Category: Music – Theater

Be not afraid of greatness:some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. – From Act II, Scene V of “Twelfth Night”  by William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

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Three Days Grace

Three Days Grace

Three Days Grace
  • Adam Gontier: [Lead Vocals, Guitar]
  • Neil Sanderson: [Drums]
  • Brad Walst: [Bass, Vocals]
  • Barry Stock: [Lead Guitar]

"At one point when we were on the road, I felt like I had a target on my back. I felt like there were a lot of things getting thrown at me that I had to deal with and I felt alone? I was the only one who could really understand myself." – Adam Gontier

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Aeschylus

Aeschylus

Aeschylus

525 – 456 B.C., Athenian tragic dramatist, b. Eleusis. The first of the three great Greek writers of tragedy, Aeschylus was the predecessor of Sophocles and Euripides. 1
Aeschylus fought at Marathon and at Salamis. In 476 B.C. he went to Sicily to live at the court of Hiero I, and he died at Gela. He wrote perhaps 90 plays (7 survive in full) and won 13 first prizes at the Greater Dionysia, the spring dramatic festival in which each dramatist submitted four connected plays—a tragic trilogy and a lighter satyr play. 2

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Clowns

Clowns The three most celebrated are Joseph Grimaldi (1779-1837), the French Carlin (1713-1783), and Richard Tarlton, in the days of Queen Elizabeth, who acted at the galleried inn called the Belle Sauvage.

"To sit with Tarlton on an alehouse signe."

Bishop Hall: Satires. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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