bid them dance and bid them sing
Jul. 23rd, 2015 10:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yamamanamaI had the worst lovesickness when this was playing and could barely concentrate or notice said flash-forwards to Lincoln Portrait, Rodeo, and Billy The Kid in El salón México. She might have disappeared in the crowd, or maybe she's off rescuing her cat from a spacetime anomaly. I'm hoping I see her next week and I'll more than likely see her the week after. I feel like I can't wait forever for her but in the meanwhile, I'll just try to enjoy being single for a little while longer.
The fact that her name is Gabriela Lena Frank didn't help. ll in Spanish is like the Hungarian ly. But I thought G was H, like gila monster. It's Gabrielė in Lithuanian, except with a dot over the e to distinguish it from the Italian (male) Gabriele.
She's of Peruvian/Chinese and Lithuanian Jewish decent.
She wrote three American dances, only two of which were performed, one a homage to Bernstein's West Side Story with Amazonian rhythms and harmonies, one a melange of indigenous, African, and European brass bands.
Alice Gomez wrote a homage to Perez Prado and they're three types of mambos.
Music from the soundtrack of a 1930s movie in which they dance on the wings of an airplane, a dancer falls off and the other plane rescues her, or something, wasn't in the program but they played it in honor of someone who was leaving for some place that isn't Rio.
Gonzalo Grau wrote a suite of Peruvian music, the booklet compared the slow-tempo sensual Landó to something marinated in spices and creams and aji. The second movement is a Peruvian waltz, compared to something called chupe. the third is a festejo, based on the traditional El Alcatraz, which actually means The Pelican, and the island prison is in fact named for the pelicans on the island. This is compared to ceviche and the sweetness from corn and batatas and the sharpness of raw onions and hod peppers.
I wholeheartedly recommend ceviche, by the way. Never had the others. I'm not sure I'd be into chupe but maybe you'll like it.
It's a world premiere so don't expect to find this anywhere else.
Alex Alvear, leader of the fourth consecutive (actually third; one of them didn't happen. Look up the sugar festival if you're interested) Fiesta sinfónica, wrote Diva (a somewhat melancholic pasillo) and Flor de Kikuyo (an albazo, named for a grass native to east Africa that has been relentless in its colonization of the Ecuadorian Andes. The grass is named for the Agĩkũyũ people, it's not a coincidence at all) to keep in touch with his Ecuadorian roots.
I think Viaje has some new stuff. The notes say that two new countries were added to Viaje. Maybe Venezuela's new. I'm pretty sure Brazil and it's Sexy Dance Fighting (aka capoeira) were included in last year's program but I really can't be fucked to check and that has nothing to do with my current mood. Alas, dancing is only a temporary palliative for the aching soul.
I don't know what the encore was.
I danced with a dog. My dog would never let me do that. He just doesn't like anyone touching his paws.
This is remarkable in that all the music played is less than 100 years old.
A squirrel was eating from the trash can and posing like a prairie dog.
I honestly don't think the people I sketched spoke English. Some of them were speaking French, I think one of them was speaking Portuguese (her friends were sitting on a Brazil flag beach towel). Some of them were from Germany but spoke enough English to ask for a photograph.
I tried to sketch someone named Sarah according to her necklace but she got off. Another woman sat down, got off as I was sketching her. Lovely.
I think someone had a pangolin tattoo. A woman with a blind dog had what looked like a Russian-Byzantine icon on her arm and streaks of violet and blue in her hair.
As the story goes, "we have light years to go before we sleep." I'm not sure what story it was, but I'm pretty sure it was in a Bruce Coville anthology.
EDIT: I was right about the Bruce Coville part: it's a line from The Search For Snout.
But I swear that Robert Frost homage was used elsewhere, maybe in Alien Promises or The very long distance wrong number.
Burning Question: what would you put inside a space taco?
The fact that her name is Gabriela Lena Frank didn't help. ll in Spanish is like the Hungarian ly. But I thought G was H, like gila monster. It's Gabrielė in Lithuanian, except with a dot over the e to distinguish it from the Italian (male) Gabriele.
She's of Peruvian/Chinese and Lithuanian Jewish decent.
She wrote three American dances, only two of which were performed, one a homage to Bernstein's West Side Story with Amazonian rhythms and harmonies, one a melange of indigenous, African, and European brass bands.
Alice Gomez wrote a homage to Perez Prado and they're three types of mambos.
Music from the soundtrack of a 1930s movie in which they dance on the wings of an airplane, a dancer falls off and the other plane rescues her, or something, wasn't in the program but they played it in honor of someone who was leaving for some place that isn't Rio.
Gonzalo Grau wrote a suite of Peruvian music, the booklet compared the slow-tempo sensual Landó to something marinated in spices and creams and aji. The second movement is a Peruvian waltz, compared to something called chupe. the third is a festejo, based on the traditional El Alcatraz, which actually means The Pelican, and the island prison is in fact named for the pelicans on the island. This is compared to ceviche and the sweetness from corn and batatas and the sharpness of raw onions and hod peppers.
I wholeheartedly recommend ceviche, by the way. Never had the others. I'm not sure I'd be into chupe but maybe you'll like it.
It's a world premiere so don't expect to find this anywhere else.
Alex Alvear, leader of the fourth consecutive (actually third; one of them didn't happen. Look up the sugar festival if you're interested) Fiesta sinfónica, wrote Diva (a somewhat melancholic pasillo) and Flor de Kikuyo (an albazo, named for a grass native to east Africa that has been relentless in its colonization of the Ecuadorian Andes. The grass is named for the Agĩkũyũ people, it's not a coincidence at all) to keep in touch with his Ecuadorian roots.
I think Viaje has some new stuff. The notes say that two new countries were added to Viaje. Maybe Venezuela's new. I'm pretty sure Brazil and it's Sexy Dance Fighting (aka capoeira) were included in last year's program but I really can't be fucked to check and that has nothing to do with my current mood. Alas, dancing is only a temporary palliative for the aching soul.
I don't know what the encore was.
I danced with a dog. My dog would never let me do that. He just doesn't like anyone touching his paws.
This is remarkable in that all the music played is less than 100 years old.
A squirrel was eating from the trash can and posing like a prairie dog.
I honestly don't think the people I sketched spoke English. Some of them were speaking French, I think one of them was speaking Portuguese (her friends were sitting on a Brazil flag beach towel). Some of them were from Germany but spoke enough English to ask for a photograph.
I tried to sketch someone named Sarah according to her necklace but she got off. Another woman sat down, got off as I was sketching her. Lovely.
I think someone had a pangolin tattoo. A woman with a blind dog had what looked like a Russian-Byzantine icon on her arm and streaks of violet and blue in her hair.
As the story goes, "we have light years to go before we sleep." I'm not sure what story it was, but I'm pretty sure it was in a Bruce Coville anthology.
EDIT: I was right about the Bruce Coville part: it's a line from The Search For Snout.
But I swear that Robert Frost homage was used elsewhere, maybe in Alien Promises or The very long distance wrong number.
Burning Question: what would you put inside a space taco?
