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

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

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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)

https://youtu.be/J0w0t4Qn6LY?si=7vMEY2LKZWF_5ic0

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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 . . .

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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

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

https://youtu.be/ECgfPaox-EU?si=w9qDz1wCjPMh6MRX

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Vista previa del vídeo Gustavo Dudamel & The Bolivars - Wembley 2025 night 1 de YouTube

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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432hz - El sonido zen tibetano cura todo el cuerpo, curación emocional, mental y espiritual #14

https://www.youtube.com/live/nlUktkF6Dyk?si=G8G7h9QbmLns6UWS

jueves, 21 de agosto de 2025

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

MUSIC

Impressionism 5 / 7

Manuel de Falla

(1876 – 1946)

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

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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:

The nocturne for piano and orchestra Noches en los jardines de España (1916)
The ballet El amor brujo (1915) which includes the much excerpted and arranged Danza ritual del fuego
The ballet The Magistrate and the Miller's Wife (El corregidor y la molinera) which, after revision, became El sombrero de tres picos (1917) and was produced by Serge Diaghilev with set design and costumes by Pablo Picasso. It derives from The Three-Cornered Hat (1874), a novel written by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón.

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

https://youtu.be/auRUxPPqDcQ?si=vHBg6xCNqrRc1ZbC

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viernes, 15 de agosto de 2025

MUSIC - Impressionism 4 / 7 - Maurice Ravel ( 1875 – 1937 )

MUSIC

Impressionism 4 / 7

Maurice Ravel

( 1875 – 1937 )

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

ALMO

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Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia . . .

Joseph Maurice Ravel (7 March 1875 – 28 December 1937) was a French composer, pianist and conductor. He is often associated with Impressionism along with his elder contemporary Claude Debussy, although both composers rejected the term. In the 1920s and 1930s Ravel was internationally regarded as France's greatest living composer.

Born to a music-loving family, Ravel attended France's premier music college, the Paris Conservatoire; he was not well regarded by its conservative establishment, whose biased treatment of him caused a scandal. After leaving the conservatoire, Ravel found his own way as a composer, developing a style of great clarity and incorporating elements of modernism, baroque, neoclassicism and, in his later works, jazz. He liked to experiment with musical form, as in his best-known work, Boléro (1928), in which repetition takes the place of development. Renowned for his abilities in orchestration, Ravel made some orchestral arrangements of other composers' piano music, of which his 1922 version of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition is the best known.

A slow and painstaking worker, Ravel composed fewer pieces than many of his contemporaries. Among his works to enter the repertoire are pieces for piano, chamber music, two piano concertos, ballet music, two operas and eight song cycles; he wrote no symphonies or church music. Many of his works exist in two versions: first, a piano score and later an orchestration. Some of his piano music, such as Gaspard de la nuit (1908), is exceptionally difficult to play, and his complex orchestral works such as Daphnis et Chloé (1912) require skilful balance in performance.

Ravel was among the first composers to recognise the potential of recording to bring their music to a wider public. From the 1920s, despite limited technique as a pianist or conductor, he took part in recordings of several of his works; others were made under his supervision.