meow.
‘You Must Be Stanley’ from A Streetcar Named Desire
or was it just another day
(start at 1:40)
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was it, really, just one of those days?
Opening 10/21 in conjunction with Carnegie Hall’s China festival is an exhibition of ink painting by living artists, an artistic tradition whose lineage is traced from the late Tang dynasty (http://bit.ly/Af2dE)
Goedhuis Contemporary - Landscapes - October 21 - November 20, 2009
another gallery moves to the LES, another Norman Foster building will be erected in the city
Sliver of Space on Bowery Is a Challenge for Norman Foster - NYTimes
“The more I try to understand music the less I understand this [waves baton]”
- Riccardo Muti
“Even though Symphony No. 2 is believed to be Brahms’s first symphonic work, the composer demonstrates a sure hand from the outset, with a glowing thematic statement from the horns. The flutes answer with a supple ascending line, requesting that the horns be more specific. But the horns simply re-state the same phrase a half step up, which only serves to irritate the flutes, who promptly hand the melody to the violins, as if to say, “Here, you deal with them.”
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Respighi The Pines of the Appian Way from Pines of Rome
01 GTMF, Oue
Is this image so unfamiliar today?
“That crazy feeling in America when the sun is hot on the streets and the music comes out of the jukebox or from a nearby funeral, that’s what Robert Frank has captured….after seeing these pictures you end up finally not knowing whether a jukebox is sadder than a coffin.”
- from Jack Kerouac’s intro to Robert Frank’s The Americans
Robert Frank Photographs at the Metropolitan Museum, Road Portrait of America - NYTimes
A dragon lives forever but not so little boys
Painted wings and giant rings make way for other toys.
One grey night it happened, jackie paper came no more
And puff that mighty dragon, he ceased his fearless roar.
His head was bent in sorrow, green scales fell like rain,
Puff no longer went to play along the cherry lane.
Without his life-long friend, puff could not be brave,
So puff that mighty dragon sadly slipped into his cave. oh!
Peter, Paul & Mary - Puff the Magic Dragon
