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Night and Day by Cole Porter – 7 versions
Night and Day is a popular song that was written by Cole Porter for The Gay Divorce, a 1932 musical released shortly after the Great Depression in the United States. The song is now 90 years old. Fred Astaire sang the original which was the top selling single in 1933. Since then, many many versions of the song including instrumentals had…
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Random Moment #17 – If
Four vocals pieces, 3 by modern classical composers, 2 of them written for films, 1 written in the 1600’s. 1 – If by Michael Nyman2 – La Wally by Vladimir Cosma3 – Music For A While by Henry Purcell, performed by Christina Pluhar, L’Arpeggiata4 – Songs of the Auvergne: Bailero by Joseph Cantalobe, performed by…
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Random Moment #16 – Breathe (In The Air)
“Dark Side of the Moon” was released 50-years ago on March 1, 1973 by Pink Floyd. Included here is the second track from that iconic, best-selling album of all time. It spent nearly all of the next 14 years — through punk, disco, early hip-hop and the pop heyday of MTV — lodged in Billboard’s Top…
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Vernazza, Cinque Terre part 5/6
It was our second day in Cinque Terre; we continued northwestbound on a regular ferry service that runs between La Spezia and Levanto. After Riomaggiore, the boat made a scheduled stop at Manarola (click to see earlier posts), but we remained on board. As we passed Corniglia, we could see it from a distance, sitting…
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Common Ground, Seoul, South Korea
I was on a business trip in Seoul last August and had some free time to explore the city – in Gwangjin-gu (광진구 · 廣津區) a district that is mostly residential, but consist not of apartment buildings characteristic of the city, but of three or four-story row houses separated by small roads and alleyways. It was dusk when…
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Moscow Metro (Московско метро): Subterranean monument
The Shchusev State Museum of Architecture is presenting an exhibition of the original plans and photos of the Moscow Metro (Метро, March 17, 2016 – August 14, 2016). It will close in less than a month’s time. So go see it or click here to visit the museum’s web site. The Shchusev Architecture Museum is celebrating…