Brazil links fever to birth defects

Brazil links fever to birth defects

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-34956646

There is a crack in everything: that’s how the light gets in

Te aud si sânt de’acord…

Cucu- Bau

C’est eblouisant: le miracle de la vie

Love is all we need!

Rugăciunea Părintelui Arsenie Boca

quite possibly the most beautiful music ever composed: From Smetana’s Ma Vlast The Moldau

Smetana ~ Moldau

Richard Brittain

Uploaded on Sep 1, 2010

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From Smetana’s Ma Vlast

Saint of the Day for Saturday, November 28th, 2015: St. Catherine Laboure

Saint of the Day for Saturday, November 28th, 2015

St. Catherine Laboure

St. Catherine Laboure, virgin, was born on May 2, 1806. At an early age she entered the community of the Daughters of Charity, in Paris, France. Three times in 1830 the Virgin Mary appeared to St. … continue reading

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St. Catherine Laboure St. Andrew Trong St. Fionnchu St. Hippolytus St. James of the Marches

Bl. James Thompson St. Papinianus St. Papinianus St. Rufus and Companions St. Valerian

Chitlin’ Strut

The Chitlin’ Strut is a feast of chitlins, or chitterlings (hog intestines), held in the small town of Salley, South Carolina. The affair features a “hawg-calling” contest, country music, arts and crafts, a parade, lots of chitlins (about 8,000 pounds are devoured each year), and chicken for those not enamored of chitlins. Chitlins are prepared by cleaning them well, boiling them until they are tender, and then, after coating them in egg and crumbs, frying them in deep fat until they’re crackling crisp. More… Discuss

quotation: W. Somerset Maugham

I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.

W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) Discuss

today’s birthday: Friedrich Engels (1820)

Friedrich Engels (1820)

With Karl Marx, Engels was one of the founders of modern Communism. After forming a partnership to promote the socialist movement, the two organized revolutionary movements and collaborated on several works, most notably the Communist Manifesto. Though Marx’s personality has overshadowed that of Engels, Engels served as the foremost authority on Marx and Marxism after Marx’s death in 1883. Despite his criticism of capitalism, Engels supported Marx’s publications by doing what? More… Discuss

this day in the yesteryear: Louis B. Mayer Opens His First Movie Theater (1907)

Louis B. Mayer Opens His First Movie Theater (1907)

Born in Russia, Mayer immigrated to Canada and then the US with his family and began working in his father’s scrap-iron business at 14. At 23, he bought a small nickelodeon in Massachusetts, and by the time he reached his mid-30s, he owned New England’s largest movie theater chain. In 1925, he merged his film production company with others to form Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, which, under his leadership, became Hollywood’s most prestigious studio. Mayer aspired to have “more stars than” what? More… Discuss

The Mysterious Boulders of Moeraki

The Mysterious Boulders of Moeraki

The unusually large, spherical Moeraki Boulders that dot a stretch of Koekohe Beach in New Zealand have been the subject of attention since prehistoric times. They range in size from .5 to 2.2 m (1.5 to 6.7 ft) in diameter and are composed of mud, fine-silt, and clay, and are cemented by calcite. Centuries of coastal erosion have exhumed these septarian concretions from the mudstone enclosing them. How many millions of years did it take for the larger Moeraki Boulders to form? More… Discuss

word: prate

prate

Definition:	(verb) To talk idly and at length; chatter.
Synonyms:	blabber, palaver, piffle, prattle
Usage:	I know the age better than you do, though you will prate about it so tediously. Discuss.

great compositions/performances: Beethoven – Triple Concerto in C major, Op. 56, Capuçon, Braley, & Haitink

Beethoven – Triple Concerto in C major, Op. 56, Capuçon, Braley, & Haitink

Ivan Luza

Published on Oct 4, 2013

Ludwig van Beethoven, Triple Concerto in C Major, Op. 56
I. Allegro (00:00)
II. Largo (attacca) (18:55)
III. Rondo alla polacca (24:43)

Chamber Orchestra of Europe

Bernard Haitink, conductor
Renaud Capuçon, violin
Gautier Capuçon, cello
Frank Braley, piano

Fabulous renditions of Classical Music: Valentina Lisitsa – Moonlight Sonata Op.27 No.2 Mov.1,2,3 (Beethoven)

Valentina Lisitsa – Moonlight Sonata Op.27 No.2 Mov.1,2,3 (Beethoven)

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Published on Apr 18, 2013

The Piano Sonata No.14 “Quasi Una Fantasia” Opus 27 No.2 (Moonlight Sonata)
Movement 1: Adagio sostenuto
Movement 2: Allegretto
Movement 3: Presto agitato

Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven
Performer: Valentina Lisitsa
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Moonlight Sonata, byname of Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp Minor, Op. 27, No. 2: Sonata quasi una fantasia,  Beethoven, Ludwig van: Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp Minor: Quasi una fantasia, Op. 27, No. 2 (Moonlight)solo piano work by Ludwig van Beethoven, admired particularly for its mysterious, gently arpeggiated, and seemingly improvised first movement. The piece was completed in 1801, published the following year, and premiered by the composer himself, whose hearing was still adequate but already deteriorating at the time. The nickname Moonlight Sonata traces to the 1830s, when German Romantic poet Ludwig Rellstab published a review in which he likened the first movement of the piece to a boat floating in the moonlight on Switzerland’s Lake Lucerne. Beethoven dedicated the work to Countess Giulietta Guicciardi, a 16-year-old aristocrat who was his student for a short time.

The Moonlight Sonata was structurally and stylistically remarkable in its day. Most sonatas of the late 17th and early 18th centuries consisted of a reasonably animated, thematically well-defined first movement, a more-subdued second movement, and a vibrant final movement. The Moonlight, by contrast, offered a dreamy first movement, a somewhat more lively second movement, and a final movement that was outright tempestuous. Such was the furor of the Moonlight’s finale that several of the piano strings snapped and became entangled in the hammers during the work’s premiere. Indeed, in the declining years of his hearing, Beethoven was known to play with a heavy hand, likely so that he could better hear the music.

The overall style of the Moonlight Sonata was also innovative, as indicated by the subtitle Sonata quasi una fantasia (“Sonata in the manner of a fantasia”), which was appended to the work by the composer himself. The subtitle reminds listeners that the piece, although technically a sonata, is suggestive of a free-flowing, improvised fantasia. Indeed, arpeggios—playing of the notes of a chord sequentially, which remains a common improvisational device in the 21st century—permeate all three movements of the Moonlight Sonata and ultimately generate the themes and motifs that form the foundation of the work.

Betsy Schwarm

great compositions/performances: Johannes Brahms – Tragic Overture in d – minor, op.81, Walter Hilgers/George Enescu Philharmony

Johannes Brahms – Tragic Overture in d – minor, op.81, Walter Hilgers/George Enescu Philharmony

Daniel Wum Schneider

Published on Apr 1, 2015

Johannes Brahms – Tragic Overture in d – minor, op.81, Walter Hilgers/George Enescu Philharmony Bucharest (Live)

Concert from the Romanian Athenaeum Bucharest, Thursday, March 12th 2015 at 7pm.

historic musical bits: Beethoven, Sonata para piano Nº 24 en Si flat major op.78 ‘À Thérèse’. Daniel Barenboim, piano

Beethoven, Sonata para piano Nº 24 en Si flat major op.78 ‘À Thérèse’. Daniel Barenboim, piano

Pakito Palote

Published on Apr 2, 2013

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Sonata para piano Nº 24 en Fa sostenido mayor, Opus 78,
“À Thérèse”.
(Escrita en 1809 para la condesa Thérèse von Brunswick)
1. Adagio cantabile – Allegro ma non troppo
2. Allegro vivace
Daniel Barenboim, piano.
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Piano Sonata No. 24 (Beethoven)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Piano Sonata No. 24 in F-sharp major, Op. 78, nicknamed “à Thérèse” (because it was written for Countess Thérèse von Brunswick) was written by Ludwig van Beethoven in 1809. It consists of two movements:

1. Adagio cantabile – Allegro ma non troppo
2. Allegro vivace

A typical performance takes 10 minutes. The common practice of leaving out long repeated sections, such as the development and recapitulation in the first movement, would make two or three minutes’ difference to the total duration.

Maynard Solomon notes that this and the “Appassionata” sonata, op.57, were Beethoven’s favorite of his piano sonatas prior to the “Hammerklavier.” ^[1]

First movement

Second movement

 

How Anna Kournikova broke the Internet

How Anna Kournikova broke the Internet

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Unul dintre cei mai cunoscuţi specialişti în cercetarea islamului, analiză explozivă în Le Monde

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Reach and Poor in Life and Death

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Tezaurul României, cel mai mare jaf din istoria modernă – Diaspora romaneasca – anunturi romani in UK

http://diasporaonline.info/home/cultural/1505-tezaurul-romaniei-cel-mai-mare-jaf-din-istoria-moderna.html

sfântul andrei – Stiri – Pagina 1 | REALITATEA .NET

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Sfântul Andrei. Când să pui GRÂU la încolțit și ce semnificație are | REALITATEA .NET

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