Guitarrista Marta Pereira da Costa inicia digressão pelos Estados Unidos

San José, Califónia, 07 mar (Lusa) -- A guitarrista Marta Pereira da Costa, distinguida pela Fundação Amália Rodrigues com o Prémio Melhor Instrumentista, em 2014, inicia hoje, em San José, na Califórnia, uma digressão pelos Estados Unidos, que passa pelo Festival SXSW South by Southwest.

Nesta digressão, que começa hoje na Igreja Portuguesa das Sete Chagas, em San José, Califórnia, a guitarrista vai apresentar temas do álbum de estreia a solo, editado em outbro de 2016, "assim como alguns inéditos compostos em nome próprio", segundo comunicado da sua promotora.

De San José, Marta Pereira da Costa segue para Washington, onde atua na sexta-feira, na embaixada de Portugal, e no dia seguinte na Sala Millennium, do John F. Kennedy Performing Arts Center.

Cante alentejano para a pianista norte-americana Pauline Yang

‘The Canary Warnings’ by Rhonda Ratray

‘The Canary Warnings’ by Rhonda Ratray

On August 20, 2018, in Latest News, by The Somerville Times

SMC Art Exhibit

The Canary Warnings are a series of paintings inspired by the practice of keeping a canary in a coal mine as an early warning system for miners. When the bird dies the air will soon be too toxic for humans as well. The canary serves a kind of guardian, like a life force monitor. This series considers a myriad of possibilities about the ways in which one could be warned of tragedies or other dangerous situations.  It is my hope that the viewer will “read” and interpret the Canary much like reading tea leaves or deciphering a Rorschach test.

Exhibit runs through September 13, 2018
Somerville Media Center – SMC
90 Union Square, Somerville, Massachusetts 02143

Samantha Fish

Samantha Fish

SAD BUT TRUE by STEVE'N'SEAGULLS (LIVE)

Thunderstruck by Steve'n'Seagulls

New York Guitar Festival

Leyla McCalla'

Leyla McCalla

Madeira Film Festival

Madeira Film Festival

Assista ao Madeira Film Festival, que promete despertar consciências para a preservação ecológica dos recursos naturais.

Este festival exibe filmes independentes, curtas-metragens e documentários que têm por tema a natureza e tem lugar na Madeira, onde se encontra a maior reserva mundial de floresta laurissilva do planeta, uma verdadeira “relíquia viva” que a UNESCO inscreveu na lista de Património Mundial.

Trata-se de um evento que se reveste de um carácter exclusivo, inovador e internacional, garantido pela forte ligação ao Reino Unido e ao mercado americano, neste último caso resultado das parcerias estabelecidas com alguns festivais de cinema de renome. O Madeira Film Festival beneficia ainda do prestígio do local onde se realiza – o Hotel Reid’s Palace - associado à marca “Orient-Express”. O prémio “Laurissilva” será entregue aos melhores filmes selecionados por um júri internacional reconhecido.


Data de Início:
17 Abril 2017

Data de fim:
23 Abril 2017

Contactos
Hotel Reid's Palace, Funchal

The Classic Spanish Timbrado Association

Canário Timbrado Espanhol, Campeões Nacionais 2013 USA

MIAMI - FLORIDA -SPANISH TIMBRADO SONG COMPETITION

Internamento de Josh Hartnett deveu-se a água contaminada

Josh Hartnett explicou que as dores que o levaram a ser internado durante uma semana, foram causadas depois de beber água contaminada. «Agora está tudo bem», garantiu o actor.

«Só tive algumas dores de estômago, mas já passou, não é nada de preocupante», declarou o protagonista de «30 Dias de Escuridão», acrescentando que foi «ao hospital e foi, literalmente, uma coisa de 24 horas», mas ficou «tão desidratado» que necessitou de soro.
As declarações contradizem o que disse o próprio porta-voz de Josh à imprensa, quando adiantou que o galã já tinha antecedentes de um problema gastrointestinal.
No final do ano passado, foi confirmada a continuação de «30 Dias de Escuridão», protagonizado pelo actor, já confirmado também na sequela.

O filme passa-se numa pequena cidade do Alasca, onde o sol não aparece durante um mês.
Neste inóspito cenário, surge uma força maligna, que espalha terror entre os moradores locais, que tentam sobreviver até que o sol volte a brilhar novamente. O actor é também conhecido pelos seus papéis em «O Renascer do Campeão», o seu mais recente trabalho, «A Dália Negra», «O Apartamento» ou ainda, no início da carreira, «40 Dias e 40 Noites.

Diário Digital

The bird at sea

The Bird at Sea.Written by Mrs. Hemans. Composed by C. Meineke.Baltimore: John Cole & Son, n.d.

Biologist: Birds competing for airspace with planes

(CNN) -- The problem of planes hitting birds comes down to a key fact: "We're competing for airspace," says Richard Dolbeer, a biologist who spent 20 years studying the problem at the U.S. Department of Agriculture

Populations of large birds have increased dramatically since the 1970s, when environmental regulations were instituted in the United States. Birds have become more accustomed to living in urban environments near airports and the number of airline flights has risen sharply, according to Dolbeer.
Dolbeer, who retired in September 2008 and is now a consultant on the issue, spoke with CNN hours after a US Airways plane crash-landed in the Hudson River in New York after an apparent bird strike. He retired as National Coordinator for the Airport Wildlife Hazards Program and was chairperson of Bird Strike Committee-USA from 1997-2008.

Joana Carneiro nomeada directora musical da Berkeley Symphony

A maestrina Joana Carneiro foi nomeada Directora Musical da Berkeley Symphony, iniciando funções na temporada 2009-2010.

Joana Carneiro irá dirigir a orquestra, de acordo com quatro programas no UC Berkeley Zellerbach Hall, a terem início no dia 15 de Outubro de 2009, para além de dirigir estreias mundiais na série de concertos Under Construction, da Berkeley Symphony. Joana Carneiro sucede, assim, ao californiano Kent Nagano, que conquistou o estatuto internacional durante o seu mandato de três décadas na orquestra, tendo sido o terceiro director musical na história da Berkeley Symphony

Playing For Change: Peace Through Music

PlayingForChange

*****Playing For Change: Peace Through Music", comes the first of many "songs around the world" being released independently.

*****Canario Timbrado Español

John James Audubon

John James Audubon (April 26, 1785 – January 27, 1851) was an American ornithologist, naturalist, hunter, and painter. He painted, catalogued, and described the birds of North America.

he worked as a naturalist and taxidermist at a museum, Audubon with his gun, paintbox, and assistant Joseph Mason, traveled south on the Mississippi. He had made the commitment to himself to find and paint all the birds of North America for eventual publication.

His goal was to surpass the earlier ornithological work of poet-naturalist Alexander Wilson, who by coincidence had tried to solicit Audubon for a subscription in 1810. At that time, Audubon denied to Wilson that he had the same ambition. Though he couldn't afford it, Audubon used Wilson's work to guide him when he had access to a copy.
Audubon moved on to New Orleans in the spring of 1821 and lived for a time at 706 Barracks Street. That summer, he moved upriver to the Oakley Plantation in the Felicianas to teach drawing to Eliza Pirrie, the young daughter of the owners.

The job was ideal, though low paying, letting him spend much of his time roaming and painting in the woods. (The plantation, located at 11788 Highway 965, between Jackson and St. Francisville, is now Audubon State Historic Site. He was now calling his future work Birds of America. He attempted to paint one page each day. As he painted voraciously with newly discovered technique, he realized that his earlier paintings were of inferior quality and he re-did them. He also hired hunters to gather specimens for him. Audubon also came to realize that the ambitious project would take him away from his family for months at a time as he crossed the continent.
As he roved to nearby towns, Audubon also made charcoal portraits on demand at $5 each and gave drawing lessons.

He took lessons in oil painting technique in 1823 from John Steen, previously a teacher of American landscape and history painter Thomas Cole. Though he didn't employ oils very much for his bird work, Audubon did some lucrative oil portraits for patrons along the Mississippi. Fortunately, Lucy became the steady breadwinner for the couple and their two young sons. Trained as a teacher, she conducted classes for children out of her home, and later became a local teacher and took up residence, with her children, with a wealthy plantation owner in Louisiana.
Audubon returned to Philadelphia in 1824 to seek a publisher for his bird drawings. Though he made the acquaintance of Thomas Sully, one of the most famous portrait painters of the time and a valuable ally, but was rebuffed, in part because he had earned the enmity of some of the city's leading scientists at the Academy of Natural Sciences. He did take oil painting lessons from Sully and met Charles Bonaparte, who admired his work and recommended that he go to Europe to have his bird drawings engraved.

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Harold Washington, one of Chicago's most outstanding and beloved mayors, was also a posthumous hero to the Hyde Park parakeets. From a penthouse overlooking the small neighborhood, he watched the birds from his balcony as they nested and fed in what is now called Harold Washington Park. He was the inspiration for the Harold Washington Memorial Parakeet Defense Trust Fund that thwarted the city's plans to remove the birds in 1988. It was often joked that the body guards outside his penthouse were their to protect the parakeets and not him. Too bad we can't say that today.

Brooklyn Parrots MTV

Listen just a click :Ballad of the Brooklyn Parrots (Full-Motion Version)
Englishman in New York
Steve Baldwin's definitive March 2008 version of the classic "Ballad of the Brooklyn Parrots" matches the song lyrics to live full-motion clips of Brooklyn's favorite wild QuakerParrots.

Brooklyn Parrots MTV