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The Life You Give: Gustav Mahler *VII 7 1860
Gustav Mahler, born July 7, 1860, in Kaliště, Bohemia, Austrian Empire, is the composer and conductor, noted for his 10 symphonies and various songs with orchestra, which drew together many different strands of Romanticism. Although his music was largely ignored for 50 years after his death, Mahler was later regarded as an important forerunner of…
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Frida Kahlo *VII 6 1907: The Life You Give / La Vida Que Das
See English biography below Todos sabemos que las mujeres no pasaron a la historia del arte como debían. Muy pocas están en el Olimpo de los grandes artistas, pero sin duda hay excepciones y Frida Kahlo es una de ellas. Magdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo y Calderón fue una de las pintoras más conocidas de Mexico…
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Ingmar Bergman — Preliminares a su cumpleaños
Biografía Hijo de Karin y Erik Bergman, Ingmar nació el 14 de julio 1918 en Uppsala, Suecia.Segundo hijo de la joven pareja, sufrió desde sus primeros días graves problemas de salud. Ante el temor por la frágil supervivencia del pequeño, su abuela lo acogió en su casa de Dalecarlia, donde poco a poco Ingmar recuperó…
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Ingmar Bergman *VII 14 1918 / The Life You Give (Preliminaries)
Please, bear with me as I repeat something I must repeat. While living in the lively and artistic city of Liège, Belgium, (1995-2000) swimming, soaring and diving into questions and thoughts on what it means to be a human, and furthering artistic concepts around the topic of the process of dying, one conclusion appeared with…
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry *VI 29 1900 / The Life You Give
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, born Antoine-Marie-Roger de Saint-Exupéry, June 29, 1900, in Lyon, France, is the aviator and writer whose works are the unique testimony of a pilot and a warrior who looked at adventure and danger with a poet’s eyes. His fable Le Petit Prince (The Little Prince) has become a modern classic. Saint-Exupéry came…
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Symphony Number Nine — Mahler (VI 26 1912 premiere)
Listening to the 9th Symphony of Mahler With the Ninth Mahler returns to a purely orchestral Symphony, after having succeeded in integrating chorus and orchestra in his Eighth, and the genres of the song cycle and Symphony and Das Lied von der Erde, Mahler turns his attention to the purely abstract orchestral music of his…
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The Life You Give: Anthony Bourdain *1956
Anthony Bourdain, born Anthony Michael Bourdain, June 25, 1956, in New York City, New York, U.S.A., is the chef, author, and television personality who helped popularize “foodie” culture in the early 21st century through his books and television programs. Raised in New Jersey, Bourdain first took an interest in food when he ate an oyster…
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