Personalities
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Rudolf Steiner
Social ReformerPhilosopherArchitectLiterary Critic IdeasAnthroposophyAnthroposophical MedicineBiodynamic AgricultureWaldorf Education Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner was born on this day of 1861, in Murakirály, Kingdom of Hungary, Austrian Empire (now Donji Kraljevec, Croatia). He died on the 30th of March, 1925.
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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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My Enlightenment Period — thank you, and happy birthday, Peter Gabriel!
The 1980s were my enlightening period; they were the moment in which I took the corset off which was to support my spine, my goals and vision, protect my soul, guide and nourish me — the Christian view of life. Without the mildest clue of how I was to walk, breathe, project or hope in…
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Journal Notes / February 12 2021
Observing individuals and groups around me as an infant, a young child, an adolescent, and into different adulthood phases, many have supported what I have been. Constantly reading my surroundings, I felt carried, either onto the paths I saw as proper and safe or away from those I thought to be detrimental. Recalling the personalities…
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February 13 1883
Around three in the afternoon, one hundred and thirty-eight years ago today, Dr. Friedrich Keppler established that the great master did not survive a heart attack. Friedrich Nietzsche completed the first part of his Thus Spoke Zarathustra in the “sacred hour of Wagner’s death”. After reading the news in the papers the next morning, he…
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Happy Birthday, Mary Violet Leontyne Price!!!
Leontyne Price stood like a fortress, her hands in another intertwined, her voice streaming as strong, distinct, and colorful as bells from a cathedral telling time to believers and non-believers all the same. A clear sign of patience is hearing her phrasing and seeing her face expand. Think of the iconic three minutes following her…
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Happy Birthday, lieber Herr Gerhard Richter!
If the Abstract Pictures show my reality, then the landscapes and the still lives show my yearning. Gerhard Richter *February 9 1932 / painter
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Love is…
when, on June 13 of 2018, Martha Argerich enters the stage of the Esplanade Concert Hall to perform with Darío Alejandro Ntaca and the Singapore Symphony Orchestra at the Singapore International Piano Festival, and the audience applauds incessantly.
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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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Two hundred and twenty-four years ago, Schubert
Today I continue to celebrate life in details but also in the joy that adds two men to the spirit of celebratory thankfulness — music. Besides the birthday of Philip Glass, there is plenty of reason for celebrating two hundred and twenty-four years today. Franz Peter Schubert, the young man who composed the “Winterreise” (Winter…
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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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Celebration Day — twenty-eight
Each something is a celebration of the nothing that supports it. John Cage (1912-1992), US-American Composer
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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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Celebration Day — twenty-seven
Celebration and gratitude have different faces, and a celebration is based on gratitudes. This spontaneous Celebration Day Series idea arose as the mere fruit of finding more and more reasons and results in celebrating the joys of life — that which has been, is, and will somehow perpetuate for as long as it inhabits and…
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Celebration Day — twenty-six
Many lives stay with us in spirit, memory, lessons, inspiration. Some stay with us even as measuring kingdoms. Jacqueline Mary du Pré was born in Oxford, Oxfordshire, on the twenty-sixth of January of 1945. She could have never known that she, and her year would never be forgotten, and both would become significant in the…
Sila Blume 