Archives for the month of: October, 2011

“Children live on familiar terms with disrupting emotions. Fear and anxiety are part of their everyday lives”
Maurice Sendak

07 Horn Concerto, Op. 28_ I. Intrada

 

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“Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it… I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote “Dear Jim: I loved your card.” Then I got a letter back from his mother and she said “Jim loved your card so much he ate it.” That to me was one of the highest compliments I’ve ever received… He saw it he loved it he ate it.”
Maurice Sendak



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“…Max blew up, and his Mama blew up…it was a Mt St Helens… on an ordinary Tuesday…”

Maurice Sendak

 

 

02 The Way to Castle Yonder, Op. 21a_ I. The Journey to The Big White House

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“Mickey’s face was the personification of joy – the whiteness of his skin, the blackness of his ears, the redness of his tongue, the roundness of his face, was a strange joy”

Maurice Sendak



10 June 1928 Maurice Sendak is born
18 November 1928 Mickey Mouse is born

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