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Ludovico Einaudi

Music

Ludovico Einaudi
New Album, ‘In a Time Lapse’.

‘In A Time Lapse’ marks the return of Ludovico Einaudi to the stages and tours.

In stage, Einaudi will be followed by an ensemble with piano, violin, guitar, cello, percussion and live electronics.

Ludovico Einaudi

The last years have been excelent for Ludovico Einaudi, with a solid career in the whole world where his music is solding out and where  he raises aplauses and good reviews from the press.

This year, he gathered applause for the use of his music in the Soundtrack of the french movie  ‘The Untouchables’ (already talked on this Blog), a real box office success and the critics confirms the vocation that the music from the Italian composer reveals to the big screen.

Still in 2012, while in London growed the zeal for the Olympic Games, Einaudi saw another of his compositions being used in a happy campaign  of Procter & Gamble.

Another theme, ‘Nuvole Bianche’ is part in the soundtrack of the TV series Derek (2012), directed and starred by Ricky Gervais. 

Clint Eastwood chose him for the themes of his movie "J. Edgar".

Derek - Ricky Gervais

J. Edgar - Clint Eastwood

In 2010 recorded in Royal Albert Hall, having the concert being edited in a double CD + DVD documented his impressive triumph in her Majesty land. At the same time, the music he launched in  Nightbook, his last album, was used in a documentary in Channel 4 and Casey Affleck chose one of his compositions for the soundtrack of  ‘I'm Still Here’.

I'm Still Here

Restless, Ludovico has boarded in different tours, which is an amplified certificate to his work: he already performed with the master of the Kora Mali Ballaké Sissoko, and most recently with To Rococo Rot. 

Mali Ballaké Sissoko

Everyone acknowledge his extreme emotive power, the notes touched with calm and contemplation.  Maybe it is that what some of the international music critics, uses as an explanation for the fact that his music have a meaning to so many people in this agitated times.

 

His shows - that have being touring on some of the most demanding stages in all the world - are so overwhelming in the matter of how his melodies connects the deep stages of the soul. 

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Florbela Espanca

Literature

Florbela Espanca

Florbela Espanca (Vila Viçosa, Portugal, 8th of December of 1894 — Matosinhos, Portugal, 8th of December of 1930), Baptized as Flor Bela de Alma da Conceição Espanca.

Precursor of the feminine movement in Portugal, her life of only 36 years, was full, even if it were tumultuous, restless and full of intimately suffering that the author transformed in a high level of poetry, loaded with eroticization, femininity and pantheism.

In 1903, Florbela Espanca wrote her first poem that we have know, "Life and Death". 

She got married in her Birthday at 1913, with Alberto Moutinho. 

Concluded her Literacy course in 1917, signing immediately in the Law course, being the first woman to participate this course in the Lisbon University.

She suffered a spontaneous abortion in 1919, year that she would publish her "Book of Remorse".

It was on this period that Florbela starts to reveal the first symptoms of mental illness.

In 1921 splited from Alberto Moutinho, starting to face the social prejudice due to it.

In the following year she got married for the second time with António Guimarães.

The book "Soror Saudade", (no translation), is published in 1923. 

Florbela suffered another abortion and her new husband asked for divorce. 

In 1925 got married for the third time with Mário Laje. 

Her brother's death, Apeles (in a plain crash), shakes her deeply and inspires her to write "Masks from Destiny".

She tried suicide for 2 times, one in October and then in November of 1930, on the eve of the publishing of her master piece, "Charneca em Flor". 

After being diagnosed with pulmonary edema, she suicides in her birthday, 8th of December of 1930, using a highly dose of  Veronal (Barbital). 

"Charneca em Flor" was published in January of 1931.

Miss you

Miss you! Yes... maybe... and why not?...
If our dream was so high ans strong
How i thought that I saw him till death
Dazzle my heart with the light!

Forget! For what?... Ah! how is vain!
That all of this, Love, don't mind us.
If he left beauty that comfort
Must be as sacred as bread!

How many times, Love, I forgot you,
To madly I remember,
More madly I remember you!

I wish I was always like this:
Lesser I wanted to remember
More the missing was stuck in me!

                     Florbela Espanca

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