United Music of Brussels
United Music of Brussels was a day of music to launch a new season of classical music, and I heard it announced over the public transort address system.
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Reviews of books, films, exhibitions, performances etc, and my Reading Diary. Read Other Folk’s Flowers for more details or scroll down.
United Music of Brussels was a day of music to launch a new season of classical music, and I heard it announced over the public transort address system.
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The first entry in my new reading diary. An explanation, and a discussion about having books and giving books away. Also a bit about print media contra electronic.
Gifts, woods and broken roads – a review of Patrick Leigh Fermor’s trilogy of books about walking across Europe in 1933, and the allure of his story.
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Pop art illuminations in the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark, – the 85th most visited art museum in the world (says Wikipedia at the time I write this). Poul Gernes, Yayoi Kusama and others.
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There’s something in the Brussels air – among other things the spores of yeast; also the spores of art – an exhibition of art from not so thin air
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An evening of scary monsters, strange objects, and a night out at several museums which have stepped “out of their usual context” for the evening.
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It’s very dull, misty, grey and monochrome in Belgium at present so we choose to visit the Bottom Line – an exhibition of drawing – in Ghent.
This is a list of the 30 or so books that I managed to read all the way through during 2015, together with a little information about, each of them.
Pocket Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty islands I have not visited and never will by Judith Schalansky – a review and an appreciation of a fascinating book.
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A review of John Cleese’s autobiography “So, Anyway” with a particular look at what he has to say about writing, script-writing and writing comedy.
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