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Friday, June 17, 2022

Just 17 : Circle in the Square

See as well other posts tagged Hillbilly Geometry.

Thursday, December 17, 2020

Just 17

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 2:27 am

On February 10, 2004 (Beijing time), classical pianist
Yuja Wang turned 17.

Meanwhile . . .

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Well, she was just 17…*

Filed under: General — m759 @ 10:48 am

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* For the title, see The Dance.

Saturday, February 4, 2023

The Reviewer Reviewed

Filed under: General — m759 @ 12:38 am

On a concert at Carnegie Hall 
on Saturday, Jan. 28, 2023 —
"The ravished NYT reviewer offers
some nice writing …."

Related Log24 posts —
"Just 17," Dec. 17, 2020, and
"Just 17," June 17, 2022.

Saturday, April 16, 2011

Birthdays

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 2:29 pm

For Pope Benedict XVI and the late Al Sears

Today is the Pope's birthday. Another date of interest—

Al Sears, composer of "Castle Rock," is said to have died at 80 on March 23, 1990. If Sears were a saint, March 23 would be his saint's day— his dies natalis  (day of birth into heaven).

For Al—

This morning's post linked to a picture of Alicia Keys's hands at a piano keyboard. Some background from March 23 this  year— "Well, she was just 17" and The Heroic Finger.

For the Pope—

IMAGE- book cover- 'Secret of the Golden FLower'

Click, as the instructions say,
to look inside.

Tuesday, December 17, 2002

Tuesday December 17, 2002

Filed under: General — m759 @ 12:00 am

ART WARS:


Just Seventeen

'Just 17' illustration

 

Durga

Today's site music*
is in honor of
a memorable date.

 

1963
Northern Songs.

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Veronica  

From a June/July 1997
Hadassah Magazine article:

"Plato is obviously Jewish."

— Rebecca Goldstein

Readings on the Dark Lady  

From a July 27, 1997
New York Times article
by Holland Cotter:

"The single most important and sustained model for Khmer culture was India, from which Cambodia inherited two religions, Buddhism and Hinduism, and an immensely sophisticated art. This influence announces itself early in this exhibition in a spectacular seventh-century figure of the Hindu goddess Durga, whose hip-slung pose and voluptuous torso, as plush and taut as ripe fruit, combine the naturalism and idealism of the very finest Indian work."

From The Dancing Wu Li Masters,
by Gary Zukav, Harvard '64:

"The Wu Li Masters know that physicists are doing more than 'discovering the endless diversity of nature.' They are dancing with Kali [or Durga], the Divine Mother of Hindu mythology."

"Eastern religions have nothing to say about physics, but they have a great deal to say about human experience. In Hindu mythology, Kali, the Divine Mother, is the symbol for the infinite diversity of experience. Kali represents the entire physical plane. She is the drama, tragedy, humor, and sorrow of life. She is the brother, father, sister, mother, lover, and friend. She is the fiend, monster, beast, and brute. She is the sun and the ocean. She is the grass and the dew. She is our sense of accomplishment and our sense of doing worthwhile. Our thrill of discovery is a pendant on her bracelet. Our gratification is a spot of color on her cheek. Our sense of importance is the bell on her toe.

This full and seductive, terrible and wonderful earth mother always has something to offer. Hindus know the impossibility of seducing her or conquering her and the futility of loving her or hating her; so they do the only thing that they can do. They simply honor her."

How could I dance with another….?

— John Lennon and Paul McCartney, 1962-1963  

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