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What Did You Call It? - “What this really demonstrates, say some linguists, is that there was a vacuum in popular discourse, a need for a word for female genitalia that is not clinical, crude, coy, misogynistic or descriptive of a vagina from a man’s point of view.”
The Sequidilla Près des remparts de Séville from Carmen performed by Risë Stevens and Jan Peerce. Pourquoi? Because it jumped out of my subconscious at 11am and stayed with me all day.
Interesting article about sleep and dreams. - “A cascade of new findings, in animals and humans, suggest that sleep plays a critical role in flagging and storing important memories, both intellectual and physical, and perhaps in seeing subtle connections that were invisible during waking…”
Friday, October 26th • Comments (0)
Heifetz performing Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso by Saint-Saens. From the film “They Shall Have Music.”
Previously: Ivry Gitlis Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso
“A composer lets me hear a song that has always been shut up silent within me.” –Jean Genet
Monday, October 22nd • Comments (0)
Tenor Jan Peerce and baritone Robert Merrill sing the famous duet “Le minaccie, i fieri accenti” from Verdi’s La Forza del Destino.
Saturday, October 13th • Comments (0)
The Allen radio telescope array in Hat Creek, California will help scientists look for phenomena like black holes, dark galaxies and signals from extra-terrestrial life.
Wednesday, October 3rd • Comments (0)
Recording the Italian Concerto.
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