Saturday, September 30, 2017
Sunday, September 24, 2017
Django Reinhardt French jazz guitarist and composer
And now for something different! Click on the links. French with English subtitles and if you let the videos play, in English.
Django
Reinhardt
23January
1910 – 16 May 1953) was a Belgian-born, Romani
French jazz guitarist and composer, regarded as one of the greatest musicians
of the twentieth century. He was the first jazz talent to emerge from Europe
and remains the most significant by far.
Saturday, September 23, 2017
October poem of the month
Acroterion
(In Europe)
(In Europe)
They lean into your world
from a facade with a
different sense
having been chiseled in
an age
of fine distinct lines
with serious mouths
and brooding eyes
and are the keepers of
cobblestone,
narrowed and angled
streets
like rivers and
tributaries spreading
through and around
cities.
And above us
on buildings adorned
and pastoral, admired and
forgotten,
these heads of Europe, these angels
and bloody battle scenes;
their lives passing
like turned pages of
history;
generations of stone discolored
and worn now rubbing
shoulders
with the baker and pizza
maker
and student who gives
them no thought.
He-gave you world
philosophy,
she-lost her head, they-redefined
faith,
he- created symphonies
and poems alive forever;
sins remembered and
discovered,
lands conquered and full
of bone and blood,
science scorned and ships
sailing the seas
and so it is easy to feel
the solid steel
of a sword and march down
the old streets
and feel the weight of
time.
Steven Pelcman
Poetry Salzburg Review Austria
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