Celebration Day
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Mark Twain *XI 30 1835 — The Life You Give
Mark Twain, born Samuel Langhorne Clemens, on November 30, 1835, Florida, Missouri, U.S.A., is the humorist, journalist, lecturer, and novelist who acquired international fame for his travel narratives, especially The Innocents Abroad (1869), Roughing It (1872), and Life on the Mississippi (1883), and for his adventure stories of boyhood, especially The Adventures of Tom Sawyer…
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Parsifal (Wagner) premiered today in 1882
Parsifal, WWV 111Music Drama / Opera in three actsComposer: Richard WagnerLibretto: Richard WagnerBased on the 13th-century Middle High German chivalric romance Parsifal of the Minnesänger Wolfram von Eschenbach, and the Old French chivalric romance Perceval ou le Conte du Graal by Chrétien de Troyes, in the 12th century. Both tell different accounts of the Arthurian…
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Lovis Corinth *VII 21 1858 / The Life You Give
Lovis Corinth, born Franz Heinrich Louis on July 21, 1858, in Tapiau, East Prussia [now Gvardeysk, Russia], is the German painter known for his dramatic figurative and landscape paintings.Corinth underwent a lengthy period of academic artistic training that began in 1876, when he enrolled at the Academy of Königsberg. He studied in Munich from 1880…
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Judith Weir *V 11 1954 / The Life You Give
Judith Weir was born May 11 1954 in Cambridge, England, into a Scottish family but grew up near London. She was an oboe player, performing with the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, and studied composition with John Tavener during her schooldays. She went on to Cambridge University, where her composition teacher was Robin Holloway;…
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The Life You Give: Barbra Streisand *IV 24 1942
Barbra Streisand, born Barbara Joan Streisand, April 24, 1942, in Brooklyn, New York, is the singer, composer, actress, director, and producer who was considered by many to be the greatest popular singer of her generation. The first major female star to command roles as a Jewish actress, Streisand redefined female stardom in the 1960s and…
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Anselm Kiefer *III 8 1945 / The Life You Give
Anselm Kiefer, born March 8, 1945, in Donaueschingen, Germany, is the painter who became one of the most prominent figures in the Neo-Expressionist art movement of the late 20th century.Kiefer abandoned his law studies at the University of Freiburg in 1966 to pursue art. He subsequently studied at art academies in Freiburg, Karlsruhe, and Dusseldorf.…
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The Life You Give: Barbra Streisand *1942
Barbra Streisand, born Barbara Joan Streisand, April 24, 1942, in Brooklyn, New York, is the singer, composer, actress, director, and producer who was considered by many to be the greatest popular singer of her generation. The first major female star to command roles as a Jewish actress, Streisand redefined female stardom in the 1960s and…
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Celebration Day — nine
In the same graceful manner, and similar genuine spiritual essence with which believers ought to be thankful when things go against their wishes, hard work ought to be seen as celebration. The usual number of circles turned when cranking any of my hand grinders,is commonly around four hundred and seventy, after which a single shot…
Sila Blume 