“I feel comforted because I know that God, who orders everything for the best, however contrary it seems to us, wills it so; for I believe-and I won’t be persuaded otherwise-that no doctor, no individual, no misfortune, no accident can give a man his life or take it away, God alone can do that- onceContinue reading “RKS Literature: Letter from Mozart to Father 3July1778, Paris: Mozart Muses on Life and Death”
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RKS Literature: Letter from Mozart to Father 9July1778, Paris: Dissolute Court Musicians and a Shamefully Intoxicated Haydn
“I couldn’t help laughing at your account of Haydn’s drunkenness, -if I’d been there, I’d certainly have whispered in his ear: ADLGASSER. But it’s a disgrace that such an able man should be rendered incapable of performing his duties and only have himself to blame for it-in a post that’s in God’s honour-when the archbishopContinue reading “RKS Literature: Letter from Mozart to Father 9July1778, Paris: Dissolute Court Musicians and a Shamefully Intoxicated Haydn”
RKS Literature: Letter from Leopold Mozart to His Son 24November1777, Salzburg: No Money Then No Friends and No Credit
“A journey like this is no joke, you’ve no experience of this sort of thing, you need to have more important things on your mind than foolish games. You have to try and anticipate a hundred different things, otherwise you’ll suddenly find yourself in the shit without any money-and where you have no money you’llContinue reading “RKS Literature: Letter from Leopold Mozart to His Son 24November1777, Salzburg: No Money Then No Friends and No Credit”
RKS Literature: Letter from Mozart to Father 17October1777, Augsburg: How Mozart Deals with an Arrogant Ass
“A certain Pater Aemilian, an arrogant ass and a simpleton of his profession, was in an especially hearty mood. He kept on wanting to joke with my cousin, but she just made fun of him-finally when he was drunk (which didn’t take long), he started to talk about music. He sang a canon and IContinue reading “RKS Literature: Letter from Mozart to Father 17October1777, Augsburg: How Mozart Deals with an Arrogant Ass”
RKS Literature: Letter from Leopold Mozart to His Son 14November1777, Salzburg: What’s Necessary in Paris
“You can’t spend the whole winter travelling; and if you plan to stay anywhere, it should be in large town with lots of people where there are hopes and opportunities of earning some money: and where is such a place to be found in the whole of this region?-apart from Paris- but life in ParisContinue reading “RKS Literature: Letter from Leopold Mozart to His Son 14November1777, Salzburg: What’s Necessary in Paris”
RKS 2025 CANADIAN Wine: From the Hotbed of Canadian Pinot Noir Excellence: Okanagan Falls Stag’s Hollow Pinot Noir
Can I say I have yet to have a Pinot Noir from the Okanagan in British Columbia I haven’t enjoyed? Displaying my loyalty to this geographic area of British Columbia I often wonder why bother to spend your Canadian dollars in a Burgundian Pinot Noir hunt? Stag’s Hollow Pinot Noirs are always a treat toContinue reading “RKS 2025 CANADIAN Wine: From the Hotbed of Canadian Pinot Noir Excellence: Okanagan Falls Stag’s Hollow Pinot Noir”
RKS CANADIAN Documentary: “Under the Arbor”: An Explosion of Colour, Song, Music and Healing
A Powwow is a melding of music, song and dance at the very heart of Canadian Indigenous culture all the more significant as such expressions of indigenous culture were at one point illegal in Canada seen as heathen, immoral and Unchristian by the Canadian colonizers also responsible for the Residential School all part of anContinue reading “RKS CANADIAN Documentary: “Under the Arbor”: An Explosion of Colour, Song, Music and Healing”
RKS 2025 Canadian Documentary Film: “Goddess of Slide: The Forgotten Story of Ellen McIlwaine”
Canadian writer and director Alfonso Maiorana has crafted a notable documentary on the career of Ellen McIlwaine a brilliant vocalist and guitar player through archival footage, photographs, recreations, interviews and extensive commentary from producers and musicians. She is not unknown to me as I listened to her music in the 1970’s and early 1980’s whenContinue reading “RKS 2025 Canadian Documentary Film: “Goddess of Slide: The Forgotten Story of Ellen McIlwaine””
Spoof News Services: Canadian Play “Come from Away” Removed from Stage as a Result of Trumpgression: Sequel Planned: Markdale, Ontario: 15February2025
Squeamish Productions of Kinmount, Ontario today announced the closure of the Canadian play “Come from Away” due to “hostile audience behavior”. “Come From Away” is the maudlin production manufactured to make suburban audiences glow with warmth. It “celebrates the joy of humanity” according to Creedy Zomberg president of Squeamish Productions. Zomberg stated, “Canadian audiences booedContinue reading “Spoof News Services: Canadian Play “Come from Away” Removed from Stage as a Result of Trumpgression: Sequel Planned: Markdale, Ontario: 15February2025”
RKS 2024 Film: “Deaner’ 89”: Satire? Comedy? Socially Relevant?
Dean Murdoch (Paul Spence) known as “Deaner” finally after enduring many “shit bands” achieves stardom in 1989 and has moved into his mansion where he shares his story. Dean and his sister Jen (Star Slade) are adopted and advised of their Indigenous heritage late in their teens by their mother telling them the government toldContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Deaner’ 89”: Satire? Comedy? Socially Relevant?”
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