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March 4, 2021
Corona Virus isolation ~ Day 353: Alstroemeria & orzo soup
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photo by Styrous®
orzo pasta with cream
prepared by Tom White
photo by Styrous®
Orzo (/ˈɔːrzoʊ, ˈɔːrtsoʊ/, Italian: [ˈɔrdzo]; from Italian for ''barley'', from Latin hordeum), also known as risoni (pronounced [riˈzoːni]; 'large [grains of] rice'), is a form of short-cut pasta, shaped like a large grain of rice. Orzo is traditionally made from white flour, but it can also be made of whole grain.
The name orzo is common for this pasta shape in North America, and less common in Italy; the Italian word orzo means barley.
There are many different ways to serve orzo. Orzo can be served alone; in soup, especially for children; as part of a salad, a pilaf, or giouvetsi; or baked in a casserole. Orzo can be colored by saffron, chilies, and black beans to yield yellow, orange or black pasta.
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December 31, 2020
20,000 vinyl LPs 263: Guy Lombardo ~ Auld Lang Syne & New Year's Eve in 2020
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Guy Lombardo ~ New Year's Eve
vinyl LP front cover detail
cover photo photographer unknown
detail photo of album cover by Styrous®
Auld Lang Syne has been recorded a gazillion times by many artists ranging from this traditional version by Guy Lombardo to a punk rock version in 1980 by the English group The Boys who recorded it under the name, The Yobs (link below).
They start the song out pretty straight but it's like they just can't get it
right until the fourth try and by then it is pretty raucous, with
chimes, even!!!
vinyl LP front cover
cover photo photographer unknown
photo of album cover by Styrous®In the Gregorian calendar, New Year's Eve (also known as Old Year's Day or Saint Sylvester's Day in many countries), the last day of the year, is on 31 December. In many countries, New Year's Eve is celebrated at evening parties, where many people dance, eat, drink, and watch or light fireworks. Some Christians attend a watchnight service. The celebrations generally go on past midnight into New Year's Day, 1 January.
The Line Islands (part of Kiribati) and Tonga, are examples of the first places to welcome the New Year, while Baker Island (an uninhabited atoll part of the United States Minor Outlying Islands) and American Samoa are among the last.
Music associated with New Year's Eve comes in both classical and popular genres, and there are Christmas songs that focus on the arrival of a new year during the Christmas and holiday season (link below), such as the afore mentioned Auld Lang Syne which was written by Scottish poet and lyricist, Robert Burns.
Side 1:
A1 - The Music Goes 'Round And Around,Vocals – Kenny Gardner (2). written by Edward Farley, Michael Riley (3), Red Hodgson - 2:05
A2 - Bye Bye Blues, Vocals – Lombardo Trio. written by Bert Lown, Chauncey Gray, Dave Bennett*, Fred F. Hamm* - 2:10
Medley
Vocals – Kenny Gardner (2 - (3:00)
A3a = Shine On Harvest Moon. written by Nora Bayes, Jack Norworth
A3b - My Gal Sal. written by Paul Dresser
A3c - Seems Like Old Times. written by Carmen Lombardo, John Jacob Loeb
A4 - Beer Barrel Polka (Roll Out The Barrel). written by Jaromir Vejvoda*, Lew Brown, W. A. Timm* - 2:12
Medley
Vocals – Lombardo Trio - (2:09)
A5a - The Band Played On. written by John F. Palmer*, Charles B. Ward*
A5b - Meet Me In St. Louis, Louis. written by Kerry Mills, Andrew B. Sterling*
A6 - Auld Lang Syne (Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot). written by Robert Burns (4) - 2:30
Side 2:
B1 - Happy Days Are Here Again. written by Jack Yellen, Milton Ager - 2:11
B2 - When You're Smiling (The Whole World Smiles With You), Vocals – Lombardo Trio. written by Joe Goodwin, Larry Shay, Mark Fisher (3) - 1:50
Medley - (2:30)
B3a - I'll Get By (As Long As I Have You). written by Fred E. Ahlert, Roy Turk
B3b - It's Been A Long Long Time. written by Jule Styne, Sammy Cahn
B3c - That Old Gang Of Mine. written by Ray Henderson, Billy Rose, Mort Dixon
B4 - Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home
Vocals – Lombardo Quintet*. written by Hughie Cannon - 2:11
B5 - I Want A Girl (Just Like The Girl Who Married Dear Old Dad)
Vocals – Lombardo Quartet*. written by Harry Von Tilzer, William Dillon - 2:02
Medley
Vocals – Lombardo Quartet*. written by Maurie Hartmann*, Milt Gabler - (1:48)
B6a - (Lift Your Glass) Sing Until The Cows Come Home
B6b - Hail, Hail The Gang's All Here
B6c - Hot Time In The Old Town Tonight
B7 - Show Me The Way To Go Home, Vocals – Kenny Gardner (2), Lombardo Trio. written by Irving King - 2:06
Companies, etc.
• Copyright (c) – MCA Records, Inc.
• Manufactured By – MCA Records, Inc.
Notes:
©1973 MCA Records, Inc.
Barcode and Other Identifiers
• Matrix / Runout (Side 1, Printed): 7-8210
• Matrix / Runout (Side 1, Etched): MG-7-8210-W1
• Matrix / Runout (Side 2, Printed): 7-8211
• Matrix / Runout (Side 2, Etched): 21
• Matrix / Runout (Side 2, Stamped): 7 8211 7
Label: MCA Records – MCA-15000
Format: Vinyl, LP
Country: US
Released: 1973
Genre: Pop
Style:
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The Yobs ~ Auld Lang Syne
December 25, 2020
78 RPMs 8: Fred Waring & The Pennsylvanians ~ A Visit From St. Nicholas
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Tracklist:
side 1:
A - A Visit From St. Nicholas ('Twas The Night Before Christmas) Part 1 - 3:27
side 2:
B - A Visit From St. Nicholas ('Twas The Night Before Christmas) Part 2 - 3:12
Companies, etc.
Record Company – Decca Records, Inc.
Credits:
Illustration – Vander Noot
Fred Waring & The Pennsylvanians – A Visit From St. Nicholas ('Twas The Night Before Christmas)
Label: Decca – DU 88023, Decca – C.U.S. 16
Format: Vinyl, 10", 78 RPM
Country: US
Released: 1949
Genre: Pop, Children's
Style: Story, Choral, Vocal
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Christmas stuff(ings)
Clement Clarke Moore
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Illustration – Vander Noot
A Visit from St. Nicholas, more commonly known as The Night Before Christmas and 'Twas the Night Before Christmas from its first line, is a poem first published anonymously in 1823 and later attributed to Clement Clarke Moore, who claimed authorship in 1837.
1912 edition of the poem
illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith
The poem (link below) has been called "arguably the best-known verses ever written by an American" and is largely responsible for some of the conceptions of Santa Claus from the mid-nineteenth century to today.
A Visit from St. Nicholas was first published on Dec. 23, 1823 in the Troy Sentinel newspaper in upstate New York.
It has had a massive effect on the history of Christmas gift-giving. Before the poem gained wide popularity, American ideas had varied considerably about Saint Nicholas and other Christmastide visitors. A Visit from St. Nicholas eventually was set to music and has been recorded by many artists.
Various celebrities along with Charles, Prince of Wales & Dame Judi Dench produced a video of a reading of the poem (link below). The video was created to benefit the Actors’ Benevolent Fund, which Prince Charles has supported for over 20 years. The charity supports and stage managers displaced by injury, illness, old age or financial hardship during the coronavirus pandemic.
Prince Charles tested positive for the coronavirus in March and self-isolated for a week in Scotland with mild COVID-19 symptoms. He later told Sky News he was lucky to have “got away with it quite lightly."
Prince Charles tested positive for the coronavirus in March and self-isolated for a week in Scotland with mild COVID-19 symptoms. He later told Sky News he was lucky to have “got away with it quite lightly."
Tracklist:
side 1:
A - A Visit From St. Nicholas ('Twas The Night Before Christmas) Part 1 - 3:27
side 2:
B - A Visit From St. Nicholas ('Twas The Night Before Christmas) Part 2 - 3:12
Companies, etc.
Record Company – Decca Records, Inc.
Credits:
Illustration – Vander Noot
Fred Waring & The Pennsylvanians – A Visit From St. Nicholas ('Twas The Night Before Christmas)
Label: Decca – DU 88023, Decca – C.U.S. 16
Format: Vinyl, 10", 78 RPM
Country: US
Released: 1949
Genre: Pop, Children's
Style: Story, Choral, Vocal
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Christmas stuff(ings)
Clement Clarke Moore
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Prince Charles & Judi Dench ~ ‘Twas The Night Before Christmas
'Twas the night before Christmas . . .
~ Clement Clarke Moore
Styrous® ~ Christmas, Friday, December 25, 2020
December 24, 2020
Corona Virus isolation ~ Day 283: Christmas Eve roses & berries
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Isis
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A rose is a woody perennial flowering plant of the genus Rosa, in the family Rosaceae, or the flower it bears. There are over three hundred species and tens of thousands of cultivars. They form a group of plants that can be erect shrubs, climbing, or trailing, with stems that are often armed with sharp prickles.
The name rose comes from French, itself from Latin rosa, which was perhaps borrowed from Oscan, from Greek ρόδον rhódon (Aeolic βρόδον wródon), itself borrowed from Old Persian wrd- (wurdi), related to Avestan varəδa, Sogdian ward, Parthian wâr.
The cultural history of the rose has led to it being used often as a symbol. In ancient Greece, the rose was closely associated with the goddess Aphrodite. In the Iliad, Aphrodite protects the body of Hector using the "immortal oil of the rose" and the archaic Greek lyric poet Ibycus praises a beautiful youth saying that Aphrodite nursed him "among rose blossoms". The second-century AD Greek travel writer Pausanias associates the rose with the story of Adonis
and states that the rose is red because Aphrodite wounded herself on
one of its thorns and stained the flower red with her blood.
Book Eleven of the ancient Roman novel The Golden Ass by Apuleius contains a scene in which the goddess Isis, who is identified with Venus, instructs the main character, Lucius, who has been transformed into a donkey,
to eat rose petals from a crown of roses worn by a priest as part of a
religious procession in order to regain his humanity.
fifteenth or fourteenth century BCE
Following the Christianization of the Roman Empire, the rose became identified with the Virgin Mary.
The color of the rose and the number of roses received has symbolic
representation. The rose symbol eventually led to the creation of the rosary and other devotional prayers in Christianity.
The Wars of the Roses were a series of English civil wars for control of the throne of England fought between supporters of two rival cadet branches of the royal House of Plantagenet: the House of Lancaster, represented by a red rose, and the House of York, represented by a white rose. Eventually, the wars eliminated the male lines of both families.
Roses are a favored subject in art and appear in portraits,
illustrations, on stamps, as ornaments or as architectural elements. Henri Fantin-Latour
was also a prolific painter of still life, particularly flowers
including roses. The rose 'Fantin-Latour' was named after the artist. Other impressionists including Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne and Pierre-Auguste Renoir have paintings of roses among their works.
In 1908, Henry Albert Payne was commissioned to produce a wall painting for the decoration of the Palace of Westminster. His work, Plucking the Red and White Roses in the Old Temple Gardens, is an allegory on the Wars of the Roses and now hangs in the Palace's East Corridor.
"Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose." was written by Gertrude Stein as part of the 1913 poem Sacred Emily, which appeared in the 1922 book Geography and Plays. In that poem, the first "Rose" is the name of a person.
Christmas Eve in other languages:
Arabic - ليلة عيد الميلاد
Catalan - Nit de Nadal
Chinese - 平安夜
Dutch - kerstavond
French - Réveillon de Noël
German - Heiligabend
Greek - παραμονή Χριστουγέννων
Hawaiian - Mele Kalikimaka
Hebrew - ערב חג המולד
Irish - Oíche Nollag
Japanese - クリスマス・イブ or Kurisumasu ibu
Korean = 크리스마스 이브
Norweigen - Julaften
Persian - شب کریسمس
Polish - Wigilia
Portuguese - Véspera de Natal
Russian - канун Рождества
Spanish - Nochebuena
Turkish - Noel arifesi
Ukranian - Святвечір
Zulu - usuku ngaphambi kukakhisimusi
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Gertrude Stein
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Tom White
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Taste of Home ~ 75 Christmas Eve Dinner Ideas
Time & Date ~Christmas Eve in the United States
Styrous® ~ Thursday, December 24, 2020
Styrous®
Tom White
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Taste of Home ~ 75 Christmas Eve Dinner Ideas
Time & Date ~Christmas Eve in the United States
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Kelly Clarkson ~ Christmas Eve (Official Audio)
Céline Dion ~ Christmas Eve (Official Audio)
Yamashita Tatsuro ~ Christmas Eve
Trans-Siberian Orchestra - Christmas Eve / Sarajevo
"A rose by any other name would smell as sweet," Juliet.
~ William Shakespeare
Styrous® ~ Thursday, December 24, 2020
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December 21, 2020
Tracey Snelling ~ Lost Year Motel: 2020 & COVID-19
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Wood, plaster, paint, metal, lights, fabric, lcd screens,
media players, electroluminescent wire, water, speakers, transformer.
Our hometown gal and Jingletown based resident, Tracey Snelling has done it again! She won the New York based Foundwork Artist Prize, an annual juried award to recognize outstanding practice by contemporary artists. As honoree, she will receive an unrestricted USD 10,000 grant and studio visits with each of the distinguished curators, gallerists, and artists on Foundwork’s 2020 jury.
Although it's never stated, I've no doubt Lost Year Motel references the horrid pandemic that has destroyed so many lives this year and revealed the inadequacies of our government, COVID-19!
The jury for the 2020 Foundwork Artist Prize included esteemed curators, gallerists, and artists based in Berlin, Omaha, Los Angeles, Tulsa, and Mexico City:
Rachel Adams, Chief Curator and Director of Programs, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts
Anat Ebgi, Owner and Director, Anat Ebgi Gallery
Natasha Ginwala, Artistic Director, 13th Gwangju Biennale; Associate Curator, Gropius Bau
Kalup Linzy, performance and video artist
Humberto Moro Deputy Director and Senior Curator, El Museo Tamayo; Adjunct Curator, SCAD Museum of Art
Michael Ruiz, Founder and Managing Director, Future Gallery
Foundwork was established by Adam Yokell, a former Brooklyn gallerist, after experiencing the limitations that artists and exhibitors face trying to find and connect with one another. Foundwork currently features artists in more than thirty countries, including self-taught artists together with those from academic studio backgrounds.
Foundwork hosts programs including their Guest Curators program, ‘Dialogues’ interview series and the Foundwork Artist Prize.
Foundwork hosts programs including their Guest Curators program, ‘Dialogues’ interview series and the Foundwork Artist Prize.
Her work Lost Year Motel was presented for the first time in Verona, Italy, in the spaces of the Studio la Città on the occasion of the exhibition La Musée 2, which ended on 21 November 2020.
Foundwork statement:
“We’re thrilled to honor Tracey Snelling, whose practice has the capacity to connect with many communities around the world, and speaks about the turbulence of urban anxiety and the extenuating living conditions experimented by many,” says juror Humberto Moro. “In the midst of an art world which is increasingly sanitized, it’s fundamental to highlight the practices—like Snelling’s—that deal with these subjects from a generous and empathic point of view.”
“Tracey makes us reconsider the relationship between identity and place—the way we so often project narratives onto one another based on the environments we’re used to,” says Adam Yokell, Foundwork’s Director. “We’re thrilled to help propel her socially resonant work during these polarized times.”
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Art Agenda ~ Tracey Snelling awarded 2020 Foundwork Artist Prize
Berlin Art Link ~ Tracey Snelling Awarded 2020 Foundwork Art Prize
Contemporary Art Daily ~ Tracey Snelling Awarded Foundwork Artist Prize
Studio La Città ~ Tracey Snelling – Foundwork Artist Prize 2020 Terremoto ~ 2020 Foundwork Artist Prize has been awarded!
Way to go, Tracey!
November 24, 2020
Corona Virus isolation ~ Day 253: For Ruth
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Styrous® ~ For Ruth
November 23, 2020
Our hearts and love are with you, our dear friend;
heal quickly, rest well and return to us in splendor!
September 22, 2020
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