February 2012
“When I am…completely myself, entirely alone …my ideas flow best and most...”
– Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
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To party or not to party,
that is the question.
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“I saw with so many of the gay couples, they were so devoted to another. I saw so...”
– A chance shake-up of Maryland House of Delegates seating assignments brought Republican Wade Kach face to face with gay couples who had come to make the case for a gay marriage law, and might have proved decisive in its final passage through the state’s General Assembly on Thursday. Kach, who had...
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“Blade Runner has been called “the official nightmare of Los Angeles”, yet this...”
– Thom Andersen, Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003) (via tumbLAngeles)
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“To some it is Napoleon; to some it is philosophical struggle. To me it is...”
–
Toscanini, on Beethoven 3
(via leadingtone)
Anything Can Happen If You Let It.: Music and... →
thisisnotpsychology:
Brain development is still incomplete at birth. Early experiences that stimulate the brain are involved in enhancing its neural growth. A child’s brain develops its full potential with exposure to enriching experiences in early childhood. These stimuli received during…
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“I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able...”
– Simone de Beauvoir (via kenzel)
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“He’s wrong. He’s absolutely, 100 percent wrong. I think he’s playing to the...”
– Congressional Battle Ready: Iraq Vet Tammy Duckworth runs for office and has some words for Rick Santorum (via becauseiamawoman)
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secretlyhipster:
“Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.” — Gustav Mahler
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leadingtone replied to your post: DOES ANYONE
It was written for the Frankfurt Chamber Winds Society and was premiered at a 1922 festival in Köln. The driving idea behind the Kammermusik series was a return to Bach-style chamber instrumentation. That’s all I got. :)
Woohoo! Thank you so much! That’s perfect. :) :) :)
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DOES ANYONE
happen to know why Hindemith wrote Kleine Kammermusik for Wind Quintet Op. 24 No. 2?!?!?!?!? And/or know the circumstances surrounding this composition’s genesis?
Our chamber music coach told us to find this information, which he apparently found somewhere but he won’t tell us where. I have scoured the internet, and I just looked through all of my library’s books on Hindemith -...
“I would suggest that the what we call ‘creative’ people are actually mentally...”
– Philip Glass speaks at the World Science Festival, 2011
The blurb from their website - “When talking about geniuses, the conversation inevitably strays towards topics of eccentricity, or even madness. One needs only to look at the lives of artists such as Vincent Van Gogh and Mark Rothko, or to...
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22 days until a new episode of Community
communitythings:
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“Rick Santorum sees Nazis everywhere: in the Middle East, in doctor’s offices and...”
– DANA MILBANK, “Rick Santorum Cries ‘Nazi,’” in the Washington Post.
Whether its Republicans calling for legalized rape in Virginia or one of their presidential candidates comparing Obama to Hitler, conservatives feel like they can never take things too far.
The GOP is fucking shameless.
(via...
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“I will go so far as to say that the modern conservative faith is the direct...”
– What Bible is Santorum Reading? (via azspot)
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“Your ears will always lead you right, but you must know why.”
–
Anton Webern
(via leadingtone)
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“Those who love me will know where to find me.”
– Gustav Mahler (via lizlam)
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"When Beethoven passed away, he was buried in a...
HAHAHAHAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHAHAHAHHHHHHHHHHHHHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
OOOH TELL IT ONE MORE TIME, I THINK THERE’S SOMEONE IN SIBERIA WHO HASN’T HEARD IT YET.
“To live alone one must be an animal or a God – says Aristotle. There is yet a...”
– Nietzsche (via lucifelle)
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COMMUNITY BACK MARCH 15
lestraade:
ACTUALLY SCREAMING
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“There are people who say, “If music’s that easy to write, I could do it.” Of...”
– John Cage
History of Experimental Music in the United States
(via imaginarydances)
