Today, I start reading Water Music by T.C. Boyle. A fiction between 1795 and 1805, about the adventure of the Scottish explorer Mungo Park. The review written by Salman Rushdie about this book is very interesting: It is a book in the worst possible taste, serves no useful purpose Its title will make Handel …
The apple of someones eye. The person who someone loves most and is very proud of. From: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/ Wie seinen Augapfel hten. ⟨jmd. Htet etw., jmdn. Wie seinen Augapfel⟩ meist bezogen auf etwas besonders Kostbares, Wertvolles mit groer Sorgfalt, Achtsamkeit behandeln, behten, bewachen, um Schaden oder v erlust zu verhindern. Aus: https://www.dwds.de/ Before the apple …
My heart is like an apple-treeWhose boughs are bent with thickset fruit;Mein Herz ist wie ein ApfelbaumMit Ästen hangend von Früchten schwer.Christina Rossetti Now is the prime time to pick apples. Everywhere I go, I see apple-laden branches. As the apple season begins, I already baked cinnamon apple muffins. While I am writing this, I …
Time goes by shivering.What seems over, begins. Frstelnd geht die Zeit spazieren.Was vorber schien, beginnt. October from the cycle The Thirteen MonthsDer Oktober aus dem Zyklus Die dreizehn MonateErich Kstner (1899 1974) I am moved by this beautiful poem October by Erick Kstner. Time goes on, never stop, I too shall keep going. …
“Was it Frederick’s voice?Was it magic?”Frederickby Leo Lionni How to prepare for the coming cold winter is one of the main concerns now. This is not an ungrounded worry in European countries when we read the news. Companies, churches, private home are calculating about the room temperature for winter to ensure that Germany does not …
“He (Salman Rushdie) sent us a text about love and art.” Case ScaglioneChief Conductor of the Württembergisches Kammerorchester Heilbronn David Philip Hefti’s Rhapsody for baritone and orchestra with a text by Sir Salman Rushdie is a music composition (25 minutes) commissioned by Wüttermbergische Kammerorchestra (WKO) Heilbronn. On 21.9.2022 was the world premiere in Harmonie Heilbronn …
“I think it’s very important for artists to be open to contemporary music, because that’s how we can build music history. If we don’t do that, there would not have been Beethoven or Mozart. We have our time and we have to find our music, music that we hope will be sustainable, not just now …
Visiting Rome for the second time. This time no Spanish Steps, nor Love Fountain, nor Vatican City, nor Colosseum but I keep thinking of the friends that once walked in Rome with me. At the same time, it is very nice that I made new friends from different corners of the world, there are more …
I am travelling back time to 3 B.C. 13th century? I need to do more homework about this city. Until I know more about it, then I will reveal the name of the city. Stay tuned! Travel ten thousand miles and read ten thousand books. 读万卷书, 行万里路 出自董其昌《画禅室随笔卷二》 Travelling is like reading a book. …
Even if this little melancholy book is not my cup of tea, still I think it is so well written that I finished reading it. I like how the author create the Parisian streets, the rain scene and most of all is how the author interprets Autumn. For me, autumn has never been a sad …