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it carrieth me away, my soul danceth
Aug. 12th, 2021 06:51 pmI think we’ve lost Praxis Stage but Brown Box Theater is still with us. I’d rather it be the opposite, because, while Brown Box Theater has actual production values, Praxis Stage holds shows in T accessible places and not in the wildlands of Plymouth or the glorified car suburb that is Allston. Or Uxbridge, Webster, and Boxborough. I have no idea where the hell those are. I looked it up and Boxborough is next to Littleton, near Pepperell and Berlin. Wilmington is near Lawrence. Uxbridge and Webster are on the northern border of Rhode Island.
The Artery said they had a performance in Cambridge, which is technically true, but is in fact referring to Cambridge, Maryland.
Long Wharf Park is the most optimal. It’s actually a pretty nice location if you can get over the fact that you’re in the Financial District on a weekend. There’s Tatte because if Israelis are good at things, it’s food and shooting themselves in the foot with regards to their relationships with the rest of the world. There’s Falafel King if you’re willing to walk. Google is telling me that Noon is still somehow open.
Across from me on the train ride in was a woman holding a tambourine. The fanky "new" train we were on was probably older than she was.
Despite being called Music and Healing, this isn't the week Longwood does their stuff.
Bedřich Smetana - Dance: Skočná (Dance of the Comedians) from Prodaná nevěsta (The Bartered Bride)
I swear this is the music used when the Coyote is chasing the Roadrunner and the video pauses to show the faux-Latin scientific names.
Sergei Rachmaninov, or Rachmaninoff, if you prefer. I think that Rakhmaninov might be even more accurate. - Symphonic Dances
His last orchestral work, written in a short timespan towards the end of his life. The first movement (Noon) is filled with youthful exuberance. The second movement (Twilight) is a stately waltz but one with an undercurrent of melancholy. The third movement (Midnight) is a Dies Irae but with a Russian hallelujah.
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (They call him Taylor Coleridge in the liner notes but Taylor Coleridge is a poet, Coleridge-Taylor is the Sierra Leonian composer) - Dance nègre
It evokes birdsong. Maybe not birdsong in Sierra Leone, if Molucca is anything to go by.
Arturo Márquez - Danzón no. 2
The dancer with Parkinsons gave this an elegaic tinge.
I should probably point out that Heather MacDonald and City-Journal, which hides its far-right nature with a respectable name, is getting up in arms about the revival of black composers. In the article, which I will not link to but I will try to siphon off her pageviews by calling it out by the name "Classical Music's Suicide Pact" or "How Wokeness is Destroying Classical Music", she targets Florence Price specifically. Yes, I have noticed that Florence Price is getting more airplay on the radio but I thought that was due to her Boston connections. A commentor points out that many of Florence Price's current champions are also into avant-garde music. I myself am guilty of this. And I definitely recommend Christine Southworth, if you really want to cheese off BobTheButcher. They're not musicians. They're patrons and donors and only want to hear the fixed canon.
After eight years of Obama and conspiracy theories from the right, four years of Trumpism, and sixteen years of neoconservatism's failure to turn Afghanistan into a free market republic, I'd say racism is pretty fucking entrenched in the mainstream right.
Duke Ellington - The River
In between movements, someone read from postcards about experiences early on in the pandemic. The dog, an Aussie-Border Collie mix, in front of me really wanted to be part of the dance. In between me and the dog was a woman from Sydney, Australia.
I got my dinner at Pauli's and earlier, I had a thought that if there's a silver lining to Afghanistan falling to the Taliban, it's that the price of opiates is going to go way way up as they start extorting poppy growers, and when I got the sub, they had things set up for covid anyway and I doubt they'd let anyone into the bathroom anyway.
On Democratic Underground, they're blaming Pakistan and think that Afghanistan should be dissolved amongst Iran, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan.
I don't know if it's just spite or if this is just part of their authoritarian tendencies, because Pakistan is the only one of Afghanistan's neighbors with even a semblance of human rights.
The moon was a thin crescent the color of rust.
burning question: do you ever find yourself thinking that Subterranean Press is too affordable? Well, now you can buy Vox Day’s Summa Elvetica for 500 dollars.
That’s not the most expensive book I’ve ever seen but I get the feeling that the 50,000 dollar copy of Michael and the Magic Man is some kind of scam. I’m not over that. I’ll never be over that. I’m about as likely to read that book as I am to read Gold Fame Citrus (but for entirely unrelated reasons) (or, for that matter, Arts of Dark and Light, and this is for two reasons: one, the internet archive happened. Two, a thread on Sufficient Velocity happened. And that means I don’t have to read it barring the unlikely release of part two of Sea of Skulls and beyond. I mean, miracles happen. They just aren’t for our benefit. Even after 3.5 billion years of evolution shaping us into a worthy vessel for souls) but I’m sure it’s far better than Summa Elvetica.
I went on Subterranean’s website and apparently 500-800 dollars is standard for a “signed lettered edition,” whatever that means, and 150 for a “numbered edition,” whatever that means, which is also signed.
The signed and limited editions of books you can get elsewhere don’t bother me as much as the books that are Subterranean exclusives and also overpriced.
I just want to test something.
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The Artery said they had a performance in Cambridge, which is technically true, but is in fact referring to Cambridge, Maryland.
Long Wharf Park is the most optimal. It’s actually a pretty nice location if you can get over the fact that you’re in the Financial District on a weekend. There’s Tatte because if Israelis are good at things, it’s food and shooting themselves in the foot with regards to their relationships with the rest of the world. There’s Falafel King if you’re willing to walk. Google is telling me that Noon is still somehow open.
Across from me on the train ride in was a woman holding a tambourine. The fanky "new" train we were on was probably older than she was.
Despite being called Music and Healing, this isn't the week Longwood does their stuff.
Bedřich Smetana - Dance: Skočná (Dance of the Comedians) from Prodaná nevěsta (The Bartered Bride)
I swear this is the music used when the Coyote is chasing the Roadrunner and the video pauses to show the faux-Latin scientific names.
Sergei Rachmaninov, or Rachmaninoff, if you prefer. I think that Rakhmaninov might be even more accurate. - Symphonic Dances
His last orchestral work, written in a short timespan towards the end of his life. The first movement (Noon) is filled with youthful exuberance. The second movement (Twilight) is a stately waltz but one with an undercurrent of melancholy. The third movement (Midnight) is a Dies Irae but with a Russian hallelujah.
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (They call him Taylor Coleridge in the liner notes but Taylor Coleridge is a poet, Coleridge-Taylor is the Sierra Leonian composer) - Dance nègre
It evokes birdsong. Maybe not birdsong in Sierra Leone, if Molucca is anything to go by.
Arturo Márquez - Danzón no. 2
The dancer with Parkinsons gave this an elegaic tinge.
I should probably point out that Heather MacDonald and City-Journal, which hides its far-right nature with a respectable name, is getting up in arms about the revival of black composers. In the article, which I will not link to but I will try to siphon off her pageviews by calling it out by the name "Classical Music's Suicide Pact" or "How Wokeness is Destroying Classical Music", she targets Florence Price specifically. Yes, I have noticed that Florence Price is getting more airplay on the radio but I thought that was due to her Boston connections. A commentor points out that many of Florence Price's current champions are also into avant-garde music. I myself am guilty of this. And I definitely recommend Christine Southworth, if you really want to cheese off BobTheButcher. They're not musicians. They're patrons and donors and only want to hear the fixed canon.
After eight years of Obama and conspiracy theories from the right, four years of Trumpism, and sixteen years of neoconservatism's failure to turn Afghanistan into a free market republic, I'd say racism is pretty fucking entrenched in the mainstream right.
Duke Ellington - The River
In between movements, someone read from postcards about experiences early on in the pandemic. The dog, an Aussie-Border Collie mix, in front of me really wanted to be part of the dance. In between me and the dog was a woman from Sydney, Australia.
I got my dinner at Pauli's and earlier, I had a thought that if there's a silver lining to Afghanistan falling to the Taliban, it's that the price of opiates is going to go way way up as they start extorting poppy growers, and when I got the sub, they had things set up for covid anyway and I doubt they'd let anyone into the bathroom anyway.
On Democratic Underground, they're blaming Pakistan and think that Afghanistan should be dissolved amongst Iran, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan.
I don't know if it's just spite or if this is just part of their authoritarian tendencies, because Pakistan is the only one of Afghanistan's neighbors with even a semblance of human rights.
The moon was a thin crescent the color of rust.
burning question: do you ever find yourself thinking that Subterranean Press is too affordable? Well, now you can buy Vox Day’s Summa Elvetica for 500 dollars.
That’s not the most expensive book I’ve ever seen but I get the feeling that the 50,000 dollar copy of Michael and the Magic Man is some kind of scam. I’m not over that. I’ll never be over that. I’m about as likely to read that book as I am to read Gold Fame Citrus (but for entirely unrelated reasons) (or, for that matter, Arts of Dark and Light, and this is for two reasons: one, the internet archive happened. Two, a thread on Sufficient Velocity happened. And that means I don’t have to read it barring the unlikely release of part two of Sea of Skulls and beyond. I mean, miracles happen. They just aren’t for our benefit. Even after 3.5 billion years of evolution shaping us into a worthy vessel for souls) but I’m sure it’s far better than Summa Elvetica.
I went on Subterranean’s website and apparently 500-800 dollars is standard for a “signed lettered edition,” whatever that means, and 150 for a “numbered edition,” whatever that means, which is also signed.
The signed and limited editions of books you can get elsewhere don’t bother me as much as the books that are Subterranean exclusives and also overpriced.
I just want to test something.
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