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Monday, June 10
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Today is Monday, June 10, the 161st day of 2002. There are 204 days
left in the year.
Highlights in history on this date:
1190 - Holy Roman Emperor Fredrick Barbarossa drowns while crossing
the Saleph river in Armenia while on the Third Crusade.
1610 - First Dutch settlers in America land on Manhattan island.
1719 - Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI expels Spaniards from Sicily.
1794 - In France, revolutionary tribunals are changed to give the
jury only the choice between acquittal and death, heightening the
Reign of Terror.
1848 - Austrian forces are victorious at Vicenza ...
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Opera: Artaxerxes; St John's, Smith Square London
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; Thomas Augustine Arne never quite made it into the last 100...off. After Purcell and Elgar, who? Arne, arguably. When the great castrato Tenducci...concert at St John's, Smith Square. Arne had two notable bursts of success - in...
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Arts review: Opera - Alfred Linbury Theatre London
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...before the (off-stage) climax of Thomas Augustine Arne's Alfred, staged as part of...s attractively sung Alfred. Arne was no mean theatre composer...his lighter-hearted pastorals, Thomas and Sally still does the rounds...
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...of Cloyne, philosopher, 1685; Thomas Augustine Arne, composer ("Rule, Britannia...Karl Ecker, composer, 1813; Thomas Henry Tizard, oceanographer...Bruhl, philosopher, 1939; Thomas (Tom) Mann, trade union leader...
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 "Morning Call (Allentown, PA)")
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Catch an earful of music Lafayette might have heard.
Newspaper article from: Morning Call (Allentown, PA)
; ...in France with his new allies Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, American diplomats and fellow fans of democracy...favored by Franklin, and "The Soldier Tir'd" from Thomas Augustine Arne's opera "Artaxerxes," a sort of theme song for...
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Attributions of authorship in the Gentleman's Magazine, 1755-64: a supplement to the Union List.
Magazine article from: ANQ
; ...America; Plan of measures to defeat their scheme." Thomas Pownall. [Headnote (p. 211) attributes the account...drinking Briton [from Harlequin Mercury]." Thomas Augustine Arne. [COPAC] 27 (1757): 295-96. A: "Speech of...
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Music in Eighteenth-Century Britain. (Reviews of Books).(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Albion
; ...getting to know than to insist, for instance, that Thomas Shaw's Violin Concerto in G is as good as the Mozart...John Christopher Smith the Younger (c.1758), and Thomas Augustine Arne (1761). Next is Sally Drage's "Reappraisal of...
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2010 ANNIVERSARIES
Magazine article from: The American Organist
; ...Alfvn (1872-1960) Felice Anerio (c.1560-1614) Thomas Augustine Arne (1710-1778) Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (1710-1784...1835-1910) Louis Bourgeois (c.l510-c.l561) Thomas Chisholm (1866-1960) George Croly (1780-1860...
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On this Day
Newspaper article from: The Northern Echo
; 1710: Thomas Augustine Arne, composer who wrote the masque Alfred, which included the song Rule Britannia, was born in London.1823: Capt Charles Cunningham...
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IT HAPPENED TODAY
Newspaper article from: Belfast Telegraph
; 1710: Thomas Augustine Arne, composer who wrote the masque Alfred, which included the song Rule Britannia, was born in London. 1823: Captain Charles Cunningham...
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 "The Record (Bergen County, NJ)")
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10/13
Newspaper article from: The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
; ...Music of the American Revolution -- Flutist Eugenia Zukerman and harpsichordist Anthony Newman perform works by Thomas Augustine Arne, William Billings, Handel, Francis Hopkinson, and Vivaldi. 6 tonight. $12. New York Public Library, Fifth...
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