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Kindness. Humanism.Secular. Sceptic. History, Pre-Raphaelites, Reading, Life-Long Learning. 'Sanity Is Not Statistical'.'Fill the unforgiving minute...'.

Saturday, 28 July 2012

Wednesday, 25 July 2012

Rimsky-Korsakov Lets the Symphony Tell the Story

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10120287

The Measure of a Man

Not how did he die, but how did he live.
Not what did he gain, but what did he give.
Not what was his station, but had he a heart.
And how did he play his God-given part.
Not what was his shrine, nor what was his creed,
But had he befriended those really in need.
Not what did the piece in the newspaper say,
But how many were sorry when he passed away.
Was he ever ready with a word or good cheer,
To bring back a smile or banish a tear.
These are the units to measure the worth,
Of a man as a man regardless of birth.

Thursday, 19 July 2012

Edward Coley Burne-Jones (1833 -1898)

Befuddled Puppy (1880) - http://www.leicestergalleries.com/19th-20th-century-paintings/d/befuddled-puppy/15325
Danäe and the brazen Tower - http://www.ashmolean.org/php/makepage.php?&db=wapaintings&view=llisti&all=&arti=Burne-Jones,+Sir+Edward+Coley&titl=&mat=&prov=&sour=&acno=&park=&strt=1&what=Search&cpos=1&s1=artist&s2=mainid&s3=&dno=25
Girl's Head Looking Down
Gudrun
Last Sleep of Arthur in Avalon - http://preraphaelitepaintings.blogspot.com/2009/03/edward-burne-jones-last-sleep-of-arthur.html
Laus Veneris
Margaret Burne-Jones
Princess Sabra Led to the Dragon
Study for the Head of Andromeda
Study of Venus for 'Pygmalion'
The Annunciation (1876) - http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/ladylever/collections/annunciation.asp
The Beguiling of Merlin - http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/picture-of-month/displaypicture.asp?venue=7&id=105
The Council Chamber - (c1872 - 1892)
The Arming of Perseus
Vespertine Quies (Evening Repose) (1893) - http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?cgroupid=999999961&workid=1817
Wheel of Fortune - http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/ladylever/exhibitions/drawings/studies/wheeloffortune.asp

Rach 2 - Prom 6 - 2012

http://www.bbc.co.uk/proms/whats-on/2012/july-18/14222

Wednesday, 11 July 2012

Monday, 9 July 2012

Act 1, Scene 2 - Henry IV - Part 1

POINS
Now, my good sweet honey lord, ride with us tomorrow. I have a jest to execute that I cannot manage alone. Falstaff, Peto, Bardolph, and Gadshill shall rob those men that we have already waylaid. Yourself and I will not be there. And when they have the booty, if you and I do not rob them, cut this head off from my shoulders.

PRINCE HAL
I’ll so offend to make offense a skill,
Redeeming time when men think least I will.