the mercy of sound
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yamamanama13 days until the Vernal Equinox
I can hear Daphnis et Chloe in the Rapsodie espagnole. It's broken up into a slow and chromatic and atmospheric Prélude à la nuit; the Malagueña, a triple-meter flamenco; a restrained Habanera; a festive Feria.
Manuel de Falla's Night in the Gardens of Spain is more dreamlike, more ethereal, more nocturnal, uses different instrumentation including a piano and less percussion. It's broken up into a "In the Generalife," a distant dance, and "in the gardens the Sierra de Córdoba."
I thought the pianist was a kid but he was short and I was distant.
Cursory research tells me Chopin's Nocturne no. 20 wasn't composed while he lived in Majorca; it was composed in 1830, although it wasn't published until after his death.
L'heure espagnole is a farcical opera in one act. In 18th century Toledo, the muleteer Ramiro shows up at Torquemada's shop to have his watch fulfilled because he really needs it to collect post and because it saved his toreador father's life somehow. Torquemada's wife reminds him that since it's Thursday, he needs to wind all the city clocks, but this is just a ruse, as her lover Gonzalve, a poet and a really terrible one at that, is due to show up. She has Ramiro carry a clock upstairs to get him out of the way and then move the clock downstairs and get the other one. But unbeknownst to her, Don Inigo showed up and hid in the other clock. She muses on how inadequate Gonsalve and his bad poetry and Don Inigo and his pathetic attempts at flirtation are and starts to become attracted to Ramiro. Gonzalve discovers Don Inigo stuck in the other clock and Torquemada returns home, happy to have two new customers. Inigo pretends to be examining the inside of the clock, and the three of them try to pull Inigo out of the clock but can't, so Ramiro pulls him out on his own.
They said the concert would begin around 8 and end around 10:10. It ended at 10:13 according to my iPod so I guess they factored in Chopin's nocturne and wheeling in the piano and rearranging everything.
***
Olivia recognized the pen I was using and said it's her favorite kind of pen.
Olivia isn't an artist but her friend Belle, who knew that I was drawing her, is.
I was hesitant. She asked if it was about her face and it wasn't; it's about the fact that I'm getting off at the next station but what the hell, I can do this even if she is smiling a toothy grin.
It came out pretty good, actually.
Ashley told me that people think she and Brooke are sisters. Maybe it's because I'm noticing things like the shape of the face and facial features more but I don't think they look alike.
They don't look alike in my drawings because Ashley is viewed from the side and Brooke is viewed from the front.
I think that Charlotte and a different Ashley were sisters.
I drew someone in the other train car because I really wanted to fill up my sketchbook instead of ending up with a blank page.
burning question: Did the devil take her? Did the devil decide on a red carnation or a red-blooded bride? He's been up her ankle, and he's taken his treat, and he's eaten apples full of poison lily.
I can hear Daphnis et Chloe in the Rapsodie espagnole. It's broken up into a slow and chromatic and atmospheric Prélude à la nuit; the Malagueña, a triple-meter flamenco; a restrained Habanera; a festive Feria.
Manuel de Falla's Night in the Gardens of Spain is more dreamlike, more ethereal, more nocturnal, uses different instrumentation including a piano and less percussion. It's broken up into a "In the Generalife," a distant dance, and "in the gardens the Sierra de Córdoba."
I thought the pianist was a kid but he was short and I was distant.
Cursory research tells me Chopin's Nocturne no. 20 wasn't composed while he lived in Majorca; it was composed in 1830, although it wasn't published until after his death.
L'heure espagnole is a farcical opera in one act. In 18th century Toledo, the muleteer Ramiro shows up at Torquemada's shop to have his watch fulfilled because he really needs it to collect post and because it saved his toreador father's life somehow. Torquemada's wife reminds him that since it's Thursday, he needs to wind all the city clocks, but this is just a ruse, as her lover Gonzalve, a poet and a really terrible one at that, is due to show up. She has Ramiro carry a clock upstairs to get him out of the way and then move the clock downstairs and get the other one. But unbeknownst to her, Don Inigo showed up and hid in the other clock. She muses on how inadequate Gonsalve and his bad poetry and Don Inigo and his pathetic attempts at flirtation are and starts to become attracted to Ramiro. Gonzalve discovers Don Inigo stuck in the other clock and Torquemada returns home, happy to have two new customers. Inigo pretends to be examining the inside of the clock, and the three of them try to pull Inigo out of the clock but can't, so Ramiro pulls him out on his own.
They said the concert would begin around 8 and end around 10:10. It ended at 10:13 according to my iPod so I guess they factored in Chopin's nocturne and wheeling in the piano and rearranging everything.
***
Olivia recognized the pen I was using and said it's her favorite kind of pen.
Olivia isn't an artist but her friend Belle, who knew that I was drawing her, is.
I was hesitant. She asked if it was about her face and it wasn't; it's about the fact that I'm getting off at the next station but what the hell, I can do this even if she is smiling a toothy grin.
It came out pretty good, actually.
Ashley told me that people think she and Brooke are sisters. Maybe it's because I'm noticing things like the shape of the face and facial features more but I don't think they look alike.
They don't look alike in my drawings because Ashley is viewed from the side and Brooke is viewed from the front.
I think that Charlotte and a different Ashley were sisters.
I drew someone in the other train car because I really wanted to fill up my sketchbook instead of ending up with a blank page.
burning question: Did the devil take her? Did the devil decide on a red carnation or a red-blooded bride? He's been up her ankle, and he's taken his treat, and he's eaten apples full of poison lily.
