Category Archive: Music
Birds on a Wire
A pretty musical piece, price by Brazilian artist Jarbas Agnelli, was created when he saw this photo of birds in a local newspaper and created a song based on the exact position of the birds on their wire perches. I think…
J’arrive
Just before I left Paris for good several years ago I discovered Camille, the French singer who has Edith Piaf‘s bravado and the quirkiness of Bjork. I sang her song about quitting Paris to myself a lot back then. Now,…
The Highest Notes
What I’ve always hoped to find in Milan, during many, many fashion weeks here, are traces of the glamorous Maria Callas, who took to the grand La Scala stage in the mid-1950s, and took the city by storm. Sometimes, seeing…
Season of the Crickets
Now is the time, according to Japanese connaiseurs, when the suzumushi cricket sings at its sweetest, in the autumn, just before it dies. I write about these insect musicians in the Encyclopedia of the Exquisite, but I couldn’t give you…
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