of spirits voices ecstatic

[yamamanama]

The people involved with the first concert provided descriptions. Danica is a soprano and Rasa is a pianist. Danica fell in love with the German language and performed An die Musik and Die Forelle by Franz Schubert, Auf Flügeln des Gesanges by Felix Mendelssohn, Wei Melodien zieht es mir by Johannes Brahms. Then she talked about Norway and her experiences at a rainy concert in Bergen, where it apparently rains all the time, and sung Edvard Greig's Våren, which is about longing for spring, and then Rasa played the Grande valse brillante by Chopin, and then Danica sang two songs by a brother and brother duo from Italy, Come l'alldoletta, because apparently Latin just took the Gaulish word for skylark, alauda, and Luoghi sereni e cari, and the page's aria from The Marriage of Figaro, and a song written during World War, because she studied and teaches English literature and apparently her students don't know much about World War I. They probably know about Princip and they know about America joining the war in 1917, about the Rose of No Man's Land, which is a red cross nurse, and then a sing-a-long to two musical revues written around the time of the war, and then two Broadway songs.
It's hard to sing along when you've never heard the song before.
They were all spring-themed for an unseasonably cold day. It was good, aside from I think a guy in the audience was turning into a werewolf.

There was a woman with a tattoo of twinned infinity symbols and the letter A.

Sean met someone who draws people through a roommate. I don't know any Barbara, though. Someone asked him if he knew who Billy Idol is. I thought he looked like David Bowie. He wanted to dress as Prompto from Final Fantasy XV but his hair got too long for that.

I tried the albaloo polo. Polo, surprisingly, does not mean chicken in Farsi, it means pilaf, while albaloo means cherry. It's made with chicken, rice, sour cherries, and some spies that Wikipedia tells me is advieh and saffron, and Wikipedia tells me that advieh is a spice mix that may or may not include turmeric, cinnamon, cardamom, cloves, rose petals, rose buds, cumin, ginger, golpar, saffron, nutmeg, black pepper, mace, coriander, or sesame. I've never had Tibetan or other central Asian cuisine, and the only thing I know is that Tibetans have superstitions about pretty much every herb and will use halal meat, so I imagine Iranian as like the missing link between Indian cuisine and Arab cuisine, rather than a missing link between Indian and Central Asian.

Alexandra Green-something was promoting her recital with Mad Libs and a drawing in crayolas done with her non-dominant hand.

I got a really good seat. I just ended up with a ticket because someone couldn't go and my aunt was like "hey, maybe you'd like this." And then the second guy fell ill. Lawrence Brownlee said he picked Dichterliebe because of that. The booklet explains nothing. I guess I'm spoiled by programs that include background information on what they're playing.
Lieder is typically arranged for one singer accompanied by piano but not necessarily, especially later on with the advent of orchestral lieder, or earlier, before the piano was invented.
Dichterliebe is a song cycle of 16 Heinrich Heine poems, most about spring and flowers and longing, set to music by Robert Schumann, whom I always mix up with Franz Schubert. Myra Huáng played The Entertainer while he got a drink of water.
Ah! mes amis, quel jour de fête is from La fille du régiment (they missed the accent on this), and Je crois entendre encore is from Les Pêcheurs de Perles. My guess is that they were planning Au fond du temple saint. I'm not sure what the intended program was. Google's being a jerkwad about caching. I swear, you could ask some Google employee and he'd be like "I have no idea how any of this stuff works. We just mine data." The old page is on the Internet Archive but it's so old that I doubt the program was even conceived then. The old page redirects me.
He finished with four spirituals, one dedicated to his son.
There were two encores, one of which I believe is a Mozart area and one a tribute to Nat King Cole and others.

I think I pointed this out before but spell check gets really confused when I use French words.

Someone asked her friend Julianna asked to toss some gummy candies across the railway trench and a guy asked if they could just take a Braintree train instead because they missed the Alewife train and I'm thinking that maybe he could get to his destination if he knew how to reverse spacetime.

There were interesting people to draw on the way home but there was a Bruins game and so the red line was too crowded and it was one of the older trains and it was too noisy to really talk to anyone, and for some reason, the Green Line train had only one car to it rather than the standard new car attached to a refurbished old car. The people who saw the drawings liked them but we ended up separated.

I met a woman with abyssopelagic-mesopelagic-bathypelagic blue hair who carries around a bottle of hand sanitizer clipped to her jacket because it always helps to be prepared.

burning question: how are there people who were born in the 1980s who are posting on Kiwi Farms? Grow the fuck up.