celebration
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Linda Ronstadt — in celebration (1946)
I have been doing rooms on Clubhouse where I dedicate a couple of hours to individuals and events which I find inspirational or important in our history. But there is a very special joy in being able to celebrate a person in life, not postmortem. It will be, therefore, a special joy to celebrate Linda…
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Happy Birthday, Eric Owens! (1970)
Join us to listen on Clubhouse — TODAY, Sunday July 11, at 9:30pm EST https://www.clubhouse.com/join/opera-blood-and-te/eRQiUEr7/PAaYzA87
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The beautiful thing about Beauty
It grows more, more often, and with more consistency than it dies. Celebrate! July celebrations on Clubhouse: 1 July 1804 George Sand — French novelist7 July 1860 Gustav Mahler — Austrian composer6 July 1887 Marc Chagall — French painter 10 July 1895 Carl Orff — German composer 6 July 1907 Frida Kahlo — Mexican painter18…
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Happy Birthday, Carl Orff! (1895)
In his honor, feel free to join us on Clubhouse, Saturday, July 10, at 1pm EST https://www.clubhouse.com/event/mJoL6dnd
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The Frida Celebration Continues — 4 hours and going…
https://www.clubhouse.com/room/MwW9X8KW
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Mexicans tenors to celebrate Frida Kahlo — July 6 1907
Because Frida Kahlo loved music, I will be sharing some music, interpreted by some of the important Mexican tenors that have been on the best opera stages for the last couple of decades. Today, July 6, at 1pm est https://www.clubhouse.com/join/birthday-celebration/izTVhfWN/PYQLgGwz
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Frida, in words
“I don’t paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality.” “They are so damn ‘intellectual’ and rotten that I can’t stand them anymore….I [would] rather sit on the floor in the market of Toluca and sell tortillas, than have anything to do with those ‘artistic’ bitches of Paris.” “I wish I could do whatever…
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Happy Birthday, Frida Kahlo!
Celebrate with us the life of who remains a popular and impressive figure, appreciated for her presence, as woman, as artist, even today — seven decades after her death. The painter Frida Kahlo was born Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón, on July 6 1907, in Coyoacán, Mexico. Join us in celebration of her wonderful…
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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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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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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-nine
A memory becomes a celebration once it is unified with the present just what a memory is …like putting some gentle oil on my face for protection from the cold and winds that await me outside today; the same action which reminds me repeatedly of his mother doing the same on my son’s beautiful and…
Sila Blume 