Official Poster Hispanic Heritage Celebration - City of Hialeah PRESENTS...

Hot off the press!  The City of Hialeah Presents: Jose Ignacio Diaz Gravier Classical Concert Pianist (Hialeah's son) & David Pereira,  Invited Guest Tenor A Musical Journey  No todos los que andan estan perdidos... A place you leave is a place that lives forever... On a personal note, I am humbled to be a creative collaborator in this pastiche, metaphor, clever turn and  final lament...

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Jose Ignacio Diaz Gravier In concert: October 18, 2013

  The City of Hialeah Presents  in Concert Jose Ignacio Diaz Gravier, Piano & David Pereira, Tenor               Friday, October 18, 2013 at 7:30 p.m. Milander Center for the Arts 4700 Palm Avenue Hialeah, FL 33010 A Musical requiem: Yearning  for a City Forgotten;               ...

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A chronical of an unfortunate spiderly event....

  After a not so pleasant and unplanned hiatus in August, last Saturday was my first attempt in ten days to return to normal life. I invited my son to join me at the office for a spin and later we would enjoy a mother and son lunch. We propped ourselves into the car and began to drive into Miami city (Florida). About five minutes on the road, we noticed a dime sized object crawling towards us...

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Riddle-me-do!

Clues:   1. You hear it.   2. You smile and let it go, cause you are amazing.   3. You process it.   4.  And, you live with it.   What is it? Bonne chance...

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Jose Ignacio Diaz Gravier @ Books & Books

@Books & Books Mark your calendars: Lectura Poetica con la autora Acompaniamiento musical : Jose Ignacio Diaz Gravier - piano Gillian Cura - soprano Jose Alfredo Arauz- guitarra     Emily Dickinson (1830–86). Complete Poems. 1924. Part One: LifeLXXXIX   A WORD is dead When it is said, Some say. I say it just Begins to live   That day. 'Dickinson insists that the internal world...

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The Twilight Zone has relocated to Books n Books

June 19, 2013 @ noon Perhaps it was the hour.  Perhaps it was us. Perhaps we had entered the Twilight Zone. Patty P. and I strolled across the plaza around noon today over to Books n Books for an any kind of strawberry frozen treat.  Our local frozen yogurt bar was no longer there. Poof! It just disappeared like many yummy businesses in the area.  About three farmers market weeks ago, we had sampled some...

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El Consul Perlasca on DVD

And so many died dancing on the rim of danger. I could think of nothing else as I sat before this heartwarming yet difficult to watch movie about  Consul Perlasca especially in the final  stirring moments of the film.    Giorgio Perlasca  January 31, 1910 - August 15, 1992   Consul Perlasca was later thought to have been one of the 36 just men,  although...

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OneGrand@Fourhands

One Grand @ Four Hands  Two University of Miami Alumni, Jose Ignacio Diaz-Gravier and Larry Kent, both former students of Virtuoso Ivan Davis have returned to perform, at home, in 'One Grand @ Four Hands.'  Already powerful pianists Diaz-Gravier and Kent are ready to set sail under the Florida sky and break the boundries of sameness in an evening of musical gymnastics. The evening will be weighted heavily...

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Love thy neighbor?

Exhibit 1.   I sometimes wonder  if everyone is as lucky as I am to have such fine neighbors.  I have the finest on two continents.   Above you will find Exhibit 1. - the bane of my existence; a recycle garbage dispenser.  This item is used once a week for the purpose of ridding our homes and yards of glass, plastic, card boards and other waste items.  This receptacle is rather large and accommodates our...

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Misery ? Maybe not!

Thank you to the  Crosseyed Pianist:   &nbs...

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The Not so Vegan Turkey...

Accoding to About.com, Veganism is a type of vegetarian diet that excludes meat, eggs, dairy products and all other animal-derived ingredients. Many vegans also do not eat foods that are processed using animal products, such as refined white sugar and some wines. Most vegans also avoid the use of all products tested on animals, as well as animal-derived non-food products, such as leather, fur and wool. Vegan refers to either a person who...

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Popcorn, Pool and Pancakes...Epic!

Last Friday, I was driving my son to what I knew  would be an epic sleep over at his friend Andrew's  house when he informed me that he and his friends  were comparable to the The Teenager Mutant Ninja  Turtles. I asked, "Why is that?" He replied, "We  like to eat pizza and play games!" True that!  Two pictures are worth a thousand words!   A 7...

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www.joseignaciodiazgravier.com @MilanderGala-isms!

'If you never did, you should. These things are fun, and fun is good' Isms - May 31, 2013 - an evening is best described  in pictures inspired and respired by Dr. Seuss! "So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads." Chronology of a stellar evening ' Dr. 'D'  "Today you are you, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is youer than you." Ali,...

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