#Charles Reizenstein

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November 1987. A retelling of the origin of Dr. Mid-Nite in SECRET ORIGINS #20 adds to the sense that this longtime JSA member may have been a gay man. Narrating these events after the fact, McNider remarks that his nurse and research assistant Myra Mason, a regular supporting character in Dr. Mid-Nite's solo strip in ALL-AMERICAN COMICS) was in love with him (which is apparent in the Golden Age stories), but that it was "a love doomed from the start" for reasons he "could never quite bring [himself] to tell her."

Roy Thomas, who wrote this adaptation, later asserted that he hadn't meant to imply that McNider was gay, but couldn't recall what he had intended, and in context, it's hard to see another way to take it. In Dr. Mid-Nite's origin story (both the original and this retelling), McNider does decide not to tell Myra that the explosion that has nearly blinded him somehow gave him the ability to see in the dark, and he doesn't tell her about his new career as Dr. Mid-Nite. However, the way Thomas frames it strongly suggests that whatever McNider couldn't bring himself to tell her existed before the explosion and his subsequent career as a costumed adventurer.

It was a truism of '40s pop culture that being blind or suffering some other serious permanent disability made someone an unsuitable romantic partner, so it wouldn't have been too surprising for McNider to spurn Myra's affections on those grounds, which was the implication in the Golden Age stories.

However, that's not the impression the SECRET ORIGINS story gives. Adding to that the fact that McNider spent the rest of his life as another of the JSA's confirmed bachelors, and that prior to his death during ZERO HOUR, his closest relationship was as a mentor to physician Beth Chapel, and it's hard not to come away thinking maybe he was gay.

[ufonaut]

Well-- before I do away with myself, I think I’ll try once more to get some fun out of things.

Terry Sloane’s first appearance in Sensation Comics (1942) #1

(Charles Reizenstein, Hal Sharp)

[onlylonelylatino]

Mister Terrific by Chuck Winter ghosting as Hal Sharp.

[dailyjsa]

Sensation Comics #2

Writer: Charles Reizenstein

Artist/Inker: Harold Wilson Sharp

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Milestone Anniversaries Coming In 2021 (Part 1: 1941)

Milestone Anniversaries Coming In 2021 (Part 1: 1941)

As it’s New Year’s Day we thought we’d take this time to take a glance back at the past, while keeping one eye on the future with a look at some of the 80th, 60th and 50th anniversaries occurring this year in the colourful world of comics, decade by decade starting with 1941 and travelling through 1951, 1971 and ending up in 1981. But first, back to 1941. England was already two years deep in…

[lesser-known-composers]

Duo for Clarinet & Oboe by Franz Reizenstein

HICO musicians Alex Kollias and Charles Huang

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June 07 in Music History

1730 Birth of composer Georg von Pasterwiz.

1736 Birth of composer Karl Frieberth.

1833 Birth of composer Alexander Ritter.

1837 Birth of French composer Charles-Alexis Chauvet.

1845 Birth of Hungarian violinist and teacher Leopold Auer in Veszprem. 

1846 Birth of composer Wladyslaw Gorski

1863 Death of Austrian composer and organist Franz Gruber.

1865 Birth of composer Guido Gasperini.

1867 Birth of composer Luigi Maurizio Tedeschi.

1872 Birth of Russian tenor Leonid Sobinov in Jaroslavl. 

1873 Birth of English composer, pianist, and conductor Landon Ronald.

1874 Birth of composer Theodor Streicher

1876 Birth of American soprano Alice Nielsen in Nashville. 

1877 Birth of Spanish tenor Jose Palet in Martorell, Barcelona.

1885 Birth of composer Percy Brier.

1888 Birth of American mezzo-soprano Carmella Ponselle in NYC. 

1891 Birth of Argentine composer Athos Palma in Buenos Aires. 

1894 Birth of German composer Hanns Wolf in Bamberg, Germany. 

1896 FP of Hugo Wolf's opera Der Corregidor 'The Governor' at the national theater in Mannheim.

1897 Birth of Hungarian-American conductor and composer George Szell.

1899 Death of Italian composer Sebastiano Caltebiano in Luca. 

1903 Birth of English soprano Margaret Ritchie in Grimsby.

1907 Birth of Italian tenor Mario Filippeschi in Pisa. 

1908 Birth of Italian soprano Margherita Carosio in Genoa. 

1908 Birth of Russian-American pianist and conductor Boris Goldovsky. 

1911 Birth of German composer Franz Reizenstein in Nuremburg.

 1912 Birth of German bass Robert Koffmane in Cologne.

1920 FP of George Gershwin's George White's Scandals of 1920 at the Globe Theater in NYC

1921 Birth of German-English soprano Ilse Wolf.

1922 Birth of composer Hubert Du Plessis.

1927 FP of Serge Prokofiev's ballet Pas d'Acier by the Ballet Russe in Paris.

1928 Birth of American popular music composer Charles Strouse.

1931 Birth of American composer Peter Pindar Stearns in NYC.

1931 Birth of American composer Henry Weinberg.

1932 Birth of American composer David A. Robb in NYC.

1933 FP of Kurt Weill's The Seven Deadly Sins of the Bourgeoisie with text by Bertolt Brecht, in Paris.

1934 Birth of French pianist and conductor Philippe Entremont in Rheims.

1937 Birth of Estonian conductor Neeme JerviI in Tallinn.

1940 Birth of mezzo-soprano Alfreda Hodgson. 

1941 Birth of Bolivian-American violinist Jaime Laredo in Cochabamba.

1945 FP of Benjamin Britten's opera Peter Grimes at Sadler's Wells in London.

1947 Birth of Dutch composer Huub Kerstens in The Hague, Netherlands. 

1948 Death of French composer Georges Hüe in Paris. 

1950 Death of German soprano Gertrud Förstel.

1951 FP of Henri Dutilleux' Symphony No. 1, in Paris.

1954 FP of Luigi Dallapiccola´s Piccola Musica Notturna in Hanover.

1963 Birth of French tenor Roberto Alagna in Clichy-Sur-Bois. 

1967 Birth of Finnish pianist Olli Mustonen.

1972 FP of Aaron Copland's Three Latin American Sketches. New York Philharmonic conducted by André Kostelanetz.

1980 Death of American baritone Richard Bonelli.

1982 Death of English tenor Francis Russell. 

1984 FP of George Crumb's A Haunted Landscape. New York Philharmonic, Arthur Weisberg conducting.

2002 Death of Spanish composer Francisco Escudero in Donostia, San Sebastian, Spain.

[abager]

No one likes to arrive too early at a party. There’s no one to talk to and nowhere to hide. You can’t leave without being conspicuously rude.  In due course you find yourself talking about car insurance (or worse still, Brexit) with other new arrivals. Of course, there’s the decor to look at (paintings you don’t much like) and there’s the buffet, tempting but as yet untouchable.

As hosts, though, we’re always grateful to those who arrive early and get things going.

New social networks have a hard time too. What’s the point of joining if no one’s there?

In gigglemusic, our new social network for classical musicians, we try to solve that problem by offering new users content that doesn’t depend on the community being large. We’ve uploaded the schedules of major classical music venues around the world (for the moment mainly opera houses).

We’ve also entered the ‘diaries’ of the world’s greatest composers – well, the greatest composers writing within the Western tradition or having some significant influence on it. By their diaries I mean their dates and places of birth and death (though many are still alive and kicking) and the dates and places of the first performances of their major works. Almost all of this comes from Wikipedia.

It may be a bit like trainspotting, but I, for one, find it mildly interesting to know where this or that masterpiece was first performed, and when.

To review a composer’s diary, start with People, open a profile, tap Diary and then scroll up to go back in time. Tap on an individual work to find out more. There’s usually a Wikipedia article to link to.

  But who are the world’s greatest composers?

There’s no ideology behind the selection I’ve made, and no conscious exclusions (I’ve even included Carl Orff). They’re just the first 292 composers who came to mind, and for whom there was also a Wikipedia entry. I’m sure the assiduous researcher will detect unconscious bias, but if you do, please tell me who I’ve missed. There’s room for nearly everyone in gigglemusic.

Adam (Adolphe) Adams (John) Adès (Thomas) Albeniz (Isaac) Albinoni (Tomaso) Alwyn (William) Arne (Thomas) Arnold (Malcolm) Auric (Georges) Bach (Carl Philipp Emanuel) Bach (Johann Sebastian) Balakirev (Mily) Barber (Samuel) Bartok (Bela) Bax (Arnold) Beach (Amy) Beamish (Sally) Beethoven (Ludwig van) Bellini (Vincenzo) Bennett (Richard Rodney) Berg (Alban) Berio (Luciano) Berkeley (Lennox) Berkeley (Michael) Berlioz (Hector) Berners (Gerald (Lord)) Bernstein (Leonard) Berwald (Franz) Birtwistle (Harrison) Bizet (Georges) Bliss (Arthur) Blitzstein (Marc) Bloch (Ernst) Blow (John) Bologne (Joseph) Borodin (Alexander) Boulanger (Lili) Boulanger (Nadia) Boulez (Pierre) Bowen (York) Bozza (Eugene) Brahms (Johannes) Brian (Havergal) Bridgetower (George) Britten (Benjamin) Bruch (Max) Bruckner (Anton) Bush (Alan) Busoni (Ferrucio) Butterworth (George) Buxtehude (Dietrich) Cage (John) Canteloube (Joseph) Carter (Elliot) Chabrier (Emmanuel) Chagrin (Francis) Chaminade (Cécile) Charpentier (Gustave) Chausson (Ernest) Cherubini (Luigi) Chopin (Frédéric) Cilea (Francesco) Cimarosa (Domenico) Clarke (Rebecca) Clementi (Muzio) Coleridge-Taylor (Samuel) Copland (Aaron) Corelli (Arcangelo) Cornelius (Peter) Couperin (Francois) Cui (César) Czerny (Carl) Dallapiccola (Luigi) Debussy (Claude) Delibes (Léo) Delius (Frederick) Dittersdorf (Carl Ditters von) Dohnányi (Ernst von) Donizetti (Gaetano) Dorati (Antal) Dukas (Paul) Duruflé (Maurice) Dutilleux (Henri) Dvorak (Antonin) Einem (Gottfried von) Eisler (Hans) Elgar (Edward) Ellington (Duke) Enescu (George) Erkel (Ferenc) Falla (Manuel de) Fauré (Gabriel) Feldman (Morton) Ferguson (Howard) Ferneyhough (Brian) Field (John) Finzi (Gerald) Francaix (Jean) Franck (César) Gabrieli (Giovanni) Gershwin (George) Ginastera (Alberto) Giordano (Umberto) Glass (Philip) Glazunov (Alexander) Glière (Reinhold) Glinka (Mikhail) Gluck (Christoph Willibald) Górecki (Henryk) Gounod (Charles) Grainger (Percy) Granados (Enrique) Grieg (Edvard) Grovlez (Gabriel) Gubaidulina (Sofia) Gurney (Ivor) Haas (Pavel) Handel (George Frideric) Harty (Hamilton) Haydn (Joseph) Head (Michael) Hindemith (Paul) Hoddinott (Alun) Holliger (Heinz) Holst (Gustav) Honegger (Arthur) Howells (Herbert) Hummel (Johann Nepomuk) Humperdinck (Engelbert) Ibert (Jacques) Indy (Vincent d’) Ireland (John) Ives (Charles) Jacob (Gordon) Janacek (Leos) Jolivet (André ) Joplin (Scott) Kalivoda (Jan) Kálmán (Emmerich) Khachaturian (Aram) Knussen (Oliver) Kodaly (Zoltan) Koechlin (Charles) Korngold (Erich) Krenek (Ernst) Krommer (Franz) Kurtág (György) Lalo (Édouard) Lang (David) Lauridsen (Morten) Leclair (Jean-Marie) Lehár (Franz) Leifs (Jón) Leigh (Walter) Leoncavallo (Ruggero) Ligeti (Gyorgy) Liszt (Franz) Loeillet (Jean Baptiste) Lyadov (Anatoly) Mahler (Alma) Mahler (Gustav) Marcello (Alessandro) Martin (Frank) Martinu (Bohuslav) Mascagni (Pietro) Massenet (Jules) Maxwell Davies (Peter) Medtner (Nikolai) Mendelssohn (Felix) Menotti (Gian Carlo) Messiaen (Olivier) Meyerbeer (Giacomo) Milhaud (Darius) Moeran (Ernest) Monteverdi (Claudio) Morricone (Ennio) Moyzes (Alexander) Mozart (Wolfgang Amadeus) Mussorgsky (Modest) Nancarrow (Conlon) Nielsen (Carl) Nono (Luigi) Nyman (Michael) Offenbach (Jacques) Orff (Carl) Pachelbel (Johann) Paderewski (Ignacy Jan) Paganini (Niccolò) Paisiello (Giovanni) Palestrina (Giovanni Pierluigi da) Panufnik (Andrzej) Parry (Hubert) Pärt (Arvo) Pasculli (Antonio) Penderecki (Krzysztof) Pepusch (Johann Christoph) Pergolesi (Giovanni) Piazzola (Astor) Poulenc (Francis) Previn (André) Price (Florence) Prokofiev (Sergei) Puccini (Giacomo) Purcell (Henry) Quantz (Johann Joachim) Quilter (Roger) Rachmaninoff (Sergei) Raff (Joachim) Rameau (Jean-Philippe) Ravel (Maurice) Reger (Max) Reich (Steve) Reinecke (Carl) Reizenstein (Franz) Respighi (Ottorino) Richardson (Alan) Riley (Terry) Rimsky-Korsakov (Nikolai) Rodrigo (Joaquín) Rossini (Giacomo) Rota (Nino) Rubbra (Edmund) Saint-Saëns (Camille) Salieri (Antonio) Sammartini (Giovanni Battista) Satie (Erik) Scarlatti (Domenico) Schnittke (Alfred) Schoeck (Othmar) Schoenberg (Arnold) Schubert (Franz) Schumann (Clara) Schumann (Robert) Scriabin (Alexander) Sessions (Roger) Shostakovich (Dmitri) Sibelius (Jean) Sinding (Christian) Skalkottas (Nikos) Smetana (Bedrich) Smyth (Ethel) Sondheim (Stephen) Sorabji (Kaikhosru Shapurji) Spohr (Louis) Stanford (Charles Villiers) Stenhammar (Wilhelm) Still (William Grant) Stockhausen (Karlheinz) Strauss (Johann) I Strauss (Johann) II Strauss (Richard) Stravinsky (Igor) Suk (Josef) Sullivan (Arthur) Sweelinck (Jan Pieterszoon) Szymanowski (Karol) Tailleferre (Germaine) Takemitsu (Toru) Tallis (Thomas) Tavener (John) Tchaikovsky (Pyotr) Tcherepnin (Alexander) Tcherepnin (Nikolai) Telemann (Georg Philipp) Thompson (Virgil) Tippett (Michael) Tubin (Edward) Turnage (Mark-Anthony) Varese (Edgard) Vaughan Williams (Ralph) Verdi (Giuseppe) Vierne (Louis) Villa-Lobos (Heitor) Vivaldi (Antonio) Wagner (Richard) Walker (George) Walton (William) Warlock (Peter) Weber (Carl Maria von) Webern (Anton) Weelkes (Thomas) Weill (Kurt) Weir (Judith) Widor (Charles-Marie) Williams (John) Williamson (Malcolm) Wolf (Hugo) Xenakis (Iannis) Ysaÿe (Eugène) Yun (Isang) Zelenka (Jan Dismas) Zemlinsky (Alexander von)

  The Great Composers No one likes to arrive too early at a party. There's no one to talk to and nowhere to hide.

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Henry Thomas cast as Dr. Mid-Nite in DC's Stargirl

Henry Thomas cast as Dr. Mid-Nite in DC’s Stargirl

Henry Thomas has been enjoying a career resurgence as of late, known for his role of Elliot in E.T., Thomas has popped up again on the Cult faction radar in films such as Fire in the Sky. This year though, Thomas cemented himself as a major player with his outstanding turn in The Haunting of Hill House. Now this resurgence continues as it has been revealed that Thomas will play Dr. Charles…

[cantsayidont]

January 1942. If you want to talk about probably closeted JSA members, it seems like Terry Sloane (the first Mr. Terrific) should be high on the list. His origin story explains that he was a child prodigy who became a star athlete and a hugely successful businessman, but was gripped by a profound sense of alienation from his peers that he couldn't really explain. He finally became so depressed that he decided to kill himself by driving his car off a bridge. This plan was interrupted when he saw a young woman named Wanda Wilson jump off the same bridge. Thinking, "Can't let the little fool die--I must save her," Terry dived in after Wanda and rescued her. After she explained her problem — she was raising her younger brother, who'd fallen in with a bad crowd — Terry decided to delay his suicide long enough to intervene:

The badge on his very silly-looking costume reads, "FAIR PLAY," which I think we're supposed to assume he's pried off one of his old trophies. These kids subsequently gave him his name: "Mr. Terrific" (which is not the silliest name for a Golden Age costumed hero, but definitely up there). He later joined the Justice Society, although he appeared in only one published Golden Age adventure (ALL-STAR COMICS #24); his solo strip in SENSATION COMICS ran through 1947, after which he retired and became an English lit instructor at Gateway University. As later established in JSA, he never married or had any children of his own, but he raised his niece Veronica after the disappearance of his brother Ned in 1951.

The original Mr. Terrific is now best known for his murder: He was killed in 1979 by a (never-before seen) old enemy called the Spirit King in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #171, for reasons unknown.

[onlylonelylatino]

Introduction and Origin of Mr. Terrific by Hal Sharp

[dailyjsa]

Sensation Comics #2

Writer: Charles Reizenstein

Artist/Inker: Harold Wilson Sharp

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Amy Smart And More Join DC Universe's Stargirl

Amy Smart And More Join DC Universe’s Stargirl

  Courtney Whitmore’s (Brec Bassinger) family rounds out as DC Universe’ Stargirl inches closer to production.

TVLine reports Amy Smart has been cast as Courtney’s mother, Barbara, in the upcoming series. Based on the character created by Geoff Johns and Lee Moder, Stargirlcenters on Courtney, a teenager from Los Angeles who moves to Blue Valley, Nebraska when Barbara remarries. She soon…

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Sensation Comics #1

Writer: Charles Reizenstein

Artist/Inker: Harold Wilson Sharp

[dailyjsa]

Sensation Comics #1

Writer: Charles Reizenstein

Artist/Inker: Harold Wilson Sharp