Same procedure as every year

Dinner for One

Every Year Again

Alle Jahre wieder**
Kommt das Christuskind
Auf die Erde nieder,
Wo wir Menschen sind.

Kehrt mit seinem Segen
Ein in jedes Haus,
Geht auf allen Wegen
Mit uns ein und aus.
*
Every year again
Comes the Christ Child
Down to earth
Where we humans are.

Stops with its blessing
At every house
Walks on all paths
With us in and out.

* * For the past twelve years I have been posting this very "Christmas"-photo "every year again". The accompanying texts: different.
Nothing has changed for the better. Callousness, egoism, greed, hypocrisy and – above all – stupidity are obviously increasing at the same speed as (wo)mankind is proliferating.
In this sense: Merry Christmas.
Enjoy life as long as you can.
And don't feel guilty!
Humbleness is for the others, eh?!

Saturday Night Music

Elīna Garanča *16 September 1976

Many happy returns

Edna O'Brien *December 15 1930

You are entering Free Britain now

It's not about The Cockroach.

 It's about the mindset of a "majority".*

 Good night, England, and good luck.


* The cockroaches will teach them, anyway.

Warm beer cold women

Tom Waits 7 December 1949

Legendary

Tina Turner * 26 November 1939

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Joaquín Rodrigo (22 November 1901 – 6 July 1999)

Paco de Lucía (21 Dezember 1947 – 25 February 2014)

Dmitri Hvorostovsky

Dmitri Hvorostovsky 16 October 1962 – 22 November 2017

The Moor's Revenge

Henry Purcell (10 September 1659 – 21 November 1695)

Folías de España

Jordi Savall * August 1st, 1941

Saturday Night Music

Dmitri Hvorostovsky    16 October 1962 – 22 November 2017

Elīna Garanča             * 16 September 1976

Constantine Orbelian  * 27 August 1956

Saturday Night Music

Dmitri Hvorostovsky 16 October 1962 – 22 November 2017

La quête

Jacques Brel (8 April 1929 – 9 October 1978)

Idiots from Indonesia

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While deleting the 902 unknowns, giorginas, maddox pax, broklyn hazard, lehman kartojo, i gede putut and adhe donat, accidently I did also delete the latest comments on "Plethora & Wastefulness".

Sorry Mark and Andrew.

Plethora & Wastefulness

Hungry villagers?
Obviously ... not ...

Guerreiro & Bolero

Dmitri Hvorostovsky 16 October 1962 – 22 November 2017 

Guerriero Bueno lyrics

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Dmitri  Hvorostovsky (9 October 1962 – 22 November 2017)

Friday is Skyday

Flying high ...

... diving deep

Laughing Lhursday*

Ah, yes, I see.

* [For first time visitors]:
Typo in the title?
Nah.
It's just that I would not let a tiny T spoil an avantgardistic alliteration.

Brother Wind

Jan Garbarek

Saturday Night Music

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov 18 March 1844 - 21 June 1908

Amado mio

Lullaby of the Leaves

Pom du Jazz

"Simple" Life

Hope in a Changing Climate

Pom du Jazz

A Song before Sunrise

Frederick Delius (29 January 1862 – 10 June 1934)

Saturday Night Music

Stjepan Hauser *15 June 1986

Waltz No. 2

Enjoy this as a little appetizer for the next Saturday Night Music.



Stjepan Hauser

Dmitri Shostakovich

Saturday Night Music

Dmitri Hvorostovsky16 October 1962 – 22 November 2017

Saturday Night Music

Dmitri  Hvorostovsky 16 October 1962 – 22 November 2017

On Sunday, May 7, Dmitri Hvorostovsky who after being diagnosed with a brain tumor in 2015 had had a hiatus, performed “Cortigiani, vil razza dannata” from Verdi’s Rigoletto before an adoring crowd, in Metropolitan Opera, New York.
It's so sad seeing him so weak. But his voice!

Video credit: Metropolitan Opera

And here the "same", performed but four years earlier, on 19 August 2013

Saturday Night Music

Sir John Eliot Gardiner (born 20 April 1943)

Il barbiere di Siviglia

Dmitri  Hvorostovsky 9 October 1962 – 22 November 2017

Saturday Night Music

Fazil Say * 14 January 1970

Tango Tuesday

Stjepan Hauser *15 June 1986
Petrit Çeku * 2 June 1985

Happy Birthday, Maestro

Fazil Say *14 January 1970

Toreadór

Dmitri  Hvorostovsky 9 October 1962 – 22 November 2017

Déjà-vu in 2019

Dmitri  Hvorostovsky 16 October 1962 – 22 November 2017

In 80 Words Around A Year

While perverse bastards felt fancy to call the war they started the year with "Operation Olive Branch"; while worldwide many people built walls around their heart; while there were natural, moral and ethical disasters galore, I was allowed to enjoy the best year of my life, so far, on this planet. And now I am looking forward what we shall make of 2019, the first months of which I am going to live and write in Spain. Happy New Year!