music for a summer evening
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yamamanamaNothing has changed but everything. Lulu's Sweet Shoppe has been replaced with a gourmet dog treats place but in turn, something was replaced by Lulu's Sweet Shoppe. She said that it's been about six months and that she liked my shirt. The barriers around the concert are gone and my mind was blown and everything is beautiful for this moment. The dragonflies were hovering about protecting us from mosquito terror but the threat of goose terror still loomed. Whatever project was going on near the footbridge is in the same state it was in last year and it has literally gone to seed.
I had to ask Kaitlyn how to spell her name and then as an afterthought, I asked how to spell Rebekka's, who says she spells her name like that to rebel. She has a pug named Otis.
A woman has short bright orange hair.
A man's shirt said "don't blame me, I'm from Massachusetts," which I believe originated during the presidency of Richard Nixon, which makes sense, as Trump basically combines the worst qualities of Nixon with the worst qualities of Bush.
A woman has tattoos from the Aeneid. I think it was this line:
Tempus erat quo prima quies mortalibus aegris
Incipit et dono divum gratissima serpit.
But since I don't speak Latin or want to type all of that without autocorrect stymieing me on every word, I'm not quite sure.
Gabriella brought her friend Theresa. While she was waiting for her and asking how Artbeat went, I thought she may have meant someone I knew. And maybe I did know her, I mean, it's been 14 years since I graduated and I'm bad with names anyway.
Theresa plays French horn, which, unlike the English horn is an actual type of horn.
There's a tuxedo cat (Nabucco is safe at home) that has been occasionally hanging out around Holly. She named the cat Mary Jane although she's not sure what sex it is and isn't going to get close enough to find out. Whatever, there are girls named Ashley and Hope and Jade.
Gabriella might be interested in Celestis.
The day I take Ashley to a concert is the day I'll...
Feel free to either do something fanciful the day I take Ashley to a concert or suggest something fanciful for me to do.
Ralph Vaughan Williams - English Folk Song Suite
Opens with an amorous encounter in the countryside, segues into a plaintive melody, and then to a folk song from Somerset, which I believe was also adapted by Gustav Holst.
Frederick Delius - Summer Evening
This is one of three unfinished compositions by Delius. The other two are Spring Morning and Winter Night.
Peggy Stuart Coolidge - The Blue Planet
A three minute orchestral version was used as the World Wildlife Fund's theme and later on, she created a ten minute version with a poem of reverence and yet alarm by her husband. The end of the poem was posted in the booklet but for some reason it wasn't read on stage.
Knoxville, Summer of 1915 - Samuel Barber
In a way, this reminds me of Fern Hill. It's not set to a poem and it's sung by a solo soprano.
Apparently she was at the performance of Mahler's second symphony I saw. I don't know, though, when I wrote that, it wasn't about exactly who played, it's about how I'm an optimist, even if Laci Green still sucks and even if people who follow her are abandoning feminism, but there are people who still believe in just causes. Cassandra said that the most heartening thing about the women's march was the number of preteens marching.
I told Holly that maybe European youth are more conservative but we're definitely not. Nobody wants to be Dan Simmons.
Giuseppe Verdi - Les Vêpres siciliennes - Winter and Summer
Winter because it's winter in Argentina and Rand McNally, but not Spring and not Autumn because it isn't those seasons anywhere. Winter is raucous because "the best way to keep warm is by dancing"
Edward Elgar - Enigma Variations
I - C.AE. - a four-note motif Elgar would whistle to his wife Caroline.
II - H.D.S-P. - 16th note passages
III - R.B.T - a low voice that would occasionally fly off into soprano. A caricature of an old man in an amateur theatre production.
IV - W.M.B. - written after he had read out the arrangements for the day and then left the room with a bang of the door.
V - R.P.A. - a serious piece broken up by whimsical and witty remarks, much like this journal. Or maybe it's the other way around.
VI - C.A.E. - An exercise for violin
VII - Troyte - an effort to make something like order out of chaos and then a despairing slam as the effort turned out to be in vain.
VIII - W.N. - a portrait of Sherridge.
IX - Nimrod - There are far too many people making this about jingoism. Augustus Jäger wasn't even English, damn it. They were discussing Beethoven's slow movements.
X - Dorabella - she would stutter.
XI - G.R.S. - "set this to music: my bulldog fell into the river Wye, paddled upstream to find a place to get out, and barked triumphantly when he got out." He did.
XII - B.G.N. - a tribute to his friend's scientific and artistic achievements.
XIII - (Romanza:Moderato) *** - Lady Mary Lygon, or maybe someone else, was away on a sea voyage. Drums suggest the engine of a distant ocean liner and the clarinet quotes Mendelssohn's Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage.
XIV - E.D.U. - Caroline's nickname for Edward. Themes from C.A.E. and Nimrod entwine.
A cicada joined in with its electric buzz.
If they weren't so long already, maybe I'd include Fern Hill or Prokofiev's Summer Night Suite or some Cowell.
They all had this pastoral and numinous but somewhat melancholic quality to them and maybe it would be more suited to the last week.
Lia is a nice name too. Usually I default to Lia but then I meat Leah. Lia isn't Italian, she's French, where it's Léa or it's Leá when appended with Monde, and in Irish, it was never really used there but if you wanted te, it's Léá with accents over both letters. I did learn that the Irish word for heather is Fraoch and is used as a man's name. There's also Liath, pronounced the same way as Leah, and it means grey. I also found out that Dana pronounced Danna is an Irish name. Makes sense. I know for a fact that there were Jews in Ireland.
A man requested that I draw his girlfriend from a photograph on his phone. Maybe he saw the sketchbook or maybe I have a reputation. It's different drawing from photographs or memories.
I drew a woman with rose tattoos on her arm and silvery-blue hair.
burning question: out of all the hills Laci Green could choose to figuratively die on, why the gender debate? Even if people do believe there are only two genders, how are people who identify outside of male/female hurt them?
I had to ask Kaitlyn how to spell her name and then as an afterthought, I asked how to spell Rebekka's, who says she spells her name like that to rebel. She has a pug named Otis.
A woman has short bright orange hair.
A man's shirt said "don't blame me, I'm from Massachusetts," which I believe originated during the presidency of Richard Nixon, which makes sense, as Trump basically combines the worst qualities of Nixon with the worst qualities of Bush.
A woman has tattoos from the Aeneid. I think it was this line:
Tempus erat quo prima quies mortalibus aegris
Incipit et dono divum gratissima serpit.
But since I don't speak Latin or want to type all of that without autocorrect stymieing me on every word, I'm not quite sure.
Gabriella brought her friend Theresa. While she was waiting for her and asking how Artbeat went, I thought she may have meant someone I knew. And maybe I did know her, I mean, it's been 14 years since I graduated and I'm bad with names anyway.
Theresa plays French horn, which, unlike the English horn is an actual type of horn.
There's a tuxedo cat (Nabucco is safe at home) that has been occasionally hanging out around Holly. She named the cat Mary Jane although she's not sure what sex it is and isn't going to get close enough to find out. Whatever, there are girls named Ashley and Hope and Jade.
Gabriella might be interested in Celestis.
The day I take Ashley to a concert is the day I'll...
Feel free to either do something fanciful the day I take Ashley to a concert or suggest something fanciful for me to do.
Ralph Vaughan Williams - English Folk Song Suite
Opens with an amorous encounter in the countryside, segues into a plaintive melody, and then to a folk song from Somerset, which I believe was also adapted by Gustav Holst.
Frederick Delius - Summer Evening
This is one of three unfinished compositions by Delius. The other two are Spring Morning and Winter Night.
Peggy Stuart Coolidge - The Blue Planet
A three minute orchestral version was used as the World Wildlife Fund's theme and later on, she created a ten minute version with a poem of reverence and yet alarm by her husband. The end of the poem was posted in the booklet but for some reason it wasn't read on stage.
Knoxville, Summer of 1915 - Samuel Barber
In a way, this reminds me of Fern Hill. It's not set to a poem and it's sung by a solo soprano.
Apparently she was at the performance of Mahler's second symphony I saw. I don't know, though, when I wrote that, it wasn't about exactly who played, it's about how I'm an optimist, even if Laci Green still sucks and even if people who follow her are abandoning feminism, but there are people who still believe in just causes. Cassandra said that the most heartening thing about the women's march was the number of preteens marching.
I told Holly that maybe European youth are more conservative but we're definitely not. Nobody wants to be Dan Simmons.
Giuseppe Verdi - Les Vêpres siciliennes - Winter and Summer
Winter because it's winter in Argentina and Rand McNally, but not Spring and not Autumn because it isn't those seasons anywhere. Winter is raucous because "the best way to keep warm is by dancing"
Edward Elgar - Enigma Variations
I - C.AE. - a four-note motif Elgar would whistle to his wife Caroline.
II - H.D.S-P. - 16th note passages
III - R.B.T - a low voice that would occasionally fly off into soprano. A caricature of an old man in an amateur theatre production.
IV - W.M.B. - written after he had read out the arrangements for the day and then left the room with a bang of the door.
V - R.P.A. - a serious piece broken up by whimsical and witty remarks, much like this journal. Or maybe it's the other way around.
VI - C.A.E. - An exercise for violin
VII - Troyte - an effort to make something like order out of chaos and then a despairing slam as the effort turned out to be in vain.
VIII - W.N. - a portrait of Sherridge.
IX - Nimrod - There are far too many people making this about jingoism. Augustus Jäger wasn't even English, damn it. They were discussing Beethoven's slow movements.
X - Dorabella - she would stutter.
XI - G.R.S. - "set this to music: my bulldog fell into the river Wye, paddled upstream to find a place to get out, and barked triumphantly when he got out." He did.
XII - B.G.N. - a tribute to his friend's scientific and artistic achievements.
XIII - (Romanza:Moderato) *** - Lady Mary Lygon, or maybe someone else, was away on a sea voyage. Drums suggest the engine of a distant ocean liner and the clarinet quotes Mendelssohn's Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage.
XIV - E.D.U. - Caroline's nickname for Edward. Themes from C.A.E. and Nimrod entwine.
A cicada joined in with its electric buzz.
If they weren't so long already, maybe I'd include Fern Hill or Prokofiev's Summer Night Suite or some Cowell.
They all had this pastoral and numinous but somewhat melancholic quality to them and maybe it would be more suited to the last week.
Lia is a nice name too. Usually I default to Lia but then I meat Leah. Lia isn't Italian, she's French, where it's Léa or it's Leá when appended with Monde, and in Irish, it was never really used there but if you wanted te, it's Léá with accents over both letters. I did learn that the Irish word for heather is Fraoch and is used as a man's name. There's also Liath, pronounced the same way as Leah, and it means grey. I also found out that Dana pronounced Danna is an Irish name. Makes sense. I know for a fact that there were Jews in Ireland.
A man requested that I draw his girlfriend from a photograph on his phone. Maybe he saw the sketchbook or maybe I have a reputation. It's different drawing from photographs or memories.
I drew a woman with rose tattoos on her arm and silvery-blue hair.
burning question: out of all the hills Laci Green could choose to figuratively die on, why the gender debate? Even if people do believe there are only two genders, how are people who identify outside of male/female hurt them?
