Art – Literature – Music – Movies
To this hath Fate reduced The form, that, when with life it beamed, To us heaven’s liveliest image seemed. O Nature’s endless mystery! Jonathan Galassi has a new translation of Leopardi’s poems … he and others discussed at the New York Encounter. On the Portrait of a Beautiful Woman CARVED ON HER MONUMENT. Such _wast_ […]
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No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief, More pangs will, schooled at forepangs, wilder wring. Comforter, where, where is your comforting? Mary, mother of us, where is your relief? My cries heave, herds-long; huddle in a main, a chief Woe, wórld-sorrow; on an áge-old anvil wince and sing — Then lull, then
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” … but the mother watches the sick child with serenity and holds his right arm reassuring him and giving us the feeling that everything will eventually be all right. In the drama, she stays, and affirms with her love that the disease cannot wipe out the goodness of life; as George Santaiana said: “He
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… as she has enters hospice care … an interview with links to Robin singing “The Plan” … “What We Are Worth”. from the NPR interview … Rogers’ background could have come from a blues song. She was a teenage runaway who slept in abandoned cars and abused alcohol and drugs. She says she’s been sober
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… John Waters on the death of the century … Missing John Lennon Part 1 Missing John Lennon Part 2 “And here is the greatest of all ironies. One of the main legacies of what we remember as the Sixties revolution was the final redundancy of God. The idea of man’s subjugation or inferiority to
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… “this painting, entitled “la malade – the sick woman”, finds its strength of expressiveness in the lively and intense red color of the face, which immediately recalls a real feverishness. The eyes are barely drawn by a pencil line, so that the face is expressionless; sickness is the main actor, taking over the face
… the souls of the dead are traditionally remembered in November. The Mexican artist Nicolas de Jesus has an exhibition at the Neuberger Museum of Art. “The commuters in “En el Tren (In the Subway)” are an urban mix of skeletons. All are fully clothed, some sporting hats and glasses, others with dreadlocks reaching down
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… “Giuseppe Verdi spent his life scrutinizing the human heart; in his works he shed light on the drama of the human condition with the music, the stories told and the various figures. His theatre is peopled by the unhappy, the persecuted and victims. This tragic vision of human destiny echoes throughout so many passages
… Dies iræ, dies illa, Solvet sæclum in favilla: Teste David cum Sibyllâ. That day of wrath, that dreadful day, shall heaven and earth in ashes lay, as David and the Sybil say. The Wichita Symphony Orchestra is highlighting 3 pieces this weekend that all feature the 13th century Dies Irae hymn – Liszt’s Totentanz,
