where light and shade repose
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yamamanamaAfter I finished drawing a woman, she was talking about how people look for distinguishing features. I asked her if she was an artist, and she said no, she sometimes models for artists. She was listening to Pink Floyd, I was listening to Flying Saucer Attack. The picture is not on the Twitterverse as far as I can tell, and it probably won't be up by the time I post this.
There was a woman with black and blue hair (not hair so black it looked blue, but actual blue dye) and a woman with blonde and neon pink hair.
There was a guy playing the harmonica outside Broadway.
I just ate at Au Bon Pain because everything else I saw was mucho grande upscaleski and I couldn't be fucked to walk all the way across Boston Common and back to find a food cart.
So yeah, Upon Enchanted Ground (Hovhannes, 1951) is inspired by Indian music, done with the rather unorthodox and completely-incomprehendable-to-amy-chua ensemble of harp, flute, cello, and giant tam tam. It doesn't sound particularly Indian to me. If anything, it sounds east Asian. It's beautiful, whatever it is.
66 Times: the Voice of Pines and Cedars (Shih-Hui Chen, 2006) makes me think of Gormenghast: A Fantasy Opera or perhaps a chamber orchestra's equivalent of Orange Zero by Movietone, a soprano singing translated 10th century Japanese poetry (and an 18th century poem) to dissonant musical phrases, with quite a bit of percussion. All four poems are about nature, each represents a different season. It begins and ends with autumn.
Beethoven's Sonata no 5. in F Major for piano and violin (1801) and Bruckner's String Quintet in F Major (1879) were a lot more traditional, though they must have seemed as strange as Chen and Hovhannes in their day. The Bruckner is much like a symphony with only strings and far fewer musicians. The program says there's a harp in there but I think that's a mistake, because I don't think the harp was being played in a side room or anything. It's just two violins, two violas, and a cello.
The Beethoven piece has a one-minute scherzo.
There were concerts by the Chameleon Arts Ensemble that I wish I could have seen but I only recently found out about them.
I'd be lying if I said enough about moonlight. The moon was gibbous and yellow.
If this is less coherent than I thought it was when writing this, I woke up at 5:59 AM on Saturday and it's 12:40 AM on Sunday, and that's why. At least I'm not writing grand with a k, GREEK WIKIPEDIA.
burning question: In what setting would you be most likely to abuse a working train horn?
There was a woman with black and blue hair (not hair so black it looked blue, but actual blue dye) and a woman with blonde and neon pink hair.
There was a guy playing the harmonica outside Broadway.
I just ate at Au Bon Pain because everything else I saw was mucho grande upscaleski and I couldn't be fucked to walk all the way across Boston Common and back to find a food cart.
So yeah, Upon Enchanted Ground (Hovhannes, 1951) is inspired by Indian music, done with the rather unorthodox and completely-incomprehendable-to-amy-chua ensemble of harp, flute, cello, and giant tam tam. It doesn't sound particularly Indian to me. If anything, it sounds east Asian. It's beautiful, whatever it is.
66 Times: the Voice of Pines and Cedars (Shih-Hui Chen, 2006) makes me think of Gormenghast: A Fantasy Opera or perhaps a chamber orchestra's equivalent of Orange Zero by Movietone, a soprano singing translated 10th century Japanese poetry (and an 18th century poem) to dissonant musical phrases, with quite a bit of percussion. All four poems are about nature, each represents a different season. It begins and ends with autumn.
Beethoven's Sonata no 5. in F Major for piano and violin (1801) and Bruckner's String Quintet in F Major (1879) were a lot more traditional, though they must have seemed as strange as Chen and Hovhannes in their day. The Bruckner is much like a symphony with only strings and far fewer musicians. The program says there's a harp in there but I think that's a mistake, because I don't think the harp was being played in a side room or anything. It's just two violins, two violas, and a cello.
The Beethoven piece has a one-minute scherzo.
There were concerts by the Chameleon Arts Ensemble that I wish I could have seen but I only recently found out about them.
I'd be lying if I said enough about moonlight. The moon was gibbous and yellow.
If this is less coherent than I thought it was when writing this, I woke up at 5:59 AM on Saturday and it's 12:40 AM on Sunday, and that's why. At least I'm not writing grand with a k, GREEK WIKIPEDIA.
burning question: In what setting would you be most likely to abuse a working train horn?
