Victoria Baker of Greenwich is an opera singer. She teaches piano and voice privately in Greenwich. Questions, call 531-7499 or e-mail
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Picasso’s passion
Written by Victoria Baker
Thursday, 19 November 2009 00:00
“All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up,” said Pablo Picasso. He was referring to the loss of imagination and wonderment we all experience as we mature into adulthood.
Secret of Wine
Written by Victoria Baker
Thursday, 12 November 2009 00:00
“Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes. I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken,” said Ludwig van Beethoven.
Inspiration
Written by Victoria Baker
Thursday, 05 November 2009 00:00
“Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever,” said Napoleon Bonaparte. To some, Napoleon is a heroic figure; to others he is a tyrant. Regardless of one’s opinion, it is impossible to deny the man’s intelligence and spirit. He had a unique vision and knew how to harness the energy and the turbulence of the times in which he lived.
The piano
Written by Victoria Baker
Wednesday, 28 October 2009 23:00
“The piano is able to communicate the subtlest universal truths by means of wood, metal and vibrating air,” wrote Kenneth Miller.
Art through music
Written by Victoria Baker
Wednesday, 21 October 2009 23:00
“There are three things I have always loved and never understood: painting, music and women,” said Fontenelle, the French 18th Century author. Today, we’ll focus on the first two and on trying to understand the connection between them — if indeed there is one.
Secret loves
Written by Victoria Baker
Wednesday, 14 October 2009 23:00
“To live without loving is to not really live,” said the French dramatist Molière. The great composers of classical music also seem to have been well aware of fact and did not hesitate to live life to the fullest. But sometimes historians misjudge a composer, attributing to him a certain character. Take, for example, Felix Mendelssohn, who has always been considered a bit of a boring genius without much to report in the romantic department. Well, the latest discoveries seem to reveal that we should never judge a book by its cover.
Of wine & song!
Written by Victoria Baker
Wednesday, 07 October 2009 23:00
“How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?” said French President Charles de Gaulle of his country. The only thing the French do better than cheese; is wine. I absolutely love cheeses — Brie, Roquefort, Stilton -- and I like certain wine, though I’d be lying if I said I was a connoisseur.
The science of beauty
Written by Victoria Baker
Wednesday, 30 September 2009 23:00
Have you ever felt wonderfully serene in a particular place or ill at ease in another and attributed it to the shape of the room or the space layout? I have, and up until now I always thought that may have been a peculiarity of how my brain works. That was before I came across Paul Goldberger’s book Why Architecture Matters, which deals with how we respond emotionally and intellectually to architecture. It may seem trifling, but inconsequential things like wallpaper, curtains or the way a building is structured can influence one’s mood, can make us want to sit in one restaurant over another, can put us in the mood to enter a store and shop or make us walk right by.
The muse
Written by Victoria Baker
Wednesday, 23 September 2009 23:00
“The man who arrives at the doors of artistic creation with none of the madness of the muses would be convinced that technical ability alone was enough to make an artist ... what that creates by means of reason will pale before the art of inspired beings,” said Plato. Plato was of the opinion that behind every great artist there is a muse, sometimes even a beloved muse.
Ancient seas
Written by Victoria Baker
Wednesday, 16 September 2009 23:00
“It was with a happy heart that the good Odysseus spread his sail to catch the wind and used his seamanship to keep his boat straight with the steering-oar,” wrote Homer. Indeed, all of Homer’s characters were happiest at sea.
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