Today’s Birthdays:
 
Mike Nichols,
director of “Spamalot,”
and Maria Shriver

Yesterday evening’s entry, “Grail,” continued:

“To von Eschenbach, the Grail was never really a material cup, but a jewel like the jewel in the lotus, a symbol of enlightenment, of something intangible and always beyond reach.

I must confess that the reason I know this is because I’m a bit of an opera fan. The work of von Eschenbach was a source for Wagner….”

— From the weblog Arcadian Functor, Nov. 6, 2006

West Coast Story:
A musical adaptation of
Romeo and Juliet

Featuring
“A Girl Named Maria”

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and

“Bring Us Together”

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(Official inaugural ball
theme of Richard M. Nixon)