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Yayoi Kusama 1929 - 2026

Dedicated to Arthur Rimbaud, 1988, mixed media, 13 x 9 x 6 in., courtesy Michael Rosenfeld

 

I am obligated to do another Sílvia Pérez Cruz post because she spoke up for Cuba last Friday at the Hollywood Bowl at Gustavo Dudamel's last concert as LA Philharmonic director, and then on Sunday performed a free concert by candlelight in the 17th century Iglesia de San Francisco El Nuevo in Havana.  In LA she performed two songs: Pequeño Vals Vienés and the Venezuelan classic Tonada de Luna Llena by Simón Díaz ("Yo vide una garza moro/ Dándole combate a un río").

The Sílvia song I seem to listen to most frequently is her Cucurrucucú paloma, 

 

the Mexican song written in 1954 by Tomás Méndez for Pedro Infante to serenade in the 1955 comedy School for Tramps, then performed by Lola Beltrán in the movie named after the song,

 

and also performed by Caetano Veloso, Lila Downs, Natalia Lafourcade, and many others, imitating the call of the mourning dove.

Sliman Mansour 1947 - 2026

Alleys of Al-Quds, 2009

 

8/24/2026, Water treatment facility, Sheikh Radwan, Gaza City, Saeeed Jaras, Anadolu Agency

8/24/2026, Shati refugee camp, Gaza City, Saeed Jaras

 

 

 

Sole la muerte, 1936

The 90th anniversary of Lorca's murder shall be amongst other things an excuse to upload two covers of Leonard Cohen's adaptation of Pequeño vals vienés..

In Vienna there are four mirrors
in which your mouth and the echoes play.
There is a death for piano
that paints the little boys blue.
There are beggars on the roof.
There are fresh garlands of tears.
Aye, ay, ay,ay!
Take this waltz that dies in my arms. 

 Morente, born in Lorca's home town..

Sílvia of Palafrugell, who's touring now..