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this pressed: Pan Fried Brussels Sprouts Recipe – Allrecipes.com

Recipe by NJChick

 

Pan fried Brussels sprouts

“Don’t be afraid of Brussels sprouts … yes, they are green, but they are so delicious! Pan frying them brings out their flavor. Use as a side dish … or if you’re like me, an on-the-go breakfast item!”

via Pan Fried Brussels Sprouts Recipe – Allrecipes.com.

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Saint of the Day for Saturday, October 4th, 2014: St. Francis of Assisi

Saint of the Day for Saturday, October 4th, 2014:

 

 

 

St. Francis of Assisi (circa 1182-1220) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 

St. Francis of Assisi

 

 

 

Founder of the Franciscan Order, born at Assisi in Umbria, in 1181. In 1182, Pietro Bernardone returned from a trip to France to find out his wife had given birth to a son. Far from being excited or … continue reading

 

 

 

 

 

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St. Francis of Assisi St. Adauctus St. Ammon St. Aurea St. Crispus & Gaius St. Domnina

St. Hierotheus St. Mark St. Peter of Damascus St. Petronius St. Quintius

 

Debussy Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune, Leonard Bernstein, Boston Symphony Orchestra: great compsitions/performances

Debussy Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune

  Ofir Gal

Leonard Bernstein conducts Claude Debussy’s Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun – extract from “The Unanswered Question“, Boston Symphony Orchestra

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Camille Saint-Saëns: Carnival of Animals – The Dying Swan (Le Cygne) – Dancer, Svetlana Zakharova: great compositions/performances

Camille Saint-Saëns: Carnival of Animals – The Dying Swan (Le Cygne) – Dancer, Svetlana Zakharova

  Afrikitty

The Dying Swan (originally The Swan) is a ballet choreographed by Mikhail Fokine in 1905 to Camille Saint-Saëns’s cello solo Le Cygne from Le Carnaval des Animaux as a pièce d’occasion for the ballerina Anna Pavlova. The short ballet follows the last moments in the life of a swan, and was first presented in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1905. Pavlova performed the dance about 4,000 times. The ballet has since influenced modern interpretations of Odette in Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake and has inspired non-traditional interpretations and various adaptations.

Inspired by swans that she had seen in public parks and Alfred, Lord Tennyson‘s poem “The Dying Swan”, Anna Pavlova (who had just become a ballerina at the Mariinsky Theatre) asked Michel Fokine, who had also read the poem, to create a solo ballet for her for a 1905 concert being given by artists from the chorus of the Imperial Mariinsky Opera. Fokine suggested Saint-Saëns’s cello solo, Le Cygne (which Fokine had been playing at home on a mandolin to a friend’s piano accompaniment) as the work’s musical basis and Pavlova agreed. A rehearsal was arranged and the short dance completed very quickly. Fokine remarked in Dance Magazine (August 1931):

It was almost an improvisation. I danced in front of her, she directly behind me. Then she danced and I walked alongside her, curving her arms and correcting details of poses. Prior to this composition, I was accused of barefooted tendencies and of rejecting toe dancing in general. The Dying Swan was my answer to such criticism. This dance became the symbol of the New Russian Ballet. It was a combination of masterful technique with expressiveness. It was like a proof that the dance could and should satisfy not only the eye, but through the medium of the eye should penetrate the soul.

In 1934, Fokine told Arnold Haskell, author of Balletomania :
Small work as it is, […] it was ‘revolutionary’ then, and illustrated admirably the transition between the old and the new, for here I make use of the technique of the old dance and the traditional costume, and a highly developed technique is necessary, but the purpose of the dance is not to display that technique but to create the symbol of the everlasting struggle in this life and all that is mortal. It is a dance of the whole body and not of the limbs only; it appeals not merely to the eye but to the emotions and the imagination.

The Dying Swan was first performed at a gala in the Noblemen’s Hall, St. Petersburg, Russia on Friday, 22 December 1905, and first performed in the United States at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York on 18 March 1910, with Pavlova in the role. American dance critic and photographer Carl Van Vechten noted that the ballet was “the most exquisite specimen of [Pavlova’s] art which she has yet given to the public.” Pavlova performed the role some 4,000 times and, on her deathbed in The Hague, reportedly cried, “Prepare my swan costume.”

Fokine’s granddaughter Isabelle notes that the ballet does not make “enormous technical demands” on the dancer but it does make “enormous artistic ones because every movement and every gesture should signify a different experience” which is “emerging from someone who is attempting to escape death”. She notes that modern performances are significantly different from her grandfather’s original conception and that the solo today is often made to appear to be a variation of Swan Lake—”Odette at death’s door”. The ballet is not about a ballerina being able to transform herself into a swan, she states, but about death, with the swan simply being a metaphor for that.

Please go to the following website for more information on this music and the ballet – http://wapedia.mobi/en/The_Dying_Swan

Granados, Intermezzo from Goyescas – Jacqueline du Pré: great compositions/performances

Granados, Intermezzo from Goyescas – Jacqueline du Pré

  Leone Oliveira

Jacqueline du Pré, violoncello (1962)
Iris dupré Piano
‘intermezzo’ from goyescas”
Musica by Enrique Granados(1867 – 1916)
(arranged by Gaspar Cassadó)

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Erich Wolfgang Korngold – Die tote Stadt – “Glück das mir verblieb”: make music part of your life

Erich Wolfgang Korngold – Die tote Stadt – Glück das mir verblieb

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Erich Wolfgang Korngold – Die tote Stadt – Glück das mir verblieb

(“Glück das mir verblieb” (German for “Joy, that near to me remained”) is an aria from the 1920 opera Die tote Stadt (The Dead City) by Erich Wolfgang Korngold)

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  newTheDoremika

Royal Albert Hall, August 13, 2013 at BBC Proms
London Symphony Orchestra
Valery Gergiev conductor

today’s holiday: Tarantula Fest and Barbecue

Tarantula Fest and Barbecue

In northern California, the tarantula mating season begins in mid-August and lasts through early November, during which time many of the spiders cross the roads at Henry W. Coe State Park. Park rangers view the mass exodus as a great opportunity to hold a festival and a barbecue. The bolder attendees of the festival go for the tarantula-handling. Some even muster the courage to pose for pictures as the spiders crawl on their faces. There are also displays of non-native tarantulas and a raffle, and the park’s visitor center offers more information about tarantulas and the park. More… Discuss

quotation: “Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy’s strategy.” Sun Tzu (544 BC-496 BC)

Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy’s strategy.

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today’s birthday: Buster Keaton (1895) (and great documentary on his life and career)

Buster Keaton (1895)

Though his career had its ups and downs, Keaton is recognized today as one of silent cinema‘s greatest actors and filmmakers. He is remembered as much for his acrobatic skill as for his trademark deadpan expression, both of which he developed performing in vaudeville as a child and honed over the course of his decades-long career on the silver screen, starring in such classics as The General and Steamboat Bill, Jr. How did Joseph Frank Keaton come to be known as Buster? More… Discuss

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this day in the yesteryear: Boris Yeltsin Orders Tanks to Storm Russian Parliament (1993)

Boris Yeltsin Orders Tanks to Storm Russian Parliament (1993)

As president of an independent Russia, Boris Yeltsin sought to end state control of the economy but clashed with parliament, which was controlled by former Communists. When Yeltsin suspended the parliament, it retaliated by naming Vice President Aleksandr Rutskoi as acting president, and anti-Yeltsin forces barricaded themselves inside the parliament building. The military interceded on Yeltsin’s side and, after a bloody battle, troops recaptured the parliament building. What was the death toll? More… Discuss

Guess what: Caffeinated Clothing Can’t Cut Waistlines (as claimed by deceptive advertising)

Caffeinated Clothing Can’t Cut Waistlines

When it comes to losing weight, there are few shortcuts around eating right and getting regular exercise, but the marketplace is still saturated with quick-fix weight-loss products purporting to magically melt away the pounds. In the US, consumers have spent millions of dollars on caffeine-infused bras, girdles, leggings, and other articles of clothing that manufacturers claimed would break down fat, resulting in weight loss and reduced cellulite. However, there is no scientific evidence to back up these claims, and companies selling these products, under fire from US regulators, have agreed to refund customers who fell for the deceptive advertising. More… Discuss

story: Arboretum

Arboretum

Fontana – Arboretum Trsteno (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 

An arboretum is a botanical garden primarily devoted to trees and other woody plants that are cultivated for scientific, educational, and ornamental purposes. The plants are labeled with their common and scientific names, and they are arranged in cultural or habitat groups, such as tropical, desert, and aquatic. One of the world’s oldest arboretums is the Trsteno Arboretum, near Dubrovnik in Croatia. What arboretum in England helped inspire the design for New York City’s Central Park? More… Discuss

 

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apogee 

Definition:	(noun) The farthest or highest point; the apex.
Synonyms:	summit, height, peak, climax, pinnacle, zenith, acme
Usage:	It took many years for the industry to reach its apogee, but only a few more for it to become defunct. Discuss.

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