Verdi’s almost mythical music – now 171 years old. That sort of thing lasts. How much of what Europe’s politicians decide today will stand the test of time and give happiness to people in the year 2195?
Enjoy the “spontaneous” brindisi in the midst of pizza backing, eating and loving humanity. Enjoy the community that music – and other art, too – can create like nothing else. Not the least in Italy.
“Libiamo ne’ lieti calici” (“Let’s drink from the joyful cups”) is a famous duet with chorus from Giuseppe Verdi’s La traviata (1853). More about it here.
Thanks, Emine Fougner, for posting this on Linkedin and spreading joy in the midst of all the bad news in the feeds. This is culture. This is living. And it is peace too.
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Cant help posting my own little 13-second video from the St Marco Square in Venice, Italy – Love, music, ice cream – and the ambience of Venice. A moment of joy that makes life so beautiful, also on a rainy day. Conviviality…
Oh, thank you, Jan. What a wonderful, surprising and uplifting experience with opera and ice cream when expecting serious, heart breaking news. And though Valentine day is commercial and American – music and joy – on this day – more joy.
Love Brita
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That is why beauty matters …
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In the medieval age in Europe, the troubadours travelled from place to place, singing poetry, and sometimes combatting, trying to win the favour of a much-admired local young womanĀ –Ā a combat of music and poetry, settled by the young womans choiceĀ –Ā without bloodshed or killing.
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In war the best outcome is, when a soldier and a local woman, fall in loveĀ –Ā leaving behind the war,Ā creating a family – and bringing children into the world …Ā filling up the empty battlefield with new life …
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That is why beauty matters …
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Roger Scruton, from aĀ bbc-documentary,Ā ”Ā Why beauty matters … “:
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Thank you.