Current mood:	productive
Current music:	CBC Radio 2's The Signal with Laurie Brown
Entry tags:	coincidences, death, schoenberg, self-fulfilling prophecy

The death of Arnold Schoenberg
Tonight on The Signal, my favourite CBC radio show, Laurie Brown is playing a piece by Arnold Schoenberg, performed by Martin Tielli, a guitarist for the Rheostatics. The Radio 2 website has this bit of trivia about Schoenberg, taken from Tielli's website, originally from a book called Uncle John's Ahh-Inspiring Bathroom Reader:

Schoenberg was born September 13, 1874, and believed he would probably die on the 13th as well. He predicted it was most likely he would die on a Friday the 13th, and in 1951, when he was 76 (7+6=13). July 13, 1951 fell on a Friday, and Shoenberg stayed in bed that day, awaiting death. In the evening, his wife went to his room to scold him for wasting an entire day so foolishly. When she opened the door, Shoenberg looked up at her, uttered the single word "harmony," and dropped dead. Time of death: 11:47 p.m. ... 13 minutes before midnight.