The greatness of people… That’s one of the reasons why I decided to dedicate myself to coaching and language training. I believe in human potential. Certainly, there are moments when you have doubts about the validity of your principles and values. People, we, are capable of many things. Some of them are good, [...]
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Sorry, this entry is only in Spanish… but you’re more than welcome if you’d like to translate it into English or any other language Sorry, this entry is only available in Español. “The fool lives poor to die rich.” – B.H. Brockes When I first arrived in Hamburg –I think it was around 1991–, I had the feeling of belonging to that Hanseatic city. It was as if I had ever been there before. For me it was also the first time I went out [...] Some four years ago, I started with an experiment on empathic listening that has led me to walk down unexpected paths. My intention was to see the effect music could have on the brain and check if you can enhance your empathic listening to people by listening to music. I must confess that [...] Cécile Chaminade (1857-1944) “I think that life has been hard on women; it has not given them opportunity…. Woman has not been considered a working force in the world and the work that her sex and conditions impose upon her has not been so adjusted as to give her a little fuller scope [...] One of the words that hast lost his traditional meaning for me — and I emphasise “for me” — is the word “miracle”, namely: an extraordinary and welcome event that is not explicable by natural or scientific laws and is therefore attributed to a divine agency. If you do not believe in the [...]
Michael Thallium One of the obstacles to know about life in the past is that we, human beings, tend to take things for granted and we think things have always been like they are and, fortunately or unfortunately, we have quite a short term memory. There are a lot of us [...] I write these lines just after spending about six hours listening to the String Quartet No. 2 by Morton Feldman (1926-1987), quite a sonic-meditative experience for me. It’s not easy to summarise six hours of mindful listening in just a few words. To be honest, for me this experienc has been a little [...]
Morton Feldman, 1926-1987 Those people who are not used to listening to Western concert music will find Morton Feldman’s String Quartets strange, awkward and hard to understand. His String Quartet No. 1 lasts roughly an hour and a half; String Quartet No. 2 lasts a bit more than six hours, which [...] |
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