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Antonio Vivaldi *III 4 1678 — The Life You Give
Antonio Vivaldi, born Antonio Lucio Vivaldi, on March 4 1678, in Venice, Republic of Venice [Italy], is the composer and violinist who left a decisive mark on the form of the concerto and the style of late Baroque instrumental music. Vivaldi’s main teacher was probably his father, Giovanni Battista, who in 1685 was admitted as…
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Life versus Living / Twenty-one days with my Father – 2026
She arranged materials in the shape of leaves and flowers.You planted a garden, and harvested. Had I Served You Coffee — in process, content, notes
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Breath / Twenty-one days with my Father – 2026
First Breath: Love Second Breath: Music Third Breath: Curiosity – II 2026 Had I Served You Coffee — in process
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Lou Reed *III 2 1942 — The Life You Give
Lou Reed, born March 2, 1942, in Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A., is the singer-songwriter whose place in the rock pantheon rests primarily on his role in guiding the Velvet Underground, a New York City-based quartet that produced four poor-selling but enormously influential studio albums under Reed’s direction from 1965 to 1970. Reed’s post-Velvets career, though…
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Kurt Weill *III 2 1900 — The Life You Give
Kurt Weill, born March 2, 1900, in Dessau, Germany, is the composer who created a revolutionary kind of opera of sharp social satire in collaboration with the writer Bertolt Brecht. Weill studied privately with Albert Bing and at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik in Berlin with Engelbert Humperdinck. He gained some experience as an opera…
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vulnere ability / Twenty-one days with my Father – 2026
vulnisvulnerevulnere ablein need not of protectionfor of nature all is safe Vulnerability happensVulnerability is not instructedNeither punished onto the soulnor out of the bodynor fed through formative milkbut heresomething insidecombined with your first arm lullsit happened Absorbedyear after yearin conviction, deepthat you only utter truthnot belieftruthout of your mouthfrom the movement of your handswhether sitting…
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Frédéric Chopin *III 1 1810 — The Life You Give
Frédéric Chopin, Fryderyk Franciszek Szopen, on March 1, 1810, in Żelazowa Wola, near Warsaw, Duchy of Warsaw [now in Poland], was the composer and pianist of the Romantic period, best known for his solo pieces for piano and his piano concerti. Although he wrote little but piano works, many of them brief, Chopin ranks as…
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Gioachino Rossini *II 29 1792 — The Life You Give
Gioachino Rossini, born Gioachino Antonio Rossini, on February 29 1792, in Pesaro, Papal States [Italy], is the composer noted for his operas, particularly his comic operas, of which The Barber of Seville (1816), Cinderella (1817), and Semiramide (1823) are among the best known. Of his later, larger-scale dramatic operas, the most widely heard is William…
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Víctor Hugo *II 26 1802 — The Life You Give
Victor Hugo, born Victor-Marie Hugo, February 26, 1802, in Besançon, France, is the poet, novelist, and dramatist who was the most important of the French Romantic writers. Though regarded in France as one of that country’s greatest poets, he is better known abroad for such novels as Notre-Dame de Paris (1831) and Les Misérables (1862).…
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Enrico Caruso *II 25 1873 — The Life You Give
Enrico Caruso, born February 25, 1873, in Naples, Italy, is the most admired Italian operatic tenor of the early 20th century and one of the first musicians to document his voice on recordings. Caruso was born into a poor family. Although he was a musical child who sang Neapolitan folk songs everywhere and joined his…
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Renata Scotto *II 24 1934 –The Life You Give
Renata Scotto’s long and successful operatic career was marked by a rare combination of dramatic intensity and vocal flexibility, which allowed her to traverse a wide variety of styles. She believed strongly in the theatrical elements of performing and always focused her energies on the meaning of a text. She also felt much of the…











