George Cosbuc: Decebal catre popor

era priceput in ale razboiului si iscusit la fapta; stiind cand sa navaleasca si cand sa se retraga la timp, mester in a intinde curse, viteaz in lupta, stiind a se folosi cu dibacie de o victorie si a scapa cu bine dintr-o infrangere; pentru care lucruri el a fost mult timp pentru romani un potrivnic de temut

Dio Cassius



Viata asta-i bun pierdutCand n-o traiesti cum ai fi vrut!Si-acum

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George Cosbuc

George Cosbuc

(1866 - 1918)

fotografie aflata la Biblioteca Judeţeană Octavian Goga, Cluj, Fondul Emil Isac

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:George_Cosbuc_-_Foto02.jpg)

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When it comes to Romanian literature I am very old school. Especially when it comes to poetry.


Decebal catre popor


(A Life in Books)

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Junot Diaz about Tokyo

the hip ward of Shibuya

photo: Issei Kato / Reuters-Corbis

(http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2011/03/20/the-city-tokyo.html)

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Cities produce love and yet feel none, says Junot Diaz, and he goes on, cities, after all, for all their massiveness, all their there-ness, are acutely vulnerable. You never come to know everything in a city you fall in love

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Junot Diaz

Junot Diaz

(https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=400932719971745&set=a.400932716638412.84357.103729003025453&type=1&theater)

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From all contemporary American authors, Junot Diaz is my favorite. He hasn't published much: Drown came in 1996, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao followed eleven years later, in 2007. He got a Pulitzer for both. This Is How

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Rainer Maria Rilke: Eine Sibylle

Sibyl, by Francesco Ubertini, cca 1525

oil on panel

Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bacchiacca_004.jpg)

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Einst, vor Zeiten, nannte man sie alt.
Doch sie blieb und kam dieselbe Straße
täglich. Und man änderte die Maße,
und man zählte sie wie einen Wald

nach Jahrhunderten. Sie aber stand
jeden Abend auf derselben

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Rainer Maria Rilke

Rainer Maria Rilke

portrait by Paula Modersohn-Becker

oil tempera on cardboard, 1906

Sammlung Ludwig Roselius, Bremen, GE

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Paula_Modersohn-Becker_016.jpg)

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Fries, Rilke, Chopin (In meinem wilden Herzen)
Eine Sibylle
Sonette an Orpheus (Teil 2, XIII) 
Sonette an Orpheus (Teil 1, I) 
What Fields Are As Fragrant As Your

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Just a Bit on Indo-European and Non-Indo-European

(http://www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/lrc/iedocctr/ie-lg/)

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Let me speak here about this subject in the most casual manner, as I have a very different background from people specialized in language sciences. I just like the topics, that's all. There is a Romanian expression for someone who speaks about stuff that's not his hat, he heard about it in the

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The Glasses of Schubert

The Glasses of Schubert, Haus der Musik, Vienna

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A Posthumous Lithograph of Schubert
Gesang der Geister über den Wassern
From Sycamore Island to Sycamore Store (The Trout)



(Old Masters)

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The Waltzes of Chopin

one of only two photographs of Chopin

(this one is rarely reproduced due to its deteriorated state)

date: 1847

posted on Facebook by Sine musica nulla vita

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The first eight waltzes were published during Chopin's lifetime. Other five were published in the decade following his death. Since then, other seven waltzes have been published (from 1868 to 1932).

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Petrarca

Statue of Petrarch in Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Francesco_Petrarca2.jpg)

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His real name had been Petracco, but he remained known under the Latinized form, as Petrarca. The English language countries went further, referring him as Petrarque.  I would prefer the Latinized form, as it was this way I firstly heard about

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Vado ben spesso cangiando loco

(http://www.veengle.com/s/Vado%20ben%20spesso%20cangiando%20loco.html)

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Vado ben spesso
cangiando loco;
ma non so mai
cangiar desio.

Sempre l'istesso
sara' il mio foco
e saro' sempre
l'istesso anch'io.

vado ben spesso
cangiando loco;
ma non so mai
cangiar desio.

(http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=73822)



A small poem with unknown

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A Musical Dynasty: the Bononcini's

Portrait of Giovanni Battista Bononcini

Italian Baroque composer and cellist

(1670 - 1747)

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Giovanni_Battista_Bononcini.png)

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Giovanni Battista Bononcini: Per la gloria d'adorarvi

aria from opera Griselda (1722)

Joan Sutherland

(video by ioSonoCallas)







Giovanni Battista Bononcini: Sonata I in A minor for

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Two Self-Portraits of Salvator Rosa

oil on canvas, cca. 1645

National Gallery, London, UK

presented by the 6th Marquis of Lansdowne in memory of his father, 1933

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Self-portrait_by_Salvator_Rosa.jpg)

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Two self-portraits of Salvator Rosa, both painted in the same period. The first one has the title Philosophy, and carries a Latin inscription: AVT TACE AVT

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Missionary Baroque

Andrea Pozzo, Allegory of the Missionary Work of the Jesuits

(http://rubensgallery.org/painting-Andrea%20Pozzo-Allegory%20of%20the%20Missionary%20Work%20of%20the%20Jesuits-40520.htm)

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The so-called Missionary Baroque is the musical repertoire once played in the Jesuit Missions from Latin America. They had a very short history on that continent, as the

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Michelangelo

Michelangelo at the age of sixty

a portrait by Jacopino del Conte, cca. 1535

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Michelangelo-Buonarroti1.jpg)

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Liszt: Années de pèlerinage. Deuxième année: Italie (Il Pensieroso)




(Old Masters)


(A Life in Books)

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Frank Cadogan Cowper: Lucretia Borgia

Lucretia Borgia Reigns in the Vatican in the Absence of Pope Alexander VI
by Frank Cadogan Cowper, 1908-1914
oil on canvas

Tate Collection

(Acquisition Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1914)

(http://theinimitablephillips.blogspot.com/2011/10/lucretia-borgia-reigns-in-vatican-in.html)

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This is a re-creation of an obscure and scandalous

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Gentile da Fabriano: Playing the Organ

Music: Playing the Organ

Fresco by Gentile da Fabriano

Hall of the Liberal Arts and of the Planets, Palazzo Trinci, Foligno, Italy

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PalazzoTrinci011.jpg)

(posted on Facebook by Sine Musica Nulla Vita)

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L'orgue est une cosmogonie. D'ici ses résonances métaphysiques. Dans l'orgue, l'absolu est interprété par lui-même (

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Gentile da Fabriano

Pseudo-Arabic script in the Virgin Mary's halo

(the script is further divided by rosettes like those on Mamluk dishes,executed in pastiglia)

detail of Adoration of the Magi

by Gentile da Fabriano (c. 1370 – 1427)

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gentile_da_Fabriano_015.jpg)

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Not only was Gentile da Fabriano Italy's outstanding representative of the

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The Last of the Pre-Raphaelites: Frank Cadogan Cowper

How the Devil, disguised as a vagrant Troubadour, having been entertained by some charitable nuns, sang to them a song of love

painted by Frank Cadogan Cowper (1877 - 1958) in 1907

oil on canvas prepared with gesso

posted on Facebook by Sine Musica Nulla Vita

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The scene represents the interior of a convent refectory, with a door leading into the

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The Latta House in Prairie Grove, Arkansas

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The Latta House, a witness of the Battle of Prairie Grove in 1862 - on December 7th it will be the 150th anniversary.

For Blake Whitley, it reminds of his great-great grandfather, who lost his arm to a canon ball in that fierce struggle. For Donna Head Martin, the view of this house calls sweet memories: time ago, a

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Leconte de Lisle: Les Montreurs

Montreurs d'ours, dans Lecture pour tous (1908)

(http://filsduvent.kazeo.com/po%C3%A9sie-nomade/leconte-de-lisle-remont%C3%A9-contre-les-montreurs,a485553.html)

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Tel qu'un morne animal, meurtri, plein de poussière,

La chaîne au cou, hurlant au chaud soleil d'été,

Promène qui voudra son coeur ensanglanté,

Sur ton pavé cynique, ô plèbe carnassière !

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Bach: Mass in B minor BWV232

Bach: Messe in h-Moll (Credo). Manuskript
(Mass in B minor, BWV232)
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Bach: Mass in B minor, BWV232 - part 1/2

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Bach: Mass in B minor, BWV232 - part 2/2

(video by lutherania)



(The B A C H motif)

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Raphael

Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, Self-portrait
1506

oil on panel

Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sanzio_00.jpg)

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The liberality with which Heaven now and again unites in one person the inexhaustible riches of its treasures and all those graces and rare gifts which are usually shared among many over a long period is seen in

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Liszt: Années de pèlerinage. Première année: Suisse

image of Wilhelm Tell's Chapel

(http://notesfromapianist.wordpress.com/2011/01/20/to-franz-liszt-letter-from-a-traveller/)

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Having recently traveled to many new countries, through different settings and places consecrated by history and poetry; having felt that the phenomena of nature and their attendant sights did not pass before my eyes as pointless

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Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No.2 - Orchestral Version

Composed in 1847 and dedicated to Count László Teleki (a Hungarian writer and statesman), Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 was first published as a piano solo in 1851. Its immediate success and popularity on the concert stage soon led to an orchestrated version. The composer arranged also a piano duet version in 1874.


(wiki)






Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No.2
orchestral version, with Herbert von

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