Design
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Repeatedly attractive for the wrong reason
He – standing while I sat – leaned his upper body towards me to utter some form of greeting. I understood neither the language nor the intention of the greeting. Yet, I immediately had the feeling to understand why he had addressed me. One of my several sketch/notebooks has a Persian structure on its cover,…
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Robert Wilson *X 4 1941 — The Life You Give
Robert Wilson, born October 4, 1941, in Waco, Texas, U.S.A., is the playwright, director, and producer, known for his avant-garde theatre works. Wilson studied business administration at the University of Texas at Austin, but he dropped out in 1962 and moved to New York City to pursue his interest in the arts. After earning a…
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The little ghost who gifted Coltrane, Parker, Getz, Coleman, and Rollins
Antoine-Joseph Sax was born on this day in 1814, in Dinant (Netherlands, today Belgium) to Charles-Joseph Sax, and Marie-Joseph Masson, both instrument designers of traditional instruments. Adolphe, as he was called, began making his own instruments, entering two flutes and a clarinet into a competition by the age of 15. Subsequently he studied both instruments,…
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