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Joan Baez and Bob Dylan at March on Washington, 56 years ago (yesterday)
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“Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to was never there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it. Nothing outside you can give you any place … In yourself right now is all the place you’ve got.”
—Flannery O’Connor
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“Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.”
-Virginia Woolf
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Legendary Dutch conductor William Mengelberg’s score of the Fourth Symphony by Gustav Mahler, with both his and the composer’s notes. This and other tempo markings, corrections and musical indications have proven to be critical to our understanding of this piece.
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On the romance of letters and the lost analog world. I love this poem by Marie Howe from March 14 issue of The New Yorker.
[Julia Thacker]
aliveonallchannels
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"I will always be on the side of those who have nothing and who are not even allowed to enjoy the nothing they have in peace."
Federico Garcia Lorca (born on 5 June 1898)
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Caricature of Igor Stravinsky Playing The Rite of Spring — Jean Cocteau
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'Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.'
-Ludwig van Beethoven
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M. C. Escher
"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow." 📷 Albert Einstein.
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Happy Birthday to Rachmaninoff!
photo of Rachmaninov at about age 19
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“The moment we no longer have a free press, anything can happen. What makes it possible for a totalitarian or any other dictatorship to rule is that people are not informed; how can you have an opinion if you are not informed?"
– Hannah Arendt :: [Poetic Outlaws]
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Schubert’s eyeglasses and the manuscript of Gretchen am Spinnrade, Schubert Museum, Vienna.
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"We all have our time machines, don’t we. Those that take us back are memories… And those that carry us forward, are dreams."
—H.G. Wells
Andrew Wyeth, painting
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Trees find their own way to stay in the narrow street in Amsterdam, the Netherlands
via joeinct
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Happy birthday (1810) to composer Robert Schumann. Though this photo of him with his wife (and also brilliant composer) Clara is not in the best of shape, we love its intimacy.. (Schubertiade)
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The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.
Jacques Yves Cousteau
(Carol Hoare)
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Black Bear Cub in the Snow
A 1799 Ink and colour painting on silk by Mori Shûhô (1738–1823).
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sixpenceee
This incredibly colorful fluffy bird is called a white-browed tit-warbler (by Hiuying Tse).
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“You don’t make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved."
― Ansel Adams
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inneroptics
ANSEL ADAMS - Yosemite National Park 1967
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“Today in my heart a vague trembling of stars and all roses are as white as my pain.” ― Federico García Lorca, born today in 1898.
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“You need power, only when you want to do something harmful; otherwise, love is enough to get everything done.”
~Charlie Chaplin
(aoac)
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Three days into his first solo attempt at scaling Mt. Everest, Joe finally arrives at bass camp.
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Today is the birthday of the man who wrote, "In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." That's George Orwell.
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Paul Holdengraber
@holdengraber
KURT VONNEGUT
Died on this day, in 2007
“I urge you to please notice when you are happy”
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Woman teaching geometry to monks. In the Middle Ages, it is unusual to see women represented as teachers, in particular when the students appear to be monks.
Euclid's Elementa, in the translation attributed to Adelard of Bath, 1312.
via Bibliophilia
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Federico Garcia Lorca teaching his sister Isabel how to read music.
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Vincent van Gogh
In 1887, while Vincent van Gogh was residing in Paris he executed an oil painting commonly known as Wheat Field with a Lark. The center shows a partially harvested field of wheat under a sky patterned with clouds the bird flying over and possibly out of the field
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"Before I compose a piece, I walk around it several times, accompanied by myself." - Erik Satie
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"And what have teachers got to do with music? The answer: everything. . . It is almost impossible to imagine a musician who doesn't owe something to one teacher or another. The trouble is we don't realize how important teachers are in music or in anything else."
Leonard Bernstein
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Deutsche Grammophon Group
Wilhelm Kempff on piano, with Rostropovich and Menuhin
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A Copse of Trees/DaVinci1502
Kenneth Clark, a distinguished scholar of Leonardo said of this drawing:"Technically it is a miracle." How he asks could Leonardo sharpen a piece of red chalk so finely that he could show the boughs and leaves of the trees with such luminous clarity?"
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Happy Birthday to Rachmaninoff!
photo of Rachmaninov at about age 19
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PHOTO OF THE DAY. Sophie Scholl, brave fighter against Nazism. Executed on this day in 1943. Remember her.
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Federico Garcia Lorca teaching his sister Isabel how to read music....
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Sally Davies
East 2nd Street, NYC
Old Caddy in front of Alan Ginsburg's old apt building.
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Autochrome of Monet posing in his garden, circa 1917. Photograph by Étienne Clémentel.
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Henri Cartier-Bresson, Bass player on the road, 1965
undr photo journal
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“Try practicing for beauty as well as technic. Technic is worthless in your playing, if it means nothing more to you than making machines out of your hands.”
-Josef Lhevinne
He graduated from the Moscow Conservatory at the top of a class that included Rachmaninoff and Scriabin.
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"There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those, dropping them when they bore you, skipping the parts that drag-and never, never reading anything because you feel you ought."
-- Doris Lessing
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“When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice.” ― Robert Frank
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Anton Chekhov reading The Seagull to the company of the Moscow Arts Theatre .
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Celebrating the birthday of Rudolf Serkin, born today in 1903. Very honored and eternally grateful to have been his student at Curtis Institute and at Music From Marlboro.
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Jorge Luis Borges Ferdinando Scianna, Palermo, 1984
"In my next life I will try to commit more errors."
Happy birthday Jorge Luis Borges!
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by Rainer Maria Rilke
The deep parts of my life pour onward,
as if the river shores were opening out.
It seems that things are more like me now,
that I can see farther into paintings.
I feel closer to what language can’t reach.
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“I long so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things require effort and disappointment and perseverance.”
Vincent van Gogh
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Saint Paul de Mausole - the monastery where Vincent Van Gogh was kept and a place of great inspiration for his art (at Saint Rémy De Provence)
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"Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack."
— Virgina Woolf
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Mercer St. Used Book Shop
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Mary Oliver, photographed by her partner Molly Malone Cook. “Helping the traveler, 1965”
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Happy Birthday to Rachmaninoff!
photo of Rachmaninov at about age 19
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Bach, Johann Sebastian - EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY GERMAN MANUSCRIPT OF THE FRENCH SUITE NO.5, BWV 816.
Source: Sotheby’s. com
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"We’re so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget that the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it’s all about."
– Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth
(Hokusai)
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“God forbid this is my last day on this beautiful earth, it won’t be spent listening to some news person telling me how rotten we are, how rotten life is, heck no, I’m going out and seeing how beautiful life is."
Frank Zappa
Follies Of God
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Johann Sebastian Bach’s Kunst Der Fuge. First Edition, Contrapunctus 1, Pg.12
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Richard Morris: Art History in a Tweet
@ahistoryinart
John Singer Sargent's portrait of Rosina Ferrara is deliberately unfinished - in the Renaissance the unfinished was recognised as poetic, soulful, and perhaps the badge of true artistic genius.
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"I am not a great pianist. It is true that I can manage some of my easier Preludes. But the others, where the notes follow each other at top speed, only frighten me."
Claude Debussy to an Italian journalist, 1914 (via sonateharder)
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