Since this is another one of those coincidences of numerology for month and day this year, time to recycle one of 3CM's old SNLC stand-by themes, and compile lists of cultural references with "4" as a theme. Although, given self's ancestry, the number 4 is perhaps not the wisest choice, metaphysically, for reasons to be given in the tip jar. That having been said.....
Literature:
Arthur Conan Doyle: The Sign of Four
Jan de Hartog: The Fourposter
T.S. Eliot: "Four Quartets"
Louise Erdich: Four Souls
Stephen King: Four Past Midnight
A.E.W. Mason: The Four Feathers
Sena Jeter Naslund: Four Spirits
For the sports-inclined, there's also Jim Bouton's Ball Four.
Movies:
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921 and 1962 versions)
The Four Feathers (1939 and 2002 versions)
The Four Musketeers
The Four Seasons
De Vierde Man (The Fourth Man)
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Four Rooms
Four Brothers
Notable classical music "fours" or "fourths":
Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 4
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4, Symphony No. 4 (my favorite of LvB's 9 symphonies, BTW)
Franz Berwald: Symphony No. 4 (he wrote 4 symphonies in all)
Brahms: Symphony No. 4 (also wrote 4 symphonies total)
Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 ("The Romantic")
Hindemith: The Four Temperaments
Mahler: Symphony No. 4 (with a soprano in the last movement; note teacherken's recent Mahler diary as well as the following video link)
Frank Martin: Les quatre elements (The Four Elements)
Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 4, K. 218
Bohuslav Martinů: Symphony No. 4 (50th anniversary of his death this year, BTW)
Carl Nielsen: Symphony No. 2 (The Four Temperaments); Symphony No. 4 (Det Uudslukkelige, The Inextinguishable; notable for dueling timpanists towards the end)
OK, if you insist on a performance actually from Nielsen's own country, Denmark:
Walter Piston: Symphony No. 4 (some consider this the best American symphony yet written)
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 4 (written for the one-armed pianist Paul Wittgenstein, who then refused to perform it)
Robert Schumann: Symphony No. 4
Jean Sibelius: Symphony No. 4 (the darkest of his 7 symphonies)
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4
Vivaldi: Le Quattro Stagioni (The Four Seasons, op. 8, nos. 1-4 [but the whole series of op. 8 has 12 concerti)
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 4
Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen (cycle of 4 operas)
Tangenting from this, and given recent events, I found this line from the Prescott Daily Courier of April 4, 2009 from using "teh Google":
"The chief obstacle of an effective civic control of the sale of deadly weapons, especially firearms, lies in the bourbonism of police officials who deem the revolver so much a part of the normal of mankind that the very idea of suppressing their use is set down at once as a dream."
On the lighter (somewhat) side, from the New Mexican of April 4, 1909:
"Coal Oil Inspector S.B. Grimshaw took charge of the office of territorial coal oil inspector today and will maintain an office at the Capitol. He will also personally, at least for the present, supervise the coal oil inspection in the Santa Fe district."
"Territorial Game Warden Thomas P. Gable took charge of his office today, succeeding W.E. Griffin. He has appointed Page B. Otero as his deputy. Page Otero is suffering with a badly swollen wrist as the result of being bitten by a poisonous spider."
(2nd Ed. edit: And, of course, we are in the midst of the NCAA Final Four now. Thx to jlms qkw for the reminder.)
Hopefully self will not be reading about any spider bites in your loser stories of the week below :) ......