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Voting Day in Quebec: September 4th, 2012 & the News
Japonisme (Google) On Tuesday, September 4th, Quebecers go to the Election Polls. The campaign has been brief. Last night, September 1st, I heard that Pauline Marois could well be the next...
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News & Views: September 4th, 2012
A Bar at the Folies-Bergères, by Édouard Manet* Édouard Manet (1832–1883) Photo credit: Wikipedia Oliver Wendell Holmes on Taxes Today will not be my best day as a blogger, as today is the day...
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Jean Racine, Gabriel Fauré & Alexandre Cabanel: a Canticle
Phèdre, by Alexandre Cabanel (1880) Alexandre Cabanel (28 September 1823 – 23 January 1889) Jean Racine‘s Phèdre Jean Racine (22 December 1639 – 21 April 1699) is the foremost dramatist (tragedy) of...
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Dear Readers
Lilacs in a Window, by Mary Cassat, 1880 (Photo credit: Wikipaintings) Dear Readers, WordPress is still making my life difficult. My last post was dated July 12th. I had then written a draft of the...
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Jean Racine’s Cantique, by Gabriel Fauré
Hippolytus and Phaedra, Louvre (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Jean Racine’s Canticle (1688) I have used this song in an earlier post on Jean Racine and his Phèdre (1677) entitled Jean Racine, Gabriel Fauré...
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Fauré & Ravel : Nostalgia
6abriel Fauré, Élégie in C Minor for Cello & Piano Op. 24 (1880 – 1883) Girl with Peacock by Peter Schlosser, 1896 (Photo credit: fleurdulys) Peter Schlosser was an Austrian artist, in the days of...
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