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Oct. 12 John Denver, Utagawa Hiroshige, Vaughan Williams


Utagawa Hiroshige,  歌川広重  also Andō Hiroshige, was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist, considered the last great master of that tradition.Wikipedia
Born: 1797, Edo
Died: October 12, 1858, Edo
On view: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, MORE
Period: Ukiyo-e
Education: Toyohiro
Parents: Andō Gen'emon
Series: The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō, Eight Views of Ōmi, MORE
Artworks

Utagawa Hiroshige died #otd in 1858. We explore his masterful renditions of Edo-era Japan in the woodblock series “The Sixty-Nine Stations along the Kisokaidō” 👇


Station to Station
Follow The Sixty-Nine Stations along the Kisokaidō with Hiroshige & Eisen, a masterwork of woodblock practice reproduced by TASCHEN Books..
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Henry John Deutschendorf Jr., known professionally as John Denver, was an American singer-songwriter, record producer, actor, activist, and humanitarian, whose greatest commercial success was as a solo singer. Wikipedia
Died: October 12, 1997, Monterey Bay, California, United States
Children: Jesse Belle Deutschendorf, Zachary John Denver, Anna Kate Denver
Movies and TV shows: Oh, God!, The Christmas Gift, MORE

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Ralph Vaughan Williams OM was an English composer. His works include operas, ballets, chamber music, secular and religious vocal pieces and orchestral compositions including nine symphonies, written over nearly fifty years. Wikipedia
Born: October 12, 1872, Down Ampney, United Kingdom
Died: August 26, 1958, London, United Kingdom
Buried: Westminster Abbey, London, United Kingdom
Spouse: Ursula Vaughan Williams (m. 1953–1958), Adeline Fisher Vaughan Williams (m. 1897–1951)

Movies: Dim Little Island
Happy birthday Ralph Vaughan Williams! 🇬🇧🎉
Vaughan Williams was responsible for creating a uniquely British sound by integrating modal English folk-song and other elements into his symphonic works. The composer once said:
"The art of music above all the other arts is the expression of the soul of a nation."
We invite you to celebrate with this Sony Classical recording of Leonard Bernstein conducting the New York Philharmonic in Vaughan Williams' Fantastia on Greensleeves.

Fantasia On Greensleeves - Instrumental
Ralph Vaughan Williams · Bernstein Favorites: Twentieth Century
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John Denver - Take Me Home, Country Roads - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vrEljMfXYo

Apr 5, 2013 - Uploaded by JohnDenverVEVO
John Denver's official audio for 'Take Me Home, Country Roads'. Click to listen toJohn Denver on Spotify ...

John Denver - Rocky Mountain High - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOB4VdlkzO4
Apr 5, 2013 - Uploaded by JohnDenverVEVO
John Denver's official audio for 'Rocky Mountain High'. Click to listen to John Denver on Spotify: http ...

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