Donna Greenberg

Jazz singer-songwriter, lyricist, choreographer, ballet teacher, director of Ballet Espressivo

[Donna Greenberg @DonnaGreenberg]

@Donna Greenberg vocals @Mark Kieswetter piano
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[Benjamin Netanyahu - בנימין נתניהו @netanyahu]

The attempt by Iran’s proxy Hezbollah to assassinate me and my wife today was a grave mistake.

This will not deter me or the State of Israel from continuing our just war against our enemies in order to secure our future.

I say to Iran and its proxies in its axis of evil:

Anyone who tries to harm Israel’s citizens will pay a heavy price.

We will continue to eliminate the terrorists and those who dispatch them.

We will bring our hostages home from Gaza.

And we will return our citizens who live on our Northern border safely to their homes.

Israel is determined to achieve all our war objectives and change the security reality in our region for generations to come.

Together, we will fight,
and with God's help –
together, we will win.

[Donna Greenberg @DonnaGreenberg]

Dancing Makes Us Smarter – Here’s How! https://t.co/9iyKfOVcNK

[Janet Horvath @playinglesshurt]

Good morning and a #quoteoftheday from legendary pianist Glenn Gould. #music #wonder #serenity

[BabelColour @StuartHumphryes]

A haunting gaze from 109 years ago, as the Great War raged acorss Europe, this anonymous Italian lady stares impassively into your soul from 1915. She was photographed by the physics lecturer at Sapienza university, Dr Ludwik Silberstein. This enhanced autochrome was taken in colour and isn't colourised.

[BabelColour @StuartHumphryes]

I don't know why this 114-year-old autochrome shouts "Monty Python" at me quite so loudly, but this rather surreal depiction of the Sphinx was photographed in colour in 1910 by Dr. W. Simon. It is not colourised.

[BabelColour @StuartHumphryes]

A rather striking, cleaned-up and digitally enhanced photo of London's Fleet Street in 1894, courtesy of yours truly.

[BabelColour @StuartHumphryes]

Travel back 110 years to Bavaria in 1912 & this remarkable & perfectly colour-balanced autochrome by Auguste Leon. He has matched the shawl & copperwear perfectly with the window frames & shutters to produce an amazingly cohesive effect. It is original colour (not colourised).

[BabelColour @StuartHumphryes]

Thank you for your patience this week, as I've battled computer issues: Here's an enhanced autochrome of a veteran match seller, seated by the Masonry Museum in Canterbury, taken by Clifton Royal Adams in 1928.
It was taken in colour and isn't colourised. 😍

[BabelColour @StuartHumphryes]

Let me transport you back 103 years to July 1921. I've spruced-up this autochrome portrait of a young lad at Campan, in Hautes-Pyrenees, SW France, shortly after the Great War. It was taken in colour by Fernand Culville and is not colourised.

[Donna Greenberg @DonnaGreenberg]

Play music by Donna Greenberg - https://t.co/A9o0g0MdLL

[Music and the Holocaust @holocaust_music]

Martin Spanjaard (born #OTD in 1892) studied violin, music theory, piano and composition. In the interwar period he was regularly invited to conduct the Vienna Philharmonic and the Berlin Philharmonic. In 1942 he and his wife were murdered in Auschwitz.
https://t.co/8PCSBKz7e7

[Steven Isserlis @StevenIsserlis]

On my way home after 4 weeks in the US - a highlight of which was playing Fauré in every recital/chamber concert. Playing the piano quintets (new to both of them) with @JoshuaBellMusic and @jeremydenk, and watching them fall in love with the music, was a thrill. Fauré - a genius!

[Steven Isserlis @StevenIsserlis]

Edward Hopper, b otd 1882, on art:
"The great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a record of their emotions.”
"Maybe I am not very human; what I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.”

[Steven Isserlis @StevenIsserlis]

Wisdom from Isaac Bashevis Singer (d otd 1991):
“I believe in God but people are liars. It's those people who say they are appointed by God in whom I don't believe.”
“Kindness, I’ve discovered, is everything in life.”
“We have to believe in free will. We've got no choice.”

[Steven Isserlis @StevenIsserlis]

Memorable words from Samuel Taylor Coleridge (d otd 1834):
“I have seen gross intolerance shown in support of tolerance.”
“No mind is thoroughly well-organised that is deficient in a sense of humour.”
“Prose: words in their best order; poetry: the best words in the best order.”

[Steven Isserlis @StevenIsserlis]

Happy 83rd to Riccardo Muti! On conducting:
A conductor should guide rather than command.
Nobility of spirit has more to do with simplicity than ostentation, wisdom rather than wealth, commitment rather than ambition.
You have to be able to enthral and persuade at the same time.

[Steven Isserlis @StevenIsserlis]

Almost too sad to mark the death otd in 1856 of Robert Schumann. One of the saddest ends in music - alone, emaciated, almost unrecognisable. Perhaps the only comfort is that at times in his earlier life he experienced, and expressed in music, such overwhelming joy and beauty.

[Steven Isserlis @StevenIsserlis]

Wisdom and warnings from Emily Bronte (b otd 1818): "The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them." “Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.”

[Steven Isserlis @StevenIsserlis]

Curious that JS Bach and Antonio Vivaldi both d otd (1750, 1741). So different - one so often showing us a higher world, the other as often celebrating this one. But both would have agreed:
"The aim of all music should be the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul." (Bach)

[Anthony Princiotti @tonyprinciotti]

In 2000, the 66 year-old Abbado was diagnosed with stomach cancer. The treatment was radical; most of his stomach was removed. But he returned to form the Lucerne Festival Orchestra in 2003. Their performances of the works of Mahler remain memorable:

https://t.co/UAEA3J3rXd