Stravinsky, picture from the Library of Congress
I have been thinking on sharing some of the hidden (or not so hidden) treasures I have seen on YouTube. My first one will be a video of the virtuoso guitar player, Julian Bream, playing the lute (1) for the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky
Aleister Crowley
This is the answer to my previous trivia (What do Led Zeppelin’s guitar player (Jimmy Page), Fernando Pessoa and William Butler Yeats have in common?): (more…)
Kafka (right) with his friend and savior of his manuscripts Max Brod (left). It was Brod who left many of Kafka’s’ manuscripts to his secretary / lover Esther Hoffe. I don’t know who owns the copyright of this picture, so don’t tell anyone I am using it here!
More Kafka expected to come to your local bookstore soon , as Esther Hoffe, the zealous guardian of his never-before-seen manuscripts, dies at age 101. The articles I have read (predictably) hints on the story as being “Kafkaesque”, though it reads more like a thriller to me (come on, don’t force that adjective just because he is involved).
The Guardian runs a good article on this.
What do Led Zeppelin’s guitar player (Jimmy Page), Fernando Pessoa and William Butler Yeats have in common?
The answer on my next blog (or someday)
The person that answers this wins a 13th century version of the Iliad with comments by Dante Alighieri. Just kidding.
The Writer, by the Flemish painter Gabriel Metsu (1629-1667)
There are roughly two opposing views about writing (and art in general): One that deems that anyone should be able (and perhaps encouraged) to produce and show their art, and another one that considers this only promotes the creation of heaps of bad art.
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