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Background, context, and transcript highlights here: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/08/06/andy-warhol-bbc-interview-edward-lucie-smith/

Andy Warhol BBC interview (1981)

The legendary graphic designer discusses his new primer for kids, GO: A Kidd's Guide to Graphic Design: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/10/22/chip-kidd-go-book

Excerpted from https://soundcloud.com/designmatters

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Berlinermesse was performed and recorded in Storkyrkan sept 24, 2015.

Cello: Filip Graden
Viola: Vidar Andersson Meilink
Organ: Andrew Canning

Photo: Arvo Pärt and Gary Graden 2016.
Photographer: Staffan Engwall.

Berlinermesse Veni Sancte Spiritus

Background, transcript, and related reading: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2014/03/28/angela-duckworth-grit-success/

Excerpt from NPR's TED Radio Hour: http://www.npr.org/programs/ted-radio-hour/?showDate=2014-03-21

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Wolves have always been fascinating creatures that spark admiration and fear at the same time. They are known for their fierce personality, but they also symbolize intuition, loyalty, and intelligence.
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Single from the "Estonia" next album by Richard Theisen being release in 2023.

GOLDENWULF

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Clandestine Worlds

Here is a bonus track which I made available for free for my newsletters friends last month. It's an alternate version of my "Still travelling" song, included in my latest "Fragments Found" album. I hope you will enjoy it! 

Still Travelling (Live)

A Winter's Song - a delicate waltz to celebrate the beauty of winter.

Immerse yourself in a serene winter wonderland with Valeska and the River’s latest piano composition. Transporting listeners to the most tranquil moments of winter, where the world hushes into untroubled calmness, Valeska and the River’s composition captures the ephemeral magic when snow blankets the landscape, momentarily concealing the stresses of life. As the delicate piano notes gently cascade, a mesmerizing string arrangement beckons the audience to embark on a melancholic dance through a snowy forest—a waltz with nature itself. This evocative musical journey is more than just a composition; it's an enchanting escape into the heart of a peaceful winter sanctuary."

Written, performed and produced by Valeska Rautenberg
Mixed by Thomas Lemmer
Mastered by Ramin Tehrani

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A winter's Song

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A beautiful orchestral piece with a lot of choir! Testing out the free Ivy Audio Clare Solo for some of the vocals: http://ivyaudio.com/ClareSolo

An Ancient Sky

Aurora
Iceland is very close to the earth’s northern pole, and you can often see the Northern Lights there, weather and cloud cover permitting.  This song is about seeing the Aurora on one clear but windy night during our visit.

Iceland

Aurora

De profundis (Out of the deep) is a choral composition by Arvo Pärt. He wrote the work in 1980, a setting of Psalm 130 in Latin for a four-part men's choir, percussion (ad. lib.) and organ. It was first performed at the Martinskirche, Kassel on 25 April 1981, conducted by Klaus Martin Ziegler. Pärt dedicated the work of around 7 minutes to Gottfried von Einem.   Pärt composed the work a year after he left Estonia for first Vienna and then Berlin. He set Psalm 130 in Latin, a text speaking of profound distress which has inspired composers through the centuries, from polyphonic settings by Josquin des Prez to use in an opera of the 21st century by Lera Auerbach. Pärt composed the work in his personal tintinnabuli style, using simple means of expression. He scored it for a four-part men's choir (TTBB), percussion (ad lib.) and organ.  De profundis is in one movement, set for a male choir in four parts, organ and percussion. The optional percussion might be bass drum, tam-tam and a single tubular bell. The organ provides in deep registers a slow continuous ostinato pattern. Pärt built the voices from simple melodic phrases, increasing gradually to a climax. They begin in low register, rising and reaching a passage of unison of the four parts, before returning to silence, marked by a final sound of a bell.

Arvo Pärt: De Profundis, The Gents olv Peter Dijkstra

Music by Fabrizio Paterlini

Fabrizio plays the piano

Violin: Eugenio Gargiola
Viola: Jessica Orlandi
Cello: Silvia Dal Paos



Darkness is not the opposite of light

2013 SVA Commencement Address. 

Transcript, highlights, and discussion: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/05/13/greil-marcus-sva-commencement-address/

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