the dead ought sleep forever
Nov. 9th, 2013 11:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yamamanamaHe's right: Benjamin Britten's War Requiem is not something you feel happy after hearing. It's rather beautiful, but very very unsettling. Definitely some Verdi influences. Libera Me is especially nightmarish towards the beginning. No words I can say can do this justice, you'll just have to hear it for yourself.
Meanwhile, Prokofiev's Trapeze is simply nightmarish (I didn't hear this live).
This was sung by an English person, a German, and a Russian.
I'm not sure whether to think of it as being on the boundary between modernism and postmodernism, or too early to be postmodern. My understanding of the whole thing is that modernism rejects traditions, postmodernism subverts them. It's late. I'm tired. Too many people throw around postmodernism to describe things they don't like. And thus my brain hurts. All of these statements may be wrong.
As far as recordings go, the tracklistings are, well, odd. There are six parts: Requiem Aeternam, Dies Irae, Offertorium, Sanctus, Agnus Dei, and Libera Me, broken up into Wilfred Owen poetry and rites. On the CD I have, the Offertorium is especially odd, split into Domine Jesu Christe (which includes Quam olim Abrahae) and So Abram Rose (which includes the Hostias).
This is an aside: (I blanked; it's late, when I get my mind back, I'll let you know. For all I know, this aside was my little digression on modernism vs postmodernism)
This is just a thing I overheard: I'm more than right. (quoting from Wikipedia) There are 250,000 students enrolled in Boston and Cambridge alone.
I think I saw a drawing of Steve Lurkel outside of Symphony Station.
Whatever he was, he didn't look like Steve Urkel at all. Same artist, mayhaps.
burning question: is mayonnaise an instrument?
Meanwhile, Prokofiev's Trapeze is simply nightmarish (I didn't hear this live).
This was sung by an English person, a German, and a Russian.
I'm not sure whether to think of it as being on the boundary between modernism and postmodernism, or too early to be postmodern. My understanding of the whole thing is that modernism rejects traditions, postmodernism subverts them. It's late. I'm tired. Too many people throw around postmodernism to describe things they don't like. And thus my brain hurts. All of these statements may be wrong.
As far as recordings go, the tracklistings are, well, odd. There are six parts: Requiem Aeternam, Dies Irae, Offertorium, Sanctus, Agnus Dei, and Libera Me, broken up into Wilfred Owen poetry and rites. On the CD I have, the Offertorium is especially odd, split into Domine Jesu Christe (which includes Quam olim Abrahae) and So Abram Rose (which includes the Hostias).
This is an aside: (I blanked; it's late, when I get my mind back, I'll let you know. For all I know, this aside was my little digression on modernism vs postmodernism)
This is just a thing I overheard: I'm more than right. (quoting from Wikipedia) There are 250,000 students enrolled in Boston and Cambridge alone.
I think I saw a drawing of Steve Lurkel outside of Symphony Station.
Whatever he was, he didn't look like Steve Urkel at all. Same artist, mayhaps.
burning question: is mayonnaise an instrument?
