Musician, historian, editor, picture researcher, reflexologist. Les sons et les parfums. Also at https://xitter.cf/t.co/UOUrpb6hYM

london & rogaro di tremezzo
Joined May 2020
OPERATION MARSHMALLOW FLOOF: COMPLETE! Happy FriYAY! The floof has been fluffed, the marshmallow has been restored, and I am once again operating at maximum levels of handsome! Mom says I'm looking extra fluffy and adorable. I say it's important to maintain one's distinguished appearance, even in retirement! Now, if you'll excuse me, all this floof maintenance has exhausted me. Today is the day for for a well-earned snoozle! Stay floofy my frens!
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I’m greedy! I would count the whole of the B minor Mass as one work and take that—my Desert Island piece for the whole of my adult life! It says a lot about RVW that he would pick the ‘Cum sancto spirito’—such positive, joyous, life-affirming music! share.google/FnoYUCE8oCf1tDv…
A strong vote for Bach here from RVW! What would you save? 🤔
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Beautiful! 🐘💞🐘
What does a happy elephant sound like? Turn up the volume and find out. Elephants put the ‘happy’ in reunion. Wild herds erupt into joyous trumpets and trunk hugs when a long-absent loved one returns, and our orphans do the same. When Keeper Joseph came back from leave, Kaikai and Bungalu were beyond elated, greeting him with rumbles and trunk hugs. Both calves lost their mothers, and little Bungalu even survived a lion attack. Raised by Keepers like Joseph, they will one day reclaim their place in the wild. Discover their rescue stories and support their journeys by adopting: sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/o…
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Just watched this. What a fascinating—and at times deeply moving—documentary. So many of the defining historical moments of my life were seen though his lens. Congratulations, @JohnSimpsonNews
I’m celebrating (if that’s quite the right word) the 60th anniversary of my arrival at the BBC in 1996. Tomorrow (Tues) at 9 pm BBC Two will mark it with a documentary, which will then be available on iPlayer. It’s been made by the brilliant Simon Lister, and does me proud.
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It was a clash of the bidders in the #SothebysNewYork saleroom tonight. This Roman marble torso carved a new world record for an ancient classical sculpture sold at auction. After 14 minutes of fiery bidding, it triumphed to $34.3 million in the Magnum Opus Evening Auction. This marble torso hails from the 1st century A.D., the earliest days of the Roman Empire. With its exceptional carvings and commanding scale, the torso would have projected the supremacy of Rome to all who encountered it 2,000 years ago. The landmark evening auction saw white-glove results, with 100% of lots sold. The Magnum Opus sale series continues tomorrow with Act II: Figure & Form and Act III: Darkness & Light. Register to bid at the link in bio.
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The media coverage of the awful Aberfan disaster might also mention the incredible gesture of solidarity of the people of Aberfan, sending parcels of toys & clothes which had belonged to their dead children, to Florence when it suffered devastating floods two weeks later. #bbc
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Nansi Williams was a dinner lady at Pantglas Junior School when the slurry hit. She threw herself over the children nearest to her. Five survived. She didn’t. On 30 October a Purple Plaque will bear her name. Today we remember #Aberfan, and Nansi. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cw1m…
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Stunning playing from #SherriLun on InTune with @PetrocTrelawny I’ve heard Beethoven Op. 110 many times—her performance was special. Wish I could go to the lunchtime recital at Wigmore Hall but alas I have some work to finish… I think we’ll be hearing a lot of this young pianist
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Is this the greatest ever opening line to a last chapter? Here is 'Reader - I married him' in Charlotte Bronte's own handwriting. Charlotte received her author copies of her first published book #otd 1847. Happy Jane Eyre day!
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Domenico Ghirlandaio’s extraordinarily-delicate image of St John falling asleep at the Last Supper has fully emerged after years of painstaking restoration (details from Last Supper, Badia di Passignano, 1476)
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Station de métro Bastille. 1906. Paris 12e
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📸 Lisette Model. Lecture au bois de Boulogne 1933/38. Paris
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J’adore le chausson aux pommes…
Le chausson aux pommes. Une histoire de peste, de charité et de pâte feuilletée. Saint-Calais, dans la Sarthe. Fin XVIe ou début XVIIe, selon les versions. La peste ravage la ville. Les habitants meurent, le commerce s'effondre, la famine menace. La châtelaine distribue farine et pommes aux plus pauvres, parfois racontée poussant une brouette de porte en porte. Avec ça, les habitants préparent des pâtés aux pommes : des fruits enfermés dans une simple pâte. La ville est sauvée. Le nom vient plus tard, au XVIIIe. On glisse la compote dans la pâte comme on enfile un chausson. Pour remercier le ciel et honorer ce geste, les habitants décident de reproduire la recette chaque année. La tradition de la « Fête du Chausson aux Pommes » était née. Elle existe encore aujourd'hui, chaque premier dimanche de septembre. Ce n’est que plus tard, avec le perfectionnement de la pâte feuilletée au XVIIe et XVIIIe siècle, que la recette populaire devient le joyau des boulangeries françaises : du beurre, un feuilletage croustillant, une compote fondante et un dorage à l'œuf strié à la pointe du couteau. Une pâtisserie née de la survie, devenue un rituel du goûter.
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16 October 1938 | A Hungarian Jewish girl, Klára Boda, was born. In July 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.
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Such a loss…
Remembering one of the greatest operatic baritones of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, #DmitriHvorostovsky, on his birthday (born October 16, 1962) 🎂🎶🌹 Even after a terminal brain tumor diagnosis in 2015, he continued to perform until shortly before his death in 2017.
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🔴 Day 1,852 since the Taliban stopped secondary age girls from going to school in #Afghanistan. For more than five years, Afghan girls have been robbed of their dreams and their futures. This treatment cannot be normalised any longer. The world must wake up and condemn this injustice. You are not forgotten. #LetAfghanGirlsLearn #AfghanWomen
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I use Pastificio Cocco and Rummo for preference in dried pasta.
🇮🇹 Ranking Italian Pasta Brands 🍝
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When I meet people, I just think of myself as another human being, I don’t think about being a Buddhist, a Tibetan or the Dalai Lama, just a human being — I find it’s easier to make friends that way. And I find that a smile is a true expression of friendship.
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Le millefeuille… 😋
Le millefeuille. Trois couches de pâte feuilletée, deux de crème pâtissière, et un nom qui ment un peu. Ses origines restent floues. François Pierre de La Varenne en donne une première version dans Le Cuisinier françois de 1651. La pâte feuilletée y gagne ses lettres de noblesse. Au siècle suivant, Menon la décrit encore garnie de confitures. Marie-Antoine Carême la perfectionne au début du XIXe. Puis vient 1867. Adolphe Seugnot, confiseur au 28 rue du Bac à Paris, en fait sa spécialité. Crème pâtissière à la vanille, glaçage fondant, montage précis. Les files d’attente se forment. Le millefeuille devient parisien. Il ne contient pas mille feuillets. Six tours traditionnels de pâte en donnent 729. Certains en comptent davantage avec d’autres plis. Peu importe. Ce qui compte, c’est le contraste : le croustillant qui cède sous la fourchette, la crème tiède, le fondant qui casse net. Aujourd’hui encore, on le trouve partout. Mais le vrai se reconnaît à la netteté des couches et à la fraîcheur de la crème. Une pâtisserie qui a résisté aux modes parce qu’elle ne se laisse pas simplifier.
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On this day in 1920, women were awarded degrees from the University for the first time. 📷 | St Anne’s College
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