Luis Soares's Blog, page 134
January 30, 2019
Death Is Not The End
Spanish singer Buika has a singular voice that draws inspiration from the past, with traces of Afro-Cuban influence and African-American jazz expressionism. Watch her performance of "Death Is Not The End" in a back room at Le Poisson Rouge during NYC Winter Jazzfest with WBGO Jazz 88.3 and The Checkout from WBGO.
I Need This!
From director Todd Douglas Miller (Dinosaur 13) comes a cinematic event fifty years in the making. Crafted from a newly discovered trove of 65mm footage, and more than 11,000 hours of uncatalogued audio recordings, Apollo 11 takes us straight to the heart of NASA’s most celebrated mission—the one that first put men on the moon, and forever made Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin into household names. Immersed in the perspectives of the astronauts, the team in Mission Control, and the millions of...
Duo des fleurs
Delibes: Lakmé - Duo des fleurs (Flower Duet), Sabine Devieilhe & Marianne Crebassa
Soprano Sabine Devieilhe’s signature operatic role, Lakmé, forms the starting point for her enticing album Mirages. A collection of opera and song in French, its theme is the exotic allure of faraway – and imagined – places and people. In addition to three numbers from Delibes’ opera, it features music by Berlioz, Debussy and Stravinsky and some rarer names: Thomas, Messager, Koechlin and Delage. Devieilh...
January 29, 2019
Charles Bernstein - Self-Help
Quadruple bypass.—Hold the bacon on that next cheeseburger.
Poems tanking.—After stormiest days, sun comes out from behind clouds, or used to.
Marriage on rocks.—Nothing like Coke.
Election going the wrong direction.—Kick off slippers, take deep breathe, be here now.
Boss says your performance needs boost.—A long hot bath smoothes wrinkles.
War toll tops 100,000.—Get your mind off it, switch to reality TV.
Lake Tang Woo Chin Chicken with...
Valse
Le pianiste Alexandre Kantorow est nommé dans la catégorie "Révélation, Soliste instrumental" des Victoires de la Musique Classique 2019. Il interprète la Valse op. 39 n°15 de Johannes Brahms.
January 28, 2019
Jericho Brown - Hustle
They lie like stones and dare not shift. Even asleep, everyone hears in prison.
Dwayne Betts deserves more than this dry ink for his teenage years in prison.
In the film we keep watching, Nina takes Darius to a steppers ball.
Lovers hustle, slide, and dip as if none of them has a brother in prison.
I eat with humans who think any book full of black characters is about race.
A book full of white characters examines insanity—but never in prison.
His whole family made a barricade of thei...
Geert De Taeye
Geert De Taeye is a creative and multifaceted photographer who shoots advertising campaigns, portraits, landscapes, painting, movie-inspired pictures and Artworks. This diversity has been essential for the young photographer to distinguish himself and forge a place within a culture dominated by ‘the image’. Geert’s approach is subtle and clever; he photographs and rearranges what he sees, reinventing and manipulating what is actually taking place at a given moment in time. He combines...
L'été 42
Sur le plateau de Spécial Cinéma, Michel Legrand chante la version française de Jean Dréjac d'une chanson écrite en anglais par Marilyn et Alan Bergman sur une mélodie qui lui a valu l'Oscar de la meilleure musique de film en 1972.
William Butler Yeats - Leda and the Swan
A sudden blow: the great wings beating still
Above the staggering girl, her thighs caressed
By the dark webs, her nape caught in his bill,
He holds her helpless breast upon his breast.
How can those terrified vague fingers push
The feathered glory from her loosening thighs?
And how can body, laid in that white rush,
But feel the strange heart beating where it lies?
A shudder in the loins engenders there
The broken wall, the burning roof and tower
And Agamemnon dead.
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January 25, 2019
The Dazzler
The beloved songwriter from Daughter, Elena Tonra, brings us a track from her Ex:Re album in the 6 Music Live Room, performed as part of Mary Anne Hobb's morning show.
