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Jul. 21st, 2016 05:43 pmSomeone wrote "I am a shitty parker" in sidewalk chalk.
It was a nice day and it smelled like freshly mowed goose shit. At least people brought chickpea salads and chicken and spinach salads to negate that.
This is the first cat I've seen on the esplanade. I think I've seen one other cat at a concert. He was Siamese and in a carrier bag and I thought at first that he was a chihuahua or something.
A woman was very proud to tell me that the name for a group of pugs is a grumble.
Hair with a greenish patina.
Hair of pale green and dark black.
Hair of bold purple.
Stella Sung - Rockwell Reflections
The music was written for a traveling show by the Norman Rockwell Museum. The first movement is a homage to Copland. The second movement integrates a sea shanty played in a round. The third movement, a jaunty little circus tune for a painting of a sleeping dog and a clown and a ringmaster playing checkers, complete with noisemakers, and the fourth movement, which integrates spirituals played in a minor key, and depicts the murder of three civil rights activists by the KKK, really clash. I wonder if that was intentional, after all, Norman Rockwell is known for idyllic and nostalgic scenes and then you see something like Southern Justice.
I would visit the museum but it's way out of the way. I'm mixing up Stockbridge, where the museum is, out in the Berkshires, with Southbridge, where The Curtain Society is from, near Worcester.
Stella Sung is preparing a composition featuring voices of the sea, whatever that means.
Pictures At An Exhibition.
The piano composition was written by Modest Mussorgsky and orchestrated by Maurice Ravel.
The main theme is played on a solo trumpet. Bydlo sounds a bit like an oxcart, the Ballet of the Chicks in Their Shells is an awkward twittering dance, Tuileries depicts children shouting, Samuel Goldenberg and Schmuyle is a conversation between low strings and a muted trumpet, the Great Gate of Kiev depicts church bells and liturgical sining.
Some of the paintings set to music are lost and I have no idea what happened to them. For those, we got closeups of the orchestra. For the ones that are still out there, we got to see pictures.
Wikipedia's page uses Schmuÿle. I can find no indication that Yiddish or any other language that isn't Tlingit uses Ÿ; I don't know, maybe Yiddish is like Arabic or Thai and has no real standard Latinization, or maybe someone found out ÿ exists and wanted to use it somewhere.
Jacques Offenbach - The Tales of Hoffman
A barcarolle is a song sung by Venetian gondoliers. To this piece, we got Venetian scenes by John Singer Sargent.
Peggy Stuart Coolidge - Isabella
A world premiere of a 1979 manuscript. It's as much an ode to George Gershwin and Aaron Copland as it is an ode to Isabella Stewart Gardner.
The booklet implies that a narration was planned for it. We had the director of the museum narrating between pieces but it was probably written on the spot. It was meant to be performed by Arthur Fiedler's orchestra but he died. It ended up in a library and she was forgotten about.
She's a distant relative of Isabella via marriage.
Charles Martin Loeffler - Divertissement espagnole
For saxophone and orchestra.
A composer claiming to be from a city that was once in Germany but is now in France who was close friends with Gardner when he emigrated to Massachusetts. There's a painting of him in the museum and Isabella hosted a concert of his music and even gave him her Stradivarius violin.
His name is on the Hatch Shell along with Sɔhumann (1. this is in dire need of repair. 2. I'm glad an inverted ↄ exists. It was created by the emperor Claudius and was meant to replace the ps digraph.) and (Victor) Herbert.
Manuel de Falla - La vida breve
El jaleo, which means something like the ruckus for those of you who don't habla Español and is the probable source of everyone in Baten Kaitos Origins being unable to pronounce Cujam.
I forgot to point these things out last time: Vega is bright enough to be seen from the banks of the Charles. The footbridge is still under construction and I'm still not sure what exactly they're doing. The Canada geese are engaged in a hostile takeover and have already reached the first sidewalk.
Ruth works in charcoal but she wants to try pen because it's more permanent.
She had blue hair once. Right now, it's short, flaxen blonde, cropped very short on one side.
She has a pendant with a triangle and a gemstone, a spiral pendant.
She goes to school in Indiana where they emphatically do not have public transit.
She asked me which one of my drawings is my favorite, and since I didn't feel like flipping through my entire sketchbook, I showed her my portraits of Monica, Addie, and a man with a long coat, hat, and a lot of stuff, and who the most interesting person I've ever drawn is. I take back what I said about Emma being the coolest person I've met doing this; I actually met her before that.
Once she ran into a friend from high school. She forgot his name and I said that I do that but I never forget faces so maybe it's an artist thing and she says that her brother isn't artistic and is good with names and maybe she said he was bad with faces.
I thought that someone's earrings were pineapples rather than the abstract rosettes they were.
A woman had a tattoo of a fairy queen on her leg.
burning question: what do gold skulltulas eat?
It was a nice day and it smelled like freshly mowed goose shit. At least people brought chickpea salads and chicken and spinach salads to negate that.
This is the first cat I've seen on the esplanade. I think I've seen one other cat at a concert. He was Siamese and in a carrier bag and I thought at first that he was a chihuahua or something.
A woman was very proud to tell me that the name for a group of pugs is a grumble.
Hair with a greenish patina.
Hair of pale green and dark black.
Hair of bold purple.
Stella Sung - Rockwell Reflections
The music was written for a traveling show by the Norman Rockwell Museum. The first movement is a homage to Copland. The second movement integrates a sea shanty played in a round. The third movement, a jaunty little circus tune for a painting of a sleeping dog and a clown and a ringmaster playing checkers, complete with noisemakers, and the fourth movement, which integrates spirituals played in a minor key, and depicts the murder of three civil rights activists by the KKK, really clash. I wonder if that was intentional, after all, Norman Rockwell is known for idyllic and nostalgic scenes and then you see something like Southern Justice.
I would visit the museum but it's way out of the way. I'm mixing up Stockbridge, where the museum is, out in the Berkshires, with Southbridge, where The Curtain Society is from, near Worcester.
Stella Sung is preparing a composition featuring voices of the sea, whatever that means.
Pictures At An Exhibition.
The piano composition was written by Modest Mussorgsky and orchestrated by Maurice Ravel.
The main theme is played on a solo trumpet. Bydlo sounds a bit like an oxcart, the Ballet of the Chicks in Their Shells is an awkward twittering dance, Tuileries depicts children shouting, Samuel Goldenberg and Schmuyle is a conversation between low strings and a muted trumpet, the Great Gate of Kiev depicts church bells and liturgical sining.
Some of the paintings set to music are lost and I have no idea what happened to them. For those, we got closeups of the orchestra. For the ones that are still out there, we got to see pictures.
Wikipedia's page uses Schmuÿle. I can find no indication that Yiddish or any other language that isn't Tlingit uses Ÿ; I don't know, maybe Yiddish is like Arabic or Thai and has no real standard Latinization, or maybe someone found out ÿ exists and wanted to use it somewhere.
Jacques Offenbach - The Tales of Hoffman
A barcarolle is a song sung by Venetian gondoliers. To this piece, we got Venetian scenes by John Singer Sargent.
Peggy Stuart Coolidge - Isabella
A world premiere of a 1979 manuscript. It's as much an ode to George Gershwin and Aaron Copland as it is an ode to Isabella Stewart Gardner.
The booklet implies that a narration was planned for it. We had the director of the museum narrating between pieces but it was probably written on the spot. It was meant to be performed by Arthur Fiedler's orchestra but he died. It ended up in a library and she was forgotten about.
She's a distant relative of Isabella via marriage.
Charles Martin Loeffler - Divertissement espagnole
For saxophone and orchestra.
A composer claiming to be from a city that was once in Germany but is now in France who was close friends with Gardner when he emigrated to Massachusetts. There's a painting of him in the museum and Isabella hosted a concert of his music and even gave him her Stradivarius violin.
His name is on the Hatch Shell along with Sɔhumann (1. this is in dire need of repair. 2. I'm glad an inverted ↄ exists. It was created by the emperor Claudius and was meant to replace the ps digraph.) and (Victor) Herbert.
Manuel de Falla - La vida breve
El jaleo, which means something like the ruckus for those of you who don't habla Español and is the probable source of everyone in Baten Kaitos Origins being unable to pronounce Cujam.
I forgot to point these things out last time: Vega is bright enough to be seen from the banks of the Charles. The footbridge is still under construction and I'm still not sure what exactly they're doing. The Canada geese are engaged in a hostile takeover and have already reached the first sidewalk.
Ruth works in charcoal but she wants to try pen because it's more permanent.
She had blue hair once. Right now, it's short, flaxen blonde, cropped very short on one side.
She has a pendant with a triangle and a gemstone, a spiral pendant.
She goes to school in Indiana where they emphatically do not have public transit.
She asked me which one of my drawings is my favorite, and since I didn't feel like flipping through my entire sketchbook, I showed her my portraits of Monica, Addie, and a man with a long coat, hat, and a lot of stuff, and who the most interesting person I've ever drawn is. I take back what I said about Emma being the coolest person I've met doing this; I actually met her before that.
Once she ran into a friend from high school. She forgot his name and I said that I do that but I never forget faces so maybe it's an artist thing and she says that her brother isn't artistic and is good with names and maybe she said he was bad with faces.
I thought that someone's earrings were pineapples rather than the abstract rosettes they were.
A woman had a tattoo of a fairy queen on her leg.
burning question: what do gold skulltulas eat?
