domingo, 31 de agosto de 2025

POETRY - Labor Day 2025

 POETRY


                    Labor Day 2025

As we enter September, a new present appears,
we say goodbye to the high temperatures of summer,
we can see autumn leaves start falling,
a special day to celebrate with all workers, from coast to coast.

Everyone deserves a day of rest,
after a full year of continuous efforts,
with blessings that also fall upon everyone,
the Lord teaches us all the meanings of gratitude.

Rejoice always, women and men of goodwill,
because better days are coming,
full of grace, under the heavens of Justice and Peace,
be proud to have the honor of working for You.


ALMO




Neil Diamond America Video with Lyrics

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sábado, 30 de agosto de 2025

FILOSOFIA - Nuestra Palabra

 


FILOSOFIA 


                                        Nuestra Palabra


       El hombre está acogotado por fantasmas que le hacen la vida angustiosa. - El más temible de esos fantasmas es El Tiempo. - El hombre crea la Imagen y luego le teme a la Imagen por él creada. - Eso es El Tiempo, una Imagen. - El hombre inventó el almanaque, fabricó el reloj para aprisionar El Tiempo y ponerlo a su servicio, para que le fuese útil, pero, qué ha sucedido ? Que se ha convertido en su esclavo, en un amo que no tiene compasión de él. - La vida transcurre y el Tiempo es el camino que ella transita y que va construyendo  ella misma día a día ; Mañana lo estamos haciendo Hoy ; La Tejedora del Tiempo en este momento está empezando a tejerlo, con nuestras vidas, con nuestros actos. -


       La Loca Imaginación de los hombres fabrica las imágenes, los fantasmas de una cosa que no está hecha y los presenta como el futuro, como una realidad a la que tenemos que aceptar como cosa cierta, y eso hace sufrir al hombre. El Tiempo es como todo los que la Naturaleza da, igual para todos, es como la lluvia, el Sol. como el calor o el frío ; para cada hombre, El Tiempo significa algo diferente, porque se siente diferente. No es lo que la loca imaginación nos hizo soñar y contemplamos.


       La realidad de hoy y la fantasía del futuro como cosa real, nos presentan al Tiempo como un terrible fantasma. Pero El Tiempo es un camino que todos los días recorremos y todos los días es nuevo.


                                                                              OM  TAT  SAT



Fuente : Órgano de Cultura y Difusión del Centro de Orientación Filosófica, Mayo 1974.  Derechos Reservados.


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jueves, 28 de agosto de 2025

MUSIC - Impressionism 7 / 7 - Howard Hanson ( 1896 –1981 )

 MUSIC 


                    Impressionism  7 / 7 
                      Howard Hanson 
                       ( 1896 –1981 )
                       
       

A marvelous selection of Impressionism in music is this one, with well recognized composers as part of a heritage of beauty and harmony born in the souls of remarkable musicians between the end  of XIX and beginning of the XX century.

We hope your taste for good quality is satisfied by this initial number of renown names of the so called impressionism.


Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Howard Harold Hanson (October 28, 1896 – February 26, 1981) was an American composer, conductor, educator and music theorist. As director for forty years of the Eastman School of Music, he raised its quality and provided opportunities for commissioning and performing American classical music. In 1944, he won a Pulitzer Prize for his Symphony No. 4, and received numerous other awards, including the George Foster Peabody Award for Outstanding Entertainment in Music in 1946.

Hanson was born in Wahoo, Nebraska, to Swedish immigrant parents, Hans and Hilma (née Eckstrom) Hanson. In his youth he studied music with his mother. Later, he studied at Luther College in Wahoo, receiving a diploma in 1911, then at the Institute of Musical Art, the forerunner of the Juilliard School, in New York City, where he studied with the composer and music theorist Percy Goetschius in 1914.

Afterward he attended Northwestern University, where he studied composition with church music expert Peter C. Lutkin and Arne Oldberg. Hanson also studied piano, cello, and trombone. He earned his BA degree in music from Northwestern in 1916, and began his teaching career as a teacher's assistant.


Career

In 1916, Hanson was hired for his first full-time position as a music theory and composition teacher at the College of the Pacific in California. Only three years later, the college appointed him Dean of the Conservatory of Fine Arts in 1919. In 1920, Hanson composed The California Forest Play, his earliest work to receive national attention. Hanson also wrote a number of orchestral and chamber works during his years in California, including Concerto da Camera, Symphonic Legend, Symphonic Rhapsody, various solo piano works, such as Two Yuletide Pieces, and the Scandinavian Suite, which celebrated his Lutheran and Scandinavian heritage.

In 1921 Hanson was the first winner of the American Academy in Rome's "Rome Prize" in musical composition, awarded for both The California Forest Play and his symphonic poem Before the Dawn. Thanks to the award, Hanson lived in Italy for three years. During his time in Italy, Hanson wrote a Quartet in One Movement, Lux Aeterna, The Lament for Beowulf (orchestration Bernhard Kaun), and his Symphony No. 1, "Nordic", the premiere of which he conducted with the Augusteo Orchestra on May 30, 1923. The three years Hanson spent on his Fellowship at the American Academy were, he considered, the formative years of his life, as he was free to compose, conduct without the distraction of teaching—he could devote himself solely to his art. (It has been incorrectly stated that Hanson studied composition and/or orchestration with Ottorino Respighi, who in turn had studied orchestration with Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov. Hanson's unpublished autobiography refutes the statement, attributed to Ruth Watanabe, that he had studied with Respighi. While Hanson may not have pursued formal studies with Respighi while in Rome, he apparently did receive advice from him. In addition, Respighi invited Hanson to attend rehearsals and performances of his orchestral concerts. As a result of these interactions, Hanson credited Respighi as a significant influence on his use of orchestral textures and instrumentation. In addition, he cited the works of several other composers as being influential while studying in Rome including: Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Gustav Holst, Giovanni Palestrina and Richard Wagner.


ALMO



Hanson: Symphony No. 2, Op. 30, "Romantic"

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lunes, 25 de agosto de 2025

POESIA - Página Lirica - Soneto XLI

 POESIA


                  página  lirica 


                    Soneto XLI



Si dentro no está en ti la primavera
es inútil que en torno la respires,
no ha de comunicarse aunque la mires
la razón de tu ser ; una quimera.


Será más que real esa ligera
fluidez del corazón y aunque la aspires
no logrará encender con sus decires
la fe de tus palabras ; nueva era.


No puede para ti ser tan preciosa
realidad si no estás enamorado
de algún vago imposible que te tienta,


mas si lo estás ya tienes a la diosa,
-  oh dichoso inmortal atormentado !
dentro de tí bullendo de contenta.


                                              Juan Gil-Albert



Fuente: Órgano de Cultura y Difusión del Centro de Orientación Filosófica. Septiembre - Octubre 1976. Caracas, Venezuela. Derechos reservados.

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domingo, 24 de agosto de 2025

MUSIC - Impressionism 6 / 7 - Jean Sibelius ( 1865 – 1957 )

 MUSIC 


                    Impressionism  6 / 7 
                       Jean Sibelius  
                        ( 1865 –  1957 )
       

A marvelous selection of Impressionism in music is this one, with well recognized composers as part of a heritage of beauty and harmony born in the souls of remarkable musicians between the end  of XIX and beginning of the XX century.

We hope your taste for good quality is satisfied by this initial number of renown names of the so called impressionism.

ALMO



Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Jean Sibelius ( born Johan Julius Christian Sibelius; 8 December 1865 – 20 September 1957) was a Finnish composer of the late Romantic and early modern periods. He is widely regarded as his country's greatest composer, and his music is often credited with having helped Finland develop a stronger national identity when the country was struggling from several attempts at Russification in the late 19th century.

The core of his oeuvre is his set of seven symphonies, which, like his other major works, are regularly performed and recorded in Finland and countries around the world. His other best-known compositions are Finlandia, the Karelia Suite, Valse triste, the Violin Concerto, the choral symphony Kullervo, and The Swan of Tuonela (from the Lemminkäinen Suite). His other works include pieces inspired by nature, Nordic mythology, and the Finnish national epic, the Kalevala; over a hundred songs for voice and piano; incidental music for numerous plays; the one-act opera The Maiden in the Tower; chamber music, piano music, Masonic ritual music,[3] and 21 publications of choral music.

Sibelius composed prolifically until the mid-1920s, but after completing his Seventh Symphony (1924), the incidental music for The Tempest (1926), and the tone poem Tapiola (1926), he stopped producing major works in his last 30 years—a retirement commonly referred to as the "silence of Järvenpää" (the location of his home). Although he is reputed to have stopped composing, he attempted to continue writing, including abortive efforts on an eighth symphony. In later life, he wrote Masonic music and re-edited some earlier works, while retaining an active but not always favourable interest in new developments in music. Although his early retirement has perplexed scholars, Sibelius was clear about its cause — he simply felt he had written enough.

The Finnish 100 mark note featured his image until 2002, when the euro was adopted. Since 2011, Finland has celebrated a flag flying day on 8 December, the composer's birthday, also known as the Day of Finnish Music. In 2015, in celebration of the 150th anniversary of Sibelius's birth, a number of special concerts and events were held, especially in Helsinki, the Finnish capital.


Sibelius : Concerto pour violon (Hilary Hahn)

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sábado, 23 de agosto de 2025

MUSIC - El Sistema and Coldplay - Gustavo Dudamel and Chris Martin - Wembley Stadium, London 2025

 MUSIC


                             El Sistema and Coldplay 
                       Gustavo Dudamel and Chris Martin


A marvelous encounter of musical talents from two worldwide experiences, from the classics to the modern pop, from the old and the new world, sharing  emotions and vibrations, with two leaders, one of a kind in each specialty, Chris Martin and Gustavo Dudamel, Coldplay and El Sistema, sharing and giving spaces of joy to a wide public willing to learn from each other.

Thank you for making the world a better one, full of Hope, Energy and Faith, for all ages and tastes, for all generations willing to grow by chanting and living a new experience together.  

 A beautiful demonstration of making the planet a wonderful place where to live in . . . 

.......................................

Un maravilloso encuentro de talentos musicales de dos experiencias mundiales, desde los clásicos hasta el pop moderno, entre el viejo y el nuevo mundo, compartiendo emociones y vibraciones, con dos líderes, únicos en su especialidad, Chris Martin y Gustavo Dudamel, Coldplay y El Sistema, compartiendo y brindando espacios de alegría a un amplio público dispuesto a aprender unos de otros.

Gracias por hacer del mundo un lugar mejor, lleno de esperanza, energía y fe, para todas las edades y gustos, para todas las generaciones dispuestas a crecer cantando y viviendo una nueva experiencia juntos.
 
Una hermosa demostración de cómo hacer del planeta un lugar maravilloso donde vivir...


ALMO




Gustavo Dudamel & The Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra - Wembley 2025 night 1

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POETRY - The August Gift - 2025

 


POETRY 

                         The August Gift 
                               2025


Once upon a time there was a dream, a cherished dream,

full of Peace, Hope and Prosperity.

you began to speak within yourself,

listening  to the Voice of Wisdom,

the One, which transcends all that is irrelevant,

inspiring Life and feeling that better days are happening,

adoring and giving thanks for every moment of It . . .
 

ALMO




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jueves, 21 de agosto de 2025

MUSIC - Impressionism 5 / 7 Manuel de Falla (1876 – 1946)

 MUSIC 


                    Impressionism  5 / 7 
                       Manuel de Falla  
                       (1876 –  1946) 
                        
                        

A marvelous selection of Impressionism in music is this one, with well recognized composers as part of a heritage of beauty and harmony born in the souls of remarkable musicians between the end  of XIX and beginning of the XX century.

We hope your taste for good quality is satisfied by this initial number of renown names of the so called impressionism.

ALMO



Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia . . . 
Manuel de Falla y Matheu ( 23 November 1876 – 14 November 1946) was a Spanish composer and pianist. Along with Isaac Albéniz, Francisco Tárrega, and Enrique Granados, he was one of Spain's most important musicians of the first half of the 20th century. He has a claim to being Spain's greatest composer of the 20th century, although the number of pieces he composed was relatively modest.

Falla was born Manuel María de los Dolores Falla y Matheu in Cádiz. He was the son of José María Falla, a Valencian, and María Jesús Matheu, from Catalonia.

In 1889 he continued his piano lessons with Alejandro Odero and learned the techniques of harmony and counterpoint from Enrique Broca. At age 15 he became interested in literature and journalism and founded the literary magazines El Burlón and El Cascabel.

By 1900 he was living with his family in the capital, where he attended the Real Conservatorio de Música y Declamación. He studied piano with José Tragó, a colleague of Isaac Albéniz, and composition with Felip Pedrell. In 1897 he composed Melodía for cello and piano and dedicated it to Salvador Viniegra, who hosted evenings of chamber music that Falla attended. In 1899, by unanimous vote, he was awarded the first prize at the piano competition at his school of music. He premiered his first works: Romanza para violonchelo y piano, Nocturno para piano, Melodía para violonchelo y piano, Serenata andaluza para violín y piano, and Cuarteto en Sol y Mireya. That same year he started to use de with his first surname, making Manuel de Falla the name he became known as from that time on. When only the surname is used, however, the de is omitted.

Falla moved to Paris in 1907, where he remained for seven years. There he met a number of composers who had an influence on his style, including Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy and Paul Dukas, as well as Igor Stravinsky, Florent Schmitt, Isaac Albéniz and the impresario Sergei Diaghilev.[1] In 1908 King Alfonso XIII awarded him a royal grant that enabled him to remain in Paris while he finished his Cuatro piezas españolas. In 1910 Falla met Stravinsky and in 1911–12 traveled to London, Brussels and Milan to give concerts and investigate possible venues for La vida breve, which he had composed shortly after his arrival in Paris in 1907 but which, despite the support of Dukas and Falla's own best efforts, was not finally performed until 1 April 1913 at the Municipal Casino in Nice, with the libretto translated into French by the dramatist Paul Milliet. A second production was given the following year at the Opéra-Comique, to acclaim from critics such as Pierre Lalo and André Coeuroy.[1] He wrote Siete canciones populares españolas, which he finished in mid-1914. Shortly after, World War I began, forcing Falla to return to Madrid.[1] While at no stage was he a prolific composer, it was then that he entered into his mature creative period.

In Madrid he composed several of his best-known pieces, including:

Barenboim - "El amor brujo" (Danza ritual del fuego) Falla

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