Pour détourner mon attention des tristes actualités dans ce monde, je lève mes yeux pour [...]
Jacques took my picture Monday while at the Louvre. He says he enjoys shooting pictures [...]
Oh my, how I love this city. A dear friend and colleague will be coming [...]
Visit yesterday to Cognacq-Jay, always a pleasure… « Boucher est un de ces hommes qui [...]
I couldn’t wait to get back and see the final results. With the possibility to [...]
More Battistini. It was a joy to share the photos of the book launch for [...]
Utter calm this morning. 65° in January (18+ C), and this has been going on [...]
Long live Battistini! Remembering on this day – as every day – the immortal Mattia [...]
Dad’s first new car was a 1963 Chevrolet Biscayne, custom built and to be shipped [...]
The « Starfighter, » an oriental pink/red tropical lily “Smell is a potent wizard that [...]
“The willing suspension of disbelief,” * un terme exquis et parfaitement à propos – que [...]
RIP Carol Channing, “Just lucky I guess” Over the years, ‘Just lucky I guess’ has [...]
Le 6 janvier, Fête de l’Épiphanie, fête de la galette ! Chaque année arrivent dans [...]
To be able to give a hug to a loved one, a beloved parent, well [...]
As a High School boy in Pavilion, New York, I acted in and did the [...]
Musée d’Orsay. New lighting, new ‘accrochage’ (hanging of the paintings). An obligatory morning visit to [...]
“…And Beauty is a form of Genius – is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it [...]
Cérémonie devant l’Arc de Triomphe : 11h45. Il pleut légèrement. Le ‘Boléro’ de Ravel, joué [...]
Happy Birthday, Joan Sutherland (But wait, every day is a celebration thanks to you !) [...]
« J’ai toujours compté sur la gentillesse des étrangers. »* Que des inconnus puissent devenir [...]
As they say, “La nuit, tous les chats sont gris.” [...]
Lorna Cooke deVaron, Jan. 17, 1921- Oct. 6, 2018 The New England Conservatory of Music [...]
It was a brisk late-September evening exactly 40 years ago, after a month spent studying [...]
Parmi les trésors musicaux que me fit écouter Serge (voir ma publication il y a [...]
The week-end guest of Serge Cheze in Estang Glorious to discover this small village named [...]
It’s a pleasure to share this divine interpretation, provided to me by longtime friend and [...]
I hear it all the time: “If you haven’t used it in six months, throw [...]
“I would like to paint happiness”– wrote the painter Cross who settled in the Var [...]
“Japanese lanterns” were always a recognizable first sign of the end of Summer, and our [...]
“Nostalgia is not what it used to be” (Simone Signoret) Like most of us, I [...]
