About Chopin and Sand...

Notorious Woman was a 1974 BBC television serial based on the life of the French author George Sand. It starred Rosemary Harris in the title role. The seven episodes were written by Harry W. Junkin and directed by Waris Hussein. In the United States, the series was broadcast in 1975–1976 as part of the fifth season of Masterpiece Theatre on PBS. It won an emmy and a golden globe award.

Impromptu is a 1991 British-American period drama film directed by James Lapine, written by Sarah Kernochan, produced by Daniel A. Sherkow and Stuart Oken, and starring Hugh Grant as Frédéric Chopin and Judy Davis as George Sand. The film was shot entirely on location in France as a British production by an American company.

So many of the early Masterpiece series are no longer available. One of the best Shoulder to Shoulder on the UK suffragette movement is one that stands in my mind but isn't released. I wonder if they just don't want people to see movements and their costs?

Well, let's play a tune and forget the world this morning!

Five years since he passed, without Dennis Ritchie none of us would be here like this. Thanks a lot.
Edit: Heh! This is all over the 'nets today, some one at google tweeted something like it just happened, and thus it began. I saw the message in comp.misc USENET group but it wasn't like it just happened there. Changed the link title about his passing. Appreciate his contributions. Cheers.
Dennis Ritchie, Trailblazer in Digital Era

In the late 1960s and early ’70s, working at Bell Labs, Mr. Ritchie made a pair of lasting contributions to computer science. He was the principal designer of the C programming language and co-developer of the Unix operating system, working closely with Ken Thompson, his longtime Bell Labs collaborator.

The C programming language, a shorthand of words, numbers and punctuation, is still widely used today, and successors like C++ and Java build on the ideas, rules and grammar that Mr. Ritchie designed. The Unix operating system has similarly had a rich and enduring impact. Its free, open-source variant, Linux, powers many of the world’s data centers, like those at Google and Amazon, and its technology serves as the foundation of operating systems, like Apple’s iOS, in consumer computing devices.

“The tools that Dennis built — and their direct descendants — run pretty much everything today,” said Brian Kernighan, a computer scientist at Princeton University who worked with Mr. Ritchie at Bell Labs.

More importantly to me, this:

What we wanted to preserve was not just a good environment in which to do programming, but a system around which fellowship could form. We knew from experience that the essence of communal computing, as supplied by remote-access, time-shared machines, is not just to type programs into a terminal instead of a keypunch, but to encourage close communication.

Peace

almost exactly like him. He and his group, The Teenchords, put out some good doowop also.

Since Frankie's group, The Teenagers, had a salable name they hired Pearl McKinnon of the Kodaks to front the group. Pearl sounded very much like Frankie.(Check out some of the songs by the Kodaks - they only made eight - and it's prime doowop.)

Question: Why did Murray Wilson mistreat his sons.

Answer: Because they deserved it.

the Nobel prize for literature and Leonard Cohen says he's getting ready to die. So although not 'classical' here's two 20th century classic poet song writers.

So I wanted to post Bob Dylan's 115th Street Blues but SME whoever they are says forget about it...

Leonard Cohen