The Friday Five - Favorite Artworks

This week's entry at thefridayfive wants to know all about your highbrow tastes:

1. What is your favorite poem? Can you recite part of it from memory?

I know it by heart, having read it at both my mother's and my father's funerals.

( The Resurrection of the Dead, by Yehudi Amichai )

2. What is your favorite work of visual art? Can you sketch some of it from memory?

( The Vegetable Portraits, by Guiseppe Archimbaldo )

3. What is your favorite piece of music? Can you sing or hum any of it from memory? Bonus points if you can sing a line of harmony from it.

This is a hard one, since my tastes in music span many genres. Let's go with something uplifting for a Friday morning, and say Vivaldi's Gloria, RV 589. And yes, I can sing the harmonic line.

"Vivaldi's Gloria" (Watch on YouTube)

4. What is your favorite dance form? Can you dance it yourself, however badly, or is it something for which you are mostly a spectator?

Classical ballet, and my favorite is Ballanchine's choreography of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake. And no, I don't dance.

"Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake - The Kirov Ballet" (Watch on YouTube)

5. What is your favorite work of literature? Have you committed any of it to memory?

Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte. Reader, I married him." That's it.


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<B>1. What is your favorite poem? Can you recite part of it from memory? </B> <B>2. What is your favorite work of visual art? Can you sketch some of it from memory? </B> <B>3. What is your favorite piece of music? Can you sing or hum any of it from memory? Bonus points if you can sing a line of harmony from it. </B> <B>4. What is your favorite dance form? Can you dance it yourself, however badly, or is it something for which you are mostly a spectator? </B> <B>5. What is your favorite work of literature? Have you committed any of it to memory? </B>