It is easy to locate the best places to dine, shop and spend the night – no matter where your travels take you. You long for a relaxing trip along a scenic route, or an action-packed adventure? You can plan your Kansas getaway. This outdoor treat turns out to be an unexpected beauty for those who have never made the …
Read More »I’VE GOT RHYTHM – The two lives of Charlie Parker, between Kansas City and New York
He was a legendary Grammy Award–winning jazz saxophonist who invented the musical style called bop or bebop. Charlie Parker was born on August day of 1920, in Kansas City. An only child, he moved with his parents to Kansas City, when he was 7 years old. By the time Charlie was 15, the alto saxophone was his instrument of choice. …
Read More »LIGHTNING A KANSAS CITY / THE RISE OF CHARLIE PARKER – A book by Stanley Crouch
Lightning in Kansas City is the first chapter in the biography that Stanley Crouch dedicated to Charlie Parker, the greatest saxophonist of all time. This book reconstructs the life of ‘Bird’ in the years from birth in 1920 until 1940 (his childhood in Kansas City dominated from the underworld; the relationship with an overprotective mother; the marriage at sixteen and …
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HOME – Poetry by Karen Cerio Flat lands, oceans of wheat, harvest hands, fields all neat friendly folks, warm smiles, country jokes, at home style, family fun, 4th of July, summer sun, stars in the sky, county fair, carnival lights, first place mare, dances at night, drive-in features, friends for life, old teachers, help in strife, tornado warnings, siren blasts. …
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EXTRAVAGAMT MASKS AND FANTASTICAL DRAMAS – The surrealistic world of Eleonor Fini
ELEONOR FINI 1/3 – She is considered one of the most important women artists of the mid-twentieth century. Her career, included painting, graphic design, book illustration, product design. She was a virtually self-taught artist, learing anatomy in the local morgue, and absorbing technique through books and visits to museums. In 1907 she born in Buenos Aires, in a August day, …
Read More »ELEONOR FINI (1907/1996), ARGENTINE PAINTER – The complex relationship between the sexes
POLISH INNER LANDSCAPES
FOUR SHADES OF POLISH MUSIC
Polish folkloric music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_GqbIPP-g8 New Polish Sounds / My Darling Angel Waltz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqzVeJ2LCkg Myslovitz / Sound Of Solitude https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdmbuDD2hEE Warsaw Village Band / In the forest https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQxlQyr0210
Read More »THE PEASANTS – Romance by Władysław Reymont
He was a Polish novelist (and the 1924 laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature). His best-known work, is the award-winning four-volume novel The Peasants. He was born in the village of Kobiele Wielkie, near Radomsko. His mother, had a talent for story-telling. Władysław Reymont spent his childhood near Łódź, to which his father had moved in order to work …
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ALLEGRO MA NON TROPPO – Poetry by Wislawa Szymborska Life, you’re beautiful (I say), you just couldn’t get more fecund, more befrogged or nightingaily, more anthillful or sproutspouting. I’m trying to court life’s favor, to get into its good graces, to anticipate its whims. I’m always the first to bow, always there where it can see me, with my humble, …
Read More »TWELVE ISLANDS, IN A PALETTE OF EMOTIONS – Wroclaw, the Venice of the North
Everyone loves to travel, but not everyone loves to travel the same way. All you have to do is have the time in your life. Meeting Benches. The way to make the world a better place is easy. Choose a bench, where you can publish what you have painted or written, a review of a book that you’ve read, or …
Read More »PARMIGIANINO (1503/1540), ITALIAN PAINTER – Developing the elegant and sophisticated version of Mannerist style
PARMA INNER LANDSCAPES
LYRIC OPERA AND ROMANCE – Giuseppe Verdi, the pride of a farmer, on the stages of the world
He was born in Roncole of Busseto, near Parma, on a day in October of 1813, and would become the author of many dramas, which are part of the repertoire of theaters worldwide. Giuseppe Verdi is a composer always looking for new players, which inspire their works, also attending Paris (the artistic capital of Europe in those years). His operas …
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