Un caro saluto a te, Marghian/Livio, fai buon viaggio DO NOT STAND AT MY GRAVE AND WEEP Do not stand at my grave and weepI am not there. I do not sleep. I am a thousand winds that blow.I am the diamond glints on snow.I am the sunlight on ripened grain.I am the gentle autumn… Read More “Un breve accenno, per un saluto”🎶
Stanley Kubrick, one of the greatest filmmakers of the 20th Century, was born in in The Bronx, New York City, on 26 July 1928. In 1969 he directed “2001: A Space Odyssey” based on Arthur C. Clarke’s short story “The Sentinel”.In both the opening and closing scenes of the film, Kubrick plays “Also Sprach Zarathustra”… Read More Kubrick and Strauss
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Eric Hoffer, self-educated moral and social philosopher. and longshoreman, was born on 25 July (or 15 July) 1902 in The Bronx, New York. His parents were immigrants from Alsace, then part of Imperial Germany.Of his early life, Hoffer wrote: “I had no schooling. I was practically blind up to the age of fifteen. When my… Read More The Longshoreman Philosopher
“Back to Black” is a song from Amy Winehouse’s second and final studio album of the same title released in 2006. Its success threw her into the mainstream, making her an international star. The whole album ìs predominantly based on her tumultuous relationship with then-ex-boyfriend and future husband. Blake Fielder-Civil, who had temporarily left her.… Read More Amy Winehouse’s Suffering: “Back to Black”🎶
Amy Winehouse died exactly ten years ago, on 23 July 2011. She was only 27, at the peak of her career, but her voice still echoes in the hearts of those who appreciated her . Here is a tribute to Amy I found on YouTube The song in this video is not hers, but it… Read More Ten Years Without Amy 🎶
Alcune poesie della “Spoon River Anthology” di Edgar Lee Masters, tradotte in Italiano da Fernanda Pivano (vedi qui) hanno ispirato il nostro famoso cantautore Fabrizio De André (1940 –1999), nel suo concept album “Non al denaro, non all’amore né al cielo” uscito nel 1971.La Pivano, impressionata dal risultato, dichiarò: “Fabrizio ha fatto un lavoro straordinario;… Read More Nanda e Fabrizio ♫ ♪
➡️ The Nine Days’ Queen (1)➡️ The Nine Days’ Queen (2) On the morning of 12 February 1554, peering from her window, Jane Grey saw her young husband’s decapitated body being brought back from the scaffold of execution and exclaimed “Oh, Guildford, my Guildford”. He had been subjected to a public beheading on Tower Hill,… Read More The Nine Days’ Queen (3)
➡️ The Nine Days’ Queen (1) After nine days of rule, Jane and her husband remained in the Tower, escorted from their royal apartments to prison quarters. Jane was confined in the Tower’s Gentleman Gaoler’s (Jailer’s) apartments, her husband in the Beauchamp Tower where he carved her name, which can still be seen.While Suffolk, her… Read More The Nine Days’ Queen (2)
When 15 year old King Edward VI (Henry VIII’s son) was dying, he nominated his cousin Lady Jane Grey as his successor on the throne of England.He had been persuaded to do so by the Duke of Northumberland, his trusted adviser, who was fiercely Protestant and knew he would be punished by Mary for his… Read More The Nine Days’ Queen (1)
