![]() The newsreel was shown around the world, calling her “Little Mary O’Connor.” She said, “Everything since has been an anticlimax.” O’Connor once said she was a Catholic “not like someone else would be a Baptist, or a Methodist, but like someone else would be an atheist.” When she was six, she was filmed by a British news service while a chicken that she’d personally trained walked backward. Her childhood home in Savannah, Georgia, still stands adjacent to the Cathedral of St. If you can’t make something out of a little experience, you probably won’t be able to make it out of a lot.” O’Connor’s father died of lupus when she was 15. She once said, “The fact is that anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days. O’Connor had a short life, dying of lupus at the age of 39, but she profoundly influenced literature in the 20th century with dark stories about religion, redemption, sin, and guilt in the American South, like the novels Wise Blood (1952) and The Violent Bear It Away (1960). ![]() It’s the birthday of American short-story writer and novelist Flannery O’Connor, born in Savannah, Georgia (1925). He fled Europe shortly after the outbreak of World War II, eventually settling in New York City until his death in 1945. Bartók’s own work was influenced by the music he encountered throughout the regions he visited.īartók was a vocal anti-fascist who refused concerts to Germany after the Nazi regime rose to power. He dedicated his life to collecting over 6,000 folk songs from Hungary, Slovakia, Romania, Bulgaria, Algeria, and Turkey, recording them on a gramophone. While on vacation in 1904, Bartók overheard a nanny from Transylvania singing folk songs to her children and he became enamored of folk music and its study. He could distinguish between different musical rhythms before he learned to speak in full sentences, and by the age of four he had taught himself to play 40 songs on the piano. It’s the birthday of the great Hungarian composer, ethnomusicologist, and teacher Béla Bartók, born in Sânnicolau Mare, Romania (1881).īartók displayed signs of his musical talent almost from birth.
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