Personal note: New attempt

Hundreds of unwanted visits every day from China, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Singapore, South Africa, Modugno (Italy), Council Bluff (Iowa); on one day alone more than 1200 from an 800x600 Linux user from the United States - I had had enough and set Omnium to ‘private’.

Today a new attempt. Should the above happen again soon, I will set the blog permanently to ‘private’ and only grant access to my blogger friends by invitation.

I ask for your understanding.

Sofia Gubaidulina: Ich und Du

 Sofia Gubaidulina (24 October 1931 – 13 March 2025)

Baiba Skride *19 February 1981

Saturday Night Music – Sofia Gubaidulina

  

 The forgotten Piano / El Piano Olvidado
[You can choose either English or Spanish subtitles.]

Sofia Gubaidulina (24 October 1931 – 13 March 2025)

Saturday Night Music – Mozart y Mambo

  

Sarah Willis *23 February 1968

Johann Wolfgang Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791

Mambo

Happy Bolero, Monsieur Ravel

 Maurice Ravel (7 March 1875 – 28 December 1937)

Alondra de la Parra * 31 October 1980

Saturday Night Music – The Demon

 

 

The Demon

Anton Rubinstein (1829 – 1894)

Dmiti Hvorostovsky (16 October 1962 – 22 November 2017)

Asmik Grigorian *12 May 1981

Personal note

As one or two of my friends may have surmised, for one reason and another (at least) currently I feel little or no desire to blog.

I have not cancelled, though, a few scheduled posts.

And I will still be available via e-mail (seanjeating at gmail dot com) ... unless I have moved to my last dwelling six feet under. ;-)

Take good care of yourselves, and be kind to each other.
Sean

Monochrome Monday

In the woods ...

Beers & Books (419) – Ospina Pizano

Solo un poco aqui

María Ospina Pizano *1977

Saturday Night Music – Duo violine & cello

Gabriel Bianco * 25 April 1988

Anastasia Kobekina * 26 August 1994

Cold

. . .

The bad is called good

We live now in an era where normal values have been displaced.
The good is called bad, the bad - good.

Anna Politkovskaya (30 August 1958 – 6 October 2006)

On the road

It's become wintery again

Dark suspicion

I've got a deep dark suspicion
that pretty soon we should start
looking around for another planet
for ourselves. 

Wolfgang Borchert (20 May 1921 – 20 November 1947)

Saturday Night Music – Carnaval de Venise

Niccolò Paganini (27 October 1782 – 27 May 1840)

Olivier Pons *1970

Gabriel Bianco * 25 April 1988

Friday is Skyday

...

Laughing Lhursday*

Hens have two legs
I have two legs.
Ergo, I am a hen.

* [For first time visitors]:

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

A process of discovery

As a writer, I write to see.
If I knew how it would end, I wouldn't write.
It's a process of discovery.

John McGahern  (12 November 1934 – 30 March 2006)

Beers & Books (418) – By the Lake

Oh, a book by John that I don't know yet?
So I asked my bookseller to order it for me in the USA.
A few days later I held ‘By the Lake’ in my hands,
opened it and started reading.
‘The morning was clear. There was no wind on the lake.’
A déjà vu? I know that one, don't I?
And right:
Exactly the beginning of ‘That They May Face The Rising Sun’.
Vintage International had just changed the title.

John McGahern (12 November 1934 – 30 March 2006)

 

Monochrome Monday

Silent serenade.

Nice little glimpse

 

Anastasia Kobekina * 26 August 1994

Saturday Night Music – Anastasia Kobekina

Anastasia Kobekina *26 August 1994

Friday is Skyday

...

Laughing Lhursday

14:04

15:16

Beers & Books (417) – Upton Sinclair: Öl.!

Oil!

Upton Sinclair (20 September 1878 – 25 November 1968)

Chimneys

...

Monochrome Monday

...

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

...

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

...

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

...

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)