Central Park Zoo
Central Park Zoo
The spirit of the modern culture
As always, Portugal is spreading its intimate scent to western civilization and its unbelievable history. The Portuguese launched to sea, not without knowing, but without letting anybody know they were doing it, following their intuition on other horizons. It happened when Europe had tried the limits of a life model of practically 1000 years.
The magical world of Maurice Ravel
Even after 100 hundred years have passed since his birth, Maurice Ravel continues to be considered one of the great innovators of musical expression. His works with their sound and brilliance appeal both to audiences and great musicians.
Literature, Museums and Arts
Catherine Lim (21 March 1942), writer that Gina Wisker, Professor of contemporary literature, has been called as part of the “women writers emerging”, arising from post-colonial areas in regions of the world in Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, Australia and Africa continents. They are women who write about women, in the tone of a new genre in a new culture of post-colonial subjectivity. Their wit passes to be made cultural policy in defense of the existence and the cultural development which opposes cultural politicians planning, questioning the intercultural harmony imposed a sordid normally, renewing old prejudices of the authoritarian Patriarch.
Lee Kuan Yew
Author of the transformation of an underdeveloped colony to a vanguardist country of the world
A glorious musical anniversary Richard Strauss
Strauss’s career as a composer ended as it had begun, with the writing of music, classical in structure Romantic in feeling,warm in pleasing melodies and gracious with conventional harmonies. After listening to his earliest and last works, it becomes difficult to remember that between these two periods Strauss produced works that shocked and outraged the world and made him one of the most provocative musical figures.
Cannes 2014
More known than the one from Berlin, Venecia or San Sebastian, it’s the Cannes Film Festival, which from its begginings in the decade of 1930, the French Coast has been awarding the world’s cinema elite. Between some of the most important names we can mention people like Orson Welles, Ingmar Bergman, Luis Buñuel, Federico Fellini, François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese.
Enigmatic Russia: Notes on art, aesthetics and culture
Linguists and archaeologists agree that the period of the V to X centuries is the expansion of the Slavs and the existence of the protoslavic language. Linguistic reminiscences stored roots of provided voices of the German (Gothic) and the Iranian (Sarmatian). The sarmatae (or Scythians). Slavic derives from the protoslavic, has meanings like “God”, “Holy” and “paradise”. Human groups were established in small towns and cities built of wood and in temporary tents, scattered over the territory of the peninsula in which Ukraine and Poland are established, near the coast of the Atlantic Ocean between the Baltic Sea and the Black Sea and the mouths of the five rivers, rich in black caviar which attracted the ancient Greeks
Fedor Dostoievski
The name Dostoevsky has ties to St. Petersburg. It is the city where he lived most of his life and developed as a writer. St. Petersburg became a character in his novels: no other city on the face of the earth has acquired such an appearance as this city, with the Dostoevskian portrayal of “intentional” and “crazy”. Here Dostoevsky’s novels were created: Poor people, Insulted and Injured, Crime and Punishment, The Idiot and The teenager, scenarios in which the city itself became the true hero of his writings.
Five Powerful Russians
The negative reaction to the music of Richard Wagner was reflected in several ways,including the Impressionism of Debussy and the Expresionism of Arnold Schoenberg. It also was welcomed in the National movement that appeared in Russia amongst the group of musicians called The Mighty Handfull. Inspired by the examples of Glinka, and Dargomizhsky; composers Balakirev,Borodin, Moussorgsky, Cui and Rimsky-Korsakov, did not accept that their music was a reflexión of other countries,specially Germany. In their misión to communicate individuality they arrived to a style that had deep roots in the Russian language and true folklore. They created a type of music that cannot be mistaken for any other country. In next generations the influence of the Mighty Five is felt in the superior Works of Piotr Ilich Tchaikovsky, Serge Rachmaninoff and also Dmitri Shostakovich.