“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 …
The two books of year 1955 are poetry collection of Baroque period and Romantic period. Just as Church Hymns and Art Songs are dear to me, so too these two books. I appreciate there is a section for women poet inside both of them. I found them in a public bookcase and adopted them. I …
Have you ever dreamed about candy meadow, marzipan castle, dolls kingdom, rose lake and a seashell carriage pulled by two golden-scaled dolphins? As for Marie, this was not a dream at all. No one believed her that she had given up to talk about this “dream”. At this moment, the “truth” (dream) knocked at her …
Two weeks after reading “Krabat” by Otfried Preußler, I was and still am completely immersed in the magical world of the story. So I went on to read two other books by the same author, they are “The Little Witch” and “The Wise Men of Schilda” . These books are inspiring in many ways, instead …
Last night the wind blew hardand rain was fine.Sound sleep did not dispel the aftertaste of wine.I ask the maid rolling up the screen.‘The same crab-apple tree’she says, ‘was seen.’“But don’t you knowO don’t you knowThe red should languish” 如梦令/ Like a dream/ Wie im Traum词: 李清照 译: 许渊冲Lyric: Li QingZhao Translator: Xu Yuanchong 海棠依旧?The …