#otd 1854, Czech composer Leoš Janáček was born in Hukvaldy, Moravia. #NowSpinning the english version of his opera 'cunning little vixen' Sir Simon Rattle conducts the orchestra and chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. #music #musicsky #opera

Daily Piece of Art 🎨 Giuseppe Tominz 🇮🇹🇸🇮 (1790 - 1866) 🖼️ Portrait of Paolo Preinitsch (1835) - oil on canvas #art #painting #BlueSkyArt #artist

#otd 1714, Christoph Willibald Ritter von Gluck was born Erasbach, Upper Palatinate, Holy Roman Empire. #NowSpinning his opera 'Orfeo et Euridice', the original version which premiered in Vienna, 1762. Sir John Eliot Gardiner conducts the English Baroque Soloists. #music #musicsky #opera

Daily Piece of Art 🎨 Sarah Miriam Peale 🇺🇸 (1800 - 1885) 🖼️ Portrait of a Woman (1824) - oil on canvas #art #painting #BlueSkyArt #artist

#otd 1983, American harpist, composer, and educator Brandee Younger was born in Hempstead, NY. #NowSpinning her 2023 album 'Brand New Life'. #music #musicsky

Daily Piece of Art 🎨 Francisco Goya 🇪🇸 (1746 - 1828) 🖼️ Time and the Old Women (1810) - oil on canvas #art #painting #BlueSkyArt #artist

#otd 1963, one of the best guitarists, Yngwie Johan Malmsteen, was born in Hässelby-Vällingby, Sweden. #NowSpinning his 1st studio album released in late 1984: 'Rising force'. #music #musicsky #rock tidal.com/album/405154...

Daily Piece of Art 🎨 Lê Thị Lựu 🇻🇳 (1911 - 1988) 🖼️ Girl with Flower (1950) - oil on canvas #art #painting #BlueSkyArt #artist

#otd 1948, Ian Anderson Paice, the drummer of the #rock band Deep Purple, was born in Nottingham. #NowSpinning one of the first rock records I ever bought as a teenager: a double live album during their first tour of Japan in August 1972. #music #musicsky

Daily Piece of Art 🎨 Juan Manuel Blanes 🇺🇾 (1830 - 1901) 🖼️ El Juramento de los Treinta y Tres Orientales / The Oath of the Thirty-Three Orientals (1875) - Oil on fabric #art #painting #BlueSkyArt #artist

#otd 1993, one of the best operatic basses in history, Boris Christoff, died in Rome, aged 79. #NowSpinning his iconic portrayal of King Philip II in Verdi's 'Don Carlo', the 1961 DG record at La Scala, conducted by Gabriele Santini. #music #musicsky #opera tidal.com/album/285162...

Daily Piece of Art 🎨 Sybil Atteck 🇹🇹 (1911 - 1975) 🖼️ The Branch (1965) - watercolour on paper #art #painting #BlueSkyArt #artist

#otd 1958, Finnish composer and pianist Magnus Lindberg was born. #NowSpinning his piano concerto No.1 and 'KRAFT' for small solo ensemble and orchestra. #music #musicsky #classicalmusic

Daily Piece of Art 🎨 Kim Whanki 🇰🇷 (1913 - 1974) 🖼️ 2-V-73 #313 (1973) - oil on canvas #art #painting #BlueSkyArt #artist

#otd 1933, Italian conductor Claudio Abbado was born in Milan. #NowSpinning Isabelle Faust’s 2012 recording of Beethoven’s and Berg's Violin Concerto with Claudio Abbado and his Orchestra Mozart. #music #musicsky #classicalmusic #violin

Daily Piece of Art 🎨 Cecilia Cuțescu-Storck 🇷🇴 (1879 - 1969) 🖼️ The Artist’s Studio in Balchik (1917) - oil on canvas #art #painting #BlueSkyArt #artist

#otd 1963, Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou, aka George Michael, was born in East Finchley, Middlesex, England. #NowSpinning the WHAM! 2nd studio album released in 1984: 'Make it big'. #music #musicsky #pop

Daily Piece of Art 🎨 Jassim Zaini 🇶🇦 (1943 - 2012) 🖼️ Features from Qatar (1973) - oil on cardboard #art #painting #BlueSkyArt #artist

#otd 1944, one of the most beloved English guitarists, Geoffrey Arnold Beck, was born in Wallington, Surrey. #NowSpinning an album released in 1975, 'Blow by Blow', the 1st album credited to him as a solo artist. #music #musicsky #rock #guitar

Daily Piece of Art 🎨 Coqui Calderón 🇵🇦 (b. 1937) 🖼️ Arraigos húmedos / wet roots (2020) - Acrylic on canvas #art #painting #BlueSkyArt #artist

#otd 1927, American choreographer, dancer, actor, filmmaker, and stage director Bob Fosse was born in Chicago. #NowSpinning the original Broadway Cast recording of 'Sweet Charity'. It was his 1st film as a director, released in 1969 with Shirley MacLaine. #music #musicsky

Daily Piece of Art 🎨 Anwar Sonya 🇴🇲 (b. 1948) 🖼️ Market 1 (2016) - Acrylic on canvas #art #painting #BlueSkyArt #artist

#otd 1969, Judy Garland was found dead in the bathroom of her rented house in Cadogan Lane, Belgravia, London. She was 47 years old. #NowSpinning a collection with her most memorable songs. #music #musicsky

Daily Piece of Art 🎨 Marie Løkke 🇳🇴 (1876 - 1948) 🖼️ Summer time in Halden (1933) - oil on canvas #art #painting #BlueSkyArt #artist

#otd 1987, pianist Khatia Buniatishvili was born in Batumi, Georgia. #NowSpinning Rachmaninoff's piano concertos no.2 and no.3. Paavo Järvi conducts the Czach PO. tidal.com/album/702393... #music #musicsky #classicalmusic #piano

Daily Piece of Art 🎨 Malangatana Ngwenya 🇲🇿 (1936 - 2011) 🖼️ Untitled (1967) - oil on hardboard #art #painting #BlueSkyArt #artist

#otd 1756, Joseph Martin Kraus, aka 'the Swedish Mozart', was born in Miltenberg am Main. #NowSpinning the Orchestra of the Age of the Enlightenment conducted by Anthony Halstead playing his symphonies. #music #musicsky #classicalmusic

Daily Piece of Art 🎨 Marisa Darasavath 🇱🇦 (b. 1972) 🖼️ Lao women working the rice fields (2013) - oil on canvas #art #painting #BlueSkyArt #artist

#otd 1915, Russian composer, pianist, teacher of composition, music theorist and author Sergei Taneyev died. Time to revisit one of the most humorous works of music, his piano quintet in g minor, Op.30 #music #musicsky #classicalmusic

Daily Piece of Art 🎨 Salikhitdin Aitbaev 🇰🇿 (1938 - 1994) 🖼️ Cathedral (1985) - oil on canvas #art #painting #BlueSkyArt #artist

Happy Birthday to Sir James Paul McCartney who turns 84 #otd. #NowSpinning his 1st solo album after the Beatles era, from 1970. #music #musicsky

Daily Piece of Art 🎨 Gloria Escoffery 🇯🇲 (1923 - 2002) 🖼️ "Worky Worky" (1990) - acrylic on paper #art #painting #BlueSkyArt #artist

#otd 1818, Charles Gounod was born in Paris. #NowSpinning his opera 'Roméo et Juliette'. Michel Plasson conducts the Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse in this 1998 recording. Angela Gheorghiu and Roberto Alagna sing the leading roles. #music #musicsky #opera

Daily Piece of Art 🎨 Médéric Turay 🇨🇮 (b. 1979) 🖼️ Read your Mind (2026) - acrylic, oil. walnut #art #painting #BlueSkyArt #artist

#otd 1952, Gino Vannelli was born in Montreal. #NowSpinning his 5th studio album, 'Brother to brother', released in 1978, which became Platinum in USA and Canada. #music #musicsky #rock

Daily Piece of Art 🎨 Maria Szánthó 🇭🇺 (1897 - 1998) 🖼️ Romany Girl (193?) - oil on canvas #art

#otd 1843, Norwegian composer and pianist Edvard Hagerup Grieg was born in Bergen. #NowSpinning his piano concerto in a minor with Leif Ove Andsnes. Mariss Jansons conducts the Berliner Philharmoniker. #music #musicsky #piano #classicalmusic tidal.com/album/291152...

Daily Piece of Art 🎨 Sofia Laskaridou 🇬🇷 (1876-1965) 🖼️ La Belle Epoque (1915) - oil on canvas #art

#otd 1995, Irish musician, singer, songwriter and guitarist William Rory Gallagher died in London, aged 47. #NowSpinning his debut album released in 1971. #music #musicsky #rock #guitar

Daily Piece of Art 🎨 Eero Järnefelt 🇫🇮 (1863-1937) 🖼️ Under the Yoke (Burning the Brushwood) (1893) - oil on canvas #art

#otd 1986, American #jazz clarinetist and bandleader Benny Goodman died in NYC aged 77. #NowSpinning The Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert, recorded on January 16th, 1938. #music #musicsky

Daily Piece of Art 🎨 Anna Kõuhkna 🇪🇪 (b. 1994) 🖼️ The door (2022) - oil on canvas #art

#otd 2006, Hungarian composer György Sándor Ligeti died in Vienna aged 83. #NowSpinning his 1992 violin concerto with Patricia Kopatchinskaja. Péter Eötvös conducts the Ensemble Modern. #music #msuicsky #classicalmusic

Daily Piece of Art 🎨 Peder Severin Krøyerj 🇩🇰 (1851 - 1909) 🖼️ Summer evening on the beach at Skagen. The painter and his wife (1899) - oil on canvas #art

#otd 1864, Richard Strauss was born in Munich. #NowSpinning 'Also sprach Zarathustra', the legendary 1959 recording with Herbert Von Karajan conducting the Wiener Philharmoniker, the one used by Stanley Kubrick or the 1968 film '2001: A Space Odyssey' #music #msuicsky #classicalmusic

Daily Piece of Art 🎨 Slava Raškaj 🇭🇷 (1877 - 1906) 🖼️ Water Lilies in the Botanical Garden (1899) - watercolour on paper #art

#otd 1934, English composer Frederick Theodore Albert Delius died at 72. #NowSpinning recordings from 2001 of works to quite specific Norwegian stimuli. Bo Holten conducts the Aarhus SO. #music #msuicsky #classicalmusic

Daily Piece of Art 🎨 Peter Nikolov 🇧🇬 (1928 - 2020) 🖼️ Landscape (1997) - oil on canvas #art

#otd 1939, Romanian operatic soprano Ileana Cotrubaș was born in Galati. #NowSpinning Massenet's #opera Manon, with Alfredo Kraus as Des Grieux. #music #msuicsky #classicalmusic

Daily Piece of Art 🎨 Lía Correa Morales 🇦🇷 (1893 - 1975) 🖼️ Jacky, la bailarina (1928) - oil on canvas #art