Culture
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Edgard Varèse *XII 22 1883 — The Life You Give
Edgard Varèse, born Edgard Victor Achille Charles Varèse on December 22 1883, in Paris, France, is the composer and innovator in 20th-century techniques of sound production. Varèse spent his boyhood in Paris, Burgundy, and Turin, Italy. After composing without formal instruction as a youth, he later studied under Vincent d’Indy, Albert Roussel, and Charles Widor…
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Trisha Brown *XI 25 1936 — The Life You Give
Trisha Brown, born November 25, 1936, in Aberdeen, Washington, U.S.A, dancer and choreographer whose avant-garde and postmodernist work explores and experiments in pure movement, with and without the accompaniments of music and traditional theatrical space. Brown studied modern dance at Mills College in Oakland, California (B.A., 1958). Her style began developing after she met choreographer…
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Compay Segundo *XI 18 1907 — The Life You Give / La Vida Que Das
The Aristipposian Poet celebrates the life and music of Compay Segundo November 18 at 3 pm EST on Clubhouse Lea la biografía en Castellano al fondo Compay Segundo was born Máximo Francisco Repilado Muñoz Telles on November 18, 1907, in Siboney, Cuba. He was a reputed Trova guitarist, singer, and composer of Cuba. Compay Segundo…
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Maria Montessori *IX 31 1870 / The Life You Give
Maria Montessori, born August 31, 1870, in Chiaravalle, near Ancona, Italy, is the educator and originator of the educational system that bears her name. The Montessori system is based on belief in the creative potential of children, their drive to learn, and the right of each child to be treated as an individual.After graduating in…
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The Life You Give: Carl Linnaeus *V 23 1707
Carolus Linnaeus, born on May 23, 1707, in Råshult, Småland, Sweden, is the naturalist and explorer who was the first to frame principles for defining natural genera and species of organisms and to create a uniform system for naming them (binomial nomenclature). Linnaeus was the son of a curate and grew up in Småland, a…
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Maya Angelou *IV 4 1928 / The Life You Give
Maya Angelou, born Marguerite Annie Johnson, on April 4, 1928, in St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.A., is the poet, memoirist, and actress whose several volumes of autobiography explore the themes of economic, racial, and sexual oppression. Although born in St. Louis, Angelou spent much of her childhood in the care of her paternal grandmother in rural…
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Aretha Franklin *March 25 1942 / The Life You Give
Aretha Franklin, born Aretha Louise Franklin, on March 25 1942, in Memphis, Tennessee, U.S.A., is the singer who defined the golden age of soul music of the 1960s. Franklin’s mother, Barbara, was a gospel singer and pianist. Her father, C.L. Franklin, presided over the New Bethel Baptist Church of Detroit, Michigan, and was a minister…
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Dario Fo *III 24 1926 / The Life You Give
Dario Fo, born March 24, 1926, in Leggiuno-Sangiano, Italy, is the avant-garde playwright, manager-director, and actor-mime who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1997 though he often faced government censure as a theatrical caricaturist with a flair for social agitation.Fo’s first theatrical experience was collaborating on satirical revues for small cabarets and theatres.…
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Homo ludens erectus sapiens
to write, to compose,to tell a story,while hungry in being,the individual within the self, and amongst masses– passed, current, envisioned –insignificance is not truly a word
Architecture, Baltimore, beauty, Biblioteca Vasconcelos, Books, Cite de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine, Dublin, George Peabody Library, Hachioji Library at Rama Art University, libraries, Madrid, Mafra, Mafra Palace Library, Mexico, Monastery of San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Monastery of St. Gall, Morgan Library and Museum, New York, New York Academy of Medicine, New York Public Library, Old Library, Paris, Prag, Rio de Janeiro, Royal Portuguese Cabinet of Reading, Sant Gallen, Schwarzman Building, social, Strahov Monastery, Tokyo, Trinity College
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Days with David Bowie: “Berlin Trilogy”
By 1976, David Bowie’s life in Los Angeles was in free fall. Though “Fame” and “Golden Years” were Top 10 hits the year before, Bowie was lost in a haze of cocaine addiction. To escape the drug scene in L.A., Bowie and wife Angela headed for Europe; after stops in Switzerland and France, Bowie settled…
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Pajama Party: Cultural Bites for the Clinomaniac and Dysaniac
Welcome to an intimate marathon, with all kinds of pleasures for the mind, the spirit, and the body. Whether you are a clinomaniac, and passionately desire to stay in bed, or a dysaniac with overwhelming difficulties leaving it, if you stay in bed with us for the next hours, all you will get is the…
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Pajama Party Preliminaries
This post pertains to the planning which is underway for a marathon — in pajamas, in bed — for the cultured clinomaniac and dysaniac. Wether you desire to stay in bed, or have difficulties getting out of bed, the stay will be filled with an array of joys. These days in pajamas put us as…
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