Unmasking the truth, poetic thought by George-B (The Smudge and other poems)

Unmasking the truth, poetic thought by George-B

Unmasking the truth,
Unlike skinning
a mushroom,
a tree,
a hare, a crocodile, a bird of paradise
is a matter of
intellectual quest,
curiosity, of
pretending to have found the place of gathering
that most people avoid
where only few have the what-ever-it-is
that make people step out of the safety of
sheepish crowds,
and expose their brains to the elements,
all natural or human or inhumanly made…
It is also a matter of taste, sometimes a choice
but mostly a matter of no other choice at all.

©Always, by George-B.

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Angela Gheorghiu: “Ständchen” by Franz Schubert: great compositions/performances

Angela Gheorghiu: “Ständchen” by Franz Schubert

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Franz Schubert (1797-1828)

“Ständchen” D 957, n°4 (Ludwig Rellstab,1799-1860)

Angela Gheorghiu, soprano.
Malcolm Martineau, piano.
1998

Leise flehen meine Lieder
Durch die Nacht zu dir;
In den stillen Hain hernieder,
Liebchen, komm zu mir!

Flüsternd schlanke Wipfel rauschen
In des Mondes Licht;
Des Verräters feindlich Lauschen
Fürchte, Holde, nicht.

Hörst die Nachtigallen schlagen?
Ach! sie flehen dich,
Mit der Töne süßen Klagen
Flehen sie für mich.

Sie verstehn des Busens Sehnen,
Kennen Liebesschmerz,
Rühren mit den Silbertönen
Jedes weiche Herz.

Laß auch dir die Brust bewegen,
Liebchen, höre mich!
Bebend harr’ ich dir entgegen!
Komm, beglücke mich!

texte en frabçais; http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/get_te…
text in english: http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/get_te…

Beethoven – String Quartet Op.59, No.2 “Rasumovsky” – Végh Quartet – 1952: great compositions/performances

Beethoven – String Quartet Op.59, No.2 “Rasumovsky” – Végh Quartet – 1952

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Ludwig van Beethoven:
The “Rasumovsky” String Quartets, Opus 59
(Rasumowsky-Quartette)

String Quartet No. 8 in E minor, Op. 59, No. 2
(Streichquartett Nr. 8 in E-moll, Op. 59, Nr. 2)

I. Allegro
II. Molto Adagio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (07:38)
(Si tratta questo pezzo con molto di sentimento)
III. Allegretto. Thème. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (19:59)
IV. Finale. Presto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (28:23)

Végh Quartet:

Sándor Végh, 1st violin
Sándor Zöldy, 2nd violin
Georges Janzer, viola
Paul Szabo, violoncello

(The 1952 Haydn Society Recordings)

Prazak Quartet & Zemlinsky Quartet : Felix Mendelssohn String octet E-flat major Op. 20: great compositions/performances

Prazak Quartet & Zemlinsky Quartet : Felix Mendelssohn String octet E-flat major Op. 20

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1. Allegro moderato, ma con fuoco
2. Andante
3. Scherzo
4. Presto

Prazak Quartet :

Pavel Hula, violin I
Vlastimil Holek, violin II
Josef Kluson, viola
Michal Kanka, cello

Zemlinsky Quartet :

Frantisek Soucek, violin I
Petr Strizek, violin II
Petr Holman, viola
Vladimir Fortin, cello

Festival Wissembourg – September 4th 2013

Saint of the Day for Saturday, September 20th, 2014: Sts. Andrew Kim Taegon, Paul Chong Hasang, and Companions

Saint of the Day for Saturday, September 20th, 2014

Sts. Andrew Kim Taegon, Paul Chong Hasang, and Companions

Feastday: September 20 The evangelization of Korea began during the 17th century through a group of lay persons. A strong vital Christian community flourished there under lay leadership until … continue reading

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St. John Charles Cornay St. Jose Maria de Yermo y Parres St. Lawrence Imbert St. Lucia Park Huisun St. Magalena Ho Kye-im St. Martha Kim Martyrs of Korea St. Paul Chong Hasang St. Agapitus St. Susanna U Surim St. Teresa Yi Mae-im St. Theodore, Philippa, and Companions Bl. Thomas Johnson St. Thomas Son Chason St. Vincent Madelgarus

 

today’s holiday: Idaho Spud Day

Idaho Spud Day

Spud Day is a celebration of the potato in Shelley, Idaho. The potato has come to be thought of as the crop of Idaho, but the state actually has a number of other important crops: wheat, hay, oats, barley, beans, peas, sugar beets, and fruits. Nonetheless, the spud gets the hurrahs with a festival that began in 1927 and includes a parade, potato-picking and tug-of-war contests, and, of course, potatoes fried, baked, scalloped, mashed, and more. Five thousand free baked potatoes are given to visitors. More… Discuss

Don Quixote dela Mancha: Dulcinea (Peter O’Toole and Sophia Loren)

Dulcinea

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“It seldom happens that any felicity comes…”: Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616)

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) Discuss

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When the severity of the law is to be softened,
let pity, not bribes, be the motive.
– Miguel de Cervantes

When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.
– Miguel de Cervantes

The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool,
and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.
– Miguel de Cervantes

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Led Zeppelin – Stairway To Heaven ( Live, 1973 ) W/ LYRICS: make music part of your life series

   Led Zeppelin – Stairway To Heaven  ( Live, 1973 ) W/ LYRICS

   Kodie Gregory

LYRICS:

There’s a lady who’s sure all that glitters is gold
And she’s buying a stairway to heaven
When she gets there she knows, if the stores are all closed
With a word she can get what she came for
Ooh, ooh, and she’s buying a stairway to heaven

There’s a sign on the wall but she wants to be sure
‘Cause you know sometimes words have two meanings
In a tree by the brook, there’s a songbird who sings
Sometimes all of our thoughts are misleading
Ooh, it makes me wonder
Ooh, it makes me wonder

There’s a feeling I get when I look to the west
And my spirit is crying for leaving
In my thoughts I have seen rings of smoke through the trees
And the voices of those who stand looking
and it makes me wonder
really makes me wonder

And it’s whispered that soon if we all call the tune
Then the piper will lead us to reason
And a new day will dawn for those who stand long
And the forest will echo with laughter

GUITAR SOLO

If there’s a bustle in your hedgerow, don’t be alarmed now,
It’s just a spring clean from the May Queen
Yes, there are two paths you can go by, but in the long run
There’s still time to change the road you’re on
Ooh, it makes me wonder
Ooh, Ooh, it makes me wonder

Your head is humming and it won’t go, in case you don’t know
The piper’s calling you to join him
Dear lady, can’t you hear the wind blow, and did you know
Your stairway lies on the whispering wind

And as we wind on down the road
Our shadows taller than our soul
There walks a lady we all know
Who shines white light and wants to show
How everything still turns to gold
And if you listen very hard
The tune will come to you at last
When all is one and one is all, yeah
To be a rock and not to roll.

And she’s buying the stairway to heaven

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“Stairway to Heaven” live (Rodrigo y Gabriela)

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Plácido Domingo Sings “Malagueña Salerosa”

  Edmund StAustell

And just when you thought you had heard Domingo sing everything ever written….Yes, it’s that wicked woman from Málaga again! Except this time it’s not Antonio Aguilar, Joselito, or Miguel Aceves Mejía, with their giant sombreros and mounted on their trusty steeds, but the great operatic tenor! If you would care to hear the classic, near-iconic singing cowboy rendition of this song, check out the Miguel Aceves Mejia version–possibly the best ever–that I posted side by side with this, for those who don’t know the song, which is extremely popular in the Hispanic world.

Sophia Loren (1934); Remember “La Ciociara” (“Two Women”)?

today’s birthday:  Sophia Loren (1934)

Sophia Loren is a famous film actress who grew up in poverty near Naples, Italy. With the help of Italian producer Carlo Ponti, whom she later married, she gained international fame, acting in both tragic dramas and boisterous comedies. She won the first Academy Award for a foreign-language performance for her role in the 1961 film Two Women, and she received a special Academy Award in 1991 for her body of work. Why did she serve more than two weeks in prison in 1982? More… Discuss

La Ciociara – Vittorio de Sica by GM

  G.Mario Arnoldi

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

This article is about the 1960 Italian film. For other uses, see Two Women (disambiguation).

Two Women
Directed by	Vittorio De Sica
Produced by	Carlo Ponti
Written by	Vittorio De Sica Cesare Zavattini Alberto Moravia (novel)
Starring	Sophia Loren Jean-Paul Belmondo Eleonora Brown Carlo Ninchi
Music by	Armando Trovajoli
Cinematography	Gábor Pogány
Distributed by	Titanus Distribuzione
Release dates	22 December 1960
Running time	100 minutes
Country	Italy
Language	Italian German

Two Women (Italian: La ciociara, roughly translated as “[The Woman] from Ciociaria“) is a 1960 Italian film directed by Vittorio De Sica. It tells the story of a woman trying to protect her young daughter from the horrors of war. The film stars Sophia Loren, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Eleonora Brown, Carlo Ninchi and Andrea Checchi. The film was adapted by De Sica and Cesare Zavattini from the novel of the same name written by Alberto Moravia. The story is fictional, but based on actual events during what the Italians call Marocchinate [1].
More about Ciociaaria

What is: Ciociara? Is to Ciocharia what Malagueña is for Malaga

Ciociaria

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Fresco representing the Campagne and Maritime Province, in Vatican Museums

Fresco representing the Campagne and Maritime Province, in Vatican Museums

Ciociara (woman from Ciociaria) by Enrique Simonet.

Ciociaria (Italian pronunciation: [tʃotʃaˈɾiːa]) is the name of a traditional region of Central Italy without a defined border nor historical identity.^[1] The name was adopted by a fascist movement of Frosinone as an ethnical denomination for the province of Frosinone, when it was created in 1927.^[2] In the Middle Ages, this region was referred to as Campagna. The local dialect, now known as ciociaro, was earlier referred to as campanino. In more recent times, the term Campagna Romana, or Roman Campagna, a favorite subject of countless painters from all over Europe, has referred to the adjoining region to the north of Ciociaria, but part of the Province of Rome.

The name appears to be derived from the ciocia (plural cioce), the traditional footwear still worn by a few sheep and cattle herders in the Central Apennines.

this day in the yesteryear: John Lennon Leaves the Beatles (1969): remember John’s song “Woman”?

John Lennon Leaves the Beatles (1969)

Tensions were high during the recording sessions for what were to be the Beatles’ final albums. John Lennon described working on Let It Be as “hell.” Exactly a month after finishing “I Want You (She’s So Heavy)”—the last time all four Beatles would be in the studio together—Lennon told his bandmates that he was going solo. To avoid jeopardizing sales of Abbey Road, which was released just days later, Lennon’s departure was kept a secret. When was the group’s dissolution formalized? More… Discuss

John Lennon – Woman (2010)

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Video woman John Lennon song… New Version Of Woman From Album Stripped Down (2010)

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People and places: The Mekong Delta

Brick factory – Mekong Delta, Vietnam. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Mekong Delta

The Mekong River—the longest river in Southeast Asia—flows from southern China through Tibet, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam, where it enters the South China Sea. The sediments it carries on the 2,700-mile (4,350-km) journey form the vast, extremely fertile Mekong Delta, which occupies southeast Cambodia and southern Vietnam. One of the greatest rice-growing areas in Asia, the densely populated delta region has been called a “biological treasure trove.” What did scientists recently discover there? More… Discuss

 

word: jejune

jejune 

Definition:	(adjective) Not interesting; dull.
Synonyms:	insipid
Usage:	The jejune novel was full of trite phrases and dull banter that went on for pages at a time, but I nevertheless read it from cover to cover. Discuss.

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Bathtub Bulletin: Access here

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The Wine and the Cup -Rumi

The Wine and the Cup -Rumi

The wine of divine grace is limitless:
All limits come only from the faults of the cup.
Moonlight floods the whole sky from horizon to horizon;
How much it can fill your room depends on its windows.
Grant a great dignity, my friend, to the cup of your life;
Love has designed it to hold His eternal wine.

Old, yet embelished with passage of time: Rumi and the Play of Poetry – University of California Television (UCTV)

Rumi and the Play of Poetry

University of California Television (UCTV)
(Visit: http://www.uctv.tv) Noted translator and poet Coleman Barks, a Distinguished Visiting Fellow in the UCSB College of Creative Studies, presents the poetry of 13th century Afghan-born Sufi mystic and poet, Jelaluddin Rumi. Bark’s intense and artful translations convey Rumi’s insights into the human heart and its longing for passion and daring. Barks performs the words of Rumi, accompanied by musicians Barry and Shelly Phillips. Series: “Voices” [6/2003] [Humanities] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 7600]
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Belgium thwarts jihadist attacks: report – Yahoo News

word: thwart

thwart  (thwôrt)

tr.v. thwart·ed, thwart·ing, thwarts

1. To prevent the occurrence, realization, or attainment of: They thwarted her plans.

2. To oppose and defeat the efforts, plans, or ambitions of.

n. Nautical

A seat across a boat on which a rower may sit.

adj.

1. Extending, lying, or passing across; transverse.

2. Eager to oppose, especially wrongly; perverse.

adv. & prep. Archaic

Athwart; across.

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[Middle English thwerten, from thwert, across, from Old Norse thvert, neuter of thverr, transverse; see terk^w- in Indo-European roots.]

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