it's Rossini's birthday, dagnabit
Feb. 29th, 2012 03:51 pmMaybe it's that the web has gone that much more feature-story-oriented in the last four years, but I can't recall having seen so many stories about people born on Leap Day before.
But none of them mention the most celebrated of them all, the great composer G.A. Rossini. ("Rossini was born five months after his parents got married," reports Victor Borge. "And it taught him a lesson: he was never early for another appointment in his entire life.")
Here, have a little Rossini. It'll be another four years before you can listen to him on his birthday again, you know:
Nor do they mention the most renowned fictional Leap Day baby. Here he is, and his consequent dilemma outlined:
But none of them mention the most celebrated of them all, the great composer G.A. Rossini. ("Rossini was born five months after his parents got married," reports Victor Borge. "And it taught him a lesson: he was never early for another appointment in his entire life.")
Here, have a little Rossini. It'll be another four years before you can listen to him on his birthday again, you know:
Nor do they mention the most renowned fictional Leap Day baby. Here he is, and his consequent dilemma outlined: