December 24, 2024 4:06 am

DUTCH MUSIC – Sound shades of baroque, traditional and contemporary

Baroque Music from The Netherlands https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-x3g0OIaJ0 Traditional Dutch Music – Dutch Windmills https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQxITYASgBI Dutch music top 40 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v49C5iDS-cs Choose a bench where you can publish what you have painted, what you have written, a review of a book that you’ve read, or the story of a journey that you have made. Past and Present are here and now. Our proposal …

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THE ADVENTURES OF PINOCCHIO – Where lies have short and long nose

The Adventures of Pinocchio (Le avventure di Pinocchio), is a novel for children by Italian author Carlo Collodi. Reading you can discover the mischievous adventures of an animated marionette named Pinocchio and his father (a poor woodcarver named Geppetto). http://www.collodi.com/la-fiaba-originale-di-pinocchio.asp http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2m89uu That novel it has been adapted in over 240 languages worldwide, making it among the most translated and widely …

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SPANISH MELODIES – A long history that played an main basis of most Latin American music

The Iberian peninsula, has had a history of receiving different musical influences from around the Mediterranean Sea and across Europe. Spanish music is often associated with traditional styles such as flamenco and classical guitar (but while these forms of music are common in Spain, there are many different traditional music styles and dances across its regions). The jota is widespread …

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WHERE BRUSHSTROKE GROWS FLUID AND ENERGETIC – Bartolomè Esteban Murillo and the effects of lighting

BARTOLOME’ ESTEBAN MURILLO 1/3 – He was born into a family of artists, because its uncle (Antonio Pérez) was a painter, who was married to the daughter of another Sevillian artist (Vasco de Pereira). He was the most popular Baroque religious Spanish painter, and the rich colors and broad brushwork of his later paintings were influenced by 16-century Flemish painters. …

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IN THE HISTORIC CENTER – Seville Palace House / Hotel Abanico

http://www.hotelabanico.com/ Enjoy your breakfast in the Andalusian Patio, and start the day with coffee or tea, cocoa or chocolate, assorted breads and pastries, using free Wi-Fi in the Patio Sevillano. Monumental free city visit? Enjoy a free guided tour of the main monuments of Seville,with departures from the hotel (every day at 10.00 h. / Duration 2.5 hours / Available …

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MASTERPIECES OF ART IN THE CENTURIES / SEVILLE – Seville’s Cathedral: Descent from the Cross, by Pedro de Campaña

Welcome in Seville, where waiting for you something about Pedro de Campaña (Pieter de Kempeneer). He was born in Brussels and was trained in Italy, but he is known to have been employed in the Cathedral of Seville, where he received the order from the monastery of Santa Maria de Gracia for this Descent from the Cross. His style includes …

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LIKE WATER FOR CHOCOLATE – Novel, by Laura Esquivel

Like Water for Chocolate, it is a novel by Laura Esquivel, a woman who devoted herself to teaching, writing works of children’s theater and film scripts. In her novels, she uses magic realism, ie a combination of the supernatural with the everyday. In the novel, the writer proclaims the importance of the kitchen as the most important place of the …

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SPANISH POETRY – The dream, by Nino Oval

EL SUENO – Una vez, tuve un sueño, ¡un sueño muy bonito! Pudo haber sido grande, pero se quedó chiquito. Llegó como flor de primavera, como rosa principesca. Y encendió como la yesca, hasta la más yerma quimera. En el puño muy cerrado, lo guardé celosamente. Ni tan siquiera la mente, podía abrir el candado. Quise que conociera a la …

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ROMANTIC SPANISH POEMS – Body of a woman, by Pablo Neruda

CUERPO DE MUJER – Cuerpo de mujer, blancas colinas, muslos blancos, te pareces al mundo en tu actitud de entrega. Mi cuerpo de labriego salvaje te socava, y hace saltar el hijo del fondo de la tierra. Fui solo como un túnel. De mí huían los pájaros, y en mí la noche entraba su invasión poderosa. Para sobrevivirme te forjé …

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SPANISH LOVE POEMS – Verdades, anonymous Spanish poet

VERDADES – No me preguntes si te amo, porque esa pregunta me ofende, si pudiera colocar moneda sobre moneda para hacer una torre de todo lo que siento, créeme llegaría hasta el cielo. Te amo mujer, amo tu historia, amo tu vida, y amo tu paz, me gusta verte estornudar, tu manía de tocarte el cabello, tu nerviosismo cuando beso …

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DREAM DEFERRED – Poetry, by Langston Hughes

First published in 1921, “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”, became Hughes’s signature poem, collected in his first book of poetry “The Weary Blues”. James Mercer Langston Hughes was an American poet, one of the earliest innovators of the literary art form called jazz poetry. He is known as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance in New York City. DREAM DEFERRED …

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TO KEEP YOUR BALANCE, YOU MUST KEEP MOVING – John Charles Cleary, the creative man that listen Albert Einstein

JOHN CHARLES CLEARY 1/3 – He (the first of three children), was born and raised in Coventry (UK), and his family moved to Ireland in 1970’s, where pursued his studies in chemistry, by training and has spent many years in the design and manufacture of premium domestic appliances. JOHN CHARLES CLEARY 2/3 – John Charles Cleary has always had a …

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