasons unknown / Stanley Ellin — Three ways to rob a bank / Harold R. Daniels — The perfect servant / Helen Nielsen — The marked man / David Ely — Flowers that bloom in the spring / Julian Symons — A nice place to stay / Nedra Tyre — Paul Broderick’s man / Thomas Walsh — When nothing matters / Florence V. Mayberry — This is death / Donald E. Westlake — Woodrow Wilson’s necktie / Patricia Highsmith — The jackal and the tiger / Michael Gilbert — The fix / Robert Twohy — One moment of madness / Edward D. Hoch — Loopy / Ruth Rendell — The plateau / Clark Howard — The butchers / Peter Lovesey — Burning bridges / James Powell — A good turn / Robert Barnard — Clap hands, there goes Charlie / George Baxt — Big boy, little boy / Simon Brett.

On this day in music history - Una Mattina, by Ludovico Einaudi (2004):

Una Mattina

Album by Ludovico Einaudi,
released September 6, 2004.

Track list:

Una Mattina; Ora; Resta Con Me; Leo; A Fuoco; Dolce Droga; Dietro Casa; Come Un Fiore; Dna; Nuvole Nere; Questa Volta; Nuvole Bianche; Ancora.

On this day in music history - Change, by Sue Foley (2004):

Change

Album by Sue Foley,

released August 24, 2004.

Track list:

Goin’ Down the Road Again; Hardworking Woman; Doggie Treats; Careless Love; Change; Bad Luck Woman; Mournin’ in the Morning; Sugar in My Bowl; Here Comes the Sun; Me and My Chauffeur; You Don’t Have to Go; Shake That Thing.

On this day in movie history - Collateral (2004):

Collateral

directed by Michael Mann,

written by Stuart Beattie,

was released in the United States on August 6, 2004.
Music by James Newton Howard.

Cast:

Tom Cruise, Jamie Foxx, Jada Pinkett Smith, Mark Ruffalo, Peter Berg, Bruce McGill, Irma P. Hall, Barry Shabaka Henley, Richard T. Jones, Klea Scott, Bodhi Elfman, Debi Mazar, Javier Bardem, Emilio Rivera, Jamie McBride, Ken Waters, Charlie E. Schmidt, Michael Bentt, Ian Hannin, Robert Deamer, David Mersault, Anthony Ochoa, Edgar Sánchez, Cosme Urquiola, Thomas Rosales Jr., Wade Williams, Paul Adelstein, Jessica Ferrarone, Troy Blendell, Inmo Yuon, Howard Bachrach, Chic Daniel, Corinne Chooey, JoNell Kennedy, Steven Kozlowski, Roger Stoneburner, Rodney Sandberg, George Petrina, Donald Dean, Elliott Newman, Trevor Ware, Bobby English, Auggie Cavanagh, Ronald Muldrow, Peter McKernan, Ivor Shier, Daniel Luján, Eddie Diaz, Joey Burns, John Convertino, Josh Cruze, Martin Flores, Rick Garcia, Larry G. Goldman, Maurilio Pineda, Dan Sistos, Jacob Valenzuela, Luis Villegas, Yussi Wenger, Jason Statham, Angelo Tiffe, Ismeal Vidrio, Ron Eckert, Manuel Urrego, Jessie Bernard, Luis Moncada, Dyna Teal, Sandi Schroeder, Michael-John Wolfe, Addie Yungmee, J.D. McElroy, Megan Hiratzka, Kate Gopacco, Christy Yi, Lisa Marie Basada, Wilson Wong, Mark Stainbrook, Brandon Molale, Marianne M. Arreaga, Spike Silver, Ben Mihm, Niles Roth, Linda Asuma, Esther K. Chae, Danny Del Toro, Tara Erickson, Melissa Gomez, Annabella Gutman, Janet Linn, Gino Montesinos, Janessa Mun, Masami Okada, Janice Paik, Neil Patil, Gary Rodriguez, Erina Sako, Emily VanSonnenberg, Emily Ming-An Wang, Michael Waxman, Henry T. Yamada.

On this day in music history - Mystical America, by Laura Sullivan (2004):

Mystical America

Album by Laura Sullivan,

released August 1, 2004.

Track list:

America’s Stonehenge; Chaco Canyon; Coral Castle; The Bighorn Medicine Wheel; Tongass Islands; The Serpent Mound; Red Rock Ridge; Pictograph Cave; The Heavener Runestone; Sedona; Hawaiian Islands; Mt. Shasta (Arrangement of the Moonlight Sonata).

On this day in movie history - B.B. King: Into the Night (2004):

B.B. King: Into the Night

documentary directed by John Landis and Jeff Okun,

was released in Spain on June 30, 2004.
Featured on the DVD for the movie Into the Night (1985), directed by John Landis.

Cast:

B.B. King, John Landis, Ira Newborn, Forrest J. Ackerman, Domingo Ambriz, Dan Aykroyd, Jeff Goldblum, Beruce Gramian, Steve Martin, Eddie Murphy, Michelle Pfeiffer, Hadi Sadjadi, Michael Zand.

On this day in music history - We Are Not Alone, by Breaking Benjamin (2004):

We Are Not Alone

Album by Breaking Benjamin,
released June 29, 2004.

Track list:

So Cold; Simple Design; Follow; Firefly; Break My Fall; Forget It; Sooner Or Later; Breakdown; Away; Believe; Rain.

On this day in music history - Jupiters Darling, by Heart (2004):

Jupiters Darling

Album by Heart,

released June 22, 2004.

Track list:

Make Me; Oldest Story In the World; Things; The Perfect Goodbye; Enough; Move On; I Need the Rain; I Give Up; Vainglorious; No Other Love; Led to One; Down the Nile; I’m Fine; Fallen Ones; Lost Angel; Hello Moonglow.

On this day in movie history - Criminal (2004):

Criminal

directed by Gregory Jacobs,

written by Gregory Jacobs, Steven Soderbergh/Sam Lowry,

was released at the Seattle International Film Festival in the United States on June 12, 2004.

Music by Alex Wurman.

A remake of Nine Queens (2000), directed and written by Fabián Bielinsky.

Cast:

John C. Reilly, Diego Luna, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Peter Mullan, Zitto Kazann, Jonathan Tucker, Laura Cerón, Soledad St. Hilaire, Ellen Geer, Brandon Keener, Nick Anavio, Deborah Van Valkenburgh, Maeve Quinlan, Brent Sexton, Malik Yoba, Lillian Hurst, Jack Conley, Juan Carlos Cantu, Enrico Colantoni, Manny Jimenez Sr./Manuel G. Jimenez, Luis Contreras, Michael Shannon, Patricia Belcher, Paul Norwood, Gary Littman/Gary Mack, Paul Korda.

On this day in music history: What About Love? by Deborah Coleman (2004):

What About Love?

By Deborah Coleman,

released May 25, 2004.

Track list:

Bad Boy; Lie No Better; Undeniable; Can You Hear Me?; When Will I Be Loved?; Healing Ground; The River Wild; What About Love?; Loves Like Rain; Lookin’ for a Real Love; A Woman in Love.

On this day in movie history - The Day After Tomorrow (2004):

The Day After Tomorrow

directed by Roland Emmerich,

written by Roland Emmerich and Jeffrey Nachmanoff,

based on a story by Roland Emmerich,

was released in the United States on May 24, 2004.
Music by Harald Kloser.

Cast:

Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal, Emmy Rossum, Dash Mihok, Jay O. Sanders, Sela Ward, Austin Nichols, Arjay Smith, Tamlyn Tomita, Sasha Roiz, Ian Holm, Nassim Sharara, Carl Alacchi, Kenneth Welsh, Michel ‘Gish’ Abou-Samah, Robin Wilcock, Jason Blicker, Kenneth Moskow, Tim Hamaguchi, Glenn Plummer, Adrian Lester, Richard McMillan, Nestor Serrano, Sylvain Landry, Chris Britton, Vlasta Vrana, Pauline Little, Alan Fawcett, Howard Bilerman, John Maclaren, Frank Schorpion, Rachelle Glait, Pierre Leblanc, Richard Zeman, Perry King, Frank Fontaine, Mimi Kuzyk, Al Vandecruys, Vitali Makarov, Russell Yuen, Tim Bagley, Pierre Lenoir, Don Kirk, Lisa Canning, Terry Rhoads, Nicolas Feller, J.P. Manoux, Chuck Shamata, Phillip Jarrett, Ayana O’Shun, Tony Calabretta, Vivian Winther, Sheila McCarthy, Tom Rooney, Amy Sloan, David Schaap, Marylou Belugou, Nobuya Shimamoto, Bunrey Miyake, Karen Glave, Jennifer Morehouse, Christian Tessier, Joe Cobden, Caroline Keenan, Aaron Lustig, Sam Woods, Jesus Perez, Jack Laufer, Luke Letourneau, John Sanford Moore, William Francis McGuire, Michael McNally, Anne Day-Jones, Emanuel Hoss-Desmarais, Lynne De Bel, Mikio Owaki, Terry Simpson, Alvin Tam, Joey Elias, Ron Darling, José Ramón Rosario, Kwasi Songui, John Colton, Dilva Henry, Mark Thompson, Wendy L. Walsh, Mark Pfister, Ana Garcia, Lauren Sanchez, Rob Fukuzaki, Ross King, Robert Holguin, Suzanne Michaels, Leyna Nguyen, Lina Patel, Rosey Edeh, Lori Graham, Jesse Todd, Gordon Masten, Matt Adler, Ray Légaré, Matt Holland, Greg Kramer, Joel McNichol, Rick Hoffman.

On this day in movie history - Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession (2004):

Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession

documentary directed by Xan Cassavetes,

was released at the Cannes Film Festival in France on May 16, 2004.
Music by Steven Hufsteter.  

Cast:

Robert Altman, Vera Carlisle Anderson, C.L. Batten, Jacqueline Bisset, Ernest Borgnine, Charles Champlin, David Chasman, Stuart Cooper, F.X. Feeney, James B. Harris, Jerry Harvey, William Holden, Don Hyde, Henry Jaglom, Jim Jarmusch, Charles H. Joffe, Kris Kristofferson, John McNally, Bill Mechanic, Ned Nalle, Alexander Payne, Sam Peckinpah, Doreen Ringer Ross, Chuck Ross, Alan Rudolph, Theresa Russell, Timothy Ryerson, Jeff Schwager, Penelope Spheeris, Bob Strock, Quentin Tarantino, Kevin Thomas, Jonathan Turell, Douglas Venturelli, Paul Verhoeven, James Woods, Vilmos Zsigmond.

On this day in music history - Ives: Concord Sonata; Songs, By Susan Graham (2004):

Ives: Concord Sonata; Songs

Album by Susan Graham,

released May 10, 2004.

Piano: Pierre-Laurent Aimard.

Track list:

The Things Our Fathers Loved; The Housatonic at Stockbridge; Swimmers; Memories; Ann Street; Serenity; 1, 2, 3; Songs My Mother Taught Me; The Circus Band; The Cage; The Indians; Like a Sick Eagle; Remembrance; September; Soliloquy; A Farewell to Land; Thoreau; Sonata No. 2: Concord, Mass; Emerson; Hawthorne; The Alcotts; Thoreau.

On this day in movie history - Man on Fire (2004):

Man on Fire

directed by Tony Scott,

written by Brian Helgeland,

based on the novel by A. J. Quinnell,

was released in the United States on April 23, 2004.
Music by Harry Gregson-Williams and Lisa Gerrard.

Cast:

Denzel Washington, Dakota Fanning, Radha Mitchell, Christopher Walken, Marc Anthony, Giancarlo Giannini, Mickey Rourke, Rachel Ticotin, Roberto Sosa, Jesús Ochoa, Carmen Salinas, Gero Camilo, Rosa María Hernández, Charles Paraventi, Mario Zaragoza, Esteban De La Trinidad, Angelina Peláez, Norma Pablo, Heriberto Del Castillo, Steve Gonzales, Andrés Pardave, Rodrigo Zurita, Marisol Cal y Mayor, Hector Hernandez Zertuche, René Campero, Angélica Rosado, Georgina González, Abraham Sandoval, Hugo Pelaez, Jorge Victoria, Ariane Pellicer, Jorge Picont, Alberto Estrella, Gerardo Taracena, Nydia A. Trujillo, Maria Hall Rueda, Elvira Richards, Javier Zaragoza, Valentina Garcia Contreras, Enrique Cimet, Sparkle, Dunia Alvarez, Beatriz Pina, Hector Tagle, Jose Jesus Garcia, Guadalupe Flores Garcia, Daniela Martinez, Rubén Santana, Fernando Berzosa, Eduardo Rivera, Victor De Pascual, Norma Martínez, Aram Cardenas, Manuel Poncelis, Alejandro Camps, Jorge Almada, Carlos Barada, Eduardo Yáñez, Jorge Merlo, Alberto Pineda, Jesús González Leal, Rodrigo Chavez, Fernando Arvizu, Ghalil Elhateb Estrada, Hugo Genesio, Gonzalo Alvarez, Ofelia Aguirre, Itatí Cantoral, Jose De Jesus Hernandez, Arturo Farfán, Rossana Fuentes, Enrique Gonzalez, Adrian Grunberg, Jorge Guerrero, Roberto Kwok, José Montini, Fernando Moya, Iztel Navarro Vazquez, Stacy Perskie, Berenice Manjarrez Vericat, Raul Zermeño, Jorge Zárate.