Beers & Books CCCXXVII – History of Ireland

A Short History of Ireland (1952)

J. C. Beckett (8 February 1912 – 12 February 1996)

Harbingers of spring

Busy visitor
Mason bee meets daffodil
Harbingers of spring

Saturday Night Music – The Age of Anxiety

Basque National Orchestra

The Age of Anxiety

Yulianna Avdeeva *3 July 1985

Leonard Bernstein (25 August 1916 – 14 October 1990)

Friday is Skyday

20:18

Saturday Night Music – Piano Sonata No.1

Last weekend Mark rhapsodised over Yulianna Avdeeva: "On Shostakovich piano sonata no.1, honestly she is super human!!!"
Voilà, Mark, here she is (not only) for you ... ;-)

Yulianna Avdeeva *3 July 1985

Dmitri Shostakovich (25 September 1906 – 9 August 1975)

Beers & Books CCCXXVI – The Strange Beast ...

Det sällsamma djuret från
norr och andra science-fiction-berättelser,
not available in English.
The title would probably read:
The Strange Beast from the North and Other Oddities

Lars Gustafsson (17 May 1936 – 3 April 2016)

Saturday Night Music – Pictures at an Exhibition

Modest Mussorgsky (21 March 1839 – 28 March 1881)

Pictures at an Exhibition

Yulianna Avdeeva *3 July 1985

 

Ingenious, eh?

Our grandson, who turns six on 1 April, recently said when he learned that some films (FSK 12) are only recommended for children over 12: "Then I'll have to live my complete life over again."

Saturday Night Music – Eighth Day

Hazel O'Connor *16 May 1954

Beers & Books CCCXXV – A life in invisibility

A Life in Invisibility
(Women in Yemen)

Beers & Books CCCXXIV – Book of the South

Libro del Sur

André Heller *22 March 1947

Today ten years ago

Today ten years ago, "out of the blue" my friend Jams died, seven days before his 50th birthday.
I am still sad. And grateful.

Thanks for being, Jams.

Beers & Books CCCXXII – Fundamentalism against Women

The Nawal El Saadawi reader

Nawal El Sadawy (22 October 1931 – 21 March 2021)