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Monthly Archives: June 2018
Impressions and a Concert – part 2 – Impressions
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Filling a big space. Throughout the 20th century, (and perhaps even dating back to Napoléon) French presidents liked leaving their own architectural, urban planning, or cultural stamp on Paris as part of their legacies. For Georges Pompidou one signature he …
Impressions and a Concert
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Today I’ll begin with a one question quiz: When you think of the greatest Impressionist painters, who is the first painter that comes to mind? Have your answer? Good. Now I’m going to provide a list of seven painters and …
Perf Chat, Jazz and Sparkles – the Sparkles
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Before the Sparkles a little history. When it was built to be the entrance for the 1889 World’s Fair intended to celebrate the centennial of the 1789 Revolution, the Tour Eiffel (Eiffel Tower) was not greeted as the iconic symbol …
Perf Chat, Jazz and Sparkles – Perf Chat and Jazz
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Up to this point, we’d done nothing that differentiated this tour from any other. That changed after lunch when we shared the first of many group activities that would signify and define this trip and was a principal factor that …
A day in the Cité of mud – part 3
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Last stop before lunch – Notre Dame or more precisely Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris. So, why my insistence on precision? While it’s true that if I simply wrote Notre-Dame, the image that would come to the minds of most people …