| 11-14 TABLE of CONTENTS:
The other Mendelssohn
DATES, ANNIVERSARIES, and
EVENTS
QUOTE by
Marie de France.
Fanny Cacilia Mendelssohn
Born Nov. 14, 1805, Fanny Cacilia Mendelssohn
(Hensel), a brilliant composer but an obedient daughter so we'll never
know how much was her brother's work and how much Fanny's. Her early works
were published under Felix's name because of family opposition to a woman
being notorious, i.e, having any name or reputation of her own. It is believed
much of her work is unknown and unpublished although there are a number
of works recognized as hers and that were published under her name after
her marriage.
Felix
said he often consulted with Fanny on his own compositions. Queen Victoria
once sang the very popular Halien in Felix's presence thinking it
was his composition, but he admitted that Fanny had written it. Oddly,
Felix's music remains a part of the modern orchestral repertory, but Fanny
is only a footnote.
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11-14 DATES, ANNIVERSARIES, and
EVENTS
B. 11-14-1813, Louise Van der Schrieck, superior-provincial
of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, who oversaw the starting of about
50 parochial schools in the early U,S.
B. 11-14-1860, Isabel Bevier founded and headed
the Home Economics Department of the University of Illinois.
B. 11-14-1876, Yekaterina Vasilyevna Geltzer,
prima ballerina who helped preserve the techniques and traditions of
the Imperial Russian Ballet in the bad times following the Russian Revolution.
B. 11-14-1884, Camille A. Gutt, international
banker, headed the International Monetary Fund 1946-51.
B. 11-14-1885, Constance Mayfield Rourke, author
and critic, renowned authority and preservationist of folk tales, music,
and traditions.
B. 11-14-1907, Astrid Lindgren, Swedish writer
primarily of children's books.
B. 11-14-1930, Dame Elisabeth Jean Frink, British
sculptor best known for her naturalistic figures in monumental size.
Event 11-14-1984, a $38 million settlement
was announced in the class action suit against A. H. Robbin's Dalkon
Shield. Robbin's agreed to pay to have the intrauterine device removed.
Robbin's, almost six months later, established a multi-million dollar fund
to compensate women who were injured while using the Dalkon Shield. A number
of deaths were reported attributable to the device.
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QUOTES DU JOUR
De FRANCE, MARIE:
"Indeed, I condemned myself when I slandered all womankind."
-- Marie de France (1160-1215?), from the
poem, Le Fresne,The Ash Tree.
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