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small is beautiful: a free man in paris
It was a time when Paris was a city for the young. Students, painters, intellectuals, journalists, grisettes: all were there along with a young German poet who recorded a period of creative ferment between one revolution and the next. …. … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexandre Dumas, Alfred de Musset, Alfred de Vigny, Amalia Keller, Franz Liszt, Frederic Chopin, Friedrich Nietzsche, George Sand, Gérard de Nerval, giuseppi mazzini, Goethe, Hector Berlioz, Heinrich Heine, Horace Vernet, Niall Ferguson, Paris July Revolution 1831, salomon heine, Stendhal, Victor Hugo, victor-jean nicolle, wolfgang menzel
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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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Sand and Chopin….. etudes of the muse or the ballade of the…vampire
George Sand is often cast as the villain of the piece, though actually, she did wonders for Frederic Chopin by shielding him from the buffetings of the world. Chopin’s connection with Madame Dudevant, the French novelist, better known as “George … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam Mickiewicz, Alexandre Dumas, Alfred de Musset, Andre Gide, August Clesinger, Chopin, Eugene Delacroix, Franz Liszt, Friedrich Nietzsche, George Sand, Goethe, Handel, Heinrich Heine, Honore Daumier, Honore de Balzac, Janka Wohl, Michael Lunts, Oscar Wilde, Paganini, Victor Hugo
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liberated from foursquare classical rhythms
His life was brilliant and brief, much like his masterpieces on the piano. This segment tracks Frederic Chopin in Paris. He had left Poland to spend eight inhospitable months in Vienna before making his way to Paris at he time … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred de Musset, Andre Gide, Eugene Delacroix, Franz Liszt, Frederic Chopin, George Sand, Goethe, Heinrich Heine, Henryk Siemieradzki, Honore Daumier, Jean Louis Bezard, Michael Lunts, William Heath, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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IDOL GOSSIP: FEED YOUR SLEEPLESS HEAD
G.I. Gurdjieff was one of the most important spiritual figures of the 20th century. Controversial and cloaked in mystery, his mythology is as rich as it is questionable. He claimed to have traveled from his native Armenia to the Far … Continue reading
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Tagged Aldous Huxley, Alessandro Botticelli, Arthur Koestler, Avi Solomon, Beethoven, Brian Eno, Carl Jung, David Appelbaum, Erich Maria Rilke, Franz Liszt, Fritz Peters, G.I. Gurdjieff, Geoff Olson, George L. Beke, Georgi Ivanovitch Gurdjieff, Henry Miller, Ilya Kotz, Jean Toomer, John Allen Watts, Josef Danhauser, Katherine Mansfield, Kathryn Hulme, Keith Jarrett, Leonardo Da Vinci, Lord Byron, Michael Pittman, Michel de Salzmann, Orage, Otto Gonzalez, P.D. Ouspensky, P.L. Travers, Robert Fripp, Sandro Botticelli, T.S. Eliot, Thornton Wilder, Victor Hugo, William Patrick Patterson
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US AND THEM: THE MADCAP LAUGHS
Henry Fuseli’s painting “The Mandrake” , now lost, struck the aging Horace Walpole as “shockingly mad, madder than ever, quite mad!” But Fuseli would hardly have regarded that as an insult. Much of the time he was trading on madness … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Price, Donizetti, Dr. Georget De La Folie, Dr. Georget psychiatrist, Ernst Gombrich, Eugene Delacroix, Franz Liszt, Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, George Crabbe, Gericault, Goethe, Henry Fuseli, Holman Hunt, Horace Walpole, John Buchan, John Everett Millais, John Milton, John Milton Paradise Lost, Joseph Anton Koch, Lord Byron, Milton, Milton Paradise Lost, Philip V. Allingham, Shakespeare, Simon Schama, Sir Walter Scott, Stanley Kubrick, Tasso, Theodore Gericault, Thomas De Quincey, Torquato Tasso, Wilhelm Heinse, William Blake, William Holman Hunt
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