Personalities
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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…
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Five Famous Celebrations
Betty Marion White, 1922, in Oak Park, Illinois Eartha Kitt (Eartha Mae Keith), 1927 in St, Matthews, South Carolina James Earl Jones, 1931, in Arkabutla, Mississippi Muhammad Ali (Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr.), 1942, in Louisville Kentucky Michelle Obama (Michelle LaVaughn Robinson), 1964, in Chicago Illinois
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A celebration ought to be a moment of reflection, in purity, acknowledgement, gratitude.
Betty Marion White was born on this day in 1922, in Oak Park, Illinois. To celebrate this lively lady, no further comment is needed.
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Celebration Day — fourteen / Yukio Mishima
In 1925, on this day, January 14, the novelist Yukio Mishima was born as Kimitake Hiroaka, in Nagazumi-cho 2-chome, Yotsuya-ku, Tokyo City, Tokyo Prefecture, Empire of Japan In 1982, a Cutty Sark ad with a portrait of Philip Glass caught my eye. In his hand he held a bunch of music notes, and in the…
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Jacqueline du Pré
The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant. Jacqueline du Pré (1945-1987, England) Cellist
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