Celebrating the Music of Eduard Erdmann!
(March 5, 1896 – June 21, 1958)
German composer and pianist. Here is his intriguing, exciting, and lyrically alluring piece for orchestra, his Sinfonia No. 2 (1923): www.youtube.com/watch?v=w85C...
Celebrating the Music of Eduard Erdmann!
(March 5, 1896 – June 21, 1958)
German composer and pianist. Here is his intriguing, exciting, and lyrically alluring piece for orchestra, his Sinfonia No. 2 (1923): www.youtube.com/watch?v=w85C...
Illustration by Ernest H. Shepard from Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne, Toronto, 1926. #booksky #artsky
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Fine and Mellow
#flower #FlowerPhotography #naturephotography #nature
Andrew Rudin’s beautiful cello sonata with Sam Magill….
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After a recording session…
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Different tree leaf buds
A selection of lizard claws for you
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(255) Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet, Op. 64 - Act 4: Juliet's Funeral - Juliet's Death - YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaXL...
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Hopper visited Paris three times, studying Impressionist light and urban life but filtering it through American detachment. In Le Bistro (1909), patrons sit in shadow while the street beyond dissolves into haze—public life observed at a distance.
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(255) Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936) - 'La Cogida y la Muerte' leído por Germaine Montero (1909-2000). - YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgt-...
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“The Value of Not Understanding Everything” — Grace Paley – Biblioklept biblioklept.org/2026/02/24/t...
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Solivagant:
Leonora Carrington, The Lovers, 1987
Thursday greetings! xo
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In Japanese, "tsundoku" means collecting books and letting them pile up,
not from neglect,
but for the joy of knowing they're there,
full of untold stories.
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“So I made a sort of inner surrender to the situation, lit a cigarette, and watched the long dissolving strip of the Corniche flow past us.”
– Lawrence Durrell, “The Alexandria Quartet”.
[The Corniche, Alexandria, ca. 1940]
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'Three Peaches.' The majority of Gustave Courbet’s still-lifes were made between 1871 and 1872, during and shortly after his imprisonment in Sainte-Pélagie for his part in the Commune uprising. He turned to still life painting in prison as few other subjects were available to him
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Album cover Nighttime shot of Manhattan skyscrapers
Late night listening: Jamal At The Penthouse, from 1959.
Ahmad Jamal’s Trio with Israel Crosby on bass & Vernell Fournier on drums. The strings are arranged & conducted by Joseph Kennedy. Recorded at Tommy Nola’s Penthouse Studio on West 57th Street.
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crumpets by David Lebovitz:
davidlebovitz.com/crumpets-rec...
Vanessa Cooper, art
TODAY: In 1839, Charlotte Brontë declines Reverend Henry Nussey's marriage proposal, claiming that he would find her "romantic and eccentric" and not practical enough to be a clergyman's wife.
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Bret van den Brink:
Dante, Purgatorio XXVII (translated by Mark Musa):
(255) Prokofiev Vision Fugitives, Op. 22 (Boris Berman) - YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PCA...
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Mood
(yuki_illust19)
(255) Eisenstein / Prokofiev – Alexander Nevsky – The Battle of the Ice - YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaHt...
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DanaMNYC
Ruby-crowned Kinglet in the Central Park Ramble. #birdcpp
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Photographer Fritz Henle, 1960s.
Painting by Rubens ‘The Last Judgement’ 1617.
BookCat
'And as I was green and carefree, famous among the barns
About the happy yard and singing as the farm was home'
~Dylan Thomas
This week BookologyThursday takes a pastoral jaunt in literature, art & lore with the theme:
🍃🐏IDYLLIC IDYLS🐑🍃
🎨Dora Carrington (1921)
(255) Dylan Thomas reads 'In My Craft Or Sullen Art' - YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tiw3...
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Guy Ritchie, who brought his witty high-kinetic energy to two very entertaining Sherlock Holmes movies, is back in the Sherlock saddle with Prime Video's Young Sherlock.
Our review: https://bit.ly/4rNsuO9