Acuarelas Musicales

En el Japón el arte se empapa de realidad circundante. Se siente el mar, el viento, la brisa, el arroyo, el cerezo, el crisantemo, la Vía Láctea como elemento de una naturaleza cercana y a través de los Hai-kais y de los Wakas se compenetra el japonés de la belleza del paisaje Íntimo.La música, la poesía, la escultura, la arquitectura, la estampa y la cerámica, tienen la delicadeza de lo natural y cada una de ellas reproducen los ruidos, los movimientos, las palpitaciones de la própia naturaleza.-Adalberto García de Mendoza

In his latest book, Greil Marcus, arguably the most influential music critic of all time, offers his most impassioned and intense essay yet. Steering clear of official history--encyclopedia entries, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductions, classic success stories--Marcus brings to the forefront 10 essential songs that, for their influence and how they have resonated throughout the decades, have surpassed a milestone of pop music. This book includes brief biographies of the songs' writers and performers and captures the essence of each pop entry--everlasting yet at the same time fleeting....

Saving veterans and their families from months of phone calls and internet searches, Veterans Benefits For Dummies outlines the various programs that the VA and other government agencies have in place as well as the procedures for filing applications, claims, and appeals for these benefits which include: ∗ Health care ∗ Ongoing care for wounded and disabled vets ∗ Education assistance ∗ Vocational rehabilitation ∗ Life insurance ∗ Home loan guarantees ∗ Pensions ∗ Survivors′ benefits ∗ Burial benefits

Junto a las cuestiones más estrictamente musicales los problemas fundamentales de composición e interpretación de la música contemporánea en las Conversaciones con IGOR STRAVINSKY ocupan un lugar central los recuerdos de su juventud en Rusia y su aprendizaje con Rimsky-Korsakov, su colaboración con el Ballet Ruso de Diaghilev y su relación con poetas, pintores y otros músicos. El libro presenta, además, documentos de indudable valor testimonial: cartas de Diaghilev, Debussy, Ravel, Valéry, Gide y W. H. Auden, así como el primer esbozo de la ópera The Rake1s Progress. Al hilo de...

In this book, twenty-four scholars investigate the relationship between music and dictatorship in twentieth-century Europe and Latin America. The music is explored as a political phenomenon in fifteen nations under totalitarian regimes: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, France, Greece, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Serbia, Spain, and Hungary. Historical and aesthetical articles face both individual people (for instance, Chavez, Ligeti, Massarani or Villa-Lobos) as well whole generations of composers operating under dictatorship (for example, in the communist regimes of...