For many years Fred Hersch has been an inspired interpreter of two of the greatest songbooks – Thelonious Monk’s and Tom (Antonio Carlos) Jobim’s. On his new album Fred does right by both. He also covers someone whose songbook I long have loathed…
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One of the world’s more remarkable sculpture parks is in a former school’s grounds, near a frayed little city in Hokkaido.
Comments closed(a): One of America’s great philanthropic dynasties.
(b) The initial author and a prime beneficiary of the epidemic. (the epidemic of opioid addiction. Purdue Pharma – the Sacklers’ family company – developed and agressively marketed OxyContin, which they misrepresented as a “safe” painkiller)
Comments closedAt high tide the waters of Perth’s Swan-Canning Estuary can cover 55 square kilometres – a surface area just a whisker larger than Sydney Harbour. Point Walter is where the Swan “turns the corner”, then suddenly gets much narrower and deeper.
One CommentAccording to the first such detailed study/guesstimate, a relative newcomer to our ancient land kills more than one million Australian birds, each day.
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I was born in the middle of the sea…
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Third and final consecutive post on Two Peoples Bay – best viewed after the first pair.
Comments closedThis post’s featured image was taken within the same second as yesterday’s – at 5.18 pm on Friday September 22, 2017.
On a “wintry” Spring day much changes within a few minutes.
All photos in this post were taken in one seven minute “window”, whilst standing on Little Beach, looking across Two Peoples Bay towards Mount Manypeaks.
2 CommentsMore detail in tomorrow’s post; today’s monochrome and tomorrow’s colour picture both taken at 5.18 pm on Friday September 22, 2017.
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