viernes, 12 de septiembre de 2025

POESIA / El Sueño Vinotinto

 


POESIA

                                   El Sueño Vinotinto

El ideal estaba en plena efervescencia,
todos los caminos conducían al campo de juego,
por aire, tierra y mar llegaban las almas encendidas,
soñadoras y esperanzadoras, sin dudarlo ni un instante.

Es un sentimiento difícil de comprender,
a menos que contengas un corazón tricolor,
en amarillo, azul y rojo, tejidos con Amor,
con profundas raíces de cada humilde soñador.

Y sonó el pitazo inicial como un cañonazo de fin de año, 
casi cantando al unísono el Alma Llanera,
a los cuatro vientos del planeta había un inmenso deseo,
poder levantar el ánimo de sus 11 jugadores al máximo nivel.

Mientras el Sueño Vinotinto duró hasta el medio tiempo,
hubo un suspenso en cada uno de los espectadores,
dentro y fuera del país palpitaban todas las miradas,
buscando esa respuesta, con un solo objetivo, pasar a la siguiente fase.

Y nos tocó una dura realidad, se escapaba la ansiada siguiente etapa,
hubo toda una enseñanza en los rostros de cada atleta,
una conexión del perdón con la fanaticada y con la historia,
la nobleza de dar lo mejor posible de sí, en el terreno de juego.

Siempre surgirá una excusa, una queja o una discordia,
pero a la postre nos quedamos con metas superiores por venir,
es ese espíritu indomable, indoblegable y resiliente,
de cada seguidor, en su infinita ensoñación.

En el medio de esta mezcla de metas pendientes,
resulta muy aleccionador reconocer que tenemos
cientos y miles de ciudadanos esparcidos por el mundo entero,
conquistando reconocimientos, honrando a nuestra idiosincrasia.

Esa pléyade de Venezolanos que destacan en sus diversas facetas,
dando muestras de calidad de sus raíces ancestrales,
en esa esfera azul sin fronteras para el talento,
en cada ramo del saber y del hacer.

Cómo no sentirnos sanamente orgullosos de cada uno de ellos,
cómo ocultar la profunda emoción de sentir como propia su conquista humana,
destacando una sonrisa de agradecimiento al Supremo Creador, 
por haber nacido en esta Tierra de Gracia, donde nacen los mejores sueños.
   
Seguimos adelante, con la frente muy en alto,
al refrescar nuestro talante de Libertadores,
con la constancia, estudio y dedicación,
y festejar así el mejor Mundial ... una nación en Armonía y Prosperidad.

Y si esta poesía contiene 11 estrofas
es un justo y sentido tributo a cada oncena que lo dio todo en el camino,
a su trayectoria, esfuerzo y sacrificio como infantil, juvenil y profesional,
y a los próximos Vinotintos que nacen con ese empeño de llegar a un Mundial !!!


ALMO




"Alma Llanera" - Pedro Elías Gutiérrez - Dir. Gustavo Dudamel


MUSIC / 20th-Century Classical Music 3 / 7 Arnold Schoenberg ( 1874 - 1951 )

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                         20th-Century Classical Music 3 / 7 
                                  Arnold Schoenberg 
                                      1874 - 1951


Arnold Schonberg was an exceptional composer of a new trend of music known as atonality, modern ways to relate to music, later on developed the twelve tone method, a tremendous influence to worldwide music.

He is considered a very profound developer of  serialism, maybe one of the trends in music not so easy to understand or accept. But we are well aware that his contribution to music shall be taken into account in the near future. Sometimes, music compositions are ahead of times and this may be his case.

We encourage you to find in his works a bit of challenges inspired by difficult times during the end of the XIX century and the beginning of the XX century.


Wikipedia, The Free Encylopedia

Arnold Schoenberg or Schönberg (13 September 1874 – 13 July 1951) was an Austrian and American composer, music theorist, teacher and writer. He was among the first modernists who transformed the practice of harmony in 20th-century classical music, and a central element of his music was its use of motives as a means of coherence. He propounded concepts like developing variation, the emancipation of the dissonance, and the "unity of musical space".

Schoenberg's early works, like Verklärte Nacht (1899), represented a BrahmsianWagnerian synthesis on which he built. Mentoring Anton Webern and Alban Berg, he became the central figure of the Second Viennese School.[b] They consorted with visual artists, published in Der Blaue Reiter, and wrote atonalexpressionist music, attracting fame and stirring debate. In his String Quartet No. 2 (1907–1908), Erwartung (1909), and Pierrot lunaire (1912), Schoenberg visited extremes of emotion; in self-portraits he emphasized his intense gaze. While working on Die Jakobsleiter (from 1914) and Moses und Aron (from 1923), Schoenberg confronted popular antisemitism by returning to Judaism and substantially developed his twelve-tone technique. He systematically interrelated all notes of the chromatic scale in his twelve-tone music, often exploiting combinatorial hexachords and sometimes admitting tonal elements.

Schoenberg resigned from the Prussian Academy of Arts (1926–1933), emigrating as the Nazis took power; they banned his (and some of his students') music, labeling it "degenerate". He taught in the US, including at the University of California, Los Angeles (1936–1944), where facilities are named in his honor. He explored writing film music (as he had done idiosyncratically in Begleitungsmusik zu einer Lichtspielscene, 1929–1930) and wrote more tonal music, completing his Chamber Symphony No. 2 in 1939. With citizenship (1941) and US entry into World War II, he satirized fascist tyrants in Ode to Napoleon (1942, after Byron), deploying Beethoven's fate motif and the MarseillaisePost-war Vienna beckoned with honorary citizenship, but Schoenberg was ill as depicted in his String Trio (1946). As the world learned of the Holocaust, he memorialized its victims in A Survivor from Warsaw (1947). The Israel Conservatory and Academy of Music elected him honorary president (1951).

His innovative music was among the most influential and polemicized of 20th-century classical music. At least three generations of composers extended its somewhat formal principles. His aesthetic and music-historical views influenced musicologists Theodor W. Adorno and Carl Dahlhaus.The Arnold Schönberg Center collects his archival legacy.


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Arnold Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht

martes, 9 de septiembre de 2025

POESIA - El Portal 9 9 9 - ALMO

 


POESIA 

                   El Portal 9 9 9


Si, has llegado a la triada poderosa,
es el encuentro del día 9 del mes 9 del año 9,
en alta vibración con lo divino dentro de tí,
hoy sintoniza tu Ser con el Uno.


Vive la manifestación y la sabiduría,
junto al cierre de un ciclo,
el servicio humanitario y el desapego material
te permiten entrar en otro nivel de consciencia.


Recibe la invitación desde el Cosmos,
que te escucha y abre sus ventanas de transmutación,
fluye con la intuición hacia la energía más pura,
donde eres el centro de la vida eterna, en el aquí y ahora . . . 


ALMO


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MUSIC - 20th-Century Classical Music 2 / 7 - George Gershwin ( 1898 – 1937 )

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                         20th-Century Classical Music 2 / 7 
                                    George Gershwin  
                                        ( 1898 – 1937 )

The name of George Gershwin ia always remembered by the fusion of different genres of music, where creativity stands up high and raises its banner as a sign of a crescent artistic career.

His works are masterpieces present in today´s American culture as in films, plays and television broadcasts.

It is a great pleasure to listen to his fine art and refined compositions.

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WIKIPEDIA - The Free Encyclopedia

George Gershwin ( born Jacob Gershwine; September 26, 1898 – July 11, 1937) was an American composer and pianist whose compositions spanned jazzpopular and classical music. Among his best-known works are the songs "Swanee" (1919) and "Fascinating Rhythm" (1924), the orchestral compositions Rhapsody in Blue (1924) and An American in Paris (1928), the jazz standards "Embraceable You" (1928) and "I Got Rhythm" (1930) and the opera Porgy and Bess (1935), which included the hit "Summertime". His Of Thee I Sing (1931) was the first musical to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

Gershwin studied piano under Charles Hambitzer and composition with Rubin GoldmarkHenry Cowell, and Joseph Brody. He began his career as a song plugger but soon started composing Broadway theater works with his brother Ira Gershwin and with Buddy DeSylva. He moved to Paris, intending to study with Nadia Boulanger, but she refused him, afraid that rigorous classical study would ruin his jazz-influenced style; Maurice Ravel voiced similar objections when Gershwin inquired about studying with him. He subsequently composed An American in Paris, returned to New York City and wrote Porgy and Bess with Ira and DuBose Heyward. Initially a commercial failure, it came to be considered one of the most important American operas of the 20th century and an American cultural classic.

Gershwin moved to Hollywood and composed several film scores. He died in 1937, only 38 years old, of a brain tumor. His compositions have been adapted for use in film and television, with many becoming jazz standards.

Biography

Ancestors

Gershwin's parents were both Jewish immigrants from the Russian Empire. His paternal grandfather, Jakov Gershowitz, was born in Odessa, Russian Empire (now Ukraine), and had served for 25 years as a mechanic for the Imperial Russian Army to earn the right of free travel and residence as a Jew, finally retiring near Saint Petersburg, Russia. Jakov's teenage son, Moishe, George Gershwin's father, worked as a leather cutter for women's shoes. George's mother, Roza Bruskina, was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

Moishe met Roza in Vilna, Russian Empire (now Vilnius, Lithuania), where her father worked as a furrier. She and her family moved to New York because of increasing anti-Jewish sentiment in Russia, changing her first name to Rose. Moishe, faced with compulsory military service if he remained in Russia, moved to America as soon as he could afford to (arrived on August 14, 1890). Once in New York, he changed his first name to Morris. Gershowitz lived with a maternal uncle in Brooklyn, working as a foreman in a women's shoe factory. He married Rose on July 21, 1895, and Gershowitz soon Anglicized his name to Gershwine.Their first child, Ira Gershwin, was born on December 6, 1896, after which the family moved into a second-floor apartment at 242 Snediker Avenue in the East New York neighborhood of Brooklyn.


George Gershwin - Rhapsody in Blue - Leonard Bernstein, New York Philharmonic (1976)

domingo, 7 de septiembre de 2025

MUSIC - 20th-Century Classical Music 1/7 - Giacomo Puccini (1858 – 1924)

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                                  20th-Century Classical Music 1 / 7
                                              Giacomo Puccini  
                                                 (1858 – 1924)

This period is a big challenge to define among all good listeners, but we will try to mention some of the most remarkable composers, starting with Giacomo Puccini who lived the transition of two centuries, and became one of the best Italian opera composers after Verdi. His reknown masterpieces include La Boheme ( 1896 ), Tosca (1900), Madama Butterfly (1904 ) and the unfinished Turandot which turned out to be one of the most beloved by opera singers of both XX and XXI Century.

Please enjoy all of his works but especially with our first selection, the famous Nessum Dorma, a beautiful creation of all times and tastes.  
 

WIKIPEDIA - The Free Encyclopedia

20th-century classical music is Western art music that was written between 1901 and 2000, inclusive. Musical style diverged during the 20th century as it never had previously, so this century was without a dominant style. Modernismimpressionism, and post-romanticism can all be traced to the decades before the turn of the 20th century, but can be included because they evolved beyond the musical boundaries of the 19th-century styles that were part of the earlier common practice periodNeoclassicism and expressionism came mostly after 1900. Minimalism started later in the century and can be seen as a change from the modern to postmodern era, although some date postmodernism from as early as about 1930. Aleatoryatonalityserialismmusique concrète, and electronic music were all developed during the century. Jazz and ethnic folk music became important influences on many composers during this century.

History

At the turn of the century, music was characteristically late Romantic in style. Composers such as Gustav MahlerRichard Strauss and Jean Sibelius were pushing the bounds of post-Romantic symphonic writing. At the same time, the Impressionist movement, spearheaded by Claude Debussy, was being developed in France. Debussy in fact loathed the term Impressionism: "I am trying to do 'something different—in a way realities—what the imbeciles call 'impressionism' is a term which is as poorly used as possible, particularly by art critics".  Maurice Ravel's music, also often labelled as impressionist, explores music in many styles not always related to it (see the discussion on Neoclassicism, below).

Many composers reacted to the Post-Romantic and Impressionist styles and moved in different directions. An important moment in defining the course of music throughout the century was the widespread break with traditional tonality, effected in diverse ways by different composers in the first decade of the century. From  sprang an unprecedented "linguistic plurality" of styles, techniques, and expression. In ViennaArnold Schoenberg developed atonality, out of the expressionism that arose in the early part of the 20th century. He later developed the twelve-tone technique which was developed further by his disciples Alban Berg and Anton Webern; later composers (including Pierre Boulez) developed it further still. Stravinsky (in his last works) explored twelve-tone technique, too, as did many other composers; indeed, even Scott Bradley used the technique in his scores for the Tom and Jerry cartoons.


Luciano Pavarotti sings "Nessun dorma" from Turandot (The Three Tenors in Concert 1994)

POESIA / El Sueño Vinotinto

  POESIA                                    El Sueño Vinotinto El ideal estaba en plena efervescencia, todos los caminos conducían al campo ...