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seasons of renewal
Nov. 20th, 2021 07:30 pmWell, it is the season of renewal for a few of my readers. Not many, but they do exist. Here, the season of gathering is making way for the season of withering, but some trees still hold leaves, it was 70 degress F (that is to say 21 C) a few days ago, and I even saw a rose in bloom.
I had swordfish and french fries, which was good, and then on the way out, I learned that there’s a Korean restaurant so I’ll have to try that next time I’m there. There’s also a Thai restaurant. Plymouth, I feel, has gotten more cosmopolitan in this century.
But then again, I think I can say that about anywhere. Well, maybe not the midwest. And probably not Tennessee, given the current crop of bro-country singers.
Kate, the bassist, had blue hair.
Cristina Spinei - Whirl (2021)
When she wrote this, she was listening to Vivaldi’s Four Seasons and did this interpretation of Spring based on the constant tornado threats and flood warnings. It’s very brief and builds up in intensity but there’s a brief scene of eerie calm and sounds like it could be inserted somewhere in Vivaldi’s Spring.
George Gershwin - Lullaby
George wrote this when it was twenty, had it performed for friends but never published, repurposed it for an opera, and then forgot about it.
Twenty five years after, his brother Ira found it in a drawer.
The conductor wrote in a part for the bass.
William Grant Still - Dances of Panama
Tamborito: The national dance of Panama, usually involving a percussion ensemble and a women's chorus led by a singer. Obviously, this one was interpreted for string enseble instead. It's a lively hybrid of Spanish, native and African music.
Mejorana y Socavon: An indigenous dance for guitar.
Punto: A dance typically performed by a couple as a demonstration of their skill. A stately dance.
Cumbia y Congo: Dances popular amongst black communities. The musicians use their instruments as makeshift percussion.
Antonio Vivaldi - Le quattro stagioni (The Four Seasons)
He wrote a sonnet about the seasons to set the scene.
La primavera
The season of renewal. Birds. A goatherd and his dog sleeping in a flowery meadow. A pastoral dance.
L’estate
The season of growing.
Or, in Italy, the season of lassitude and languor, with the occasional rumble of thunder and gust of wind, punctuated with a violent call and response thunderstorm.
L’autunno
The season of gathering. Peasant dances and songs, sleeping drunkards, played on a harpsichord. and a hunt at dawn. Krieger, when giving Ray bionic legs, plays the last movement i an episode of Archer.
L’inverno
The season of withering. In Italy, winter is a season of winds and rain, of resting besid a hearth while rain pours down.
if you’re asking, and I know I was, inverno and inferno are not related words, despite the innermost circle of hell being cold. Nay, invernum is a corruption of hivernum and inferno comes from inferna, which means the lower region. And Avernum means the birdless realm and refers to a volcanically active lake.
burning question: How would Rittenhouse getting convicted of murder like he deserves be at all comparable to people who are killed doing innocuous things while black? Way Of The Bern, I mean you.
I had swordfish and french fries, which was good, and then on the way out, I learned that there’s a Korean restaurant so I’ll have to try that next time I’m there. There’s also a Thai restaurant. Plymouth, I feel, has gotten more cosmopolitan in this century.
But then again, I think I can say that about anywhere. Well, maybe not the midwest. And probably not Tennessee, given the current crop of bro-country singers.
Kate, the bassist, had blue hair.
Cristina Spinei - Whirl (2021)
When she wrote this, she was listening to Vivaldi’s Four Seasons and did this interpretation of Spring based on the constant tornado threats and flood warnings. It’s very brief and builds up in intensity but there’s a brief scene of eerie calm and sounds like it could be inserted somewhere in Vivaldi’s Spring.
George Gershwin - Lullaby
George wrote this when it was twenty, had it performed for friends but never published, repurposed it for an opera, and then forgot about it.
Twenty five years after, his brother Ira found it in a drawer.
The conductor wrote in a part for the bass.
William Grant Still - Dances of Panama
Tamborito: The national dance of Panama, usually involving a percussion ensemble and a women's chorus led by a singer. Obviously, this one was interpreted for string enseble instead. It's a lively hybrid of Spanish, native and African music.
Mejorana y Socavon: An indigenous dance for guitar.
Punto: A dance typically performed by a couple as a demonstration of their skill. A stately dance.
Cumbia y Congo: Dances popular amongst black communities. The musicians use their instruments as makeshift percussion.
Antonio Vivaldi - Le quattro stagioni (The Four Seasons)
He wrote a sonnet about the seasons to set the scene.
La primavera
The season of renewal. Birds. A goatherd and his dog sleeping in a flowery meadow. A pastoral dance.
L’estate
The season of growing.
Or, in Italy, the season of lassitude and languor, with the occasional rumble of thunder and gust of wind, punctuated with a violent call and response thunderstorm.
L’autunno
The season of gathering. Peasant dances and songs, sleeping drunkards, played on a harpsichord. and a hunt at dawn. Krieger, when giving Ray bionic legs, plays the last movement i an episode of Archer.
L’inverno
The season of withering. In Italy, winter is a season of winds and rain, of resting besid a hearth while rain pours down.
if you’re asking, and I know I was, inverno and inferno are not related words, despite the innermost circle of hell being cold. Nay, invernum is a corruption of hivernum and inferno comes from inferna, which means the lower region. And Avernum means the birdless realm and refers to a volcanically active lake.
burning question: How would Rittenhouse getting convicted of murder like he deserves be at all comparable to people who are killed doing innocuous things while black? Way Of The Bern, I mean you.
