Day: April 21, 2021

Memory by Andrew Lloyd Webber

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Memory
1983
Musicals

Andrew Lloyd Webber
Musicals, Film and TV
Born: 22 March 1948, London, UK
Nationality: English

Lloyd-Webber is a composer and impresario of musical theatre. Best known for his musicals, including ‘The Phantom of the Opera,’ ‘Evita,’ ‘Jesus Christ Superstar,’ and ‘Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.’ Some of his musicals have run on the West End for more than a decade and on Broadway. A patron of the arts, in 1992 he set up Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation supporting arts, culture, and heritage in the UK..

Sonnet to Spring

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Form: Harrisham Sonnet

Between winter and roses sunshine bloom
The birds feed and stare into heavy grey skies
In wild patches daffodils break the gloom
The warmer days coming with breezy sighs
But still inside the fires warm a cold room
The paradoxes of spring have no disguise
Soon the trees will flourish vernal green
As their pastel blossoms shyly return
Breaking out from the drabby winter scene
This fresh beauty through those cold days we yearn
We see what could be, not what might have been
For our souls delight as the seasons turn
As some say amen I say mote it be
At last the warmer days have been set free

©JGFarmer2021

Untitled #209, “History Portrait” Series by Cindy Sherman

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Untitled #209, “History Portrait” Series
1989
Feminist Art
Colour Photograph
The Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat

Sherman assumes the persona of the Mona Lisa in this three-quarter length, Italian Renaissance-style portrait. Not a true replica, the photo is intended to call the original painting to mind without copying it, somehow haunting the imitation with the original. Possibly it is suggesting that we rethink the familiarity of the original and examine and question how its conventions of depiction continue to influence the representation of the ‘Female’ today, hundreds of years after the original was created.

Cindy Sherman
The Pictures Generation, Conceptual Art, Feminist Art, Post Modernism
Born: 19 January 1954, New Jersey, USA
Nationality: American

A contemporary master of socially critical photography, Sherman is a key figure of the Pictures Generation, a circle of American artist who came into artistic maturity during the early 1980s, an era of rapid and widespread proliferation of mass media imagery. In art school painting in a super-realist style during the aftermath of American Feminism Sherman took up photography at the end of the 1970s to explore common female social roles and personas. She sought to question the seductive and oppressive influence of mass media on individual and collective identities.

Nessun Dorma by Giacomo Puccini

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Nessun Dorma
1920
Opera

Giacomo Puccini
Opera
Born: 22 December 1858, Lucca, Italy
Nationality: Italian
Died: 29 November 1924, Brussels, Belgium

Puccini was a composer of opera and has been recognised as the greatest composer of Italian opera since Verdi. His early work was rooted in traditional late 19th-century romantic opera and later he as his work developed, he became a leading exponent in the realistic verismo style

Jim Steinman 1947 – 2021

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The music of Jim Steiman through Meat Loaf and Bonnie Tyler introduced me to rock – for that I am eternally grateful. Below are some of the songs by Jim that will always be on my playlist

Thank you for the music

Jim Steinman
1 November 1947 – 19 April 2021
RIP

In Silence

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A Garret Poet

Form: Keats’ Sonnet

Here in silence there is no single voice;
No sound but trees that whisper to the ground
And touch the soul with spiritual embrace.
Here in silence a heart can sing, rejoice
In beauty that shines from natural ground
And echoes love we share with Mother Earth,
In ev'ry flower eyes can glimpse her grace.
Here in silence a prayer can make its choice,
A soul that lost its way at last is found
Because I saw the beauty in her face,
Here in silence the moment of rebirth,
My heart began to beat, I came alive.
It's in her love I feel both joy and mirth
And know there is nothing I'll not survive

Photo by Maria Orlova on Pexels.com

©JGFarmer2015

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