“American Impressionism emerged in the late 1880s when a generation of American artists studied abroad to absorb the new palette and compositions that were modernizing painting in France. Landscapes and domestic scenes by these American Impressionists are as wonderfully fresh and sparkling as those by their more familiar French counterparts. These artists, attracted to the…
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Kyuhee Park: Sonata in D major, K.178 (Scarlatti)
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Natalia Osipova: Coppélia
“Coppélia (sometimes subtitled: La Fille aux Yeux d’Émail (The Girl with the Enamel Eyes)) is a comic ballet from 1870 originally choreographed by Arthur Saint-Léon to the music of Léo Delibes, with libretto by Charles-Louis-Étienne Nuitter. PLOT: Dr. Coppélius is a doctor who has made a life-size dancing doll. It is so lifelike that Franz,…
James Jebusa Shannon: Jungle Tales
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Walking Roots Band: Light Upon the Mountains
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Unbroken – A Poem
Unbroken In the spring When I was young, green and giving, I wondered if we would see autumn. Then the water rose while cold wind whipped, And I wondered which one of us would blow away. I remain unbroken – And now I know. by Sunnyside Hear More Bach At Sunnyside Learn More Georgia O’Keeffe…
Joshua Bell: “Méditation” from Thaïs
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Mary Cassatt: The Life of an Artist
“With the exception of a brief return to Philadelphia in 1870, during the Franco-Prussian War, Cassatt remained in Europe for the remainder of her life, settling permanently in Paris in 1875. Two years later, she became the only American artist to join the French Impressionist group at the invitation of her close friend, Edgar Degas….
Maurice Brazil Prendergast: East Boston Ferry
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Vivaldi: Concerto in D Major RV 212
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Dorothy Brett: Dawn Fiesta
“Brett traveled to Taos, New Mexico with Lawrence and his wife. She was immediately enamored by the new environment, remarking, “I like it better than England. O, for the bigness of it! …Here I’m free from the old conventions …Here I’m truly free” (as quoted in Cassidy, New Mexico Highway Journal, March 1933). While it was…
Georgia O’Keeffe: Lake George Autumn (1927)
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Classic Hymns: Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing
“Norman Rockwell executed the present work as a preparatory study for Freedom of Worship, one of the four paintings that comprise his iconic Four Freedoms series. Inspired by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s 1941 State of the Union address, in which he outlined four essential human rights, Rockwell sought to capture the ideas of freedom from want,…
Veterans Day: “Am I the Only One?”
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Fern Isabel Coppedge: Carversville Brook
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Hauser: Air on the G String (Bach)
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Lilla Cabot Perry: The Gold Screen
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John Singer Sargent: The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit
“The historical precedent for the Boit portrait can be found in the work of the seventeenth-century Spanish master Diego Velázquez, an artist greatly admired in nineteenth-century France. Sargent had traveled to Madrid in 1879 to make copies after Velázquez at the MuseoNacional del Prado; among the paintings he studied was Las Meninas (about 1656), a…
Classic Hymns: Trust and Obey
“Norman Rockwell executed the present work as a preparatory study for Freedom of Worship, one of the four paintings that comprise his iconic Four Freedoms series. Inspired by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s 1941 State of the Union address, in which he outlined four essential human rights, Rockwell sought to capture the ideas of freedom from want,…
Petrit Ceku: 6 Cello Suites BWV 1007 – 1012 (Bach)
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Who Am I?
Best viewed At Sunnyside. WordPress Reader is misbehaving…again. The Story Sunnyside was born many years ago, the name of my fictional home for orphaned children and animals in a story for Mrs. Watson’s eighth grade writing class. A medical degree and six biologic homeschooled children later, Sunnyside became the name of my classical education website,…
Classic Hymns: Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus
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Georgia O’Keeffe: Trees in Autumn (1920-21)
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Peled and Popper: Requiem for Three Cellos and Piano
“From his new dwelling overlooking the Hudson River, Church captured in his paintings the seasonal changes in the landscape. Autumn, from the Thyssen-Bornemisza collection, was painted for his great friend and patron William Henry Osborn (1820‒1894), the owner of Castle Rock, a stone-built castle on the banks of the Hudson River. Church and Osborn shared…
Anuna: One Last Song (Michael McGlynn)
One Last Song Sing me one last song that will carry me away To the warm summer memory of home; And that old melody softly echoes on the breeze, To a pathway that I must walk alone. I have loved, I have lain on the dewy morning fields With a cloud of apple blossom in…
Classic Hymns: Softly and Tenderly
“Norman Rockwell executed the present work as a preparatory study for Freedom of Worship, one of the four paintings that comprise his iconic Four Freedoms series. Inspired by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s 1941 State of the Union address, in which he outlined four essential human rights, Rockwell sought to capture the ideas of freedom from want,…
Mozart: Piano Quartet No. 1 in G Minor, K. 478: II. Andante
“Richard E. Miller’s Tea-Time, an elegant and sumptuous work, exemplifies the artist’s celebrated, luminous images of young women in luxurious interiors that often open to gardens. A decorative painting in the Impressionist style, Tea-Time demonstrates Miller’s mastery of brushwork and color to produce a richly textured canvas. Miller executed this work around 1914 while living…
Gari Melchers: Nellie Kabel (c.1913)
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Three Queens: Aretha, Eva, and Georgia
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Elvis Presley: You’ll Never Walk Alone
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