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Sublime Music in the Face of Tragedy
“Samuel Barber’s Adagio for Strings begins softly, with a single note, a B flat, played by the violins. Two beats later the lower strings enter, creating an uneasy, shifting suspension as the melody begins a stepwise motion, like the hesitant … Continue reading
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Tagged domestic violence, Natalia Strelchenko, violence against women
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Posts in Pairs (3). Violence Against Women
Hypatia, mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, murdered by a Christian mob in Alexandria about 415 AD I live in Switzerland, which was the last country in Europe to give women the right to vote. Also the last witch was burnt here. I … Continue reading
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Tagged Hypatia, Leniata, Leniata's death, Princess de Lamballe, violence against women, witch-hunt, witches
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