#anna barie

[devdas5z]

Anna Bari

[violettesiren]

Where's the former charm of the thrush's trills? Where's the remembered music of far off rills? The elfin dance of dead daffodils?

Their grace is fled. Could Demeter care— Faint for Persephone's floating hair- That flowers of Enna were strange and fair?

For cold and dark as a candle blown, Bare as a nest when the birds are flown, Are spring and summer to hearts alone.

"Thou Away, The Very Birds Are Mute" by Anna Bunston De Bary

[loganwritesprobably]

Help me find someone

Cross Guild enjoyers help

I've got a vague memory of reading several fics with mention of a very large fruitwani swimming around the coast of Karai Bari to act as the first line of defence potentially named Anna or something similar but I cannot seem to find it

Help??

[blacklegsanjiii]

apologies for the angst- but if any of your sanjis were to die early, who would it be, how would it happen, and what would be the reactions of his family?

Probably Donquixote!Sanji in all honesty. He would be so set on saving his nakama and coced out he probably wouldn't even notice. He would realize after it happened that he was a lost cause to save so he would convince Chopper and Law to focus on the others. He probably leaves his snuff container, the last of cigarettes and a tie and smiles at Robin and asks her to get word to Doffy before collapsing.

The crew is upset and screaming and crying and then having to find the Donquixote family to tell them? Fuck dude. Law and Luffy think they're going to have to fight again when they find Doflamingo on some island. He's just staring out at the clear blue sky and ocean.

"So he died, huh?" Doflamingo would ask without even looking at them. "I shouldn't be surprised, everyone around me does. Usually at my hand though." And Law and Luffy are upset but Jinbei walks forward and offers the items to his fellow former warlord who takes them.

Jinbei stays next to Doffy as they look out and Jinbei tells him stories about Sanji. Doffy doesn't respond just gripping the items tight without breaking them.

"I tried to beat the sacrifice out of him and it never worked! No matter what I did he always felt indebted to me and he died that way too! I'll kill them all!" Doflamingo would yell and the clouds have started to roll in so he leaves and Luffy and Law and the rest of the crew are actually kind of shocked.

"Losing a child will be the worst thing to happen to any parent." Jinbei explains.

"Should we tell Crocodile next?" Robin asks and Jinbei shakes his head.

"It will be a shock for him, but it's best he hears it from Doflamingo, even if Sanji terrorized him in the meetings he was probably closest to Doffy." Jinbei says as they head to the sunny.

And when Doffy lands on Karai Bari? It's late, he's tired and he finds Anna and pets her and when crocodile strolls up Doffy just shows him the tie and Crocodile sighs and sits with him. Crocodile doesn't cry but he'll never tell anyone if Doflamingo does.

[burlveneer-music]

Sly5thAve - Liberation - leading a whole orchestra on his new album

‘Liberation’ is the third solo LP from composer, arranger, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Sly5thAve. Layered with orchestral arrangements, jazz improvisation and Hip-Hop production, ‘Liberation’ is an accomplished record of courage, musical conviction, and growth. Known for his sophisticated compositions, Sylvester Uzoma Onyejiaka II AKA Sly5thAve’s first experiences with large scale arranging were with the Club Casa Chamber Orchestra and recording instrumental covers of popular modern songs. Notably, his orchestral tribute to Dr. Dre, ‘The Invisible Man,’ garnered widespread praise and attention, even earning the admiration of Dr. Dre himself. Through these recordings Sly5thAve felt he had found a way to make people connect with orchestral music; “I’ve long felt orchestras around the world are inaccessible to most people – whether it be the programming or the cost, or the location”. The LP is Sly5thAve’s first full album of original orchestral arrangements and features the musicianship of Sly5thAve’s collaborators and Ghost Note bandmates - headed by Snarky Puppy's multi-Grammy–winning percussion duo Robert “Sput” Searight and Nate Werth, alongside previous collaborator Roberto Verástegui. MUSICIANS Sly5thAve – Bari Sax, Tenor Sax, Flute, Bass Clarinet, Aux Keys, Synth Bass, Drum Programming Roberto Verástegui – Keys (A1, B1, B3, C1, C3, C4, D2, D3) Todd M. Simon – Trumpets (A1, B1, B2, C1, C4, D1) Robert “Sput” Searight – Drums (A1, B1, B2, C1, C4, D1) Peter Knudsen – Guitar (A1, B1, B2, B3, C1, C3, C4, D1, D2, D3) Nate Werth – Percussion (A1, B1, B2, C1, C4, D1) Jelani Brooks – Tenor Sax (A1) Michael Campagna – Trumpet (A1, B1, B2, C1, D1) Marío Cortés García – Contrabass (A1, B1, B2, C1, C4, D1) Malik Taylor – French Horn (A1, B1, B2, C1, C4, D1) Lemar Guillary – Trombone (A1, B1, B2, C1, C4, D1) Jonathan Mones – Flutes & Sax (B1, B2, D1) Jay Jennings – Trumpet & Flugelhorn (A1, B2, B3, C1, C4, D2) Ibanda Ruhimbika – Tuba (A1, B1, B2, C1, C4, D1) MonoNeon – Bass (B3, C3, D2, D3) DominiqueXavier – Keys (A1, B1, B2, C1, C4, D1) Domenica Fossati – Flute & Piccolo (A1, B1, B2, C1, D1) Dave Richards – Trumpet (B2, C4, D1) Daniel Wytanis – Trombone (B2, C4, D1) Ben Burget – Flutes, Clarinet & Alto Sax (A1, B1, B2, C1, C4, D1) Antoine Katz – Bass (A1, B1, B2, C1, C4, D1) Alex Wasily – Trombone (A1, B1, B2, C1, C4, D1) MacKenzie – Vocals (C3) Kyle Rapps – Vocals (B3) STRINGS (A1, B1, B2, B3, C1, C4, D1, D2) Salomón Guerrero Alarcón – Cello Israel Torress Araiza – Violin Carols Roberto Gándara García – Violin Anna Arnal Ferrer - Viola

[grandhotelabyss]

If someone were to accuse you of being a psy-op, what would they accuse you of?

I would be accused—I sometimes even am accused—of running the opposite of the psyop I'm actually running. This is because, in true psyop fashion, I sometimes used to openly claim to be running the opposite psyop of the one I actually was/am running. I've even darkly hinted that it's worse than you think, just to throw you off the track, but also to keep you coming back for more. (Deep lore: how would someone with crazy eyes, red yarn, pushpins, and a corkboard get from me to Michael Aquino in two steps? I revealed the answer once, only once, behind Katherine Dee's paywall, on my first ever podcast appearance, during which Kat and I correctly predicted in 2021 that the dissident right would become the next iteration of neoconservatism, years before a straight line could be drawn from BAP through Anna K. to Bari Weiss.) I could say more, but then it wouldn't be a psyop, would it? If you're desperate for a clue as to what's really going on here, though I hate to direct you behind another paywall, please see, speaking of deep lore, my commentary on P. B. Shelley's esoteric reading of the literary canon in the Invisible College episode "Lost Angel of a Ruined Paradise."

[sugarspicenights]

Still thinking about hot girl summer drabbles—I’ll work on the list and prompts this weekend 🥰☀️

Potential characters I could write for:

-Tao Gokurakugai (strap :)

-Yuki JJK (thigh riding)

-Jolyne JJBA

-Chain Sumeragi Kekkai Sensen

-Cass BAPC (Virginity Loss to Reader)

-Chisa Yukizome DR3 (accidentally discovering maid kink?)

-Noi or Nikaido Dorohedoro

-Yasuho Jojolion

-Meryl + Milly Trigun

-Faye Valentine Bebop

-Scarlet Space Dandy

-one of the jojo milfs (lisa lisa, shinobu, tomoko)

-Kobeni chainsaw (dacryphilia)

-Botan YYH — she’s literally the grim reaper so she’s definitely an ancient being

-Yor Forger SXF (Shi/bari)

-Abigail SDV (Roleplay)

-Anna Buddy Daddies

-Misa Death Note (voyeurism/walking in on solo)

Let me know if there’s any fluff or spice y’all would be interested in for them! I can start matching some with ideas too ^^

[plumpredapple888]

L.A. live debate with Bari Weiss, Sarah Haider, Grimes, Anna Khachiyan, and Louise Perry - Q/ Has the sexual revolution failed?

[carmy77]

Elenco vincitori

Concorso di Poesie, Filastrocche, Racconti e Fiabe

“Libera la fantasia” 5^ Edizione

A) Sezione Poesie e Filastrocche a tema fantasy

“Carmelo, il sedano fragola, Penelope la ragna e Riccardo, il riccio bugiardo” filastrocche inedite di Cecilia Turino – Frattaminore (NA)

“ Amore su petali di rosa” raccolta edita di poesie di Barbara Baka – Carapelle (FG)

“C’erano una volta sette nani” filastrocca inedita di Danila Pesce – Savona (SV)

Menzione Speciale a:

“Poesie, Filastrocche, Raccontini per grandi e piccini” libro edito di filastrocche e racconti brevi di Rita Giovanna Cavicchi – Castiglione dei Pepoli (BO)

Segnalazione di merito a:

“ Nonna e Paura” filastrocca inedita di Valerio Falgari – Curno (BG)

“Dimora fiabesca” raccolta edita di poesie di Maria Cristina Biasoli – Molinella (RO)

B) Poesie e Filastrocche a tema libero

“Ricomincio da t(r)e” raccolta di poesie in fase di pubblicazione di Mario Tommasini – Roma (RM)

“Alla periferia del vento” poesia inedita di Stefano Baldinu – S. Pietro in Casale (BO)

“Per voi” poesia inedita di Christian Testa – Villanterio (PV)

Menzione Speciale a:

“Filastroccando – Poesie e filastrocche di Nonnogino” raccolta inedita di poesie e filastrocche di Luigino De Francesco – Torino (TO)

Segnalazione di merito a:

“Unni a biddizza cunforta (Dove la bellezza consola)” poesia in dialetto siciliano tradotta in italiano di Lucia Zappalà -  Istrana  (TV)

  Premi Speciali

   Premio Assoluto della Critica a:

“Note dimenticate nella notte” raccolta poetica inedita di Francesco Ambrosio -  Frattamaggiore (NA)

  Premio Speciale Miglior Giovane Autore a:

“Unica salvezza” poesia inedita di Serena Cola – Meldola (FC)

     Premio Speciale per l’Operato Socio – Culturale a:

Angelo Canino, scrittore (Acri – CS) distintosi per quanto costruito artisticamente e culturalmente negli anni, vincendo tantissimi premi letterari e aderendo in varie manifestazioni di spessore. Poesia scelta come migliore dalla Giuria: “ Ppe cchilli terri (Per quei terreni)” opera inedita in dialetto calabrese tradotta in italiano.

    Premio Speciale della Giuria a:

Lucia Barabino, scrittrice (San Francesco al Campo – TO) per la sua

straordinaria capacità creativa e la sua estrema bravura mista a sensibilità nello scrivere testi per grandi e piccini. Testo scelto come migliore dalla Giuria: “L’albero nel bosco” filastrocca inedita.

“Kerstonville, segreti di contea” romanzo inedito di Silvia Turello – Siderno (RC)

C) Sezione Racconti e Fiabe a tema fantasy

“Sara e i mille mila” fiaba edita di Gabriele Missaglia – Dizzasco (CO)

“Ascoltate la biblioteca” racconto inedito di Gabriele Andreani – Pesaro (PU)

“Agata delle farfalle” fiaba inedita di Clara Guareschi – Varallo (VC)

Menzione speciale a:

“Misha l’orsetto magico” fiaba inedita di Giovanni Saia – La Spezia (SP)

  Segnalazione di merito a:

“Diario di un tirannosauro vegetariano” racconto fantasy inedito di Gabriele Di Fazio – Marino (RM)

D) Sezione Racconti e Romanzi a tema libero

“La rosa sott’acqua – Storia di una vita negata” racconto inedito di Cristina Manzo – Lecce (LE)

“La rosa bianca di Izmir – Oltre il velo della paura ” romanzo edito di Anna D’Auria – Gragnano (NA)

“Raggio di luce” romanzo edito di Matteo Molino – Milano (MI)

Menzione speciale a:

“Augustus Darius” romanzo inedito di Angelo Dario Garziano – Mazzarino (CL)

Segnalazione di merito a:

“La ragazza e il cavaliere” romanzo inedito di Cristina Mora – Luserna San Giovanni (TO)

   Premio Finalisti

“Cassandra e Isabeau” racconto inedito di Alessandra Peretti – Amandola (FM)

“L’arte di Howth (Tratto da una storia vera)” racconto inedito di Anna Ferriero – Torre del Greco (NA)

“Le avventure di Rapetta” raccolta inedita di racconti di Paola Ercole – Roma (RM)

“Il marziano Baffi Blu” filastrocca inedita di Barbara Barducco – Rivarossa (TO)

“La mia follia” monologo teatrale inedito di Rodolfo Andrei – Roma (RM)

“Il peso della solitudine” raccolta poetica di Roberta Matassa – Bari (BA)

“Anche l’ospedale è bello...se si muta in un castello” filastrocca inedita di Sergio Giovannetti – Vinci (FI)

“Il brutto anatroccolo (Favola rap) favola inedita in versi di Veruska Vertuani �� Aprilia (LT)

“Era notte a Roma” racconto edito di Laura Marcucci – Roma (RM)

“La strega presuntuosa” filastrocca inedita di Caterina Giannini – Roma (RM)

“Immensa” racconto inedito di Chiara Mari – Losanna Svizzera (VD)

“Il Natale delle fiabe” filastrocca inedita di Patrizia Birtolo – Giussano (MB)

[hits1000]

100 Songs in Italian from the 70s

100 Songs in Italian from the 70s 100 Songs in Italian from the 70s, including: Adriano Celentano - Chi Non Lavora Non Fa L'amore, Domenico Modugno - La lontananza, Lucio Battisti – Anna, Massimo Ranieri - Sogno d'amore, Mina – Insieme, Nicola di Bari - La Prima Cosa Bella and many more!!! Subscribe to our channel to see more of our content! 1. 1970 Adriano Celentano - Chi Non Lavora Non Fa L'amore 2. 1970 Domenico Modugno - La lontananza 3. 1970 Lucio Battisti - Anna 4. 1970 Massimo Ranieri - Sogno d'amore 5. 1970 Mina - Insieme 6. 1970 Nicola di Bari - La Prima Cosa Bella 7. 1970 Nino Manfredi - Tanto pè cantà 8. 1970 Orietta Berti - Fin che la barca va 9. 1970 Ornella Vanoni - L'appuntamento 10. 1970 Raffaella Carrà - Ma che musica maestro 11. 1970 Renato Dei Profeti - Lady Barbara 12. 1970 Sergio Endrigo - L'Arca di Noè 13. 1971 Bruno Lauzi - Amore Caro, Amore Bello 14. 1971 Equipe 84 - Casa Mia 15. 1971 Formula 3 - Eppur mi son scordato di te 16. 1971 Iva Zanicchi - Un fiume amaro 17. 1971 Lucio Battisti - Pensieri E Parole 18. 1971 Lucio Dalla - 4/3/1943 19. 1971 Mina - Amor mio 20. 1971 Nicola Di Bari - Il Cuore È Uno Zingaro 21. 1971 Nuovi Angeli - Donna felicità 22. 1971 Pooh - Tanta Voglia Di Lei 23. 1971 Raffaella Carrà - Chissa Chi Sei 24. 1972 Adriano Celentano - Un albero di trenta piani 25. 1972 Delirium - Jesahel 26. 1972 Gianni Nazzaro - Quanto È Bella Lei 27. 1972 I Dik Dik - Viaggio di un poeta 28. 1972 I Nomadi - Io Vagabondo 29. 1972 Loretta Goggi - Vieni via con me 30. 1972 Lucio Battisti - I giardini di marzo 31. 1972 Mia Martini - Piccolo Uomo 32. 1972 Mina - Grande, grande, grande 33. 1972 Mina & Alberto Lupo - Parole Parole 34. 1972 Pooh - Pensiero 35. 1973 Claudio Baglioni - Questo Piccolo Grande Amore 36. 1973 Gabriella Ferri - Sempre 37. 1973 I Camaleonti - Perchè Ti Amo 38. 1973 Lucio Battisti - Il Mio Canto Libero 39. 1973 Marcella Bella - Io domani 40. 1973 Massimo Ranieri - Erba Di Casa Mia 41. 1973 Mina - Eccomi 42. 1973 Patty Pravo - Pazza idea 43. 1973 Peppino Di Capri - Un grande amore e niente piu 44. 1973 Pooh - Io E Te Per Altri Giorni 45. 1974 Adriano Celentano - Bellissima 46. 1974 Claudio Baglioni - E Tu 47. 1974 Drupi - Piccola E Fragile 48. 1974 Gianni Bella - Più ci penso 49. 1974 Gigliola Cinquetti - Alle Porte Del Sole 50. 1974 I Cugini di Campagna - Anima mia 51. 1974 I Nuovi Angeli - Anna da dimenticare 52. 1974 Marcella Bella - Nessuno mai 53. 1974 Riccardo Cocciante - Bella senz'anima 54. 1975 Claudia Mori - Buonasera Dottore 55. 1975 Claudio Baglioni - Sabato Pomeriggio 56. 1975 Domenico Modugno - Piange il telefono 57. 1975 Drupi - Sereno è 58. 1975 Homo Sapiens – Tornerai tornerò 59. 1975 I Santo California - Tornerò 60. 1975 Mal - Parlami d’amore Mariù 61. 1975 Mina - L'importante è finire 62. 1975 Wess e Dori Ghezzi - Un Corpo e Un Anima 63. 1976 Adriano Celentano - Svalutation 64. 1976 Daniel Sentacruz Ensemble - Linda Bella Linda 65. 1976 Gianni Bella - Non Si Può Morire Dentro 66. 1976 Gianni Morandi - Sei Forte Papà 67. 1976 Lucio Battisti - Ancora Tu 68. 1976 Oliver Onions - Sandokan 69. 1976 Pooh - Linda 70. 1976 Riccardo Cocciante - Margherita 71. 1977 Angelo Branduardi - Alla Fiera Dell´Est 72. 1977 Claudio Baglioni - Solo 73. 1977 Collage - Tu Mi Rubi L' Anima 74. 1977 Daniela Goggi - Oba-ba-lu-ba 75. 1977 Homo Sapiens - Bella da morire 76. 1977 Matia Bazar - Solo tu 77. 1977 Oliver Onions - Orzowei 78. 1977 Umberto Balsamo - Angelo Azzurro 79. 1977 Umberto Tozzi - Ti Amo 80. 1978 Adriano Celentano - Ti avrò 81. 1978 Alan Sorrenti - Figli Delle Stelle 82. 1978 Anna Oxa - Un'emozione da poco 83. 1978 Antonello Venditti - Sotto Il Segno Dei Pesci 84. 1978 Elisabetta Viviani - Heidi 85. 1978 Lucio Battisti - Una Donna Per Amico 86. 1978 Patty Pravo - Pensiero Stupendo 87. 1978 Renato Zero - Il Triangolo 88. 1978 Rino Gaetano - Gianna 89. 1978 Umberto Tozzi - Tu 90. 1979 Adriano Celentano - Soli 91. 1979 Adriano Pappalardo - Ricominciamo 92. 1979 Alan Sorrenti - Tu Sei L'Unica Donna Per Me 93. 1979 Antonello Venditti - Buona domenica 94. 1979 Julio Iglesias - Se Tornassi 95. 1979 New Trolls - Quella carezza della sera 96. 1979 Pippo Franco - Mi Scappa La Pipì Papà 97. 1979 Pooh - Io Sono Vivo 98. 1979 Pupo - Forse 99. 1979 Renato Zero - Il Carrozzone 100. 1979 Umberto Tozzi - Gloria Related Hashtags #hitsof1970 #hitsof1970to1979 #hitsof1970s #hitsof1970songs #hitsof1970uk #hitsof1970australia #hitsofthe1970sand1980s #kannadahitsof1970 #bollywoodhitsof1970 #hitsof1969and1970 #tophitsofthe1970sbillboard #pophitsofthe1970s #hitsof1970sinmusic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xETfkIyeu0

[lucienballard]

RIP Tony Bennett

Tony Bennett, who has died aged 96, made a high art out of being the very best kind of saloon-bar singer – not only in the good-humoured optimism of his big, expansive sound, or his passionate gratitude for life’s lucky breaks and glimpsed beauties, but also in an unquenchable appetite for sharing good songs, whether with 10 people or 10,000.

Frank Sinatra used to call Bennett “the best singer in the business”, an accolade that would frequently turn up in the younger man’s publicity, though a more forthright tribute from the same source (“that kid’s got four sets of balls”) generally did not. Bennett’s artistry and power to stir the heart were qualities a world away from the cliched perception of the Vegas crooner in a tuxedo. During the rock-dominated 1960s and 70s, Bennett was easy to caricature. You only had to pretend to loosen a tie, casually throw an imaginary microphone from hand to hand, and exhale ��the loveliness of Paris” in tones somewhere between Sinatra’s and the club style of Vic Reeves.

Closer listening to Bennett’s smoky baritone revealed a different story. His performances often sounded like thanksgivings – for the breaks he’d had, and for his conviction that the good in the world outstripped the bad. This curiously worldly innocence was at the core of his enduring appeal. Bennett’s records (including Because of You and a version of the country singer Hank Williams’s Cold, Cold Heart) topped the charts in 1951 before the arrival of rock’n’roll. His most celebrated later hits included his signature song, I Left My Heart in San Francisco, The Good Life (both 1962) and Who Can I Turn To? (1964). Bennett won 19 Grammy awards and was estimated to have sold more than 50m records worldwide.

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/hT5VOnaGRSU?start=2&wmode=opaque&feature=oembed&start=2Tony Bennett performing I Left My Heart in San Francisco on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1964. YouTube

He was also an accomplished painter and produced a book of his visual art, What My Heart Has Seen (1996). His autobiography, published in 1998, was entitled The Good Life – Bennett knew only too well how ambiguous a notion that could be, having narrowly survived a cocaine overdose and fought off bankruptcy during his troubled middle years. He raised millions of dollars for charities and publicly associated himself with liberal causes. In an interview with the singer in 2002, Simon Hattenstone wrote in the Guardian that Bennett had “done all the classic showbiz stuff, snorted coke with the best of ’em, made out with the younger women, broken bread with the mafia – and somehow come out with his innocence, his idealism, intact”.

Born Anthony Dominick Benedetto in the Astoria district of Queens, New York, he was the son of John, a grocer from southern Italy, and Anna (nee Suraci), a seamstress. His father died when Bennett was 10 and Anna worked all hours to support her three children. Watching her struggle, Bennett made up his mind to be successful enough for his mother’s trials to end. His Uncle Dick, a tap dancer, provided an early glimpse of showbusiness, and Bennett was passionate about both singing and painting by the time he attended the School of Industrial Art (now the High School of Art and Design) in Manhattan.

After demobilisation, Bennett took vocal classes in the bel canto style at the American Theatre Wing school (a teacher there suggested he try imitating the phrasing of jazz instrumentalists) and he began singing in nightclubs from 1946 under the stage name of Joe Bari. The comedian Bob Hope hired him in 1949, but, disliking the stage name, told him: “We’ll call you Tony Bennett.”

Bennett worked in New York at the Paramount theatre in Hope’s popular show, which soon needed police barricades to hold back the singer’s teenage fans. When he married Patricia Beech in 1952, crowds of young women showed up outside the ceremony, dressed as if in mourning.

Bennett became one of the biggest vocal draws in the US, with three No 1 hits – Because of You, Cold, Cold Heart (both 1951) and Rags to Riches (1953). His single Stranger in Paradise, from the Broadway musical Kismet, brought him a No 1 in the UK in 1955 but the arrival of rock’n’roll made it Bennett’s first and last Top 10 single in the UK, and he had only one more in the US, when In the Middle of an Island reached No 9 in 1957.

Bennett needed to adapt. Unlike Sinatra or Bing Crosby, he had not worked with the swing big-bands, a learning curve alongside expert instrumentalists that could sharpen technique and fill a singer with fresh ideas. But in 1957 he began a long working relationship with the London-born jazz pianist and arranger Ralph Sharon, who edged him toward a jazzier repertoire. Bennett’s 1957 album The Beat of My Heart was made with help from the jazz musicians Herbie Mann, Art Blakey and Jo Jones among others; it was followed by Basie Swings, Bennett Sings (1958) and In Person! (1959) with Count Basie’s big band.

Along with many other singers of his kind, Bennett found that his sales went into steady decline. He tried an unsuccessful detour into acting before, in 1969, the Columbia Records boss Clive Davis persuaded him to make an album of 60s pop hits including the Beatles’ Eleanor Rigby. The cover art portrayed him in flares and a psychedelic tie, and Bennett was so intimidated by his unsuitability for material he was not yet ready to appreciate that he threw up during the recordings. He later said it reminded him of his mother being forced to make cheap dresses for money.

Bennett left Columbia and worked for smaller jazz labels during the next decade. He performed with the big bands of Woody Herman, Buddy Rich and Duke Ellington, and in 1975 made a duo album for the Fantasy label with one of modern jazz’s most lyrical pianists, Bill Evans. What might have seemed like an unlikely partnership between the cerebral Evans and the heart-on-sleeve popular performer worked remarkably well, with Bennett’s account of Evans’ famous Waltz for Debby revealing an inspired grasp of the art of jazz-inflected vocal interpretation and interplay. Two years later, the pair reconvened for Together Again on Bennett’s own shortlived Improv label.

In the 90s he paid tributes to Sinatra and Fred Astaire, on the albums Perfectly Frank and Steppin’ Out, respectively, and also recorded homages to Billie Holiday (Tony Bennett on Holiday) and Duke Ellington (Bennett Sings Ellington: Hot and Cool). Through his work with kd lang and Elvis Costello on MTV, he reconnected with a young audience. He even played at Glastonbury in 1998, with the organisers laying out a path of hay bales so he wouldn’t get his silk suit muddy on the way to the stage.

On Playin’ With My Friends: Bennett Sings the Blues (2001), he recorded a memorable series of duets with lang, Ray Charles, Sheryl Crow, Billy Joel, Diana Krall, BB King, Bonnie Raitt and Stevie Wonder.

For his 80th birthday in 2006, Bennett released Duets: An American Classic, featuring performances with Paul McCartney, Elton John, Barbra Streisand and Bono, and five years later came Duets II, with another glitzy cast including Aretha Franklin, Lady Gaga – and Amy Winehouse, with whom he shared a memorable Body and Soul in March 2011.

In 2012, his book of philosophical musings, Life Is a Gift, was published. The 2014 album Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga: Cheek to Cheek was another Billboard chart-topper, and the following year he won a Grammy for a tribute album to Jerome Kern.

The Empire State Building was specially illuminated for Bennett’s 90th birthday in 2016 – and that year Stevie Wonder, Bob Dylan, Lady Gaga and more performed on an NBC primetime special, Tony Bennett Celebrates 90: The Best Is Yet to Come. The Butler Institute of American Art in Ohio (where Bennett’s Homage to Hockney is part of a permanent collection) presented its Two Painters exhibition, showing Bennett’s Tuscan landscapes, still lifes and portraits alongside watercolourist Charles Reid’s work. In November 2017, the Library of Congress made him the first non-composer to win the Gershwin prize.

Bennett worked into his later years – because a new audience was there for him, and because the money funded his charitable work, including the Frank Sinatra School of the Arts, which he had founded in 2001. He painted every day for as long as he was able. “You paint with nature out in the field and you realise how magnificent being alive is,” Bennett enthused to Hattenstone in 2002. “Most people just walk past it. I used to walk past it. Each day now, because of my age, I just look at it and cherish it. If people could only grasp how wonderful it is to be part of this.” A diagnosis of Alzheimer’s in 2016 did not dim this view, with Bennett stating on Twitter: “Life is a gift – even with Alzheimer’s.”

His final live performances were with Lady Gaga in 2021, at Radio City Music Hall, New York.

Bennett’s first two marriages ended in divorce. In 2007 he married Susan Crow, who survives him, as do his sons, and two daughters, Joanna and Antonia, from his second marriage.

 Tony Bennett (Anthony Dominick Benedetto), singer, born 3 August 1926; died 21 July 2023

[violettesiren]

O sad November trees, Be not so fond in grief; Came not the birth of this year's bud Through death of last year's leaf?

November Trees by Anna Bunston De Bary

[archduchessofnowhere]

THE ROYAL BAPTISM AT THE PALAZZO FARNESE

Rome, 29 December 1869

I have just left the Farnese Palace, and I really believe that one can say without exaggeration: Naples is no longer in Naples; it is all in Rome today.

It is doubtful indeed that, even in the middle of his capital, Francis II would have seen himself surrounded by a crowd more numerous and better representing, not only the elite, but all the ranks of the nation of which he is the legitimate sovereign.

Certainly more magnificent pomp could have shone in Naples around the royal cradle. But first of all, could the young princess have hoped to have more august godparents before God and at her entry into the Christian life? The Holy Father, the first and greatest of the world's monarchs, the very Vicar of Our Lord Jesus Christ, and in whom the crown of suffering and misfortune heroically borne is added to the majesty of the tiara and the halo of sanctity; The Empress of Austria, who occupied the throne of the Habsburgs and whose sister was that great and pious Queen whom the people, anticipating in some way the judgment of the Church, like to proclaim "the Saint".

(...) The birth of the princess was a universal joy in the kingdom, and for two or three days hundreds of the most eminent people flocked to Rome. At the same time all the trains brought deputations chosen by each province and which the Piedmontese government allowed to pass, for want of being able to oppose a movement which was the expression of popular feeling.

From noon onwards, the vast halls of the Farnese Palace, which is one of the wonders of Rome and has few rivals in Europe, were filled with an enormous audience, composed almost exclusively of Neapolitans. Hardly the Senator of Rome and some Roman princes had been invited. The King, who, like all Bourbons, identifies his family with his country, had wished to be surrounded, with very few exceptions, only by his subjects and servants.

(...) With a delicacy worthy of his great heart, the King had asked the Bishops of the monarchy present in Rome to abstain from appearing at the ceremony: it was not necessary that a mark of religious fidelity should excite against the Episcopate of Naples the passions already so violent of Unitarianism and of the Revolution. On the other hand, fourteen Cardinals had come to pay homage to the majesty of right and wrong.

The number of young men mixed with the defenders who had been whitened in the service of the monarchy was particularly gratifying. After so long an exile, and in the midst of the temptations and seductions which are not spared, the presence and confidence of this generation, which is only just being born into public life, is a most favourable omen. Tradition is perpetuated, and hereditary devotion offers the Crown renewed phalanxes.

All the hope and all the future are there.

The Holy Father was represented by Cardinal Antonelli; the Empress Maria Anna, the godmother, was represented by Her Majesty the Empress [Elisabeth] of Austria, brilliant in beauty, grace, elegance and dignity. The procession of the princes was composed of H. M. the King of the Two Sicilies, H.R.H. the Duke and Duchess of Parma, H.I.H. and RR. the Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Tuscany, H.R.H. the Count and Countess of Caserta, the Count and Countess of Girgenti, the Duke and Duchess of Alençon, the Duke of Bari and Princess Maria Immacolata, the Count and Countess of Trapani, the Prince their son and the two Princesses their daughters, the Prince of Hohenzollern.

The altar stood in the room decorated with the magnificent paintings of Salviati.

The young princess was carried on the arms of the Duchess of San Cesario. It was a touching honour for the illustrious and courageous Grand Mistress of the Palace, whose name is inseparably linked to that of the heroine of Gaeta and who deserved to receive the medal of that forever memorable siege; it was a touching honour for her to hold before the sacred font the royal child whose birth has just thrown a lightning bolt of happiness on the fortunes she has nobly shared.

S. Cardinal Patrizi performed the ceremonies and gave the young princess the names of Christina-Pia-Maria-Anna-Elisabetha-Natalina-Ephisa. The Neapolitan nurse in the magnificent costume of the women of her country, from the mountains of Avellino, was noted with interest near the font. These national clothes had a charm and a high significance in the midst of the brilliant finery of the great ladies and the insignia of the court figures.

The princess carried the magnificent christening gown, made of white lace, a gift from three hundred Neapolitan ladies, a masterpiece of taste and a guarantee of fidelity.

After the ceremony, the procession reformed. The Empress, the King, the Princes and Princesses went to the salons. The new Christian was brought to her august mother, whose emotion was deep. The Queen, with tears in her eyes, instructed the Duchess of San Cesario to thank all the faithful Neapolitans who had given, on this occasion, proof of a devotion that survives time, trials and persecutions. The Queen's emotion was so strong that duchess had to withdraw so as not to prolong its duration.

And, in fact, nothing honours a people and touches the hearts of sovereigns like these testimonies of a constancy above all perils, all perils and all sufferings.

The King was radiant with happiness. After ten years of proscription and in the midst of the joys of fatherhood, to find near him the servants who had been the companions of his misfortunes; to see a new generation rising up in the cult of right and duty; to receive the wishes of an entire people who aspire to become free again and to reconquer their nationality and their dynasty: what a consolation, and above all what hope!

Here, then, is at last a dawn of prosperity rising over the House of Bourbon and the kingdom of Naples! It is the harbinger of an even more beautiful day; it is the sign of a forthcoming triumph of good Law and Justice.

De Riancey, Henri (1870). Lettres sur Rome (Translation done by DeepL. Please keep in mind that in a machine translation a lot of nuance may/will be lost)

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Bow Down: Women in Art

Shahidha Bari on Mary Moser and Angelica Kauffman

This episode of Jennifer Higgie’s podcast series about women in art, Bow Down, features the cultural historian, radio presenter and author of Dressed: The Secret Life of Clothes , Shahida Bari. She discusses the life and times of the two women founders of London’s Royal Academy, the trail-blazing 18th-century artists Angelica Kauffman and Mary Moser. There are many other episodes of Bow Down, although most focus on modern and contemporary artists.

LISTEN HERE : https://www.athenaartfoundation.org/listen/bow-down-shahidha-bari-on-mary-moser-and-angelica-kauffman

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A reading list

Mostly to feed my own obsession with lists, but also to be used as a book recommendations list. Enjoy!

Το καπλάνι της βιτρίνας, Άλκη Ζέη- Tiger in the glass, by Alke Zei

Παραμύθι χωρίς όνομα, Πηνελόπη Δέλτα - Fairytale without a name, by Penelope Delta

Ο Μάγκας, Πηνελόπη Δέλτα - The cool kid, by Penelope Delta

Ένα παιδί μετράει τ’ άστρα, Μενέλαος Λουντέμης - A child counts the stars, by Menelaos Loudemis

Sophie’s World, by Jostein Gaarder

The Phantom of the Opera, by Gaston Leroux

Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel Defoe

Jonathan Livingston seagull, by Richard Bach

The Catcher in the Rye, by J. D. Salinger

To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee

The orange girl, by Jostein Gaarder

Anna: a fable about the Earth’s climate and environment, by Jostein Gaarder

The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde

A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens

Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen

The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak

The Hobbit, by J. R. R. Tolkien

The Lord of the Rings (The Felowship of the Ring - Two Towers - The return of the King), by J. R. R. Tolkien

Demian, by Herman Hesse

Anna of Green Gables, by L.M. Montgomery

Anne of Avonlea, by L.M. Montgomery

Anne of the Island, by L.M. Montgomery

The ones that walk away from Omelas, by Ursula Le Guin

Howl’s Moving Castle, by Diana Wynne Jones

A wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle #1), by Ursula Le Guin

The Worlds of Chrestomanci, by Diana Wynne Jones (heptalogy: Charmed Life - The Magicians of Caprona - Witch Week - The Lives of Christopher Chant - Mixed Magics - Conrad’s Fate - The Pinhoe Egg)

Ακυβέρνητες Πολιτείες, Στρατής Τσίρκας (τριλογία: Η Λέσχη - Αριάδνη - Νυχτερίδα) - Drifitng Cities, by Stratis Tsirkas (a trilogy : The Club - Ariagne - The Bat)

Η Φόνισσα, Αλέξανδρος Παπαδιαμάντης - The Murderess, by Alexandros Papadiamantis

Emma, by Jane Austen

The Name of the Rose, by Umberto Eco

Kafka on the Shore, by Haraki Murakami

The Plague, by Albert Camus

Eroica, Κοσμάς Πολίτης (Kosmas Politis)

The Name of the Wind, by Patrick Rothfuss

Gone With the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell

The Gambler, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott 

Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy

Swann’s Way, by Marcel Proust

Wuthering Heights, by Emily Bronte

The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald

This Side of Paradise, by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Six of Crows, by Leigh Bardugo

Crooked Kingdom, by Leigh Bardugo

The Owl Service, by Alan Garner

Διακοπές στον Καύκασο, Μαρία Ιορδανίδου - Holidays in Caucasus, by Maria Iordanidou

Fire and Hemlock, by Diana Wynne Jones

A Tale of Time City, by Dianna Wynne Jones

The Pursuit of Love, by Nancy Mitford

The Princess Bride, by William Goldman

Love in a cold climate, by Nancy Mitford

The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway

The turn of the screw, by Henry James

The Dark Lord of Derkholm, by Diana Wynne Jones

The game, by Diana Wynne Jones

The last wish, by Andrzej Sapkwosky

A darker shade of magic, by V.E. Schwab

Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Auaten

Sculpting in time, by Andrei Tarkovski

Persuasion, by Jane Austen

Winter Rose, by Patricia A. McKillip

Swallows and amazons, by Arthur Ransome 

What is literature?, by Jean-Paul Sartre

Hexwood, by Diana Wynne Jones

Deep Secret, by Diana Wynne Jones

The hatred of literature, by William Marx

Year of the Griffin, by Diana Wynne Jones

Castle in the air, by Diana Wynne Jones

Home of the Gentry, by Ivan Turgeniev

Archer’s Goon, by Diana Wynne Jones

The Homeward Bounders, by Diana Wynne Jones

Wilkin’s tooth, by Diana Wynne Jones

A wizard’s guide to defensive baking, by T. Kingfisher

Equal Rites, by Terry Pratchett

The Tombs of Atuan (Earthsea Cycle #2), by Ursula Le Guin

Tehanu, (Earthsea Cycle #4), by Ursula Le Guin 

Mort, by Terry Pratchett

Μπουμπουλίνας 18, Κίττυ Αρσένη (Bouboylinas 18, by Kitty Arseni)

Ανθρωποφύλακες, Περικλής Κοροβέσης (The Method, by Pericles Korovesis)

Vita Nostra, Sergey & Marina Dyachenko

Lexicon, Max Bary

Dune, Frank Herbert

Why You Should Read Children's Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise, Katherine Rundell

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Ghost-Note - Mustard n'Onions - they've been teasing the new album for months and it is finally out today; may be the jazz-funk album of the year

Since 2014, drummer/bandleader Robert Sput Searight and percussionist Nate Werth have led an incredible collective of musicians brought together as a groove-based funk, hip-hop and jazz group which has amassed a global audience. With Mustard n’Onions -- the follow-up to 2018’s critically acclaimed Swagism -- the band brings the funk to new levels with an album of originals featuring bassist MonoNeon (Prince), keyboardist Dominique Xavier Taplin (Toto), saxophonist/arranger Sylvester “Sly5thave'' Onyejiaka and more alongside special guest keyboardist and legend Bernard Wright. Band Members: Robert Sput Searight - drums, keys Nate Werth - percussion MonoNeon - bass, rhythm guitar Peter Knudsen - guitar Dominique Xavier Taplin - keys Vaughn “VKeys” Henry - keys Sylvester “Sly5thave” Onyejiaka - bari sax, tenor sax Mike Jelani Brooks - tenor sax Jonathan Mones - alto sax, flute Danny Wytanis - trombone String Section: Sylvester “Sly5thave” Onyejiaka - conductor, arranger Carlos Roberto ​​Gándara García - violin I Israel Torres Araiza - violin II Anna Arnal Ferrer - viola Salomón Guerrero Alarcón - cello