March 21 is the birthday of JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH (1685-1750).

"The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul."

Bach "was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque period. He is known for his orchestral music such as the Brandenburg Concertos; instrumental compositions such as the Cello Suites; keyboard works such as the Goldberg Variations and The Well-Tempered Clavier; organ works such as the Schubler Chorales and the Toccata and Fugue in D minor; and vocal music such as the St Matthew Passion and the Mass in B minor. Since the 19th-century Bach revival he has been generally regarded as one of the greatest composers in the history of Western music." (Wikipedia)

March 21 is the birthday of Russian composer MODEST MUSSORGSKY (1839-1891).

Mussorgsky "was a Russian composer, one of the group known as 'The Five.' He was an innovator of Russian music in the Romantic period. He strove to achieve a uniquely Russian musical identity, often in deliberate defiance of the established conventions of Western music." (Wikipedia)

March 21 is the birthday of French film director ERIC ROHMER (1920-2010).

"Rohmer was the last of the post-World War II French New Wave directors to become established. He edited the influential film journal, Cahiers du cinéma, from 1957 to 1963, while most of his colleagues—among them Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut—were making the transition from film critics to filmmakers and gaining international attention.

Rohmer gained international acclaim around 1969 when his film My Night at Maud's was nominated at the Academy Awards. He won the San Sebastián International Film Festival with Claire's Knee in 1971 and the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival for The Green Ray in 1986. Rohmer went on to receive the Venice Film Festival's Career Golden Lion in 2001." (Wikipedia)

March 21 is the birthday of English-French stage director PETER BROOK (1925-2022).

"Theatre is, occasionally, capable of moments of truth."

"In the mid-1970s, Brook, with writer Jean-Claude Carrière, began work on adapting the Indian epic poem the Mahabharata into a stage play, which was first performed in 1985 and later developed into a televised mini series.

In a long article in 1985, The New York Times noted "overwhelming critical acclaim", and that the play 'did nothing less than attempt to transform Hindu myth into universalized art, accessible to any culture." (Wikipedia)