In the shadow of the Revolution, love and loyalty collide.

La Flagelación de Cristo, Caravaggio, 1607.

Bartolomé Esteban Murillo - Magdalena penitente 1640

Simonetta Vespucci by Sandro Botticelli

#Caravaggio “Cena en Emaus”

JUST SAYIN’ 🤷‍♀️

"I'd rather see my face aging than a face that doesn't belong to me at all" - cameron Diaz

Arcangelo Corelli - "Adagio" dal Concerto grosso op.6 n.8 https://t.co/cl97my0XqC via @YouTube

Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage - 1965 Featuring Hancock with tenor saxophonist George Coleman, trumpeter Freddie Hubbard, bassist Ron Carter and drummer Tony Williams, it is a concept album.

The Lord's Supper replaced the passover meal.

“I'd like to point out to people the divine in a musical language that transcends words. I want to speak to their souls.” — John Coltrane #jazz #art #quote

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.5 - Maurizio Pollini, Karl Böhm, Wiener Ph... https://t.co/IkWSjx86PN via @YouTube

It's a beautiful morning in Appalachia.

Classical music is for more than just entertainment, or audience amusement. Higher arts have higher purposes. 👇🏻more below

#listeningjustnow Brahms Symphony 1 Celibidache Munich Phil Sonorous sostenuto, fine allegro.Beautiful,measured andante sostenuto.Allegretto without haste, lovely dove-tailing, gathers pace. Precision adagio. Bold allegro to conclude. https://t.co/ge5RnA6X9U

The solution is to create better and more appealing new music for our age, and ditch the modernist mindset garbage.

Celebrating Rachmaninoff's birthday with Ashkenazy: "He speaks to me very clearly and his unparalleled generous expression is very essential and insightful to me. He was not only extraordinarily professional but also extremely serious, eloquent and substantial." @PrestoMusicCom

In a 1949 letter, C.S. Lewis said of Jane Austen, "Her books have only 2 faults and both are damnable. They are too few and too short." In the latest episode of @Mythic_Mind Movies, we discuss the 1995 adaptation of Persuasion, and I share some of Lewis's book analysis Links⬇️

Khatia Buniatishvili - Liszt/Horowitz: Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2 (ENCORE)✨🎶

“I feel like a ghost wandering in a world grown alien. I cannot cast out the old way of writing and I cannot acquire the new. I have made an intense effort to feel the musical manner of today, but it will not come to me.” ― Sergei Rachmaninoff

What was Bach thinking when he composed the Badinerie?