Carlo or Camillo Bargoni, an Italian composer, is best known for his “Concerto d’Otono” (Autumn Concerto). It was a “pocket concerto” in the manner of the “Warsaw Concerto” by Richard Adddinsell. Written in 1956, it was first was heard on the BBC, performed by Alberto Semprini in 1957. It also became popular as the song “And that reminds me” or “My heart reminds me” with lyrics by Albert Stillman and Paul Siegel. Della Reese recorded the first English version in 1957, and it proved to be the song that gave her stardom. Bargoni wrote some 15 songs, recorded in three languages, but the one that appears often in compilations and that has been recorded by many top artists is “Autumn Concerto” and its song version.
David Cowan Barker was born on March 21, 1831, in Bolton, England.
He was a Montreal Iron and Metal merchant.
In 1858, he married Annie Jackson Ferguson (1837–1865) and, in 1867, he remarried Mary Jane Hobson (1844–1906). He died on September 14, 1909, in Montreal, Quebec.
Sir Ernest Barker was born on September 23, 1874, in Stockport, Cheshire, England.
He was an English historian, teacher, and writer. He was educated at Manchester Grammar School and Balliol College, Oxford University. Barker was a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, from 1898 to 1905, St John's College, Oxford, from 1909 to 1913, and New College, Oxford, from 1913 to 1920. He spent a brief time at the London School of Economics. He served as Principal of King's College London from 1920 to 1927, and subsequently became Professor of Political Science at the University of Cambridge in 1928, being the first holder of the chair endowed by the Rockefeller Foundation. In June 1936, he was elected to serve on the Liberal Party Council. Barker was knighted in 1944. In 1958, he was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His many works included "The Political Thought of Plato and Aristotle" (1906), "Political Thought in England from Herbert Spencer to the Present Day" (1915), "National Character and the Factors in its Foundation" (1927), "Reflections on Government" (1942) and "Principles of Social and Political Theory" (1951).
In 1900, he married Emily Isabel Salkeld (1871–1924) and, in 1927, he remarried Lady Olivia Stuart Horner (1891-1976). He died on February 17, 1960, in Cambridge, England.
