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In China, for example, there was no biology. Observations and theoretical perspectives on the manifestations of life were scattered through a very different grouping of knowledge that I will sketch out below. Alchemists, East and West, set down a great de
This guy does impressive things with violins. (Yesterday I heared him playing Britten at the Philharmonie and five minutes ago I ran into him on the Gendarmenmarkt.)
Drawn mainly from the collections of the National Library of Medicine, Dream Anatomy shows off the anatomical imagination in some of its most astonishing incarnations, from 1500 to the present.
Haibun is open to a huge range of expression: from the surreal and dreamlike to straight discursive narrative -- even journalism: from impressionistic writing to exposition and storytelling, meditation and the personal diary -- an exploration of the wilde
I think we're in the ghost-town whorehouse in Blackhawk. Under one roof ..........sleeping with all of them -- ....................bush clover, poker chips.
Doorstep is a jumble of debris: clay, straw, twigs. Some moments pass before I notice three baby house martins among the mess, a couple of days old, dead. An almost imperceptible motion - one of the babies is moving.
”Listen to this voice! ... Magdalena Kozená: new paths, new voice. A perfect ambassador for the future of singing.”
– Le Monde de la Musique –
”Kozená has one of those voices that seem to go straight to the heart ... her technique seems impeccable”
– Gramophone –
”Magdalena Kozená’s richly coloured voice combines fullness and warmth with the bloom and freshness of youth. Add to this a perfect technique – seamless legato, dazzling coloratura, smooth negotiation of wide intervals – and a vivid musical imagination and you have a recipe for an exceptional classical recital.”
– BBC Music Magazine –
”This Czech mezzo not only has one of the most beautiful voices of the present day to work with, but she is also an unflinchingly committed interpreter ... A singer from heaven ...”
– Der Tagesspiegel am Sonntag –
From the shoreline of Caesarea on Israel's north coast, it's just a few fin kicks and a short descent below the sun-glazed surface of the Mediterranean until you reach the sunken ruins of the harbor that made this one of the great cities of antiquity.