Artists
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I am truly listening to Sergei Rachmaninoff
Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff was born in Russia, on the first of April of 1873 into a musical family, and began playing the piano at the age of four. He spent many years living in New York City. Thinking of him as a neighbor, gives me a wonderful sensation, knowing that such an iconic human lived…
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to be Louise Bourgeois
It is not so much where my motivation comes from but rather how it manages to survive. Louise Bourgeois 1911-2010 I am not what I am, I am what I do with my hands… Louise Bourgeois One must accept the fact that others don’t see what you do. Louise Bourgeois
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Celebration Day — thirty-one
No other composer, no public figure has ever played consequential roles in my life like Phillip Glass. It all began with a physical, mental, perhaps even spiritual shock in 1982, when I sat in Carnegie Hall and experienced his music for the first time. That year I moved to Boston, where, not long after that,…
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You have to believe in yourself…
You have to believe in yourself. If not, change profession. Rodion Shchedrin (*1932) in conversation with Martha Argerich in 2011, during a rehearsal of “Romantic Offering” — double concerto for piano, violoncello, and orchestra — with Argerich (piano), and Mischa Maisky (cello).
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In the Words of David Bowie
The truth is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time. David Bowie / David Robert Jones (1947-2016)
Sila Blume 