Personalities
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“Daphne” and “Elektra” — Happy Birthday, Richard Strauss!
Join us on June 11, at 12 midday, EST, listening to two of his operas. https://www.clubhouse.com/event/P9zneQ7O
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Happy Birthday, Robert Schumann!
Alfred Brendel at the Piano, to celebrate the poetic music of Robert Schumann, on clubhouse: June 8, at 5:30 pm EST https://www.clubhouse.com/join/birthday-celebration/bCaEwehM/xevrK39Q
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Happy Birthday, God!
As I was celebrating births yesterday, — Shirley Verrett — today I need to mention the special life of Morgan Freeman, born in Memphis Tennessee, on this day of 1937. Happy Birthday, dear Sir!
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Remembering John Bonham
Before this day ends, on which I have been celebrating the birthday and life of the great mezzo-soprano Shirley Verrett (1931-2020), allow me to mention the exceptional drummer, John Henry Bonham This English rock drummer for Led Zeppelin, was born in Redditch, England, and continues to be valued as one of the most influential drummmers…
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Celebrating the life of Shirley Verrett
Shirley Verrett was born in New Orleans on the 31st of May in 1931. Her operatic debut was 1957 in Benjamin Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia. Not the best choice, considering her family practiced Seventh-Day Adventism, and was not in agreement with her pursuing an opera career. In 1968 she made her New York Metropolitan…
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Shirley Verrett was born on May 31, 1931
Join me in an intimate conservation with her daughter and nephew, in celebration of her life as an opera singer of exceptional talent. May 31 2021, on Clubhouse
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Listening while relaying a message
The musician on stage is a hearing conglomerate. He has to listen to himself, perceive what he plays, and react to it. At the same time, he has to anticipate his playing and overlook the complete piece. Simultaneously, he plays for the listeners in the tenth or twenty-third row, and listens, as it were, with…
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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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