Maira Kalman

Dec 5, 2024 | airmail.news | Jim Kelly |James Chappel |Maira Kalman

Every Valley: The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times That Made Handel’s Messiah by Charles King You do not have to be able to carry a tune to take part in the chorus for Handel’s Messiah, as countless sing-alongs around the world this time of year prove. It may well be, as Charles King writes, “the greatest piece of participatory art ever created,” but almost as miraculous as the composition itself is the way it was created.

Oct 15, 2024 | lithub.com | Maira Kalman

My sister Kika was born a blue baby. It was 1945 and she had pneumonia. Article continues after advertisementPenicillin had just been invented by Jonas Salk, who later married Françoise Gilot, who had been the lover of Picasso for ten years and had two children with him, Paloma and Claude. At any rate, the way that Picasso and Françoise met was this. He was at a café in Paris with his then lover, Dora Maar.

Aug 31, 2024 | hadassahmagazine.org | Elizabeth Rosner |Yehoshua November |Maira Kalman |André Aciman

Email Print Third Ear: Reflections on the Art and Science of ListeningBy Elizabeth Rosner (Counterpoint)In this work of scientific inquiry, observation and memoir told in brief takes, novelist and poet Elizabeth Rosner tunes her attention to the soundscape of life. The idea of deep listening, she explains, is the sonic version of reading between the lines and listening with heart and empathy.

Jan 19, 2024 | emissourian.com | Jeanette Winter |Maira Kalman |Deborah Hopkinson

Yeah, Buzzers and Buzzettes! Fabulous reviews flooded the hive this month. Newsbee wishes he could feature more here. He’d like to encourage you to keep “Paging On,” and perhaps you’ll see your review in print next month. Thanks, teachers and parents, for encouraging your young readers. “Henri’s Scissors,”By Jeanette Winter. Reviewed by Mrs. Kluesner’s first-grade class, Central Elementary School. “The boy saw his mom paint, and he really wanted to paint also. So he drew in his schoolbooks.

Dec 6, 2023 | ted.com | Maira Kalman

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