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chimes of freedom
Jul. 28th, 2016 07:49 pmOne woman I sketched was going to the Boston Common and wanted to get off at Park Street so she could see the hilarious Aquarium posters. She was carrying a tote bag with a Keats poem written on it. Damned if I can remember but if it was La belle dame sans merci, I'd be most happy. A man had a tattoo of what looked like a guitar in Arabic calligraphy but I couldn't get close enough to confirm that.
Somebody drove by in a hearse-van.
I got Steampunk Reloaded at a library sale.
Gabriella showed up. She thinks gray foxes and red foxes are cute and has seen La Boheme but not the La Boheme in 1968 Paris, and hasn't heard of King Roger, had a swallowtail butterfly pendant and spiral earrings, and got on the train home before I did so I spent the ride home talking to Sarah instead. Sarah has a bracelet of beads, a white stone necklace that she "borrowed" from her mother, and a bracelet with hands of fatima dangling from it and colorful beads, a headband of sparkling reds and blues. Sarah is an actor who performs with various troupes in the North End and also works for a group that puts on free concerts throughout July, and she likes animals. The Ivy Leaf is playing and I said that's one of the problems in living somewhere so immersed in art and music. Danielle said that concerts are a great place to draw people. At least I think someone called her Danielle. I'm going to call her Danielle.
A woman had 5X tattooed behind her ear and a patch of lime green against a natural brown.
Edgar is one of Puccini's lesser known operas, and not a successful one, and the prelude to Act 1 was eventually eliminated from later revisions, and he eventually gave up on it. It's about a knight who's torn between pure love of Fidelia and profane love of Tigrana.
Manon Lescaut is obviously set in the world of Through The Heart and therefore ambiguously in the worlds of Rumors of Spring, Sarabande of Lost Time, and Views From The Oldest House, as the hero's love interest is found guilty of prostitution and exiled to French North America, and the die in the vast, barren deserts outside of New Orleans, LA. Earlier, the people of Amiens celebrate, entertain our hero with a madrigal performed by eight children, three boys and five girls, and he is transported from Amiens to a prison in Le Havre.
The Anvil Chorus from La Traviata is pretty popular in cartoons, usually in factory or construction scenes. It's performed by the entire choir.
Libera me, domine is in fact a work he wrote for that collaborative requiem, which he reworked into his own Requiem. I'd have to listen to them side by side and then learn something about music theory to describe the differences to you, and I'm posting this at 8 in the morning.
Intermission. I was surprised at how early it was. But next up is Wagner. The observant would notice something odd about the program: it says that Wagner was born in 1864 and died in 1949. Those years aren't arbitrary, they were thinking of Richard Strauss.
Black Rabite is a bit out of sync with the rest of them (ninja edit: or he was out of sync but he's not out of sync anymore. I have no idea.) Also, if you're using a mobile device to view this, this will probably look like crap. Of course, if you're using a mobile device, you're used to disappointment and brokenness.
Das Rheingold is a series of excerpts from an opera with an evil dwarf and a magic helmet that allows him to turn invisible, which makes him drunk with power, and a cursed ring that causes its possessor to become obsessed with it and those who see it to be consumed by envy. Hmm. Any-dang-ways, a suite is really the best way to showcase this music, no matter how pissed off Wagner would be about this, as you get all the good bits without the all bloat.
Gabriella says that Wagner is as much about the spectacle as it is about the music.
Ride of the Valkyries is best for kiłłing wabbits. During the concert, I wondered just what napalm smells like. I mean, I know it smells like victory, but in a more literal and less figurative sense, I found that someone described it as gasoline and laundry detergent and that might not be entirely accurate.
Götterdämmerung (translation: Twilight of the Gods - Dämmerung refers to both dusk and dawn and in this case… actually, it's kind of ambiguous) ends the Ring Cycle, with Seigfried's "oh mighty warrior of great fighting stock" fanfare and the response by his rival clan, and Hagen the evil dwarf, son of Alberich the evil dwarf of Das Rheingold, and Hagen tries to take the ring from Brünnhilde and is drowned by lorelei. The clouds part to reveal Valhalla burning, bringing down the gods and their old, loveless world, and Brünnhilde proclaims a new age.
I read somewhere Wagner wanted a special theater to be built for the sole purpose of Götterdämmerung, where Valhalla would literally burn away.
This might not be true. If it is, and I'm right about Brünnhilde singing as soon as Valhalla is revealed to be in flames, the theater would be in ashes when she's finished. Mendelssohn and Meyerbeer dared to tell him that not everything he writes is brilliant and he became virulently anti-Jewish.
And in yet another astonishing display of cluelessness (see: Titanic, the 1943 film), the last thing the Berlin Philharmonic played before evacuating Berlin end of World War II was the immolation scene. Because the old world of the old gods burning away and a new world of love arising from the ashes was exactly the metaphor they wanted.
It took him 27 years to write the Ring Cycle and the whole thing lasts 14.5 hours.
burning question: your spear and magic helmet?
Somebody drove by in a hearse-van.
I got Steampunk Reloaded at a library sale.
Gabriella showed up. She thinks gray foxes and red foxes are cute and has seen La Boheme but not the La Boheme in 1968 Paris, and hasn't heard of King Roger, had a swallowtail butterfly pendant and spiral earrings, and got on the train home before I did so I spent the ride home talking to Sarah instead. Sarah has a bracelet of beads, a white stone necklace that she "borrowed" from her mother, and a bracelet with hands of fatima dangling from it and colorful beads, a headband of sparkling reds and blues. Sarah is an actor who performs with various troupes in the North End and also works for a group that puts on free concerts throughout July, and she likes animals. The Ivy Leaf is playing and I said that's one of the problems in living somewhere so immersed in art and music. Danielle said that concerts are a great place to draw people. At least I think someone called her Danielle. I'm going to call her Danielle.
A woman had 5X tattooed behind her ear and a patch of lime green against a natural brown.
Edgar is one of Puccini's lesser known operas, and not a successful one, and the prelude to Act 1 was eventually eliminated from later revisions, and he eventually gave up on it. It's about a knight who's torn between pure love of Fidelia and profane love of Tigrana.
Manon Lescaut is obviously set in the world of Through The Heart and therefore ambiguously in the worlds of Rumors of Spring, Sarabande of Lost Time, and Views From The Oldest House, as the hero's love interest is found guilty of prostitution and exiled to French North America, and the die in the vast, barren deserts outside of New Orleans, LA. Earlier, the people of Amiens celebrate, entertain our hero with a madrigal performed by eight children, three boys and five girls, and he is transported from Amiens to a prison in Le Havre.
The Anvil Chorus from La Traviata is pretty popular in cartoons, usually in factory or construction scenes. It's performed by the entire choir.
Libera me, domine is in fact a work he wrote for that collaborative requiem, which he reworked into his own Requiem. I'd have to listen to them side by side and then learn something about music theory to describe the differences to you, and I'm posting this at 8 in the morning.
Intermission. I was surprised at how early it was. But next up is Wagner. The observant would notice something odd about the program: it says that Wagner was born in 1864 and died in 1949. Those years aren't arbitrary, they were thinking of Richard Strauss.
Black Rabite is a bit out of sync with the rest of them (ninja edit: or he was out of sync but he's not out of sync anymore. I have no idea.) Also, if you're using a mobile device to view this, this will probably look like crap. Of course, if you're using a mobile device, you're used to disappointment and brokenness.
Das Rheingold is a series of excerpts from an opera with an evil dwarf and a magic helmet that allows him to turn invisible, which makes him drunk with power, and a cursed ring that causes its possessor to become obsessed with it and those who see it to be consumed by envy. Hmm. Any-dang-ways, a suite is really the best way to showcase this music, no matter how pissed off Wagner would be about this, as you get all the good bits without the all bloat.
Gabriella says that Wagner is as much about the spectacle as it is about the music.
Ride of the Valkyries is best for kiłłing wabbits. During the concert, I wondered just what napalm smells like. I mean, I know it smells like victory, but in a more literal and less figurative sense, I found that someone described it as gasoline and laundry detergent and that might not be entirely accurate.
Götterdämmerung (translation: Twilight of the Gods - Dämmerung refers to both dusk and dawn and in this case… actually, it's kind of ambiguous) ends the Ring Cycle, with Seigfried's "oh mighty warrior of great fighting stock" fanfare and the response by his rival clan, and Hagen the evil dwarf, son of Alberich the evil dwarf of Das Rheingold, and Hagen tries to take the ring from Brünnhilde and is drowned by lorelei. The clouds part to reveal Valhalla burning, bringing down the gods and their old, loveless world, and Brünnhilde proclaims a new age.
I read somewhere Wagner wanted a special theater to be built for the sole purpose of Götterdämmerung, where Valhalla would literally burn away.
This might not be true. If it is, and I'm right about Brünnhilde singing as soon as Valhalla is revealed to be in flames, the theater would be in ashes when she's finished. Mendelssohn and Meyerbeer dared to tell him that not everything he writes is brilliant and he became virulently anti-Jewish.
And in yet another astonishing display of cluelessness (see: Titanic, the 1943 film), the last thing the Berlin Philharmonic played before evacuating Berlin end of World War II was the immolation scene. Because the old world of the old gods burning away and a new world of love arising from the ashes was exactly the metaphor they wanted.
It took him 27 years to write the Ring Cycle and the whole thing lasts 14.5 hours.
burning question: your spear and magic helmet?
