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George


Ivan Moravec.  8)

hornteacher

The magnificently talented and beautiful, American violinist, Hilary Hahn.

Symphonien

The magnificently talented pianist, Schroeder. 8)

Varg


mahlertitan


Hollywood

"There are far worse things awaiting man than death."

A Hollywood born SoCal gal living in Beethoven's Heiligenstadt (Vienna, Austria).

facehugger


Maciek

The Magnificent MrOsa with members of his closest family. Sometimes it's them alone - without MM himself (I change my avatar from time to time).

Actually, MM are my real life initials! :o

Cheers,
MM

Florestan

"Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory." — Thomas Beecham

carlos

As nobody share my admiration for Ginette, what
about him?
Piantale a la leche hermano, que eso arruina el corazón! (from a tango's letter)

bhodges

About an hour's train ride from New York up the Hudson River is the Dia:Beacon museum, a huge old cracker factory converted into a gigantic palace for minimal art.  One of my favorite artists there is Fred Sandback (1943-2003), whose works here are done with yarn, stretched so tightly from ceiling to floor that it looks more solid than it actually is.

In this photo, at the right of the light coming through the doors, you can just make out a red vertical line.  It is the closest thing I've ever seen to something "drawn" in nothing but air. 

--Bruce

johnshade

~
The sun's a thief, and with her great attraction robs the vast sea, the moon's an arrant thief, and her pale fire she snatches from the sun... (Shakespeare)
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The sun's a thief, and with her great attraction robs the vast sea, the moon's an arrant thief, and her pale fire she snatches from the sun  (Shakespeare)

toledobass

xiao long bao or "soup dumplings"


Good stuff.

Allan

knight66

A stairway in the Vatican.

Mike
DavidW: Yeah Mike doesn't get angry, he gets even.
I wasted time: and time wasted me.

Bogey

Quote from: knight on April 07, 2007, 10:59:33 AM
A stairway in the Vatican.

Mike

I've heard that they have good carpenters and painters that have lent their services over the years Mike. :)
There will never be another era like the Golden Age of Hollywood.  We didn't know how to blow up buildings then so we had no choice but to tell great stories with great characters.-Ben Mankiewicz

knight66

Well, yes, there is space a plenty to play with. One mystery to me is the miles of very wide corridors. I imagined the last Pope getting from place to place on a skateboard. "Just popping off to the Sistine for Vespers Folks." That sort of thing...but what function all these vast spaces ever served I cannot imagine. Now a days you get bookstalls in them with notices such as.....last bookstall before the Sistine. I fully expect a Holy Starbucks there next time I stroll in.

Mike
DavidW: Yeah Mike doesn't get angry, he gets even.
I wasted time: and time wasted me.

Bogey

Quote from: knight on April 07, 2007, 11:31:27 AM
Well, yes, there is space a plenty to play with. One mystery to me is the miles of very wide corridors. I imagined the last Pope getting from place to place on a skateboard. "Just popping off to the Sistine for Vespers Folks." That sort of thing...but what function all these vast spaces ever served I cannot imagine. Now a days you get bookstalls in them with notices such as.....last bookstall before the Sistine. I fully expect a Holy Starbucks there next time I stroll in.

Mike

Actually that space is fairly new Mike.  It was used as a test track for the, you got it, Pope Mobile  :):



There will never be another era like the Golden Age of Hollywood.  We didn't know how to blow up buildings then so we had no choice but to tell great stories with great characters.-Ben Mankiewicz

knight66

When it was quite new, he was driven right under the windows of my flat in Edinburgh in it. He made an appearance at the nearby rugby ground, Murryfield. It was a youth rally and by opening the windows we clearly heard the roars of the crowd, louder than at any rugby match.

Mike
DavidW: Yeah Mike doesn't get angry, he gets even.
I wasted time: and time wasted me.

Bogey

Quote from: knight on April 07, 2007, 11:47:30 AM
When it was quite new, he was driven right under the windows of my flat in Edinburgh in it. He made an appearance at the nearby rugby ground, Murryfield. It was a youth rally and by opening the windows we clearly heard the roars of the crowd, louder than at any rugby match.

Mike

Yes.  John Paul was here in Denver in 1993 for a World Youth Day.  I was literally in the hospital with the flu during his visit, or I would have went to see him.  However, you could hear the incredible crowd from miles away....very powerful IMHO.  My loss.  (Look for PM Mike.)
There will never be another era like the Golden Age of Hollywood.  We didn't know how to blow up buildings then so we had no choice but to tell great stories with great characters.-Ben Mankiewicz

lukeottevanger

Quote from: knight on April 07, 2007, 11:47:30 AM
When it was quite new, he was driven right under the windows of my flat in Edinburgh in it.

Stephen Hawking used to trundle under the windows of my room in Cambridge! Quite a surreal sight at night time, when all you could see was his apparatus, all lit up like a Christmas tree  ;D