where words fail, music speaks
Apr. 24th, 2017 12:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yamamanamaBox Of Birds, or at least, half of Box Of Birds was playing on the Boston Common. From a distance, Steph's voice reminded me of the band Orange and so I set off to find the source. From up close, it's Steph and Charlie on acoustic guitars and vocals and Steph on melodica and harmonica and some kind of metallophone. They played some covers, which they don't normally do and they played a song they were working on "right now, well, not right now right now."
La finta giardiniera is an opera Mozart wrote when he was 18 and it's not his first opera. There's a plot summary on Wikipedia and it reaches Shakespeare comedy levels of complexity so just go there. I think that Mithridates opera mentioned in the Requiem booklet was by Mozart. The Cavalier Ramiro was played by a castrato in the 18th century but is now played by a countertenor, a rather androgynous-looking fellow with a painted-on mustache who appears to identify as a male according to the booklet. The other Ramiro is a woman soprano. The woman who played Serpetta had neon beetroot pink hair and I had to look this up, and I found out that henna, indigo, cassia, senna, turmeric, leeks, red ochre, leeks, walnut hulls, amia were all used even in ancient times but not beetroot. Synthetic dyes, however, weren't invented until the early 20th century. Not that this matters, as Arminda was dressed in extremely wide panniers because fashionable and well-to-do women of the late 18th century put emphasis on huge hips, a bright red vinyl skirt and black vinyl lace-up boots, in her hair a gilded birdcage with a red bird that was replaced with a black bird towards the end of the opera. Why, yes, people did actually wear taxidermied birds on their heads.
A woman on the train had rose tattoos and orange and black hair. There was a shih tzu as well who was totally chill about the whole thing. When I got home, I was hoping to say something akin to "what I say, I say in jealousy: eat a big dick dipped in aioli, France." Alas, it was not so. The runoff election in France will be Macron vs. Le Pen, not the best-case scenario of Macron vs. Melanchthon.
Christina says: I bet Jeff Sessions still believes the earth is flat too.
Laurie posed this.
Burning Question: Can you remember which piece of literature the government is beholden to, the Christian Bible or the Constitution?
Trick question, actually. It's The Camp of the Saints.
La finta giardiniera is an opera Mozart wrote when he was 18 and it's not his first opera. There's a plot summary on Wikipedia and it reaches Shakespeare comedy levels of complexity so just go there. I think that Mithridates opera mentioned in the Requiem booklet was by Mozart. The Cavalier Ramiro was played by a castrato in the 18th century but is now played by a countertenor, a rather androgynous-looking fellow with a painted-on mustache who appears to identify as a male according to the booklet. The other Ramiro is a woman soprano. The woman who played Serpetta had neon beetroot pink hair and I had to look this up, and I found out that henna, indigo, cassia, senna, turmeric, leeks, red ochre, leeks, walnut hulls, amia were all used even in ancient times but not beetroot. Synthetic dyes, however, weren't invented until the early 20th century. Not that this matters, as Arminda was dressed in extremely wide panniers because fashionable and well-to-do women of the late 18th century put emphasis on huge hips, a bright red vinyl skirt and black vinyl lace-up boots, in her hair a gilded birdcage with a red bird that was replaced with a black bird towards the end of the opera. Why, yes, people did actually wear taxidermied birds on their heads.
A woman on the train had rose tattoos and orange and black hair. There was a shih tzu as well who was totally chill about the whole thing. When I got home, I was hoping to say something akin to "what I say, I say in jealousy: eat a big dick dipped in aioli, France." Alas, it was not so. The runoff election in France will be Macron vs. Le Pen, not the best-case scenario of Macron vs. Melanchthon.
Christina says: I bet Jeff Sessions still believes the earth is flat too.
Laurie posed this.
Burning Question: Can you remember which piece of literature the government is beholden to, the Christian Bible or the Constitution?
Trick question, actually. It's The Camp of the Saints.
