Chimneys

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Monochrome Monday

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Pitch 'n' Putt with Joyce & Beckett

James Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941)

Samuel Beckett (13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989)

Saturday Night Music – Schnittke's Declaration of Love

Alfred Schnittke (24 November 1934 – 3 August 1998)

Friday is Skyday

10:34, southwards

 

14:40, northwards

On the road

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Laughing Lhursday*

Big bush is watching you.

* [For first time visitors]:

Typo in the title?
Nah. It's just that I would not let a tiny T spoil an avantgardistic alliteration.

Beers & Books (416) – Parlavà Suite and others

Suite de Parlavà
seguit de
Algú que espera
&
Llibre de les solituds

Miquel Martí i Pol  (19 March 1929 – 11 November 2003)

Beers & Books (415) – Yeats is Dead

;-)

William Butler Yeats (13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939)

Gulda plays Mozart

 

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791) 

Friedrich Gulda (16 May 1930 – 27 January 2000)

On the road

17:11

 

Bertrand Russell discusses Philosophy

 Bertrand Russell (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970)

Saturday Night Music – Hayato Sumino

Hayato Sumino *14 July 1995

Maurice Ravel (7 March 1875 – 28 December 1937)

Friday is Skyday

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Laughing Lhursday*

Caught!

 * [For first time visitors]:

Typo in the title?
Nah. It's just that I would not
let a tiny T spoil an avantgardistic alliteration.

Moonlight shadow

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Beers & Books (414) – Geschichte des Prinzen Biribinker

The Story of Prince Biribinker
is considered the first literary fairy tale
to be published in the German language (1769).
Glorious. ;-)

Christoph Martin Wieland (5 September 1733 – 20 January 1813)

Beers & Books (413) – Han Kang: Greek lessons

Greek Lessons
*
La classe de grec

Han Kang *27 November 1970

Beers&Books (412) – La hija del comunista

The Communist's Daughter
*
La hija del comunista

Aroa Moreno Durán *1981

Friday is Skyday

13:14

Relats conjunts: The secret message

François Boucher, 1767, Le courrier secret

Relats conjunts

My beauty, your hair, your beautiful face, your tempting breasts drive me crazy. I lust after you. After you have read these lines, reach behind you, take my hat, hurry to me and let us both go on an expedition to Venus. Yours, Wolfi.

Goethe in the Romagna Campagna.

On the road

There's but a little snow left in the woods.

Rain has taken over the sceptre.

In the car it's dry and warm, though. ;-)

Fazil Say: Black Earth

  

Fazil Say *14 January 1970

Monochrome Monday

13.

Beers & Books (411) – Cristina Morales: Easy language

Lectura fácil

Cristina Morales *1985

Saturday Night Music – Fazil Say: An Experiment

Beethoven's Sonatas Becoming Symphonies 

Fazil Say *14 January 1970

Ludwig van Beethoven (17 December 1770 – 26 March 1826)

Friday is Skyday

Balcony view, 14:15

 

Balcony view, 16:23

Laughing Lhursday

Window closed

Window opened

All day it was snowing

Seanhenge became Snowhenge.

Beers & Books (410) Parlavà Suite & others

Suite de Parlavà (1991)
&
Algú que espera (1990)
&
Llibre de les solituds (1997)

 
Miquel Martí i Pol  (19 March 1929 – 11 November 2003)*

 * It looks as if non of Martí i Pol's work has yet been translated into English.

Monochrome Monday

After but a ‘one-night stand’
this morning the snow had already disappeared again.
Instead, a very stormy night lies ahead.
May all the tiles stay on the roof.

First snow

Saturday morning looked like there'd be snow.

 

Sunday morning the first had arrived.

Saturday Night Music – Patricia Janečková

   

 Patricia Janečková (18 June 1998 – 1 October 2023)

Friday is Skyday

Balcony view

Fazil Say

... on Tuesday, 14 January (his birthday), will give a concert in Barcelona's Palau de la Música .

And here to give you a little glimpse:

 

Fazil Say * 14 January 1970 

Johann Sebastian Bach (31 March 1685 – 28 July 1750)

Happy New Year

Der türkische Marsch. ;-) Enjoy!

Fazil Say * 14 January 1970

Piano Sonata No. 11 

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791)