I love the indistinctions of Whistler's Nocturnes, as shimmery and touched with light as Chopin's Nocturne #8 and Barcarolle played by Dinu Lipati.
image: James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Nocturne Blue and Silver
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- Christie
- Creative writer - Traveler - Archaeologist manque - Ardent lover of the play of light, the journeyings of time, things ephemeral and ancient
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