2024). One of the top 100 songs selected by Western Writers of America debuted in December 1975 —“Faster Horses.” There’s even a Wikipedia article about this number.
Also included are Byrd’s three keyboard settings of the plainsongClarifica me paterin successively two, three and four parts. They are among his finest and most popular pieces for organ and are played here by Stephen Farr, surely the finest living exponent of Byrd’s music on the organ. Hi...
Inspired by a life-changing 6-week travelling university class more than 20 years ago, this is my itinerary of must-see Renaissance art in Italy.
Detail of some of the carved parrots, nestled in the gold foliage, from the chancel at the Studley Royal chapel of St. Mary, 1871-78. Image is a detail of a Creative Commons Image via Wikipedia When I took a guided tour of William Burges’s gothic revival church in the grounds of Stu...
Wikipedia brown // Wikimedia Commons #8. U2 -Certified units: 52 million (17 Gold, 17 Platinum, 12 Multi-platinum, 1 Diamond) -Grammy wins: 22 (46 nominations) Much like Metallica, U2 started with a"musicians wanted" adposted on the notice board at Dublin's Temple Mount School in 1976...
I want to briefly explore Pixie’s cultural appropriation of Anancy (Anasi), the spider-trickster originating in Ghana who became a central figure of Jamaican folklore: He was associated with skill and wisdom in speech (wikipedia) and with the kind of selfish cunning and deception that oppressed...
Wikipedia has no entry for James Paroline. Kristopher Kime During Seattle's 2001 Mardi Gras celebrations, gangs of blacks—male and female—charged into the crowd of predominantly white revelers, beating and robbing isolated whites, hitting them with brass knuckles, skateboards, rocks and bottles, ...
(Wikipedia) There is, however, no systematic description of lenses before the ninth century with the emergence of reading stones (lapides ad legendum). These are limpid rock crystal, amethyst, cairngorm or smoky quartz, and garnet plano-convex and aspherical ground stones, which when laid on a...
(Ajay Suresh for Wikipedia) Located on the Gold Coast of Central Park, The Kenilworth is designed in the French Second Empire style. The building is surrounded by a dry moat, and architecture critics Elliot Willensky and Norval White describe it as a ...
Take a Virtual Tour of The Uffizi Gallery in Florence, the World-Famous Collection of Renaissance Art in Art | January 10th, 2018 Leave a Comment The Uffizi Gallery in Florence doesn’t particularly need an introduction, seeing that it’s one of the ...