pastoral drone
Apr. 3rd, 2016 09:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yamamanamaScathiel is like "lol nope." He's not particularly sophisticated. After all, he likes to freeze pretty flowers so that nobody else can enjoy them.
Thinking I was going to lose power due to a snowstorm, I posted this around 12:44 and set it to show up at 9:44. That didn't happen, even though everything is a weird sort of frozen and there are bits of ice falling from nowhere.
Basically, you get a few minor details and miss out on some spelling errors and other typos.
There was a man with a milky blue curly mohawk waiting for a B train.
Brenna, who is not the same Brenna from a few weeks ago, kept twirling around when I was trying to draw her but mostly made smiles and dewy eyes at me after she saw her portrait. I was so distracted that I almost missed my stop.
A woman with vivid purple hair and a woman with milky pink streaks in her hair walked by as I was eating, along with a girl with a bubble wand.
The pianist used every key on that piano and spent a lot of time playing rapid-fire sequences of nearby keys. Between the first and second movement, everyone stopped to take a coughing break, but the second and third movements had no discrete boundary. There was no encore, but he did troll us. Maybe he was just tired after playing that.
Mahler's first symphony was composed in 1887 and 1888, premiered in 1889 with five movements, and premiered in 1898 in the four movement form we know today. Originally, the second movement was a Blumine, which is never played with the symphony as a whole but there are recordings out there. Originally, the symphony was broken up into From the days of youth, "flower, fruit, and thorn pieces." and Commedia umana, which explains the jarringness. Originally, it was a symphonic poem, not a symphony.
The first movement is pastoral and described as langsam, schleppend, which translates to "slowly and dragging," which really isn't apt. It contains birdsong and distant hunting horns and fanfares. Second movement continues the pastoral feel, in a Landler and trio.
The third movement is a funeral march based on the children's song Frère Jacques, or Bruder Jakob to German speakers, or Are You Sleeping, Brother John to English speakers, played in a round, of course. Nevermind that John and Jacques are not related, despite John being derived from Jochannan. Later in the movement, there's some klezmer and a melody from Songs of a Wayfarer and then a klezmer funeral march when the three ideas unify and then fall apart.
The fourth movement, much like Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, quotes the other movements and that includes the Blumine. Mahler described it as the cry of a wounded heart.
It was a critical failure. There's a caricature from a Hungarian newspaper with the caption "hatàs" or "effect" and I have no idea why "reklam" or "advertisement" is written on the drum but the tuba Gustav is sitting on is spewing out dogs and dancing rabbits and cats and a rooster and even a boar grabbing some other animal by the tail. The audience was horrified.
After the concert, someone brought up the Rite of Spring and the riots it caused.
At Symphony station someone posed the question "who do you prefer, Beethoven or Mahler?" to her friend. She prefers Mahler's scale, but really, they're both different moods. One of her eyes is blue. One of her eyes is mostly blue but there's a splotch of brown on the lower part.
Her friend plays piano but since she lives in a dinky apartment, it was downgraded to keyboard, and teaches math. I'm not particularly well-versed on the state of education but most problems stem from a combination of lead and people who don't want to pay for it.
She's seen Mahler's second symphony, with the BSO and with the London Symphony Orchestra.
Neither of them are artists.
She asked me if I drew anything besides portraits and I told her about how I want to get back into sculpting and she said that's really hard to do on a train.
I'd say Kate is from the Carolina who's capital isn't Charlotte but that applies to both Carolinas. I agree with whoever said that Charlotte should become the capital of Best Carolina because their governor has been pushing anti-GBLT laws. No burning question about that because the proper order always includes BLT.
I thought she was British, but maybe I just suck at accent identification, or maybe she spent some time in England, or maybe I thought she was with the German speaking people.
At Park Street, one woman said "it's a bird, its a plane, it's a mouse." and her friend wondered how anyone could possibly mistake a rat for a bird. Then they realized they were waiting on the wrong side of the platform.
On the way home, there was a woman with blue hair who held a broken drumstick.
burning question: If the USA broke up USSR style, what would be the equivalent of Turkmenistan? All I know is that New England would be Ukraine, if only because the first thing New York would do is try to annex any Yankees fan territory in Connecticut.
Thinking I was going to lose power due to a snowstorm, I posted this around 12:44 and set it to show up at 9:44. That didn't happen, even though everything is a weird sort of frozen and there are bits of ice falling from nowhere.
Basically, you get a few minor details and miss out on some spelling errors and other typos.
There was a man with a milky blue curly mohawk waiting for a B train.
Brenna, who is not the same Brenna from a few weeks ago, kept twirling around when I was trying to draw her but mostly made smiles and dewy eyes at me after she saw her portrait. I was so distracted that I almost missed my stop.
A woman with vivid purple hair and a woman with milky pink streaks in her hair walked by as I was eating, along with a girl with a bubble wand.
The pianist used every key on that piano and spent a lot of time playing rapid-fire sequences of nearby keys. Between the first and second movement, everyone stopped to take a coughing break, but the second and third movements had no discrete boundary. There was no encore, but he did troll us. Maybe he was just tired after playing that.
Mahler's first symphony was composed in 1887 and 1888, premiered in 1889 with five movements, and premiered in 1898 in the four movement form we know today. Originally, the second movement was a Blumine, which is never played with the symphony as a whole but there are recordings out there. Originally, the symphony was broken up into From the days of youth, "flower, fruit, and thorn pieces." and Commedia umana, which explains the jarringness. Originally, it was a symphonic poem, not a symphony.
The first movement is pastoral and described as langsam, schleppend, which translates to "slowly and dragging," which really isn't apt. It contains birdsong and distant hunting horns and fanfares. Second movement continues the pastoral feel, in a Landler and trio.
The third movement is a funeral march based on the children's song Frère Jacques, or Bruder Jakob to German speakers, or Are You Sleeping, Brother John to English speakers, played in a round, of course. Nevermind that John and Jacques are not related, despite John being derived from Jochannan. Later in the movement, there's some klezmer and a melody from Songs of a Wayfarer and then a klezmer funeral march when the three ideas unify and then fall apart.
The fourth movement, much like Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, quotes the other movements and that includes the Blumine. Mahler described it as the cry of a wounded heart.
It was a critical failure. There's a caricature from a Hungarian newspaper with the caption "hatàs" or "effect" and I have no idea why "reklam" or "advertisement" is written on the drum but the tuba Gustav is sitting on is spewing out dogs and dancing rabbits and cats and a rooster and even a boar grabbing some other animal by the tail. The audience was horrified.
After the concert, someone brought up the Rite of Spring and the riots it caused.
At Symphony station someone posed the question "who do you prefer, Beethoven or Mahler?" to her friend. She prefers Mahler's scale, but really, they're both different moods. One of her eyes is blue. One of her eyes is mostly blue but there's a splotch of brown on the lower part.
Her friend plays piano but since she lives in a dinky apartment, it was downgraded to keyboard, and teaches math. I'm not particularly well-versed on the state of education but most problems stem from a combination of lead and people who don't want to pay for it.
She's seen Mahler's second symphony, with the BSO and with the London Symphony Orchestra.
Neither of them are artists.
She asked me if I drew anything besides portraits and I told her about how I want to get back into sculpting and she said that's really hard to do on a train.
I'd say Kate is from the Carolina who's capital isn't Charlotte but that applies to both Carolinas. I agree with whoever said that Charlotte should become the capital of Best Carolina because their governor has been pushing anti-GBLT laws. No burning question about that because the proper order always includes BLT.
I thought she was British, but maybe I just suck at accent identification, or maybe she spent some time in England, or maybe I thought she was with the German speaking people.
At Park Street, one woman said "it's a bird, its a plane, it's a mouse." and her friend wondered how anyone could possibly mistake a rat for a bird. Then they realized they were waiting on the wrong side of the platform.
On the way home, there was a woman with blue hair who held a broken drumstick.
burning question: If the USA broke up USSR style, what would be the equivalent of Turkmenistan? All I know is that New England would be Ukraine, if only because the first thing New York would do is try to annex any Yankees fan territory in Connecticut.
