The Global Search for Education: Play it Again Spirio
May16

The Global Search for Education: Play it Again Spirio

Play it Again Spirio Many experts say it could be as soon as 30 years when machines will be capable of doing almost any job that a human can. Globally honored musician Leonard Cohen once wrote, “Music is the emotional life of most people.” Music is a universal language; the poetry of the soul. We experience this when we listen to a live concert pianist’s fingers glide over the 88 keys of a Steinway piano; when we see...

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Alice Through My Looking Glass
May05

Alice Through My Looking Glass

5 Years later, it is once again time for a little madness….. It’s just over 5 years since my daughter and I (on the heels of Tim Burton’s 200 million dollar Alice In Wonderland movie that has grossed a whopping $1,025,467,110 to date) self-published The Real Alice in Wonderland. Our book tells the story behind the publication of the handwritten, hand-illustrated original manuscript, Alice’s Adventures...

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The Global Search for Education: More Materials for the Arts
Apr15

The Global Search for Education: More Materials for the Arts

“Every day is Earth Day.” —  Harriet Taub   Materials for the Arts is one of those organizations you look at and say to yourself – it’s so obvious – collect surplus materials from businesses and individuals and redistribute them to nonprofits with ongoing arts programming and schools – why doesn’t every community have a recycling program like this one? Harriet Taub, Executive Director...

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Bieber Bathos Elegy and Bernstein – Live from The Whitney
Jan04

Bieber Bathos Elegy and Bernstein – Live from The Whitney

Bieber Bathos Elegy debuts at The Whitney this month “It’s time for me to grow up,” Justin Bieber said in a recent interview. And growing up amidst the pressures of a complex world and a relentless public eye is the tricky, tenuous, entertaining theme of New York based artist Felix Bernstein’s new musical spectacle, Bieber Bathos Elegy, which will debut at The Whitney Museum of American Art this month. During...

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The Global Search for Education: Celebrating Alice – Listen to the Real Alice…
Oct16

The Global Search for Education: Celebrating Alice – Listen to the Real Alice…

Alice Pleasance Liddell Hargreaves and President Nicholas Murray Butler Columbia University at the 1932 Centenary Celebration of Lewis Carroll’s birth When you hear the voice of the Real Alice In Wonderland – Alice Pleasance Hargreaves – extending her thanks to President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University at the spectacular centenary celebrations held in the old Columbia gymnasium on May 4, 1932, you will...

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