Tag: entertainment

R.I.P J.R.R.T.

By Anne on September 2, 2020

There is The Bard, and then there is The Professor.

Posted in: Alan Lee, Art, Beren and Luthien, Christopher Tolkien, entertainment, Giancola, J.R.R. Tolkien, Middle-Earth, The Silmarillion, Tolkien

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Classical Sunday: Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte

By Anne on August 9, 2020August 8, 2020

Entertainment! Have fun!

Posted in: 18th century composers, Classical Music, entertainment, magic flute, Mozart, Music, opera, Royal Opera House, Zauberflöte

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Classical Sunday: Mozart’s Don Giovanni

By Anne on August 2, 2020August 1, 2020

Well, we have a thing for Italian at the moment, ever since we posted Rossini’s Barbiere. So here’s another opera sung in Italian, and with subtitles, too!

Posted in: 18th century composers, Classical Music, Don Giovanni, entertainment, La Scala, Mozart, Music, opera, Riccardo Muti

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Short Story: July

By Anne on July 31, 2020August 5, 2020

And thus they rise.

Posted in: creative writing, entertainment, fairy tale, Fairy Tales, fantasy, Imagine Your Story, library, Literature, photography, short-stories

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Classical Sunday: Elgar’s Enigma Variations

By Anne on July 19, 2020July 18, 2020

A performance highly praised by the commentators on YouTube.

Posted in: Elgar, Enigma, entertainment, Family, Jacek Kaspszyk, Music, Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra

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Classical Sunday: de Victoria’s Last Works

By Anne on June 28, 2020June 27, 2020

Come with us on a journey to the time of St. Teresa of Ávila and St. John of the Cross.

Posted in: 16th century composers, 16th century Spain, 17th century composers, entertainment, Faith, Music, Officium Defunctorum, Roman Catholic Liturgy, sacred choral music, Spanish composers, St. John of the Cross, Teresa of Avila

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Classical Sunday: Welcome, Summer!

By Anne on June 21, 2020June 20, 2020

For the day after the summer solstice, something light to enjoy.

Posted in: Antonio Vivaldi, Barriére, Beethoven, Classical Music, Einaudi, entertainment, Johann Strauss II, Litvinovsky, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Music, Popper, Summer, Tchaikovsky

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Classical Sunday: 10 Sonatas by Henry Purcell

By Anne on June 14, 2020June 13, 2020

Enjoy.

Posted in: 17th century composers, 17th century England, English Baroque, entertainment, Henry Purcell, Music, sonatas

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Classical Sunday: Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia

By Anne on June 7, 2020June 8, 2020

If you are unfamiliar with this delightful opera, just listen to the overture and you will most probably realize that you are, in fact, quite familiar with it after all.

Posted in: 19th century composers, comic opera, entertainment, Family, Gioachino Rossini, Italian classical music, Italian composers, Italian opera, Music, opera, opera buffa, The Barber of Seville, video

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Classical Sunday: Händel’s Dixit Dominus

By Anne on May 31, 2020May 23, 2020

Sir John Eliot Gardiner with the English Baroque Soloists and the Monteverdi Choir

Posted in: Baroque, Classical Music, English Baroque, entertainment, Georg Friedrich Handel, German Baroque, Monteverdi Choir, Music, Sir John Eliot Gardiner