1957, from The Sound of Jazz
1963, Baden-Baden
1966, Oslo
Feminine aside
mosaic tile, the little black dress of the bathroom
A way of putting it that would never, ever have occurred to me. From Remodelista (which I glance through faithfully every day via email subscription), yesterday’s ‘roundup of baths with black tile flooring’.
Into the kitchen
I recommend a look at less-than-month-old blog ‘me local’. Katy’s a young woman from the little PCA church near D.C. that I attended for some years. Right out of culinary studies, she’s gone off to Dublin to get her start in fine restauranting — and she’s writing her experiences delightfully.
Young musician
Sungha Jung
Lovely recent Youtube offering by 12-year-old Korean Sungha Jung, unschooled guitar wunderkind. How I would love to meet this kid, say a word of thanks, and ask for his autograph! This strange exposure to all the web-wide world of one gifted young person’s pure devotion to discovery of music in the most common, readily shared-in fashion of our time really is something to be glad in, I think. He’s not only gifted, he seems to have become, whether he knows it or not, sort of a gift.
Anniversary
Mr Thompson likes to remember Mozart on this day (as do others), and I’m inclined to follow his example.
Cecilia Bartoli & Bryn Terfel