Posts Tagged as ‘Don Quixote’

February 8, 2009

THE IMPOSSIBLE DREAM

SALVADOR DALI – L’Age d’Or  (Salvador Dali Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida
No mention of The Man of La Mancha is complete without hearing the show’s most renowned piece, The Impossible Dream.  This inspiring song has fallen victim to its own success; suffering abuse from so many pretenders from Elvis Presley to the local elementary school drama [...]

February 7, 2009

LIFE AS IT IS

Watching our new president take on the greedy CEOs, raging republicans and all the sordid demons that plague our land, I couldn’t help but think of another unlikely champion who dared to fight against impossible odds — Don Quixote, Cervantes’ gallant Lord of La Mancha, the defender of the destitute and the slayer of windmills.
I [...]