Marthe Mercadier
Actress
October 23, 1928 – September 15, 2021
Wednesday, October 23, 2024
Born on this day – Ned Rorem:
Ned Rorem
Composer
Writer
October 23, 1923 – November 18, 2022
Books:
An Absolute Gift; Critical
Affairs: a Composer's Journal; Dear Paul, Dear Ned: The Correspondence of Paul
Bowles and Ned Rorem; Facing the Night: A Diary (1999-2005) and Musical
Writings; Knowing When to Stop: A Memoir; Music and People; Music from Inside
Out; Other Entertainment: Collected Pieces; Paul's Blues; Pure Contraption; Setting
the Tone: Essays and a Diary; Settling the Score: Essays on Music; The Final
Diary; The Nantucket Diary; The New York Diary; The Paris Diary; Wings of
Friendship: Selected Letters, 1944-2003.
Music:
75 Notes for Jerry (2007);
99 Notes for the Millennium (1999); A Childhood Miracle (1951); A Christmas
Carol (1952); A Dream of Nightingales (1992); A Journey (1976); A Little
Fantasy (2008); A Poison Tree (2007); A Quaker Reader (1976–1988); A Quiet
Afternoon (1948); A Sermon on Miracles (1947); A Song of Hosea (2005); After
Long Silence (1982); After Long Silence (1982); After Reading Shakespeare (1980);
Aftermath (2001–02); Afternoon on a Hill (2006); Air Music (1974); All Glorious
God (1955); Alleluia (1946); An American Oratorio (1983); An Oboe Book (1999); Anna
la Bonne (1989); Another Sleep (2000); Are You the New Person? (1989); Ariel
(1971); Ask Me No More (1963); Assembly and Fall (1975); Autumn Music
(1996–1997); Back to Life (1980); Barcarolles (1949); Before the Morning Star
(1986); Bertha (1968); Book of Hours (1975); Breathe On Me (1989); Bright Music
(1987); Canticle of the Lamb (1971); Canticles: Sets 1 & 2 (1971–72); Cello
Concerto (2002); Christ is Made the Sure Foundation (1992); Chromatic Fantasy
(2001); Clouds (1953); Concertino de Camera (1946); Concerto for English Horn
(1991–1992); Conversation (1957); Cradle Song (1953); Cries and Whispers (2000);
Cycle of Holy Songs (1951); Dance Suite (1949); Dances (1984); Day Music (1971);
Death and the Young Man (2007); Design (1953); Diversions (1990); Do I love you
more than a day? (1962); Double Concerto (1998); Eagles (1958); Early in the
Morning (1954); Echo's Song (1948); Eight Etudes (1975); Eleven Songs for Susan
(2007); Eleven Songs for Susan (2007); Eleven Studies for Eleven Players
(1959–1960); Evidence of Things Not Seen (1997); Exaltabo Te, Domine (1995); Fables
(1971); Fanfare and Flourish (1988); Fantasy and Polka (1989); Fantasy and
Toccata (1946); Far-Far-Away (1963); Ferry me across the water (1978); Festival
Alleluia (1992); Five Armenian Love Songs (1987); Five Poems of Walt Whitman
(1957); Flight for Heaven (1952); Flute Concerto (2002); For Barbara (2006); For
Ben (1999); For Don (2006); For Marian (2006); For Mary (2006); For Poulenc
(1963); For Rosemary (2006); For Shirley (1989); For Susan (1953); Four Colours
(2003); Four Dialogues (1953–1954); Four Hymns (1973); Four Introits (1999); Four
Madrigals (1947); Four Poems of Tennyson (1963); Four Prayers (2006); Four
Sonnets (2005); Four Sonnets of Shakespeare (2008); Frolic (1986); From an
Unknown Past (1950); From an Unknown Past (1950); From an Unknown Past (1950); From
When Cometh Song? (1978); Full of Life Now (1989); Give All to Love (1981); Gliding
O'er All (1957); Gloria (1970); Go, Lovely Rose (1979); Gods (1957); Goodbye My
Fancy (1988); He Shall Rule from Sea to Sea (1967); He Will Not Hear (2001); Hearing
(1966–1976); Homer (1986); How Like a Winter (2013); How Lovely is your
Dwelling Place (1994); I Am Rose (1955); I Feel Death... (1953); I Never Knew
(2001); I Strolled Across an Open Field (1959); I Will Always Love You (1955); I
Will Always Love You (1990); Ideas (1961); In a Gondola (1953); In Time of
Pestilence (1973); Julia's Clothes (1950); King Midas (1961); Last Poems of
Wallace Stevens (1971–1972); Laudemus Tempus Actum (1964); Lead Kindly Light
(1988); Let's Take a Walk (1981); Letters from Paris (1966); Lift up your Heads
(The Ascension) (1963); Lions (A Dream) (1963); Little Elegy (1949); Little
Lamb, Who Made Thee? (1982); Little Prayers (1973); Look Down, Fair Moon (1957);
Love (1953); Love Alone (1989); Love Divine, All Loves Excelling (1966); Love
in a Life (1951); Lovers (1964); Lullaby of the Woman of the Mountain (1950); Mallet
Concerto (2003); Memory (1959); Mercy and Truth Are Met (1983); Miracles of
Christmas (1959); Miss Julie (1965); Missa Brevis (1973); More Than A Day (1995);
Mountain Song (1948); My Papa's Waltz (1959); My Sad Captains (1995); Nantucket
(1978–79); Night Crow (1959); Night Music (1972); Nine Episodes for Four
Players (2001); Nocturne (2007); Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal (1963); O Do Not
Love Too Long (1951); O God, My Heart is Ready (1992); O You to Whom I Often
and Silently Come (1957); Ode (1953); Ode to Man (2005); Orchestral works; Orchids (1959); Organ
Concerto (1985); Organbook I. (1989); Organbook II. (1989); Organbook III.
(1989); Our Town (2005); Pas de Trois (2002); Pastorale (1949); Piano Concerto
No. 1 (1948); Piano Concerto No. 2 (1951); Piano Concerto No. 3 (1969); Piano
Concerto No. 4 (1991); Picnic on the Marne (1983); Pilgrim Strangers (1984); Pilgrims
(1958); Pippa's Song (1953); Poèmes pour la paix (1953–1956); Poèmes pour la paix
(1953–1956); Poems of Love and the Rain (1963); Praise the Lord, O My Soul
(1982); Praises for the Nativity (1970); Prayer to Jesus (1973); Prayers and
Responses (1960); Present Laughter (1993); Proper for the Votive Mass of the
Holy Spirit (1966); Rain in Spring (1949); Recalling (2003); Recalling Nadia
(2014); Reconciliation (1957); Remembering Tommy (1979); Remembrance of Things
Past (1998); Requiem (1948); Romeo and Juliet (1977); Root Cellar (1959); Sally's
Smile (1953); Santa Fe Songs (1980); See How They Love Me (1956); Septet Scenes
from Childhood (1984–1985); Serenade on Five English Poems (1975); Seven Motets
for the Church Year (1986); Sicilienne (1950); Sinfonia (1957); Sing, My Soul,
His Wondrous Love (1955); Six Pieces (1997); Six Variations (1995); Sky Music
(1976); Snake (1959); Solemn Prelude (1973); Some Trees (1968); Sometimes With
One I Love (1957); Somewhere... (1994); Sonata No. 1 (1948); Sonata No. 2 (1949);
Sonata No. 3 (1954); Song and Dance (1986); Song for a Girl (1953); Songs of
Sadness (1994); Songs Old and New (2008); Songs Old and New (2008); Sonnet
(1980); Sonnet 144 (Two Loves I Have) (2010); Sound the Flute (2004); Soundpoints
(2003); Spiders (1968); Spirit Divine (1992); Spring (1947); Spring and Fall
(1946); Spring Music (1990); Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (1947); String
Quartet No. 3 (1991); String Quartet No. 4 (1994); String Symphony (1985); Such
Beauty as Hurts to Behold (1957); Suite (1980); Sun (1966); Sun (1966); Sunday
Morning (1977); Surge Illuminare (1977); Swords and Plowshares (1990); Swords
and Plowshares (1990); Symphony No. 1 (1950); Symphony No. 2 (1956); Symphony
No. 3 (1958); Te Deum (1986–87); That Shadow, My Likeness (1963); The Animals
Sick of the Plague; The Anniversary (1961); The Auden Poems (1989); The Bird
Wounded by an Arrow; The Call (1951); The Dance (1978); The Dancer (1979); The
Death of Moses (1987); The End (2003); The End of Summer (1985); The Fox and
the Grapes; The Lion in Love; The Lordly Hudson (1947); The Midnight Sun (1953);
The Nightingale (1951); The Poets' Requiem (1954–55); The Robbers, (1956); The
Schuyler Songs (1987); The Schuyler Songs (1987); The Serpent (1972); The
Seventieth Psalm (1943); The Silver Swan (1949); The Sleeping Palace (1949); The
Sleeping Palace (1963); The Sowers (1980); The Stars Have Not Dealt (2007); The
Sun and the Frogs; The Three Sisters Who Are Not Sisters (1968); The Tulip Tree
(1953); The Unquestioned Answer (2002); The Waking (1959); The Wintry Mind
(1980); Their Lonely Betters (1992); Three Calamus Poems (1982); Three Choruses
for Christmas (1978); Three Incantations from a Marionette Tale (1948); Three
Motets (1973); Three Poems for Demetrios Capetanakis (1954); Three Poems of
Baudelaire (1986); Three Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay (2007); Three Prayers
(1973); Three Slow Pieces (1978); Three Women (1994); To a Young Girl (1951); To
the Willow Tree (1950); To You (1957); To You (1970); Trickle Drops (1970); Trio
(1960); Triptych (1992); Truth in the Night Season (1966); Two Poems of Edith
Sitwell (1948); Two Poems of Theodore Roethke (1959); Two Psalms and a Proverb
(1962); Two Sermons (2001); Two Shakespearean Poems (2008); Up-Hill (1979); Views
from the Oldest House (1981); Violin Concerto (1984); Violin Sonata (1948); Virelai
(1961); Visits to St. Elizabeth's (1957); Waiting (1996); War Scenes (1969); Water
Music (1966); We Are the Music Makers (2003); We Never Said Farewell (1975–76);
Whales, Weep Not! (1978); What If Some Little Pain (1949); What is Pink? (1987);
What Sparks and Wiry Cries (1956); While Sodom Was Occupied (2004); Whitman
Cantata (1983); Wild Nights (2007); Winter Pages (1981); Women's Voices
(1975–1976); Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (2004); Youth, Day, Old Age and
Night (1954).
Movies and television:
Camera
Three (1965–1977); Flicker (2008); For the Whales (1989); Furies (1978); Great
Conversations in Music (2005); Jack Mitchell: My Life Is Black and White (2006);
Ned Rorem: Word & Music (2005); Nothing Left Unsaid: Gloria Vanderbilt
& Anderson Cooper (2016); Nuit américaine (2005); Paul Bowles: The Complete
Outsider (1994); Sleep in a Nest of Flames (2001); The 65th Annual Grammy
Awards (2023).
Born on this day – Sally O'Neil:
Sally O'Neil
Actress
October 23, 1908 – June 18, 1968
Credits:
1925
Studio Tour (1925); Bachelor's Paradise (1928); Battling Butler (1926); Beauty
on Broadway (1933); Becky (1927); Beggar's Holiday (1934); Broadway Fever (1929);
Broadway Scandals (1929); By Appointment Only (1933); Compression (2017); Convention
Girl (1935); Don't (1925); Frisco Sally Levy (1927); Girl of the Port (1930); Hardboiled
(1929); Hold Everything (1930); Jazz Heaven (1929); Kathleen (1937); Kathleen
Mavourneen (1930); Ladies Must Love (1933); Mad Hour (1928); Mike (1926); Murder
by the Clock (1931); On with the Show! (1929); Round About Hollywood (1931); Sally,
Irene and Mary (1925); Salvation Nell (1931); Show of Shows (1929); Sisters
(1930); Sixteen Fathoms Deep (1934); Slide, Kelly, Slide (1927); The Auction
Block (1926); The Battle of the Sexes (1928); The Brat (1931); The Callahans
and the Murphys (1927); The Floating College (1928); The Girl on the Barge
(1929); The Lovelorn (1927); The Moth (1934); The Sophomore (1929); Too Tough
to Kill (1935); WAMPAS Baby Stars of 1926 (1926).
Born on this day – Sarah Bernhardt:
Sarah Bernhardt
Actress
October 22, 1844 – March 26, 1923
Credits:
The Seer (1924); It
Happened in Paris (1919); Mothers of France (1917) Die Tänzerin (1915) Jeanne
Doré (1915); Adrienne Lecouvreur (1913); The loves of Queen Elizabeth
(1912); The Lady of the Camellias (1912); Tosca (1908); Hamlet's Duel (1900).
Recommended reading - 2 by Michael Crichton:
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The Terminal Man
First Published 1972.
ISBN-10: 0394447689
ISBN-13: 978-0394447681
Description:
In his first novel since
The Andromeda Strain, Michael Crichton once again combines documentary
verisimilitude with hair-raising suspense to open up for the reader a new area
of modern science: surgical-electronic mind control.
The man ‘in the hands of
science” – the Terminal Man – is Harry Benson. He is a violent paranoid who has
already twice attempted to kill. Against the profound opposition of his
psychiatrist, a team of surgeons proposes to connect his brain to a computer
that will regulate his behavior. From the conflict among the doctors, to the
actual operation itself – during which forty wires are attached to forty points
in Benson’s brain – to the functioning of the computers, to the terrifying
results when Benson escapes from the hospital, the tension rises as the reader
becomes a close-up witness to an experiment just short of the ultimate computer
control of a human being.
Psychosurgery of the
kind Crichton describes is already taking place under established medical
auspices – a new form of behavior control that has become a key scientific and
moral issue in our time. Crichton takes it out of the realm of the abstract,
and makes immediate its workings, its dangers, and its implications, in a novel
that provides urgent information and, at the same time, superb entertainment.
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The Andromeda Strain
First published 1969.
ISBN-10: 1101974494
ISBN-13: 978-1101974490
Description:
A military space probe,
sent to collect extraterrestrial organisms from the upper atmosphere, is
knocked out of orbit and falls to Earth. Twelve miles from the crash site, an
inexplicable and deadly phenomenon terrorizes the residents of a sleepy desert town
in Arizona, leaving only two survivors: an elderly addict and a newborn infant.
The
United States government is forced to mobilize Project Wildfire, a top-secret
emergency response protocol. Four of the nation’s most elite biophysicists are
summoned to a clandestine underground laboratory located five stories beneath
the desert and fitted with an automated atomic self-destruction mechanism for
cases of irremediable contamination. Under conditions of total news blackout
and the utmost urgency, the scientists race to understand and contain the
crisis. But the Andromeda Strain proves different from anything they’ve ever
seen—and what they don’t know could not only hurt them, but lead to
unprecedented worldwide catastrophe.
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