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How to tie a scarf!

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With all of the scarf purchases this Season, we thought it might be nice to post

a few ways to help you enjoy your scarf and learn

some new ways to wear it!

http://www.youtu.be/5LYAEz777AU

Check out this video! Beautifully shot and so informative!

Who doesn't LOVE a great scarf!

1. Asymmetric scarf knot

a. Wrap scarves around your neck and two ends cross each other. The left end is above the right one.

b.The right end goes through the interval following the arrow direction.

Tip: This scarf knot gives you a rebellion spirit. Try and see how cool it is.

2. Symmetric scarf knot

a. Wrap the scarf around your neck and cross each other to make a knot.

b. Wrap the longer end around the neck and go through the interspace as in figure.

3. Necktie scarf knot

a. Wrap scarves around the neck and put the right end above the left.

b. Take the right end and wrap the left end with a full round.

c. Put the right end through the loop as in figure.

Tip: If not sure how to wear scarves with this knot, ask your husband or your friends how to tie a necktie. This scarf knot is good for a thinner scarf, such as silk scarves, either big square silk scarves or small square silk scarves.

4. Small butterfly scarf knot

1. wrap around the neck in a loop and make a knot with crossing each other.

2. Make an adjustment for the previous knot and make the second knot as in the picture.

Tip: This way is very easy and time saving. Try and make yourself more beautiful.

Here are a few more ideas that we found in our search for the perfect knot!

Have fun! Play! You will find a style you LOVE!

75 Years! Thursday, November 17, 2011

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Tanglewood, the summer home in the Berkshires of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, celebrates its 75th anniversary with a season of special programs and events beginning June 22 and concluding September 2, 2012. There will be international radio broadcasts and first-ever recording and educational programs, including 75 streams from the archive of recorded Tanglewood performances since 1937, which will be available free for 24 hours on the day of the release, after which they will be available for purchase.

Tanglewood schedules two 75th anniversary Galas

Two special gala concerts on July 14 and August 18 mark the Tanglewood’s 75th anniversary. The July 14 gala will feature the Boston Symphony, Boston Pops, and Tanglewood Music Center orchestras, with performances by Emanuel Ax, Yo-Yo Ma, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Peter Serkin, longtime Tanglewood friend James Taylor, the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, and other special guests, led by conductors John Williams, Keith Lockhart, and Andris Nelsons. This program will be made available to a worldwide audience through a series of international broadcasts, details of which will be announced at a later date.
Boston Pops Laureate Conductor John Williams, arguably the most well-known composer of his generation with many of the most memorable film scores of the 20th and 21st centuries to his credit, will be feted on the occasion of his 80th birthday year with a Boston Pops concert featuring classical music luminaries Yo-Yo Ma, Gabriela Montero, Jessye Norman, and Leonard Slatkin, along with performances by several Boston Symphony soloists who will be featured in Mr. Williams’s concert works.

BSO schedules two replicas of 1937 Tanglewood season

The Boston Symphony’s opening night concert of the 2012 Tanglewood season will set the tone for the 75th anniversary season with a program, under the direction of Christoph von Dohnányi, who was a Conducting Fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center in 1952, that replicates the very first BSO concert that took place on the Tanglewood grounds on August 5, 1937: an all-Beethoven program, opening with the Leonore Overture No. 3, followed by Symphony No. 6, Pastoral, and Symphony No. 5. This program will be made available to a worldwide audience through a series of international broadcasts, details of which will be announced at a later date.
A Boston Symphony all-Wagner program on July 21, featuring some of the best-known orchestral excerpts from Tristan und Isolde, Siegfried, Die Walküre, Parsifal, and Tannhäuser, under the direction of Wagner specialist Asher Fisch, will harken back to one of the most storied concerts from the orchestra’s first Tanglewood season in 1937, when a torrential downpour caused the August 12, 1937 all-Wagner concert to be interrupted three times, necessitating a shortening of the program due to leaks in the tent where the orchestra performed its first season.
This seemingly disastrous event triggered a happy outcome when funds raised immediately on the spot and soon thereafter were pledged toward building a permanent performance structure for the BSO—the historic Tanglewood Music Shed, which opened in the summer of 1938, and was rechristened the Koussevitzky Music Shed on the occasion of its 50th anniversary in 1988.
These programs are just two examples of what will be a season-long focus on many of the great musical moments of Tanglewood’s first 75 years.

Tanglewood 75th anniversary programs

A new discussion series, Concerning Music and Society, will feature a critics’ forum as well as a discussion on music and one on technology and film music. Further details will be announced at a later date.
75 new trees will be planted throughout the Tanglewood grounds enhancing what is already considered one of the most beautiful festival grounds anywhere in the world. In addition, Sandi Haber Fifield, a photographer from Westport, Connecticut, has been commissioned to create a souvenir poster in celebration of the special anniversary.

Tanglewood 2012 schedule highlight concerts

Here is a list of concerts that were scheduled to commemorate and celebrate the 75th anniversary of the BSOs summer home in the Berkshires at Tanglewood.

Anne-Sophie Mutter as soloist/conductor for an all-Mozart program – July 13
Pinchas Zukerman as soloist/conductor for an all-Bach program – August 10
Yo-Yo Ma presents his Silk Road Ensemble – June 22 and 24
Joshua Bell – July 7
Yefim Bronfman – August 4 – also soloist with the BSO, August 11
Christoph von Dohnányi – July 6 & August 4, 7, & 12
Charles Dutoit – July 28 & 29
Nelson Freire – July 27
Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos – August 19, 25, & 26
Lorin Maazel – August 3, 5
Gil Shaham – August 19
Jean-Yves Thibaudet – August 5
Ozawa Hall, Gerhard Oppitz performs Brahms’s complete solo piano music
Mark Morris Dance Group, Tanglewood Music Center musicians – June 28 and 29
Chris Botti and his band will be featured – August 5
Bernadette Peters – Boston Pops, July 8

2012 Tanglewood ticket information

Tickets to the 2012 Tanglewood season, priced from $9 to $117 for regular season concerts, go on public sale Sunday, January 29, through tanglewood.org or by calling SymphonyCharge at 888-266-1200. Tanglewood continues to offer free lawn tickets to young people age 17 and under and a 50% discount on lawn tickets to college and graduate students.

Tanglewood contact info.

297 West Street (Rt. 183)
Lenox, MA 01240
Box Office: 617-266-1200; 888-266-1200
Website: tanglewood.org

Just a couple Beautiful images that we found!

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Young Myanmar monks reading

"Powders and Paint" in Jaisalmer, India

"Flowers for the monks"

"Living on the edge", in the Northern Philippines

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Tuscaloosa Bypass, A New Chapbook by Poet Cecele Kraus

Tuscaloosa Bypass, a new chapbook by poet Cecele Kraus, will be published by

Finishing Line Press in February, 2012.

To pre-order your copy, please e-mail us at Tuscaloosa@PassifloraHome.com

or call Passiflora at (518)325-6559

You can also order directly from Finishing Line Press.

This amazing collection of poems would make a wonderful holiday gift!!

By Cecele Kraus

"Sewing Ties"

Attic fans pull Alabama air from shadowed rooms.

Rosa, the Smith’s black maid, makes soup

and sings, There is power, power,

wonder working power

in the precious blood of the lamb.

We’re guests while my father preaches a revival,

but the Smiths are busy. Bud hunts pheasants.

His sister, Sue, is packing for college.

I wander the rooms looking for something to do.

In a sparse bedroom I find a treadle machine,

spools of thread, small scissors, a bag of old ties,

and lay them out on the bed—bold roosters,

jeweled peacocks, regimental stripes.

I gather them onto a waistband,

and as my father calls all to come to Jesus,

I give myself to the five-eighths inch seams,

the machine’s whir.

After thirty years in private practice as a psychoanalyst, Cecele Kraus found herself writing poetry. Writing provided perspective and poetry became a way of life. Her work has appeared in Windfall, Naugatuck River Review, Passager, Backstreet, Chronogram, MyStoryLives, and two chapbook anthologies--Java Wednesdays and Zephyrs 2. Peace Corps experiences were the inspiration for a chapbook entitled Dreaming Barranquilla. In 2009, her poem, “Love Blooms,” won first place in the Hudson Valley Writers Guild poetry contest. She lives in Copake, New York. This poem appeared first in the Fall, 2009 issue of "Java Wednesdays, as “Longest Day of the Year."