Happy 250th Birthday to Beethoven
“Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.” —Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827) Baptized […]
“Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.” —Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827) Baptized […]
“All had expected something great, something of angelic power and beauty and when a feebly-pretty idealess thing of bronze was revealed the revulsion of feeling was painful. The figure resembles […]
“Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have immortal longings in me.” —“Antony and Cleopatra:” Act V, Scene II Did the author of those lines, William Shakespeare (1564–1616), […]
“A woman is like a tea bag—you can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.” —Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) In honor of International Women’s Day, March […]
“I have seen two beautiful works of art rise in this city in honor of Columbus. One has been erected by the Italian residents of New York, and is the […]
The Veteran Corps “commemorated the memory of their comrades who fell in the Civil War with appropriate exercises… The monument was almost hidden from sight by wreaths and flowers, as […]
“From forth the fatal loins of these two foes A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life, Whose misadventured piteous overthrows Doth with their death bury their parents’ strife.” —the […]
Imagine there’s no countries It isn’t hard to do Nothing to kill or die for And no religion too Imagine all the people Living life in peace. —from Imagine by […]
“Curiouser and curiouser!” —Alice’s cry of wonder wandering in Wonderland, from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (1832–1898) This year Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, the beloved story for children […]
“The bits and pieces of history that chronicle the four-generation saga of the Vanderbilt Family are scattered everywhere like a broken string of pearls …” —from 1989’s Fortune’s Children by […]