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not the same dust
There is a struggle between darkness and light, day and night that goes back to earliest antiquity. Kandinsky wrote about this ability to find the “in between” that would reconcile the two in his “Spiritual in Art.” But Germany? Its … Continue reading
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Tagged Albrecht Durer, Anne Frank, Anne Frank Museum, Bach, bosch prodigal son, Hieronymous Bosch, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, madame tussaud berlin, meyer levin, Otto Frank, Sigmund Freud, Wassily Kandinsky, westerbork
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da Vinci string band: this notes for you
Musical codes in the works of Da Vinci and Caravaggio? Possible. But probably lost in translation. Scoring music was different, as well as the way instruments were strung and made. But, what seems apparent is both touch on the essence … Continue reading
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Tagged agostino ziino, Alessandro Vezzosi, Bach, Caravaggio, caravaggio music, contrapuntal music, da vinci the last supper, franca trinchieri camiz, giovanni maria pala, music and painting
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chopin of dissonance: nocturnes on renunciations of reality
For sixteen prolific years in France prior to splitting with George Sand, Chopin had produced an uninterrupted stream of masterpieces on such a consistently brilliant level of craftsmanship and invention that it is well-nigh impossible to talk of a bell … Continue reading
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Tagged Andre Gide, Bach, Chopin, Felix Mendelssohn, Franz Liszt, Frederic Chopin, George Sand, Hannelore Mundt, Heinrich Heine, Jane Birkin, Oscar Wilde, Pauer, Radek Sikorski, Richard Wagner, Robert Schumann, Schumann, Serge Gainsbourg, Thomas Mann
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WE DON’T NEED ANOTHER HERO: FEEDING ON THE TRUTH?
Bergman’s “Persona” is a dark a beautiful film that deals ultimately with heroism; an uncommon theme in our time. “As Kelly Oliver writes, alluding to the enigmatic opening sequence with its images of sacrifice, vampirism, crucifixion and death, “in their … Continue reading
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Tagged Alessandro Botticelli, August Strindberg, Bach, Bibi Andersson, Caravaggio, Carl Jung, Daniel Shaw, Ingmar Bergman, Jeff Pearlman, John William Waterhouse, Kelly Oliver, Liv Ullmann, Margaretha Krook, Narcissism, Sheila O'Malley, Sigmund Freud, Strindberg, Swedish Cinema
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AN AURAL EROTIC:DRUNK WITH PASSION
It was infinite ecstasy with ”la belle dame sans merci”. By the time of Berlioz’s ”Symphonie Fantastique” , he had won the Conservatoire’s Prix de Rome, a five year fellowship that entailed two years of residence at the French Academy … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexandre Cabanel, Bach, Benvenuto Cellini, Berlioz, Byron Childe Harolde, Camille Moke, Courbet, Eleanor Holmes, Ernest Newman, Franz Liszt, Goethe, Harriet Smithson, Hector Berlioz, J.H. Eliot, John William Waterhouse, Lord Byron, Mozart, Niccolo Paganini, Pleyel Pianos, Richard Wagner, Shakespeare, The Berlioz Enigma J.H. Eliot, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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FINE LINE BETWEEN THE HEROIC & THE IDIOTIC
No other artist has made such ferocious demands upon his performers and the public. Richard Wagner, an autocrat, not only wrote the libretto and the music; often with total disregard for the human voice; but also flung into the score … Continue reading
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Tagged Adolphe Appia, Apocalypse Now, Arthur Schopenhauer, Bach, Beethoven, Bruchner, Cosima and richard Wagner, Cosima Wagner, David Michael Lindsey, Edmund Blair Leighton, Friedrich Nietzsche, Gustav Mahler, Hans Pfitzner, Houston Stewart Chamberlain, Jean Jacques Rousseau, John F. Runciman, Katherine W. Rinne, Maestro Levine Metropolitan, Metropolitan Opera, Mozart, Placido Domingo, Richard Wagner, Schoenberg, Stanley Kubrick, Wagenr Brunnhilde, Wagner and Hitler, Wagner Bochlin, Wagner hall of Fame Bayreuth, Wagner Lohengrin, Wagner Parcifal, Wagner Rheingold, Wagner Siegfried, Wagner Tristan, Wagner Tristan and Isolde
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SERIOUS MEN
”Receive with simplicity all that happens to you”, or so Rashi, the Jewish mystic sage is alleged to have uttered.It appeared in the opening scene of the film A Serious Man.To which must be addeda Korean student is asking to … Continue reading
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Tagged A Serious Man, Arthur Schopenhauer, Bach, Coen Brothers, Death In Venice, Eyes Wide Shut, Franz Werfel, Jack Abramoff, Jefferson Airplane, Luchino Visconti, Michael Stuhlberg, Nietzsche, Rashi, Richard Wagner, Stanley Kubrick, Thomas Mann, Verdi, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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