CLASSICAL CONCERTS

If you have never been in a classical concert and you love music, I strongly recommend you to do it one day. Even if you are not a big fan of classical music, the unique experience of watching a full orchestra performing is just brilliant! I enjoy seeing every instrument playing its part in such a big group of sounds -it really changes the perspective of music- and the conductor who guides every musician by his arms and movements in order to perform a perfect harmony.

I have chosen my top three classical pieces which I have enjoyed the most seeing them in live:

-Carmina Burana by Carl Off.

-Bolero by Ravel.

-Four Season: Spring by Vivaldi.

I feel really lucky because I can enjoy classical concerts every now and then, and since my first one I thought that a classical concert is one of the most beautiful experiences in life. Enjoy!

MYSTERIOUS ARTIST

Once upon a time in Edinburgh there was a mysterious artist who loves literature. This artist created pieces of art by carving from paper and constructing amazing sculptures with the leaves of books. This anonymous artist left different pieces of his/her work in various museums and libraries around Edinburgh. The artist always left a tag with a message defending literature:

“We know that a library is so much more than a building full of books… a book is so much more than pages full of words.… This is for you in support of libraries, books, words, ideas…”

I believe that many artists do not want to be famous but art is a strange term that needs to be exposed and seen by others, what is art without recognition? Of course there are many real artists who will live and die without being known by anyone, and of course it is still art. But in my opinion art must be shared and expose, then people like me can enjoy and admire their skills and creations.

This particular mysterious artist living in Scotland has demonstrated that you could attract audience and have a full city expecting your new creation without the need of showing up.

BEBO & CIGALA

Bebo Valdes -an octogenarian Cuban piano master- and Diego El Cigala -a Spanish flamenco cantador- collaborated  with Fernando Trueba -a Spanish film director- to release Lagrimas Negras(2002).

What a beautiful feeling is seeing two styles of art blending together! These two artists joined their talents in order to create a beautiful piece of music; nine tracks worthy to listen from the beginning to the end in one go. I enjoy very much when two different worlds are combined in a perfect way. I agree that most of the times the beauty is inside the mixture even if the purity of things is the most fascinating fact ever.

SNOW WHITE

The nominations for the Oscar 2013 are out!! I found some satisfying surprises as the nominations for Tarantino‘s and Haneke's movies, Adele's song or Robert de Niro; and other not quite good for example the fact that the Spanish movie Blancanieves did not have a nomination for Best Foreign Language Film.

I have not had the pleasure to see the abstract version of the famous story by Pablo Berger, but just seeing the trailer and reading the reviews I cannot wait to see it in a big screen.

There had been three movies based on the German fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm in 2012: Mirror Mirror, Snow White and the Huntsman and Blancanieves; each of them with a different style. I have a special feeling with the Disney version of Snow White mainly because it was my first VHS tape I purchased and I remember watching it loads of times.

To end this post just to mention that the nominations for the Spanish film awards called Goyas are also out and Blancanieves has 18 nominations. I imagine it will win more than one but to tell you the truth the simple fact of doing a silent movie in the 21^st century (like The Artist) deserves more than just awards. 

THE FIRST FILM OF THE YEAR

I have started 2013 with good energy, loads of positive thoughts and watching High Noon. Rarely this classic western with Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly has been my first movie of the year. Although I like watching good classics and some of my favourite movies are westerns, I do not consider myself a huge fan of the genre. One thing is for sure, any film lovers must have seen at least those westerns:  Wild Bunch - Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid - The Good, The Bad and The Ugly - Once upon at the time in west – Unforgiven (and probably many others I cannot remember right now)

High Noon is a black and white movie filmed on real time which gives a special touch to the picture. The audience goes with the characters one hour and thirty minutes before noon and from the first shoot you get hooked on the story of revenge, past and present.

THE SONG

Sometimes is hard to cope with all the information that gets into our heads. We have access, in my opinion, to too many information; and my questions are: is it necessary? is the information the real truth? could many people be happier without all this information? These questions are just the beginning of a long discussion! But I really do not want to talk about negative things; completely the opposite, I want to talk about these moments in life when your mind is just full of this information and suddenly that special song plays in your MP3. The song which will always make you smile and forget about all the problems in the world. My song is without doubt Here comes the Sun written by The Beatle George Harrison. Close the eyes and enjoy!

Feel free to tell which one is your song:

PAUL NEWMAN

 

There is not much to say... THE GREAT  PAUL NEWMAN!! SIMPLY IRRESISTIBLE!