Thoughts :)

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Listen to Leonardo da Vinci's 500-year-old piano-cello hybrid

A musical instrument that was devised by the Italian luminary Leonardo da Vinci over 500 years ago has been constructed and played in Poland for the first time.

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The Chopin Piano Concerti:

The soloist:

The Orchestra:

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Without music, life would be a mistake.

Nietzsche

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Here’s a little bit of love from our favorite composers! ;)

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The Chopin Piano Concerti:

The soloist:

The Orchestra:

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Art is not just entertainment. Art is something terribly essential, terribly important. It communicates to you something eternal, and when it doesn’t, then it’s entertainment.

Ashkenazy

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When I make music it is so heavenly. I am in love with music. Actually when I play music, I make love - it is the same thing.

Rubinstein

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Benedict Cumberbatch's greatest ever impressions

From an Alan Rickman rap-off to a Chewbacca impression that had Harrison Ford gawping, is there anything Cumbers can't do?

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ROARR!

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Happy Friday! Ok, it’s from the 1540s Room, not the 1840s Room at Tate Britain, but this dancing Portrait of Captain Thomas Lee makes us smile. 

Thanks http://danielpardini.tumblr.com

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Benedict Cumberbatch's head photoshopped onto things

The Internet has taken Benedict Cumberbatch’s head and attached it to different things. See the “Sherlock” star as never before in these photos.

This is terrifying...

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Star Trek Neutron Cream prank featuring the marvellous Benedict Cumberbatch

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I maintain music is not here to make us forget about life. It's also here to teach us about life: the fact that everything starts and ends, the fact that every sound is in danger of disappearing, the fact that everything is connected - the fact that we live and we die.

Daniel Barenboim

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Every work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity

Daniel Barenboim

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What a fantastic scene it was between Benedict and Martin, Sherlock and John.

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Getting ready for the day

Normal people

Students

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Two great contemporary British actors...this is wonderful in so many ways haha.