For the Soul

Last night, I shed a million tears watching the  “Nuovo Cinema Paradiso”.

I watched the movie at home and enjoyed it dearly. Somewhere in me, I wish I could have seen it on the big screen when it first came out, and someday, I intent to watch it in a threatre keen on re-playing the classics of our time.

How is it that I do not even remember the movie being in Italiano, a language I adore but do not yet understand? I must have been reading the subtitles to follow along. Nonetheless, I could not have been more connected to this story if it were happening in my own living room. But it happens far away, in a small Sicilian village many moons ago. In a world where luck and fortune have not set foot to bless a small Italian boy, he finds solace and curiosity and escape from reality in cinema.   [Read more…] about Movie Review – The Timeless “Nuovo Cinema Paradiso”

The Charlotte Symphony at Belk Theater was playing Schumann’s Piano Concerto in A Minor and Dvorak’s Symphony No. 8 in G Major on October 3rd, 2008. The conductor was the remarkable Andrew Grams and the pianist was the talented Ingrid Fliter.  This was not my first symphony.  Or my second. My husband’s passion for classical music extends beyond playing lovely pieces on the piano or tuning into the classical channel at home.  In 2003,  I sat through London Symphony’s Beethoven, Symphonies No.4 and No.5 and Piano Concerto No.1, some of the world’s most well-known music. Even then, in one of the world’s premier concert halls, the music still did not penetrate through me as it did during this concert in Charlotte.

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