OTD: Thur. 18MAY2023

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Coming to you live from Deeping St. Magma, County Gloamshire ...

Today is:
International Museum Day, National Mother Whistler Day, & National Buy A Musical Instrument Day !!!

Classical B-Days:
1854 Bernard Zweers, Dutch composer
1886 Ole Windingstad, Norwegian composer
1902 Meredith Willson, American composer for stage/screen

Rock/Folk B-days:
1949 Rick Wakeman, British session pianist/progressive rock keyboardist/composer [ group(s): Yes ]
1956 James Moginie, Australian rock musician, and songwriter [ group(s): Midnight Oil ]

WRR 101.1 FM ― MotD:
Karl Lawrence King: "Woody Van's March for band"

WWotD:
crocitation ― (n) croaking; cawing.

QotD:
“Even when reading is impossible, the presence of books acquired produces such an ecstasy that the buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching towards infinity.” ― A. Edward Newton, author, publisher, and collector of 10,000 books