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For the Arts & Humanities category.Musical Gem of the Week #15
27 Mar 2011 | 1 Comment »
Category(s): Arts & Humanities
Tag(s): 20th century composer, adagio for strings, adagio in g minor, albinoni, baroque, baroque music, baroque period, chamber music, classical music, italian composers, music, musical hoax, neo-baroque, neo-baroque music, organ music, remo giazotto, tomaso albinoni, venetian composers, violin music
Astronomy Picture of the Day on your Desktop
13 Mar 2011 | 2 Comments »
Category(s): Arts & Humanities, Fun, Maths & Science, Software
Tag(s): APOD, APOD wallpaper, astronomy, astronomy picture of the day, computer wallpapers, cosmos, desktop, desktop background, desktop pictures, desktop wallpaper, galaxies, moon, NASA, outer space, planets, solar system, space, stars, universe, windows, windows desktop
Musical Gem of the Week #14
02 Mar 2011 | 2 Comments »
Category(s): Arts & Humanities
Tag(s): 20th century composers, Andrés Segovia, classical guitar, classical music, concerto, Concierto de Aranjuez, Fantasia para un gentilhombre, guitar, guitar music, Joaquín Rodrigo, modern classical music, music, orcherstral music, spanish composers, spanish guitar, spanish music
Films to remember
30 Sep 2010 | No Comments »
Category(s): Arts & Humanities, Fun, Personal
Tag(s): action, action films, cinema, comedies, comedy, comedy films, drama, drama films, fantasy, fantasy films, film genres, film recommendations, films, genres, historical films, history, history films, imdb, motion pictures, movies, mystery films, recommendations, romance, romance films, sci-fi, sci-fi films, science fiction, science fiction films, suggestions, suspense films, theatre, thriller films, thrillers
Musical Gem of the Week #13
28 Aug 2010 | 1 Comment »
Category(s): Arts & Humanities
Tag(s): 20th century composers, classical music, common practice era, concerto, imperial russia, music, musical composition, piano, piano concerto, piano virtuosos, post-romantic music, post-romanticism, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, rachmaninoff, rachmaninov, recordings, romantic era, romantic period, romanticism, russia, russian, russian composers, russian empire, russian music, russian nationalism, Sergei Rachmaninov, slavic, tchaikovsky, tsardom
On Sayings and Life
07 Aug 2010 | 3 Comments »
Category(s): Arts & Humanities, Fun, Personal, Philosophy
Tag(s): addages, albert einstein, art, author, ayn rand, beethoven, benjamin franklin, carl gustav jung, carl jung, churchill, composer, dramatist, edmund burke, einstein, enemies, evelyn waugh, george bernard shaw, happiness, history, humour, imagination, john stuart mill, learning, life, love, ludwig van beethoven, madness, mark twain, math, mathematics, Maths & Science, mozart, music, novelist, oscar wilde, Philosophy, physicist, pianist, playwright, poet, politician, politics, polymath, proverbs, psychiatrist, punctuality, quotations, quotes, reson, sayings, scientist, seneca, statesman, truth, winston churchill, wisdom, wolfgang amadeus mozart, writer
“Blogging and the Blogosphere”
27 Jul 2010 | No Comments »
Category(s): Arts & Humanities, Projects
Tag(s): answers site, area 51, blog, blogging, blogging community, blogosphere, discussion forums, forums, online community, physics, question site, stack exchange, stack overflow, stackexchange, stackoverflow, writing
Musical Gem of the Week #12
02 Jun 2010 | No Comments »
Category(s): Arts & Humanities
Tag(s): classical music, common practice era, imperial russia, marche slave, marches, music, musical composition, nationalism, orchestral compositions, ottoman empire, ottomans, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, recordings, romantic era, romantic period, romanticism, russia, russian, russian composers, russian empire, russian music, russian nationalism, russo-turkish war, serbia, slavic, slavonic march, tchaikovsky, the five, the mighty handful, the nutcracker, turks
Musical Gem of the Week #11
23 May 2010 | No Comments »
Category(s): Arts & Humanities
Tag(s): bach, christian converts, classical era, classical music, classical period, common practice era, concert overture, felix mendelssohn, fingal's cave, german composers, hebrides, hebrides overture, inner hebrides, j. s. bach, jewish composers, johann sebastian bach, mendelssohn, music, musical composition, nature, overture, recordings, richard wagner, romantic era, romantic period, romanticism, scotland, staffa, wagner
Musical Gem of the Week #10
12 May 2010 | No Comments »
Category(s): Arts & Humanities
Tag(s): arias, baritone arias, classical era, classical music, classical period, common practice era, gioachino rossini, Guillaume Tell, Il barbiere di Siviglia, italian composers, italian music, italian opera, largo al factotum, music, musical composition, nicolae herlea, opera, opera buffa, recordings, romantic era, romantic period, romanticism, rossini, sonata, the barber of seville, william tell