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Nadia Boulanger

August 30, 2021 by sergneri Leave a Comment

From the New York Times: She Was Music’s Greatest Teacher. And Much More. A festival broadens our understanding of Nadia Boulanger, the pathbreaking composer, conductor and thinker. By William Robin July 30, 2021 Nadia Boulanger on Wikipedia

Posted in: Content, Faits Divers, Feminism Tagged: Aaron Copland, classical music, France, French, French composers, Lili Boulanger, Monteverdi, Nadia Boulanger, pedagogy, Philip Glass, Prix de Rome, Quincy Jones, Raoul Pugno, Villa Medici, Virgil Thomson

FIP

July 19, 2021 by sergneri Leave a Comment

I am reading an article in the Atlantic – “What Will Happen to My Music Library When Spotify Dies?”. I do use some music streaming services and there is one which I think is an exceptional value, because it is free. I first heard of FIP while living in Switzerland. A friend of ours who … [Read more…]

Posted in: IT Failures, Modern Music, Politics, the Anthropocene, Thinking about Tagged: Brewster Kahle, ELECTRO, FIP, France, French, GROOVE, Internet Archive, jazz, MONDE, NOUVEAUTÉS, POP, Radio France, REGGE, ROCK, Spotify, streaming, www.fip.fr

Opinion: The Man Who Predicted Nazi Germany

December 7, 2019 by sergneri Leave a Comment

John Maynard Keynes foresaw the chaos that would follow from the Versailles peace treaty.,by Jonathan Kirshner, New York Times, Dec 7, 2019.

Posted in: Faits Divers, Finanace, Politics, Thinking about Tagged: Austen Chamberlain, David Lloyd George, Europe, Fascism, France, Georges Clemenceau, Germany, John Maynard Keynes, Lloyd George, Nazi Germany, Paris Peace Conference, Prime Minister Lloyd George, United States, Versailles, Woodrow Wilson

French Snails.

March 14, 2015 by sergneri

Mariposa Gazette, 23 May 1914 Ernest Camin had on exhibition in his store this week, a quantity of live fresh water snails raised on the old Camin ranch in Cathey’s Valley. The “seed” was planted in a spring on the ranch by Mr. Camin’s father who brought them from France a number of years ago. … [Read more…]

Posted in: California History, California Newspaper Archive, Climate Change, Environment, Ethical and green living, History, Science, the Anthropocene Tagged: France, fresh water snails, invasive pest, snail farming

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