Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, for they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. Marcel Proust Les plaisirs et les jours, 1896

𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐠 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐝 , 𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜 𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮 .....🎼🎹 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐟 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐛𝐞 𝐚 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲 𝐛𝐮𝐭𝐭𝐨𝐧 ......... Van Cliburn

It’s hard to beat this costume! But not worn on Halloween. For Isaac Stern’s 70th birthday Rostropovich secretly had a tutu made complete with ballet shoes size 43. He was made up, donned a tiara and appeared to play The Swan from Carnival of the Animals by Saint-Saëns #music

Known for his unforgiving and often critical depictions of German society during the Weimar Republic, this self-portrait by Otto Dix (1912) pays homage to the work of the Italian Old Masters - the carnation was a popular motif in northern Italian Renaissance painting.

magari ora la smetteranno di invitarla su La7 a pontificare un giorno sì e uno pure.

Una seconda nomina, giustamente. In aggiunta alla prima, non in sostituzione. Meglio abbondare. #Venezi dagospia.com/politica/piano…

Ecco, ci mancava pure questa. Già mi vedo la Meloni da Vespa, entrambi in brodo di giuggiole a parlarsi addosso sul nulla.

“This is JB Pritzker, reporting from war-torn Chicago. It’s quite disturbing. The Milwaukee Brewers have come in to attack our Chicago Cubs. We’ve seen people being forced to eat hot dogs with ketchup on them.” THIS is how you do it.

Tina Fey returns to SNL as Kristi Noem

Vi accompagnerò nell’ascolto. Lo trovate su RaiPlay Sound . #HollywoodParty Per Diane Keaton, uno dei tantissimi film per cui le saremo per sempre grati: il Cinema alla radio di Io e Annie da riascoltare in podcast, qui bit.ly/ioeannieallara…

you can not unsee this

Augusto Giacometti was a member of the Giacometti dynasty of artists and was among the very first painters of the 20thC to venture into non-representational painting. He moved back to figurative painting later in his career. 'Books and Cup,' is from 1940.

During his speech at the Knesset, Trump urged Israel’s president to pardon Netanyahu, who is currently on trial for corruption: “Why don’t you give him a pardon? Give him a pardon… cigars and champagne, who the hell cares about that?”

Of course he does. Egypt is not a democracy.

This is disgusting. Trump goes on and on about how much he loves Viktor Orbán. Viktor Orbán has turned Hungary into a cautionary tale for democracy. He’s gutted judicial independence, crushed free media, and funneled public money to loyal oligarchs while jailing critics and

What are the best piano pieces by JS Bach? We give you five to start with classical-music.com/features/works…

"Because of the oppression, he had to find a way to express the life as he lived it, and he found a way which somehow became acceptable to both the regime and the people... and that is a pure genius" - Semyon Bychkov on Shostakovitch. More here: youtube.com/watch?v=yqnFBT…

Con este movimiento concluye el «Concierto para piano», Op. 54 de R. #Schumann, una de las dos obras de este programa a cargo de Martha #Argerich, la Orquesta de Cámara de Lausanne (OCL) y Renaud Capuçon. Disfrútalo hoy: 16:40 🇦🇷🇨🇱🇵🇾🇺🇾 | 15:40 🇧🇴 | 14:40 🇨🇴🇪🇨.