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Aug. 12th, 2016 12:28 amAdvantages to a Thursday night concert: The weather was crappy on Wednesday, even if the rain was over by 7. This one ran fairly long and I don't have to wake up early tomorrow. The canker sore I've had since Friday night is finally nearly gone. The fucking thing was always touching something.
Disadvantages: The audience was smaller and the geese were able to keep control over one half of the green.
A woman smiled at me but had to get off unexpectedly when I started to draw her so I used her hair for somebody else.
In front of me, a woman was drawing figures in red pen.
I drew a duck. There was a squirrel sauntering around and I tried to draw him but squirrels don't really appreciate art.
The woman at the Charles River Bistro had green hair that she says was a mess because it was originally purple and that pale green is what purple fades into, but it looked cool.
They're not quite as gougey now.
Plum and magenta hair, tangerine hair, lavender hair.
John Adams: Lollapalooza - it's based on the way the word lollapalooza sounds. It sounds more like minimalist jazz than his usual minimalism. I bet you were expecting HONK! to play this but guess again. I know I was. The term has been around since the turn of the 20th century.
Adams is the second most performed living composer, next to Arvo Part of all people.
Tchaikovsky Symphony #5: I've described this to you. It's noteworthy because I always think a movement from his fourth symphony is in this one and if I heard the fourth symphony, I'd expect to hear a movement from this one and because it replaces the scherzo with a waltz.
Gabriella had to leave during the intermission because it was too hot for her.
Gershwin: Strike Up The Band Overture: Not really relevant enough to get a description in the booklet. The concert would have been called Strike Up The Band back when it was just Gershwin and Tchaikovsky, but they changed the title because of Adams and because of their collaboration.
Incidentally, Gershwin did not write the Strike Up The Band that Talk Talk sings.
Gonzalo Grau: Elements: so, this here is a spiritual successor to the Clarice Assad composition I heard last summer. Gonzalo Grau wrote this with some young musicians from Boston, based on the four classical elements.
Divine bounty fills the earth with life, giving birth to all creation.
It opens with percussion, low strings with improvised harmonics, rain sticks, and solo flute, and then Angelina joins on keyboard and vocals. Her voice was obviously childlike and fey and reminded me of Emma's. Later, a children's chorus joins in.
Divine love flows within the waters, purifying all creation.
Water flows into the Earth. The children's chorus of earth merges with a soundscape of pizzicato strings, of clay jugs, of water gongs. It grows in intensity and evaporates away to the sky. Sebastian wrote no lyrics, only the sound of water flowing and freezing, joining the air and raining down upon the woods.
Divine breath drives the winds of chaos, molding the form of all creation.
Wind is set to woodwinds, of course, and to echoes in the choir, and the other three leads and Gonzalo waved these neon-colored bent sticks above their heads that made the sound of wind. I want to say they're bullroarers. Irisbel wrote the lyrics here. A nice name. I can find nothing about it.
A peal of thunder and
Divine will fuels passion's fire, igniting the spark of life in all creation.
Justin doesn't sing his poem for fire, he just speaks it, as the elements interact in conflict and in harmony. Fire exists because of the other elements and fire reveals to us the other elements. Life exists because of the energy in the dead rising up and feeding the seeds. When war came, man used the fire of the gods for the taking of life, and the gods became angry, scorching the world. In this inferno was born the salamand entite.
The lyrics in the booklet are not entirely accurate. It says "capitalizing of flames" when he said "catalyzing."
The last movement is the Music of Life. No lyrics are included. Consume, scorch, blow, and cleanse stagnation within the flow.
My biggest gripe with contemporary classical music is its ephemerality.
People were filming it so maybe I'll check Youtube one of these days. Even if it is interrupted by small children talking about the moon and ducks and airplanes. I swear, they're worse than the geese. But they're not as bad as the people who see a blanket on the ground and think the perfect place to put their tall chairs is right in front of that fucking blanket. And they're not worse than flies, or canker sores, or Donald Trump, or metaphorical walled gardens. More likely, it will end up on Facebook, only to be seen by friends of the uploader.
In the meantime, I would suggest The Seduction of Claude Debussy.
It's important that this can be made, heard, and then recorded for future generations.
Music can change the world.
Edvard Greig: Excerpts from Peer Gynt. This work was never intended for the stage. Ibsen agreed to a staging but only if it were scored by Edvard Greig. The booklet implies that there will be a staging of the entire play, perhaps in 2017 or in 2018.
Solveig's Song and Solveig's Cradle Song were sung by a solo soprano in Norwegian, while In The Hall of the Mountain King was performed by the orchestra and HONK! which, like in Aida's Triumphal March, walked down the side paths to join up on the stage. In response to this, the geese flew off, honking.
Dom (short for Dominic) wore a bowler hat with purple lights on it. I don't remember what he played. There were two melodica players.
Lilia wore very many ribbons in her hair and a lace skirt and a pendant of a marionette and played the drums.
Marilyn had six-sided earrings and played the trombone.
Sari wore a hat and a nautilus pendant as well as some colored stones and played the accordion.
Nat wasn't in his outfit when I drew his portrait, which is unfortunate, because it was awesome. He plays a giganterous saxophone, probably a baritone. I'll describe this to you as soon as someone posts an image to Instagram and not to Facebook's walled garden.
Kirk (Although I was hoping his name would be Benny) played the sousaphone and had sunglasses and a hat with The Flash lightning bolts on it and Superman's bathrobe and a t-shirt with the Lego classic space emblem on it.
One guy played the keytar but I didn't get his name. He wore a hawaiian shirt.
A man has tattoos of floral imagery in black and white that remind me of Lauren's tattoos. A woman had a bird of paradise and another bird hidden amongst greenery and flowers, an infinity symbol, a stylized m or maybe the sigil for Cuchulainn, the Impure, three stars on her leg. Her hair was black with henna red in it. A woman had a silver peacock pendant.
I thought the high capacity trains ran only at the peak of rush hour but I guess they run when they feel like it. If you're on one of them, look for "Less Hating, #moLiving." written in faded marker.
Burning Question: have you ever tried to relax? It's a paradox!
Disadvantages: The audience was smaller and the geese were able to keep control over one half of the green.
A woman smiled at me but had to get off unexpectedly when I started to draw her so I used her hair for somebody else.
In front of me, a woman was drawing figures in red pen.
I drew a duck. There was a squirrel sauntering around and I tried to draw him but squirrels don't really appreciate art.
The woman at the Charles River Bistro had green hair that she says was a mess because it was originally purple and that pale green is what purple fades into, but it looked cool.
They're not quite as gougey now.
Plum and magenta hair, tangerine hair, lavender hair.
John Adams: Lollapalooza - it's based on the way the word lollapalooza sounds. It sounds more like minimalist jazz than his usual minimalism. I bet you were expecting HONK! to play this but guess again. I know I was. The term has been around since the turn of the 20th century.
Adams is the second most performed living composer, next to Arvo Part of all people.
Tchaikovsky Symphony #5: I've described this to you. It's noteworthy because I always think a movement from his fourth symphony is in this one and if I heard the fourth symphony, I'd expect to hear a movement from this one and because it replaces the scherzo with a waltz.
Gabriella had to leave during the intermission because it was too hot for her.
Gershwin: Strike Up The Band Overture: Not really relevant enough to get a description in the booklet. The concert would have been called Strike Up The Band back when it was just Gershwin and Tchaikovsky, but they changed the title because of Adams and because of their collaboration.
Incidentally, Gershwin did not write the Strike Up The Band that Talk Talk sings.
Gonzalo Grau: Elements: so, this here is a spiritual successor to the Clarice Assad composition I heard last summer. Gonzalo Grau wrote this with some young musicians from Boston, based on the four classical elements.
Divine bounty fills the earth with life, giving birth to all creation.
It opens with percussion, low strings with improvised harmonics, rain sticks, and solo flute, and then Angelina joins on keyboard and vocals. Her voice was obviously childlike and fey and reminded me of Emma's. Later, a children's chorus joins in.
Divine love flows within the waters, purifying all creation.
Water flows into the Earth. The children's chorus of earth merges with a soundscape of pizzicato strings, of clay jugs, of water gongs. It grows in intensity and evaporates away to the sky. Sebastian wrote no lyrics, only the sound of water flowing and freezing, joining the air and raining down upon the woods.
Divine breath drives the winds of chaos, molding the form of all creation.
Wind is set to woodwinds, of course, and to echoes in the choir, and the other three leads and Gonzalo waved these neon-colored bent sticks above their heads that made the sound of wind. I want to say they're bullroarers. Irisbel wrote the lyrics here. A nice name. I can find nothing about it.
A peal of thunder and
Divine will fuels passion's fire, igniting the spark of life in all creation.
Justin doesn't sing his poem for fire, he just speaks it, as the elements interact in conflict and in harmony. Fire exists because of the other elements and fire reveals to us the other elements. Life exists because of the energy in the dead rising up and feeding the seeds. When war came, man used the fire of the gods for the taking of life, and the gods became angry, scorching the world. In this inferno was born the salamand entite.
The lyrics in the booklet are not entirely accurate. It says "capitalizing of flames" when he said "catalyzing."
The last movement is the Music of Life. No lyrics are included. Consume, scorch, blow, and cleanse stagnation within the flow.
My biggest gripe with contemporary classical music is its ephemerality.
People were filming it so maybe I'll check Youtube one of these days. Even if it is interrupted by small children talking about the moon and ducks and airplanes. I swear, they're worse than the geese. But they're not as bad as the people who see a blanket on the ground and think the perfect place to put their tall chairs is right in front of that fucking blanket. And they're not worse than flies, or canker sores, or Donald Trump, or metaphorical walled gardens. More likely, it will end up on Facebook, only to be seen by friends of the uploader.
In the meantime, I would suggest The Seduction of Claude Debussy.
It's important that this can be made, heard, and then recorded for future generations.
Music can change the world.
Edvard Greig: Excerpts from Peer Gynt. This work was never intended for the stage. Ibsen agreed to a staging but only if it were scored by Edvard Greig. The booklet implies that there will be a staging of the entire play, perhaps in 2017 or in 2018.
Solveig's Song and Solveig's Cradle Song were sung by a solo soprano in Norwegian, while In The Hall of the Mountain King was performed by the orchestra and HONK! which, like in Aida's Triumphal March, walked down the side paths to join up on the stage. In response to this, the geese flew off, honking.
Dom (short for Dominic) wore a bowler hat with purple lights on it. I don't remember what he played. There were two melodica players.
Lilia wore very many ribbons in her hair and a lace skirt and a pendant of a marionette and played the drums.
Marilyn had six-sided earrings and played the trombone.
Sari wore a hat and a nautilus pendant as well as some colored stones and played the accordion.
Nat wasn't in his outfit when I drew his portrait, which is unfortunate, because it was awesome. He plays a giganterous saxophone, probably a baritone. I'll describe this to you as soon as someone posts an image to Instagram and not to Facebook's walled garden.
Kirk (Although I was hoping his name would be Benny) played the sousaphone and had sunglasses and a hat with The Flash lightning bolts on it and Superman's bathrobe and a t-shirt with the Lego classic space emblem on it.
One guy played the keytar but I didn't get his name. He wore a hawaiian shirt.
A man has tattoos of floral imagery in black and white that remind me of Lauren's tattoos. A woman had a bird of paradise and another bird hidden amongst greenery and flowers, an infinity symbol, a stylized m or maybe the sigil for Cuchulainn, the Impure, three stars on her leg. Her hair was black with henna red in it. A woman had a silver peacock pendant.
I thought the high capacity trains ran only at the peak of rush hour but I guess they run when they feel like it. If you're on one of them, look for "Less Hating, #moLiving." written in faded marker.
Burning Question: have you ever tried to relax? It's a paradox!
