Departures
Oct. 27th, 2013 09:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yamamanama"Departures" would have made more sense yesterday, though "Pursuits" also did… but I only thought of this set of titles because I was able to go to both Nights of a Thousand Faces after I wrote and posted Bradbury Weather. Instead of amongst pumpkins (ok, there was a kid dressed as a pumpkin on the Red Line... and another dressed as a monkey), I was at a concert at a converted church in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Because of construction, it was Soviet Russia day on the Red Line, heh, red. I kid. What does not happen is the trains getting on you. What does happen is the inbound trains go outbound to Alewife. A woman not dressed as anything in particular I talked to was as confused as I was, and I think she accidentally almost hit me with something or something but I was immersed in Something Wicked This Way Comes.
I was convinced there was a second pianist hidden under the stage during Prokofiev's 2nd Piano Concerto. It's famous for being very difficult to play, and it's about Prokofiev's friend's suicide, and there are a lot of "wrong notes" which I think adds to the difficulty. It was despised when it premiered in 1913.
I keep mixing up Tchaikovsky's 4th and 5th symphonies. I've heard both of them live before. Since I didn't hear the part I was expecting to hear, I checked when I got home, and yes, that was in the 4th, not the 5th. I probably should have seen that coming when he didn't play that melody on his keyboard during the talk. The 5th is noteworthy for replacing the scherzo with a waltz.
Burning question: Why doesn't the Russian Federation have the same cultural output the Russian Empire and Soviet Union had?
Because of construction, it was Soviet Russia day on the Red Line, heh, red. I kid. What does not happen is the trains getting on you. What does happen is the inbound trains go outbound to Alewife. A woman not dressed as anything in particular I talked to was as confused as I was, and I think she accidentally almost hit me with something or something but I was immersed in Something Wicked This Way Comes.
I was convinced there was a second pianist hidden under the stage during Prokofiev's 2nd Piano Concerto. It's famous for being very difficult to play, and it's about Prokofiev's friend's suicide, and there are a lot of "wrong notes" which I think adds to the difficulty. It was despised when it premiered in 1913.
I keep mixing up Tchaikovsky's 4th and 5th symphonies. I've heard both of them live before. Since I didn't hear the part I was expecting to hear, I checked when I got home, and yes, that was in the 4th, not the 5th. I probably should have seen that coming when he didn't play that melody on his keyboard during the talk. The 5th is noteworthy for replacing the scherzo with a waltz.
Burning question: Why doesn't the Russian Federation have the same cultural output the Russian Empire and Soviet Union had?
