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The Life You Give: Barbra Streisand *IV 24 1942
Barbra Streisand, born Barbara Joan Streisand, April 24, 1942, in Brooklyn, New York, is the singer, composer, actress, director, and producer who was considered by many to be the greatest popular singer of her generation. The first major female star to command roles as a Jewish actress, Streisand redefined female stardom in the 1960s and…
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The Life You Give: Sergey Prokofiev *IV 23 1891
Sergey Prokofiev, born Sergey Sergeyevich Prokofiev on April 23 1891, in Sontsovka, Ukraine, is the composer who wrote in a wide range of musical genres, including symphonies, concerti, film music, operas, ballets, and program pieces. Prokofiev (Prokofjev in the transliteration system of the Russian Academy of Sciences) was born into a family of agriculturalists. Village…
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Bamboo Hand Broom
A hand broom to somea decorative piece to othersthis is one of my latest acquisitions– just a broombut to function in the context of sound, music, acoustic.
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The Life You Give: Ethel Smyth *IV 22 1858
Dame Ethel Smyth, born Ethel Mary Smyth, on April 22, 1858, in London, is the composer whose work was notably eclectic, ranging from conventional to experimental. Born into a military family, Smyth studied at the Leipzig Conservatory and was encouraged by Johannes Brahms and Antonín Dvořák. She first gained notice with her sweeping Mass in…
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Secular question:
Who comes up with these colors? What causes them, and why the diversity of hues?
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Seven days later — Japanese Cherry Flowers
on April 20th on April 13th
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Recurring Music Series: Symphony, Mahler #3
Recurrence brings intentionality:* One discovers more than the first time* One contemplates and deciphers the varied interpretations by conductor and orchestra* The state of the individual listener will change through having eaten garlic or no garlic, through joy or suffering, or based on a peaceful sleep or a difficult and aggressive conversation beforehand, thus changing…
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Germaine Tailleferre *IV 19 1892 / The Life You Give
Of significance as the sole female member of the post-World War I group of French composers known as Les Six, Germaine Tailleferre remained a prominent — if somewhat inaccessible — musician long after the disintegration of that group during the middle and late 1920s. She left behind, at her death in 1983 at the age…
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— revisiting the blueberry-basil-cornbread
Many European and US-American years went by, without me fasting. Each morning I had some form of breakfast, light or intense, as celebration or as mere quotidian digestive flow. However, moments during these few years, in which I felt physically and mentally filled, kept telling me that some cleansing was needed. Feeling filled does not…
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Charlie Chaplin *IV 16 1889 / The Life You Give
Charlie Chaplin, byname of Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin, (born April 16, 1889, London, England, is the comedian, producer, writer, director, and composer who is widely regarded as the greatest comic artist of the screen and one of the most important figures in motion-picture history. Early life and career Chaplin was named after his father, a…
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