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Finally,
the Roman festival closed on the twenty-seventh of March with a
procession to the brook Almo. The silver image of the goddess,
with its face of jagged black stone, sat in a wagon drawn by
oxen. Preceded by the nobles walking barefoot, it moved slowly, to
the loud music of pipes and tambourines, out by the Porta Capena,
and so down to the banks of the Almo, which flows into the Tiber
just below the walls of Rome. There the high-priest, robed in
purple, washed the wagon, the image, and the other sacred objects
in the water of the stream. On returning from their bath, the wain
and the oxen were strewn with fresh spring flowers. All was mirth
and gaiety. No one thought of the blood that had flowed so lately.
Even the eunuch priests forgot their wounds. Force is not a remedy. All creative people should be required to leave California for three months every year.
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I have gone through a long apprenticeship. I have gone through enough of being a nobody. I have decided that when I am a star, I will be every inch and every moment the star! Everybody from the studio gateman to the highest executive will know it.
Gloria Swanson
It's the saddest night of my life. I'm just twenty six. Where do I go from here?
Gloria Swanson; to her mother following her triumphant return to Hollywood in 1925 after making
Madame Sans Gene in France
[Sarah Vaughan's] control of timbre, pitch, articulation and dynamics, her ability to improvise harmonically, melodically and rhythmically, and the very sound of her instrument rank her with the best jazz instrumentalists.
Gary Giddins, 1979
[Sarah Vaughan] was my guru for hanging out for five days without sleep. She really gave me my postgraduate degree in that. Some of the best times we had were when she'd come to the house and cook chilli for me. She left a real big hole in my life.
Quincy Jones
Good God, [Sarah Vaughan] can't do that. Tell her to sing it straight. That stuff will never get anywhere. We'll lose our shirt.
Record Company Executive, 1946
[Sarah Vaughan's] resources began to come together and a unique artist emerged...an exceptional range (roughly of soprano through baritone), exceptional body, volume, a variety of vocal textures, and superb and highly personal vocal control.
Martin Williams; The Jazz Tradition, OUP, 1983
Sassy is so good that when I listen to her I want to cut my wrists with a dull razor.
Frank Sinatra
on Sarah Vaughan
Sarah Vaughan is an orgy in tones. She plays around with a couple of octaves more in the most fantastic way. And even if she sings a song we know so well, she does it in her own completely sovereign way, and with a dynamic musicianship that is staggering ...
Aftenavisen review of the Tivoli Concerts, July 1963
Judy Garland was the singer I most wanted to sound like then, not to copy, but to get some of her soul and purity. A wonderful young voice.
Sarah Vaughan
What was the competition? Well, I remember this Puerto Rican who came out in a short skirt and a gun.
Sarah Vaughan; on winning the Amateur Night contest in 1943
There are notes between notes, you know.
Sarah Vaughan
My dream is to do whatever I want without any interference from the record company.
Sarah Vaughan
I dig Doris Day.
Sarah Vaughan, 1957
When I sing, trouble can sit right on my shoulder and I don't even notice.
Sarah Vaughan
March
27
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day of the year in the Gregorian
calendar (87th in leap years), with 279
days remaining.
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Festival of Hilaria, in honour of Cybele, ancient Rome (Mar 15 - 27)
Today marked the end of the festival of Cybele, the
Anatolian mother goddess of mountains and fertility, and a
life-death-rebirth deity,
who was adopted by the Romans as their own Mother of the Gods.
In 204, Cybele's sacred black statue, which was carved from a meteorite from Pessinus in Anatolia (in modern Turkey), was shipped to Rome, where it arrived on April 4. This statue and the cultus that surrounded it became very important parts of the Roman religion.
The Hilaria was a Roman festival of the Vernal Equinox.
Today was the final day, the lavatio, on which the Romans performed
the ceremonial rites of washing – the tradition that some cultures know
today as Spring cleaning. Also today was the annual procession in honour
of the Mother of the Gods, and the carriage in which her image was carried
was washed in the waters of the Almo, a Roman stream.
The Christian writer,
St Augustine, who was born in North Africa in about 345, tells us:
"When
I was a young man I used to go to … spectacles put on in honour of gods
and goddesses – in honour of the Heavenly Virgin, and of Berecynthia [a
title of Cybele],
mother of all. On the yearly festival of Berecynthia's washing, actors
sang, in front of her litter … they performed [rites] in the presence of
the Mother of the Gods before an immense audience of spectators of both
sexes … And the name of the ceremony is 'the fercula', which might
suggest the giving of a dinner-party." (The City of God, 11, 4)
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