Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Prokofiev 3rd Concerto

Pallavi Mahidhara playing Prokofiev 3rd Concerto. Shared on facebook by Rana Dasgupta.

http://www.pallavimahidhara.com/

Listen to her play this wonderful piece.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVKm7MfgPoA

Those were the days by Mary Hopkin

This is yet another song that I have always liked. I first heard this in 1979. Here it is:


Didi by Khaled

Talking of Khaled, the great Algerian singer, I first got to know him from his song, Didi.

Here it is:


Aicha by Khaled

This is the song, Aicha by the Algerian rai singer, Khaled. I'm sharing both the Original version in Frensh as also a version with English lyrics.

This is the original French one.



And this is the one with English lyrics too.


This blog is about a personal history but also about a professional life. It is about an English professor but also about a professional translator. It is in fact about a life well-lived and how to live a life pretty well.

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