November 22, 2024 10:55 pm

SICILIAN SOUNDTRAK

Vitruvian Man created by Leonardo da Vinci is a design, where a man in two overlapped positions (with arms and legs spread wide), is inscribed in a circle and a square. https://leonardodavinci.stanford.edu/submissions/clabaugh/history/leonardo.html Throughout the centuries, that image has become a cultural icon. Perfectly proportioned, the symmetry of the human anatomy is correlated with the symmetry of the universe. That man …

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THE LEOPARD – Novel by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa was born in Palermo in 1896. He was a boy who liked solitude, who liked to be with more things than with people. That son of an aristocratic family – who had made long journeys in Europe – was a passionate reader of books, and had devoted to fiction the last years of his life. To …

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POETRY LIBRARY / SICILY

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 …

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THE TIN DRUM – Novel by Günter Grass

As a writer, his objective was to restore and revive the spirit of humanity. In 1999 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature He was born October 16, 1927, Gdańsk, Poland. German poet, sculptor and novelist (as a graphic artist, Günter Grass has often been responsible for the covers and illustrations for his own works). With his first novel …

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GERMAN POETRY – Eduard Moerike

Eduard Moerike was Lutheran pastor and German poet, born near Stuttgart, in 1804 inside an September day. His first published work was the novel Maler Nolten. Poet, novelist, clergyman, and scholar, he is not only one of the great German poets, but also a writer who deeply inspired composers. His extraordinary handling of sounds (and rhythmic patterns), evokes the magical …

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GERMAN SOUNDTRAK

The music is not only the organization art of sounds and noises, because the sound effects are able to express the individual’s inwardness that produces the music, stimulating the listener. Music is a universal language with ancient roots, which runs through the entire history of peoples and nations. Welcome to Germany. In the words of Jean Molino, music is “the …

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WAITING FOR THE ROMANTIC LORELEI – Bacharach / Germany: out of time and inside the memories

Vitruvian Man created by Leonardo da Vinci is a design, where a man in two overlapped positions (with arms and legs spread wide), is inscribed in a circle and a square. https://leonardodavinci.stanford.edu/submissions/clabaugh/history/leonardo.html Throughout the centuries, that image has become a cultural icon. Perfectly proportioned, the symmetry of the human anatomy is correlated with the symmetry of the universe. That man …

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AUSTRALIA TOURS & TRAVEL

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 …

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CLOUDSTREET – Novel by Tim Winton

His writing often contains messages or themes which act as an ‘eye-opener’ to his audiences. Timothy Winton is an Australian novelist that was born in Karrinyup (Western Australia) but that he moved to the regional city of Albany at age of 12. He wrote his first novel in 1981, launching his writing career, but it wasn’t until “Cloudstreet” was published …

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