Wasn't it Aristotle that thunk: 'every great thought has already been thunk suffice to think it again' ? ) (the Capita robot detector is interested in that algorithm;) un Googled;ble ..or, Aristotle wrote (imbibing himself a wee bit more..have a holiday...) Well: he DID and made biological discoveries way ahead of his time...)
posting a couple of songs, for no real reason (except listening to loads of Châteauneuf-du-Pape 'plinkety-plonk' as fab as it gets ...) (anyone for Sir Simon Rattle and Dutilleux?) and then there's Bowie...lordy lordy: one forgets the Beaux Ameriques Song Book:
I Have Dreamed Something Wonderful
a (the) song sung my someone who was someone before they became someone (as an e.g.) ......
R.I.P Alan Rickman an interview a little chaos and a lot of l ove
This Tortoise Could Save a Life
A couple of exciting musical encounters (no reason except they were encountered..). Composer Erkki-Sven Tüür and conductor Paavo Järvi met at Estonian music school and both were deep into ‘art rock’ music.
Vítězslav Novák knew that the new was the Czech way forward but often struggled quelle surprise with rejection and thence depression. He wrote some gorgeous music even if a little in the romantic tradition.
