Day: May 16, 2024

Wildflower by David Foster

~ JezzieG
David Foster 1949-

Wildflower
1996
Popular Music

David Foster
Classical Pop
Born: 1 November 1949, Victoria, Canada
Nationality: Canadian

David Foster is a musician, composer, arranger, record producer, and music executive. He chaired Veve Records from 2012—2016. Foster has been nominated for 47 Grammy Awards of which he won 16

Violin Concerto by Benjamin Britten

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Benjamin Britten 1913-1976

Violin Concerto
1938-39
Concerto

Benjamin Britten
Opera, Orchestral, Chamber Music
Born: 22 November 1913, Lowestoft, England
Nationality: British
Died: 4 December 1976, Aldeburgh, England

Britten was a composer, conductor, and pianist. A central figure of 20th century British music Britten’s range included opera, vocal music, orchestral, and chamber pieces. He is best known for the opera “Peter Grimes” (1945), the orchestral showpiece “The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra” (1945), and the “War Requiem” (1962)

Decadent Days by Hazel O’Conner

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Hazel O’Connor

Decadent Days
Album: Sons and Lovers
Date: 1980
Genre: New Wave
Artist: Hazel O’Connor

Hazel O’Connor is a British singer-songwriter and actor. She is best known for the hit singles “Eighth Day” and “Will You.” She also starred in the 1980 film “Breaking Glass”

Here

~ JezzieG

Here
Form: Cyhydedd Hir

Here, where gods roam free
Nature speaks easy
By the old oak tree
In woodland glade

Here, on the soft ground
Silence hangs around
And a distant sound
Waters cascade

The path leads onward
Taking steps forward
Guiding ways toward
Gossiping foam

Here, where the stream flows
Over smoothed rocks, it goes
Each stepping stone knows
This way is home

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Second Hand Reading by William Kentridge

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Second Hand Reading
2013
Video Art
Flipbook Film from Drawings on Single Pages of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, HD Video, Colour, Sound

‘Second Hand Reading’ is a short, animated film created from Kentridge’s drawings on the pages of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary. As the story unfolds the artist appears as a character wearing his trademark white shirt and black trousers and wandering through the book. The film is accompanied by an emotive soundtrack from the South African musician Neo Muyanga

William Kentridge 1955-

William Kentridge
Video Art, Post-modernism
Born: April 1955, Johannesburg, South Africa
Nationality: South African

Kentridge is an artist best known for his prints, drawings, and animated films. He is especially noted for a sequence of hand-drawn animated films he created in the 1990s, constructed by filming a drawing, making erasures and changes, and filming it again. A single drawing will be changed and filmed this way until the end of a scene and the palimpsest-like drawings displayed along with the film as a finished piece of art