"The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame."
– Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

#botd #books #literature

ⁱˢˡᵉ ᵒᶠ ᵗʰᵉ ᵈᵉᵃᵈ ³ʳᵈ ᵛᵉʳˢⁱᵒⁿ
Artist: 𝑨𝒓𝒏𝒐𝒍𝒅 𝑩𝒐̈𝒄𝒌𝒍𝒊𝒏 #Botd
Date: 𝟏𝟖𝟖𝟑
#ArtSky 🎴✴️✳️

#BOTD 1854. Remembering Irish author, playwright, and poet - Oscar Wilde. (d.1900)

#filmsky #filmnoir #musicsky #filmscore #horror

Linda Darnell #BOTD
in HANGOVER SQUARE (1945)
an underrated, suspenseful horror-noir that’s part of #NoirCity this year.

Music by Bernard Herrmann
— with his Concerto Macabre driving the intense fiery film climax.
(concerto & finale in comments)

#booksky #writingsky #theatersky #filmsky #BOTD

“We are all in the gutter —
but some of us are looking at the stars.”

Happy birthday Tim Berne!

Tim Berne - alto saxophone
Marc Ducret - guitar
Craig Taborn - Fender Rhodes, laptop, organ
Tom Rainey - drums

Released - 2003
Recorded - April 12, 2003
Winterthur, Switzerland
Label - Thirsty Ear
Producer - Peter Bürli
#jazzsky #botd

Happy birthday Roy Hargrove!

Roy Hargrove – trumpet, flugelhorn
Christian McBride – double bass
Stephen Scott – piano

Released - 1995
Recorded - April 12–14, 1995
Studio - Effanel Music Studio, NYC
Label - Verve
Producers - Don Sickler, Richard Seidel
#jazzsky #botd

#BOTD 1890
Paul Strand: American photographer and filmmaker who, along with fellow modernist photographers like Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Weston, helped establish photography as an art form in the 20th century.
www.anothermag.com/art-photogra...

Happy birthday Ray Anderson!

Barry Altschul – drums, wood block, cymbal, cuica, waterphone, bells, shaker, whistling, cowbell, percussion
Ray Anderson – tenor trombone, alto trombone, sousaphone, cowbell, whistling
Mark Helias – double bass, cello
#jazzsky #botd

#botd Linda Darnell and Dana Andrews.

Unforgettable together in Fallen Angel (1945). 🎬

"There are concerts where you feel everyone’s in the zone. It’s like a group trance. We are all so totally focused that nothing else exists. It’s like riding the biggest wave around..."

Marin Alsop #botd

Leonard Bernstein centenary concert
Chichester Cathedral, 2018

Considered by many as the greatest Brazilian actress of all time, Fernanda Montenegro #botd is often referred to as the grande dame of Brazilian theater, cinema, and performing arts.

“Lord Henry se había aplicado desde temprana edad a estudiar seriamente el arte aristocrático de no hacer nada” Así comienza esta gran película: EL RETRATO DE DORIAN GRAY (Albert Lewin 1945) Con unos diálogos y una fotografía perfectos. Por Oscar Wilde y Ángela Lansbury #BOTD

Günter Grass #botd, was a German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, sculptor, and recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature. Grass is best known for his first novel, The Tin Drum (1959), a key text in European magic realism.

American photographer and filmmaker Paul Strand #botd, along with fellow modernist photographers like Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Weston, helped establish photography as an art form in the 20th century...

𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐚 𝐏𝐚̈𝐟𝐟𝐠𝐞𝐧 (𝑵𝒊𝒄𝒐)..(ˢⁱⁿᵍᵉʳ ᵃᶜᵗᵒʳ ᵐᵒᵈᵉˡ)
#Botd
(16 October 1938, Cologne 🇩🇪)
#MusicSky 🎫🎧🎴