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Composer: Gustaf Düben (1624 - 1690)

Work: Allamanda - Courante - Saraband [A suite for strings from the Düben Collection] (year unknown)

Performer: Corona Artis

[ahtutticontenti]

can we talk about how the impressionists dealt with each other

when debussy accused erik satie’s pieces of having no form, satie turned around and wrote this

three pieces in the form of a pear

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Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.

Lisa See, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (via wordsnquotes)

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Composer: Giovanni Legrenzi (1626 - 1690)

Work: Sonata “La Foscari” from Sonate a due e tre (1655)

Performer: Pallade Musica

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Some people will never fit into your life, no matter how much you want them to.

Unknown (via fy-perspectives)

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[theverge]

How did Dr. Dana Newman go from being the only shoe-shine in Helena, Montana to running NASA? 

She told us the whole story, and it’s incredible.

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[rollingstone]

See trippy and surreal photos from this year’s Burning Man.

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Listen to a lot of music. Listen to a lot of music. Whatever music you like to listen to, listen to it.

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Through others we become ourselves.

Lev S. Vygotsky (via fy-perspectives)

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Composer: Ian Clarke (* 1964)

Work: Zoom Tube for solo flute (1999)

Performer: Daniela Mars

As requested by soyouwanttoplaytheflute (who is the perfomer of this recording. How cool is that!)

[wearevanity]

One with the Ocean ©

[wordsnquotes]

I have my own soul. My own spark of divine fire.

George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion & My Fair Lady (via wordsnquotes)

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Michelle Obama returns home to the South Side of Chicago to give a commencement speech at King College Prep High School.

Read more of her speech here