I recorded this, my first album, in 1990. On the cover is a photograph of a clay sculpture by Susan Wilfong, my mother. Songs of the Starry Skies Just as impressionist painters enhance our perceptions with splashes of color and sweeping brushstrokes, so do composers with melodies and harmonies. Set to music, poems metamorphose into arias.
Films become uplifting, romantic adventures.
Russia launches first artificial satellite. Russia's Luna 1 is 1st probe to orbit the sun. Cosmonaut Yuri Gargarin becomes 1st man in space. Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova is 1st woman in space. Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov conducts 1st spacewalk.