Laurent Gendre leads the Ensemble Orlando Fribourg, choir and orchestra, featuring Lucy De Butts, soprano, Valerio Contaldo, tenor, Lisandro Abadie, bass ...
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AN UNCOMMON THOUGHT
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- Rob Firchau
- "A man should stir himself with poetry, stand firm in ritual, and complete himself in music." -Gary Snyder
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Spitzweg, The Bookworm, 1850
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van Eyck, Portrait of a Man in a Red Turban
"The Poet is the Priest of The Invisible." Wallace Stevens
Atget, Notre-Dame de Paris, 1923
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"Technique is the proof of your seriousness." Wallace Stevens
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W.B. Yeats
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