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Soon New York will welcome its first Jean Nouvel building…the architect’s first in America being the sleek Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis.

Unsurprisingly for New York, it will be an apartment tower, with an individualist, almost “bejewelled” facade contrasted against Gehry’s IAC Building

Jean Nouvel and the art of the façade : The New Yorker

DEBUSSY Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune

meow.

‘You Must Be Stanley’ from A Streetcar Named Desire

or was it just another day
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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.”

— Shouts & Murmurs: Program Notes : The New Yorker

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Respighi The Pines of the Appian Way from Pines of Rome

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