20 Feb


2 May

I saw him with his shyness quickly cross the street, wearing this hair classical conductors, thinking of a Baroque organ, the acoustics of auditoriums that were not yet as they should be, in the music of the Pulchra, in feeding of sounds beautiful children, adults.
Musician Angel Barja. Musicologist, Senior Lecturer in Harmony, Counterpoint, Composition and Instrumentation, composer hero who died so early, but who knew how to arouse the admiration of Germany, England, though few perhaps know or appreciate.
Popular outside his native Galicia classic polyphony, a privilege for the entire Spanish territory where he extended his work, although based in the city of León, with pioneering the choirs and chapels in the interpretation of the great vocal music. Thus, Motets and Cantatas of Bach, Monteverdi madrigals of Marenzio or even the works of Juan Vazquez were heard across the country, and renewed his audience.
Ángel Barja was a man given to culture and participate in media, working on conferences, events and all kinds of manifestations. A renaissance of the end of last century that compromise with other music lovers and good people and, above all, raised the bar of interest in good music and its performance, encouraged the students in their conservatories. And always it seemed, on the other hand, that is, as a good maverick, as a good specialist in musical culture.
Today, in these days “back home for Christmas, I saw his statue in the so-called Romantic Garden, looking at his poetic glasses and everything and I reminded him perhaps a little sad, because he always showed me a goodness straight, peaceful as anyone, thin, so thin it looked like a sigh, enigmatic and pure as an eighth, holding the note always more humane, especially once told me things of dictator Francisco Franco, the boot under which endured our parents so much indecency. . . Well, today, with all the democracy of the world but accumulated political aims both subliminally making us suffer without even realizing, as caged lambs. . . Here is the source of my sadness, Angel, that you were in music, an angel, you told me things that only a few trusted insurance. . .
Ángel Barja, today your notes, your music has touched the soul. . . just 2009 and just calm, help me from where you are with your sweet melomania to get, really, a better world. For everybody. Musical Twelve years, Angel.
Juan Carlos YAGO
13 Oct

One of the disadvantages of living in an overpopulated city lies in the rationalization of space and high cost per square meter. Another is that in metropolitan centers of culture and fashion, trends abound and are installed as Latin American dictatorships in the twentieth century, and what is new and modern today as it will not be tomorrow (this is the great paradox of avant-garde art of ’20, now called historical avant-garde). How to keep up, now? If we accept that the word cool is an empty category must be completed, finally understand the reason why we ended up accumulating objects that become obsolete or outdated (ironically, the more modern, more current is the object rapidly become outdated, and well, after a year-to be optimistic and say six months or two-we buy a new mobile phone because our new and old, is G3 not G4: the fate of the numbers is ineffable …).
Then discuss the best options to furnish spaces taking into account current trends in interior design and fashion furniture; fashions and trends which, fortunately, have remained stable for a longer time period.
When it comes to departments and small departments, one of the biggest challenges lies in furnish a 1 room and 2 rooms (bathroom, kitchen, two quarts) combine the spaces and become a “multifunctional”. Of course, the bathroom remains kitchen and bath, kitchen, the vast majority used as fourth bedroom and the other as a living-dining room.
To optimize the space housing the functionality is key to optimize the space of a dwelling addition to the functionality intelligently we will utilize the illusion, the illusion of space and specialization.
Depending on the corners of the room, agree a round table (not extend) or a square table or a rectangular table
Many times it is inevitable to associate fashion and design with frivolity, especially by some designers we see on television that use words like “gorgeous” “fantastic” or “fabulous” repeatedly. Anyway we must understand that interior design can be seen as a means to achieve “inner peace”: fashion zen and feng shui realize faith in the design to achieve mental states. Without being extremists and saying that interior design will solve all our problems (including mental), if we recognize, along with naturalist writers, that the media influence the individual. As we are already sufficiently influenced and conditioned by society, family, education, mass media and end the time-space location where we insert (remembering that we are born into a system and an order of things we is imposed and it is very difficult to change), the only place we can choose what to do and how to do it with complete freedom is in our homes, our inviolable private and intimate spaces.
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