Friday, January 03, 2025

Thursday, January 02, 2025

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)

Wednesday, January 01, 2025

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)

Tuesday, December 31, 2024

If I've counted correctly, Germans can/could watch Dinner for One (The 90th Birthday) 13 times today on different TV channels, between 16:00 and 23:40, and also six times in different German dialects, including Schwiizerdütsch.
Very strange folks, the Germans. Well, judge for yourself.

Tiny tip-off: Be absolutely determined not to laugh.

Dinner for One

Monday, December 30, 2024

„Sieh da! Sieh da, Timotheus, Die Kraniche des Ibykus!“


This morning at nine hundreds of cranes passed Seanhenge. Winter's coming. Late. Nine years ago this happened but still is unforgotten.

Sunday, December 29, 2024

To my sister

Forough Farrokhzad (29.12.1934 - 13.02.1967)

Sister, rise up after your freedom,
why are you quiet?
rise up because henceforth
you have to imbibe the blood of tyrannical men.

Seek your rights, Sister,
from those who keep you weak,
from those whose myriad tricks and schemes
keep you seated in a corner of the house.

How long will you be the object of pleasure
In the harem of men's lust?
how long will you bow your proud head at his feet
like a benighted servant?

How long for the sake of a morsel of bread,
will you keep becoming an aged haji's temporary wife,
seeing second and third rival wives.
oppression and cruelty, my sister, for how long?

This angry moan of yours
must surly become a clamorous scream.
you must tear apart this heavy bond
so that your life might be free.

Rise up and uproot the roots of oppression.
give comfort to your bleeding heart.
for the sake of your freedom, strive
to change the law, rise up.