The Attention Beggar

brightsizelifekr: Suffering - Iiro Rantala & Leszek Możdżer...

Sun, 19 May 2013 13:48:42 +0200

brightsizelifekr:

Suffering - Iiro Rantala & Leszek Możdżer [Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic I]

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Sat, 11 May 2013 21:11:25 +0200

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Sat, 11 May 2013 09:15:29 +0200

thisiscaroline: Fibonacci sequence in music

Thu, 09 May 2013 11:06:01 +0200

thisiscaroline:

Fibonacci sequence in music

leadingtone: Friedrich Gulda - “What is This Thing Called...

Wed, 08 May 2013 18:13:21 +0200

leadingtone:

Friedrich Gulda - “What is This Thing Called Love?” (C. Porter)
with J. A. Rettenbacher (b) and Klauss Weiss (d)
from As You Like It (1970)

Austrian pianist Friedrich Gulda (1930 -2000) was one of the 20th Century’s most colorful and controversial figures in classical music. One of a tiny number of top-flight artists to achieve and maintain true crossover status, he had won the Geneva International Piano Competition and made his Carnegie Hall debut by age 20; only six years later he was headlining the Newport Jazz Festival and performing at Birdland. Though largely ostracized by the Continental “establishment,” his devotees include students Martha Argerich, who has named him “my biggest influence,” and Claudio Abbado. 1970’s As You Like It is a trio effort centered on straightforward, lyrical interpretations of jazz standards—and featuring the pianist’s celebrated variations on The Doors’ “Light My Fire.”

(photo by VinothChandar)

leadingtone: Friedrich GuldaPrelude and Fugue in E-flat...

Wed, 08 May 2013 18:04:17 +0200

leadingtone:

Friedrich Gulda
Prelude and Fugue in E-flat minor

Marc-André Hamelin

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Mon, 06 May 2013 23:13:43 +0200

homilius: J.S. Bach, Sonata No. 1 in G minor, BWV 1001 (c....

Mon, 06 May 2013 23:05:31 +0200

homilius:

J.S. Bach, Sonata No. 1 in G minor, BWV 1001 (c. 1720): 4. Presto

Jascha Heifetz, violin (11 December 1935)

the-altar: whatiscapitalism: The Internet tax is a hideous...

Mon, 06 May 2013 22:43:09 +0200

the-altar:

whatiscapitalism:

The Internet tax is a hideous idea that is backed by Wal-Mart and Amazon, because they both are so big they have to work with the different rules and regulations anyway. Cronyism and the state at their finest.

I have to agree. The Marketplace Fairness Act will sink online businesses the way Sarbanes–Oxley sank thousands of small brick & mortar businesses after 2002, but since they’re not Enron or Bank of America they won’t count politically.

oecologia: Channel of Ice (Cumberland Bay, Georgia) by Aravind...

Mon, 06 May 2013 22:32:57 +0200

oecologia:

Channel of Ice (Cumberland Bay, Georgia) by Aravind Krishnaswamy.

mudwerks: (via Michiel Janszoon van Mierevelt - Portrait of a...

Sat, 04 May 2013 10:55:38 +0200

mudwerks:

(via Michiel Janszoon van Mierevelt - Portrait of a Lady of the Van Beijerenvan Schagen Family [1620] | Gandalf’s Gallery)

artchipel: Marcin Sobas (Poland) The Polish photographer Marcin...

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 20:54:48 +0200

artchipel:

Marcin Sobas (Poland)

The Polish photographer Marcin Sobas has a body of work that speaks to a photography maxim: Nature is still the best subject. The endless cycle of birth, growth, death and rebirth; the arc of the sun and the moon in a 24 hour period; the play of clouds and fog as both filter and subject… Sobas benefits from his sense of timing and his appreciation for Nature as Subject, to capture the right light, the right fog and the right angle, and then, make some places look magical. (cf. artist interview by Chase Jarvis)

[more Marcin Sobas | artists found at vurtual]