HAPPY LEAP DAY!! As I was looking through my calendar, I saw that this year is a Leap Year. And it just so happens that it falls on my normal blogging day. So I thought I’d look around and see if there were any fun customs or legends about Leap Year. I picked a couple […]
O Mio Babbino Caro – Music Inspiration Mondays
Italy. A country filled with passion. And that passion floods their beautiful music. Today I bring you a very popular and very lovely aria, O Mio Babbino Caro, from the opera Gianni Schicchi by the famed composer Giacomo Puccini. The opera takes place in Florence – one of my favorite cities in Italy. This aria […]
Ma Vlast – Vltava – Music Inspiration Monday
Ma Vlast (My Homeland) is a set of six symphonic poems written by Bedřich Smetana. Smetana was a Czech composer whose music so embodied his people that he is considered the father of Czech music. He wrote this set of music as a tribute to his homeland. Each one of the pieces refers to either a […]
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