Celebration Day
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Brian May *VII 19 1947 / The Life You Give
Few rock guitarists possess a playing style as instantly recognizable as Queen’s Brian May. With his orchestrated guitar armies (multi-tracked guitar lines overdubbed on top of each other) and instantly memorable, well-constructed melodic leads, May is in a class all by himself. Born in Hampton, Middlesex, in July 1947, May showed an interest in music…
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Evelyn Glennie *VII 19 1965 / The Life You Give
Evelyn Glennie is the world’s foremost, and first full-time, solo percussionist. She has been pivotal to the expansion of percussion as solo instruments, personally having commissioned over 200 new works. The recipient of enormous media attention due to her deafness, Glennie is likewise noteworthy for the variety of her repertoire and recording projects. Glennie was…
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Carlos Santana *VII 18 1947 — The Life You Give / La Vida Que Das
– Lea la biografía en español abajo – Carlos Santana, born Carlos Humberto Santana Barragán, July 20, 1947, in Autlán de Navarro, Mexico), is the musician whose popular music combined rock, jazz, blues, and Afro-Cuban rhythms with a Latin sound. Santana began playing the violin at age five; by age eight, however, he had switched…
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Nelson Mandela *VII 18 1918 / The Life You Give
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was born in Transkei, South Africa on July 18, 1918. His father was Hendry Mphakanyiswa of the Tembu Tribe. Mandela himself was educated at University College of Fort Hare and the University of Witwatersrand where he studied law. He joined the African National Congress in 1944 and was engaged in resistance against…
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The Life a you Give: Linda Ronstadt *VII 15 1946
Linda Ronstadt, born Linda Marie Ronstadt, July 15, 1946, in Tucson, Arizona, U.S.A., is the singer with a pure, expressive soprano voice and eclectic artistic tastes, whose performances called attention to a number of new songwriters and helped establish country rock music. After winning attention with a folk-oriented trio, the Stone Poneys, in California in…
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“Scenes from a Marriage” — Days with Ingmar Bergman *VII 14 1918 / The Life You Give
Scenes from a MarriageTelevision miniseries about the breakdown of a marriage that sent Sweden’s divorce rate soaring. “It took two and a half months to write these scenes; it took a whole adult life to live.”Ingmar Bergman On 27 March 1972 Ingmar Bergman wrote in his workbook: ‘Here’s something we can do for the fun…
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“Through a Glass Darkly” — Days with Ingmar Bergman *VII 14 1918 / The Life You Give
The great subject of the cinema, Ingmar Bergman believed, is the human face. He’d been watching Antonioni on television, he told me during an interview, and realized it wasn’t what Antonioni said that absorbed him, but the man’s face. Bergman was not thinking about anything as simple as a closeup, I believe. He was thinking…
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La Vida Que Das / The Life You Give: Pablo Neruda *VII 11 1904
El mundo de la literatura es grotescamente amplio, con una cantidad de autores que, a lo largo de los años, han aportado su pequeño grano de arena al mundo literario. Sin embargo, algunos son más reconocidos que otros por diversas razones, incluso para aquellas personas que no son muy allegadas a la lectura, algunos nombres…
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“Cries and Whispers” — Days with Ingmar Bergman *VII 14 1918 / The Life You Give
‘Cries and Whispers” envelops us in a tomb of dread, pain and hate, and to counter these powerful feelings it summons selfless love. It is, I think, Ingmar Bergman’s way of treating his own self-disgust, and his envy of those who have faith. His story, which takes place inside a Swedish manor house on the…
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Vinko Globokar *VII 7 1934 / The Life You Give
The music of this Yugoslavian composer and trombonist is unique and very difficult to classify. Globokar made his debut as a jazz tombone soloist in Yugoslavia, where he lived from 1947 to 1955. While living in Ljubljana, he studied at the music school and conservatory and graduated in 1954. Upon returning to France, he continued…
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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 *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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