Now here is something worth toasting, in Cultural Cocktail fashion! In most welcome news for Angelenos who have been parched for the arts during the pandemic: LACMA will be reopening on April 1st with advanced online reservations required. For more information…

“No artifact is a work of art if it does not help to humanize us. Without art, visual, verbal and musical Our world would have remained a jungle.” Bernard Berenson, I Tatti, Florence, 1952

“Life begets life.Energy creates energy.It is by spending oneselfThat one becomes rich.”          Sarah Bernhardt

“DANCING- The vertical expression of a horizontal desire legalized by music.” ~George Bernard Shaw

You use a glass mirror to see your face; You use works of art to see your soul.” – George Bernard Shaw Caravaggio, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Antica, Rome

 “Music Is a Moral Law. It gives soul to the Universe,   Wings to the mind, flight to the imagination,  Charm and gaiety to life and to everything.”

“I’ve never known any trouble that an hour’s reading didn’t assuage.”-Arthur Schopenhauer

“If the riches of the Indies,or the crowns of all the kingdoms of Europewere laid at my feetin exchange for my love of reading,I would spurn them all.” Francois Fenelon

“Take a music bath once or twice a week” – Oliver Wendell Holmes-