Retired. Used to manage arts organizations: orchestras, theatres and an opera company, in both Canada and the US. Working on my Italian, in part by visiting Venice once or twice a year.
Elaine Calder
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And in March 2015 the great violinist James Ehnes premiered the violin Concerto written for him by JNH.
Elaine Calder
I'm very much looking forward to reading Philip's latest Venetian mystery. Thank you @pgjonesvenice.bsky.social for not abandoning Nathan!
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Happy 75th birthday to rock musician, arranger and film score composer James Newton Howard.
From Elton John to Barbra Streisand.
PRETTY WOMAN to THE HUNGER GAMES
His career has been both long and noteworthy.
A versatile, gifted composer and musician.
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#filmsky #moviesky #musicsky #BOTD
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Elaine Calder
Looks like Georgia Meloni has learned to accompany President Mattarella in these expressions of support and sympathy - although I'm not sure who the gents are in the photo. tg24.sky.it/politica/202...
@caroline-venezia.bsky.social Now the garden at Palazzo Gradenigo is open by appointment on June 6th:
Dan Sheehan
Fifty years ago I saw a Greek film, The Hunters. I still remember, phonetically, the Greek title I Koinigi. This evening I found it online, with English subtitles, and it came rushing back to me. Visual memory is sometimes surprisingly powerful.
I'm reading The Devil in Dorsoduro by @davidhewson.com and stopped at this: "The apartment he seemed to take to." That's a sentence construction I often use, but because I live in North America I usually change it to start with "He seemed to ....." It must be left over from my childhood in England.
Of course, in 2024 the EU just filed his massive report and recommendations on a shelf to gather dust.....
Draghi speaks out again: www.politico.eu/article/mari...
