Luis Soares's Blog, page 34
January 6, 2021
Michael Andrews
A Man who Suddenly Fell Over (1952)
Portrait of Timothy Behrens (1962)
The Colony Room I, 1962 - Michael Andrews’s painting of one of 50s and 60s Soho’s most storied drinking dens, the Colony Room, is a who’s who of the art scene. That hot pink collar belongs to Francis Bacon. Artists’ model Henrietta Moraes is centre-stage. A chiselled Lucian Freud looks us straight in the eye. At the bar, Muriel Belcher, the club’s proprietor, strikes a pose.
Melanie and Me Swimming (1978–9)
Michael Andrew...
January 2, 2021
Bártok & Adams
Béla Bartók: Music for string instruments, percussion and celesta SZ 106 / John Adams: Grand Pianola Music for two pianos, chamber orchestra and three female voices | Liederhalle Stuttgart, November 2020
Béla Bartók: Music for string instruments, percussion and celesta
00:00 - Andante tranquillo
10:00 - Allegro
17:45 - Adagio
25:10 - Allegro molto
John Adams: Grand Pianola Music
33:10 - Part 1A (almost)
48:29 - Part 1B (slow)
56:42 - On The Dominant Divide (almost)
GrauSchumacher Piano Duo
New Vocalsol...
December 31, 2020
Maggie Smith - Rain, New Year's Eve
The rain is a broken piano,
playing the same note over and over.
My five-year-old said that.
Already she knows loving the world
means loving the wobbles
you can't shim, the creaks you can't
oil silent—the jerry-rigged parts,
MacGyvered with twine and chewing gum.
Let me love the cold rain's plinking.
Let me love the world the way I love
my young son, not only when
he cups my face in his sticky hands,
but when, roughhousing,
he accidentally splits my lip.
Let me love the world like a mother.
Let me be te...
Vinte Vinte
2020 foi o que foi e talvez ainda não tenha passado tempo suficiente para percebermos o que isso é e, mais importante ainda, o que será. Com todas as dificuldades, barreiras, esforços, lutas e outra vez dificuldades, foi um ano em que vi, li, ouvi coisas excecionais.
Também foi um ano em reli e revi sagas para conforto próprio e, é claro, ouvi de novo discos que volto sempre a ouvir, mas isso não entra aqui. Tenho saudades de ir a concertos e não há nenhum nesta lista. Não é tudo deste ano, mas ...
December 25, 2020
Maisie Cousins
From The New Yorker:
The photographer Maisie Cousins has always wanted to make a mess. As a child, she played intently in the bath and the sink, spraying water everywhere; as a young woman, she dumped liquid in the garbage and admired the mélange. At eighteen, when she was in art school, as her peers toiled studiously over large-format black-and-white photographs of trees, Cousins started experimenting with riotous colors, textures, and shiny bodies. She drizzled herself and her frien...
The Poet and the Reader
Louise Glück - The Poet and the Reader: Nobel Lecture 2020
When I was a small child of, I think, about five or six, I staged a competition in my head, a contest to decide the greatest poem in the world. There were two finalists: Blake’s “The Little Black Boy” and Stephen Foster’s “Swanee River.” I paced up and down the second bedroom in my grandmother’s house in Cedarhurst, a village on the south shore of Long Island, reciting, in my head as I preferred, not from my mouth, Blake’s unforgettable ...
December 24, 2020
Feliz Natal!
’Tis the season to be jolly! The lads of The Choir of St. John's College, Cambridge sing wonderfully festive Christmas Carols. From ‘O Come All Ye Faithful’ and Taveners beloved ‘The Lamb’, to the especially for the choir written hymn ‘Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day’ - enjoy five centuries of Christmas music. AVROTROS Klassiek wishes you the best of holidays and a very musical and cheerful 2018! Ding Dong! Merrily on High!
The musicians:
Choir of St. John's College, Cambridge
Andrew Nethsinga [...
December 23, 2020
Jericho Brown - Say Thank You Say I'm Sorry
I don’t know whose side you’re on,
But I am here for the people
Who work in grocery stores that glow in the morning
And close down for deep cleaning at night
Right up the street and in cities I mispronounce,
In towns too tiny for my big black
Car to quit, and in every wide corner
Of Kansas where going to school means
At least one field trip
To a slaughterhouse. I want so little: another leather bound
Book, a gimlet with a lavender gin, bread
So good when I taste it I can tell you
How it’s made. ...
La Femme Damnée
La Femme Damnée - Nicolas François Octave Tassaert, 1859
Nicolas François Octave Tassaert (Paris, 26 July 1800 – Paris, 24 April 1874) was a French painter of portraits and genre, religious, historical and allegorical paintings, as well as a lithographer and engraver. He was the grandson of the sculptor Jean-Pierre-Antoine Tassaert.
December 22, 2020
Carioca, Negro & Queer
Rodrigo Oliveira - Carioca, Negro & Queer
A discriminação atinge de diversas formas as pessoas documentadas; o racismo por serem negros, a LGBT+fobia e a marginalização por terem nascidos na periferia.
A política da atual presidência Brasileira não favorece o fim do preconceito e problemas sociais vividos pela comunidade, pelo contrário, só fomenta. Esse é um momento crucial pra essa comunidade encontrar força na coletividade e para estar ciente que existem lugares onde suas vozes s...
