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Category Archives: Melodies Linger On
3rd Grade Choir Presents Love & Life with the Beatles
A fainting spell nearly derailed the whole concert. But it was still a rousing success. When I plan choir concerts for elementary student performers, I hope to choose songs that will appeal to the age group but also … Continue reading
Posted in Live! On Stage, Melodies Linger On, The Teaching Artist
Tagged 3rd grade, A Day in the Life, All You Need Is Love, Blackbird, choir, concert, Elementary School, fainting, Hey Jude, Michelle, Obladi Oblada, She Loves You, Sie Liebt Dich, The Beatles, Tribeca, Within You Without You, World Trade Center, Yellow Submarine
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OOO! LOOK AT THE LIGHT!
Pics with a Touch of Light plus a complimentary light-hearted music quiz Light Music Query #1: Which musical features this dance into the light? (as ever, the answers are tucked into the tabs below) Above, my gym’s basement … Continue reading
SENSUAL RODIN
We start with a famous thought. We end with a famous kiss. Rodin’s Thinker greats you in the courtyard of the Rodin House in Paris. And so he will be the introduction to this post of some of Rodin’s … Continue reading
Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Melodies Linger On, Two-fisted Touristing
Tagged classical music, Impromptu, Kiss, Paris, Pavane, photography, Ravel, Rodin, Schubert, sensual, sensual classics, sensuality, statues, Thinker
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Sensual Statues of the Musée D’Orsay
Tensions of the world making you anxious? Here is much soothing, sculptural sensuality but also some less comforting, chiseled objectification Continuing my fascination with sensual statuary in Paris, the greatest concentration of such aesthetically, artistically, and, let’s admit it, amorously … Continue reading
Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Melodies Linger On, Two-fisted Touristing
Tagged Brahms, Chopin, classics, Degas, female, male, marble, Musee D'Orsay, museum, nature, Nocturne, objectification, Paris, Sappho, Science, sensual, statue, Symphony #3
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What Makes Us ANXIOUS – What Gives Us HOPE
I want to have a happier marriage Love wins My Trump voting relatives I am tougher than dirt Currently at the Rubin Museum in New York City, there is an exhibit curated by the public’s hopes and fears. One … Continue reading
Posted in Melodies Linger On, Notes in the News
Tagged Amazon, anxiety, Black Lives Matter, blue wave, death, deportation, election, fear, God, Hope, Kavanaugh, Love, museum, music, negativity, New York City, peace, Robert Mueller, Rubin, Science, Shout, Tears for Fears, The Song of Job 9:11, Time, Trump
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Sensual Statues in the Streets of Paris
Nude statues are all over Paris. I don’t know if statistically there are more nude statues there than in other European cultural capitals, or if the nude statues of Paris are particularly more sensual than elsewhere, or if it is … Continue reading
Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Melodies Linger On, Two-fisted Touristing
Tagged angel, Arts and Metiers, Bacchus, bastille, Beethoven, church, classical music, Fountain of Medici, jardin, Like a Prayer, Louvre, Luxembourg, Madonna, nudes, Opera, Paris, pieta, Romance, sculpture, Seine, sensual, sensual classics, Tuileries
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AH, PARIS!
The EIFFEL TOWER, as seen from many different Paris neighborhoods, constitutes the official kick off to a whole lot of Paris infused blog posts (even if it is actually the third of such blog posts – I’ll just call those first … Continue reading
HAPPY SONGS FOR DARK TIMES #2: Miss Marple, Tatu, and the Chipper Harpsichord
Theme from Miss Marple – Ron Goodwin and his Orchestra A while back I promised there would be a series of Happy Tunes for Dark Times to highlight what I consider sure fire musical mood boosters. What with ever escalation Twitter … Continue reading
THEY KILLED MERYL! – but she still left us one or two musical gems
When the first trailers for “Mamma Mia – Here We Go Again” arrived, the absence of Meryl Streep was conspicuous. As were certain lines that hinted at her character Donna Sheridan’s absence in the “Mamma Mia” movie sequel. Her likely … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema Scope, Melodies Linger On
Tagged ABBA, Amanda Seyfried, Andy Garcia, Cher, Dallas, Elaine Stritch, Fernando, Here We Go Again, House of Cards, Jason Isaacs, Mamma Mia, Margaret Atwood, Marilyn French, Mark Kermode, Meryl Streep, My Love My Life, The Day Before You Came, The Handmaid's Tale, The Women's Room
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BEFORE THE SUNSET – with the Sun Song Quiz
The lady saw me walk onto the middle of the street with my phone out, and said to Ed “he’s taking a picture of the sunset” in that universal “that’s so sweet” tone of voice. Except it wasn’t quite the … Continue reading
Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Melodies Linger On
Tagged A-Ha, Another Day of Sun, Blondie, Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me, Ed Elder, Elton John, Fiddler on the Roof, Fish People, George Michael, Hair, In the Sun, Invisible Sun, Kate Bush, La La Land, Let the Sunshine In, Moonlight, Sun King, Sunrise Sunset, sunset, The Beatles, The Flesh Failures, The Police, The Sun Always Shines On TV
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BROOKLYN PRIDE
Park Slope Comes Out! Highlights from the June 9 Brooklyn Pride Street Fare and Parade We are Family – Sisters Sledge
SHIFTING PERSPECTIVES at ART NY 2018
Part 2 of my glimpse into ART NY 2018. Some more “celebrity sightings” in artist and subject just as in Part 1. Even more “shifting perspectives”, featuring videos of art work that show how they change, either because they include … Continue reading
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Tagged 2018, Alexandra Pacula, art, ART NY, Badlands Cockney, Bjørn Okholm Skaarup, Brandon Murphy, Bruce R. Macdonald, Carole Feuerman, Chagall, Chris Antemann, Diadji Diop, Dick van Dyke, Etienne Garceau, Florian Eymann, Frederico Uribe, Fredy Hadorn, Hendrik Kerstas, Henry Calso, John Atwood, Kaï, Klar Reis, Klari Reis, Leonor Anthony, Marck, Marilyn Monroe, Mark Jenkins, Mary Poppins, Michael Moebius, Nemo Jantzen, Niloufar Banisadr, Norah Jones, Oliver Czarnetta, Paint it Black, Painter Song, Patrick Rubenstein, Pavement Artists, Picasso, Puzzles, Roberto Fabelo, Rolling Stones, Roy Lichtenstein, Shepard Fairey, Speedy Graphito, Tom Otterness, Victoria Kovalenchikova, videosculpture, Will Kurtz, Yong R. Kwan, Zhang Hang Yi
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The Views from THE VIEW
Ed and I were treated to dinner at The View restaurant on the top of the Marriott Hotel in Times Square. 48 stories high, the whole restaurant is perched on a circular platform that, like a very slowly rotating record, … Continue reading
Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Melodies Linger On, Two-fisted Touristing
Tagged ABBA, Billy Idol, Billy Joel, Charlie Chaplin, Chrysler Building, City Lights, City of Stars, Cole Porter, Down in the Depths (in the 90th floor), Hot in the City, Hudson River, I am the City, Kate Bush, La La Land, Manhattan, Marriott, Miami 2017 (Seen the Lights Go Out on Broadway), Portia Nelson, restaurant, Ryan Gosling, skyscraper, The Lion King, The View, Times Square, Top of the City
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