Tag Archives: Music

1913: As One Universe Differs from Another

Posted on September 30, 2017 by corvusfugit

Proust’s corrections to a proof of Swann’s Way (1913) When, after that first evening at the Verdurins’, he had had the little phrase played over to him again, and had sought to disentangle from his confused impressions how it was … Continue reading →

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1927: Dancing on the Bauhaus Roof

Posted on September 30, 2017 by corvusfugit

T. Lux Feininger: [Charleston on the Bauhaus Roof] (1927); the dancer is Xanti Schawinsky and Clemens Röseler is playing the banjo.

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1628: Still Life with Books and a Violin

Posted on September 24, 2017 by corvusfugit

Jan Davidszoon de Heem: Still Life with Books and a Violin (1628)

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1975: Space Ace

Posted on September 8, 2017 by corvusfugit

Waring Abbot: Ace Frehley (1975)

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1947: Mister

Posted on August 23, 2017 by corvusfugit

William Gottlieb: Portrait of Billie Holiday and Mister, Downbeat, New York, NY (ca. Feb. 1947) (source)

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2016: Adrift

Posted on August 22, 2017 by corvusfugit

Sam Yeats: Adrift (2016)

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1962: You’ll Lose a Good Thing

Posted on August 19, 2017 by corvusfugit

Bruce Davidson: Chicago, 1962. I like to think this is playing on the jukebox.

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1965: Portrait with Horns

Posted on July 30, 2017 by corvusfugit

Tom Morris: Portrait of Billy Eckstine (1965) (source) Billy Eckstine was a jazz singer and bandleader of the swing era; listen to his 1951 hit “I Apologize” here.

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1966: Bring Me My Robe

Posted on July 25, 2017 by corvusfugit

Louis Mélançon: Leontyne Price as Cleopatra in Samuel Barber’s Antony and Cleopatra (1966)

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1895: Kaikkialla ääni kaikuu

Posted on July 23, 2017 by corvusfugit

Beda Stjernschantz: Everywhere A Voice Invites Us… (1895)

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