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Dance is music made visible.

George Balanchine
choreographer
(1929-1983)

Moon River

The Mysterious Piano

Over the past couple of days a piano, parked on a sliver of a sandbar in Miami's Biscayne Bay, launched a thousand ships...

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"Life's tragedy is that we get old to soon and wiser too late."

Benjamin Franklin

Paul Cézanne

In memory to Cézanne, French artist and Post-Impressionist painter, in occasion of his 172th birthday.

The Overture to Tannhäuser: The Artist's Mother and Sister, 1868

Cézanne can be said to form the bridge between late 19th century Impressionism and the early 20th century's new line of artistic enquiry, Cubism.

Papagena and Papageno duet

From "The Magic Flute"

by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

I carry your heart with me

i carry your heart with me (i carry it in
my heart) i am never without it (anywhere
i go you go, my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing, my darling)

i fear
no fate (for you are my fate, my sweet) i want
no world (for beautiful you are my world, my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)

E. E. Cummings

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To love and win is the best thing.

To love and lose, the next best.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Heidi

A book for "children and those who love children", by Johanna Spyri

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"So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance."

Franklin Delano Roosevelt's speech about the Great Depression (1933)

Pachelbel's Canon in D

Nelly Bly (1864 - 1922)

Nellie Bly, born on May 5, 1864 in Pennsylvania, was the pen name of American pioneer female journalist Elizabeth Jane Cochrane.

In 1880, Cochrane and her family moved to Pittsburgh. A sexist column in the Pittsburgh Dispatch prompted her to write a fiery rebuttal to the editor. He was so impressed with her earnestness and spirit, that he asked her to join the paper. Female newspaper writers at that time customarily used pen names, and for Cochrane the editor chose "Nellie Bly", adopted from the title character in the popular song "Nelly Bly".

Still only 21, she spent nearly half a year in Mexico reporting the lives and customs of the people. The Mexican authorities threatened her with arrest, prompting her to leave the country. Safely home, she denounced Díaz as a tyrannical czar suppressing the Mexican people and controlling the press.

Bly left the Pittsburgh Dispatch in 1887 for New York City. Penniless after four months, she talked her way into the offices of Joseph Pullitzer’s newspaper, the New York World, and took an underccover assignment for which she agreed to feign insanity to investigate reports of brutality and neglect at the Women's Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell’s Island.

After ten days, Bly was released from the asylum. Her report, later published in book form as Ten Days in a Mad-House, caused a sensation and brought her lasting fame. A grand jury launched its own investigation into the conditions at the asylum, inviting Bly to assist. They increased funds for care of the insane.

In 1888, Nellie suggested to her editor that she take a trip around the world, attempting to turn the fictional Around the World in Eighty Days into fact for the first time.

In 1895 Nellie Bly married a millionaire manufacturer. She retired from journalism, and became the president of the Iron Clad Manufacturing Co. For a time she was one of the leading female industrialists in the United States, but embezzlement by employees forced her into bankruptcy.

Forced back into reporting, she covered such events as the women’s suffrage convention in 1913, and stories on Europe's Eastern Front during World War I.

She died of bronchopneumonia at St. Mark's Hospital in New York City in 1922, at age 57.

Neujahrskonzert 2011 - Wiener Philharmoniker

Mein Lebenslauf ist Lieb und Lust. Walzer, op.263

by Josef Strauss