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yamamanamaI didn't find what I wanted at Commonwealth Books or Brattle Books but I did find In Green's Jungles, which somehow eluded me when it was in print. Probably because in the book world, you have 18 months before you have to get it secondhand. Unless we're talking Mobile Book Fair. Or those times Amazon defers people to a third-party seller after less than a year.
I'm pretty sure if I come back to Brattle in three weeks, they'll have an entirely different selection. Except for Heinlein. The only people who would be interested in Number of the Beast or Time Enough For Love or Friday or Sixth Column or Farnham's Freehold are completionists. Hmm, spell check recognizes Protoss but not completionist.
For reasons known only to themselves, Verts is now known as Noon. That's not where I ate: I got a taco from Anna's because I was buying books as well.
I met a woman with a St. Christopher pendant and a dagger constellation of freckles above her eye. I saw a woman with pale thistle hair and cherry blossom tattoos and a man with bathypelagic blue hair.
The new footbridge was almost complete. It looked like it just needed to be paved and something needed to be done about a part where you'd have to limbo or crawl under the old footbridge.
Gabriella was dressed in midnight blue and afternoon blue and moonsilver instead of black and white.
Pomp and Circumstance (the name is a reference to Othello) is five marches. The first one is the most famous, played for Elgar's commencement and then used for pretty much every graduation in the USA ever. If you're in the Philippines or Latin America, you'll hear Gloria al'Egitto ad Iside/La marcia trionfale instead.
Festive Alleluiah by Lyn Williams is an a cappella work that to me evokes Poulenc’s Mass, and repeats the words “Alleluiah”. The Paulina Voices performed at the premiere of The Planets and they performed here. Holst was director of music at the St. Paul's Girls' School.
In the tradition of Arthur Fieldler, two bonus works were played: Summer Skies by Leroy Anderson and a choral work about some kind of bird flying south for the winter. I want to say it was crows but I’m sure anyone could tell you that crows are not migratory. Unless you’re really far north. So far north, in fact, that you’re in Canada.
I wrote it down. I just lost the paper. A few weeks ago, I found a note I meant to give to Ashley, which means it was a very long time ago, and used it as a bookmark in The Heart Of What Was Lost. Or I could just look up Andy Beck's choral music.
Clair de lune was written for piano and arranged for orchestra by Debussy's friend. According to the booklet, Claude Debussy died in 1915. No, he died on March the 25 of 1918, as Paris was being bombarded by the German Army, although it was colon cancer that killed him. It was raining.
Pegasus Promenade is their act of defiance against Trumpism. It's not as overt as the Commonwealth Shakespeare Company putting on Richard III and the Actors' Shakespeare Project putting on Julius Caesar, or the Boston Lyric Opera's performance of The Rape of Lucretia or The Handmaid's Tale. When they got the season's repertoire up, it was titled Constellations.
Pegasus is appropriate because Bellerophon is the first extrasolar planet discovered orbiting a main sequence star. There are planets out there that make Venus look like a day at the beach. Promenade is appropriate because it was inspired by Pictures at an Exhibition.
Aphrodite, represented by the sign Exodus: balance, romance, creativity. Jennifer says she wanted us to feel like we were walking on stars very happily. She sings and the girls’ choir provides wordless vocals.
Proteus, represented by the sign Zalera: Two distinct personalities, one half is quick-witted, fun, and expressive, and the other has a tendency to become serious, thoughtful, and restless. Represented by two instruments with different frequencies, says Rehanna. Rehanna speaks about duality and indecision and wood and brass meander around her voice.
Soteria, represented by the sign Zeromus: Comfort and warmth associated with the zodiac sign.
Hermes, represented by the sign Ultima: Repetitive piano and two cohesive rhythms and lyrics about the pressure to be perfect. It ends with the introduction of a Ghanian drumming ensemble beating on two types of cowbell and shaking a gourd covered in cowrieshells, and then four of them banged on drums. I think the tall one is a fontomfrom.
The first four movements mirror a symphony. Mars is inhuman and mechanical, as was war in 1916. Bernstein likens it to machine guns and tanks. There is a cavalry charge, with only the illusion of triumph. Venus is slow and gentle. It’s funny because Mars could be made habitable while Venus is so inhospitable we can’t study it in any detail because everything we send there melts. Mercury is at times multi-key and polyrhythmic. Jupiter is triumphant. Some people end it with Jupiter but life isn't supposed to have happy endings.
Saturn, long and slow and plodding and stark and yet strangely beautiful, is the opposite of Mercury, Uranus is wild and theatrical and evokes a bearded wizard with stars and moons embroidered on his robe, the opposite of Venus, and Neptune, ambient and disembodied, drifting off into the outer darkness beyond the heliopause as the door slowly closes over the chorus, is the opposite of Mars. Mars and Neptune are both in 5/4 time.
Parts of the Imperial March evoke Mars (or Mary Poppins. Or Mahler’s 6th symphony) and I believe something like it plays when the Death Star, spoiler alert for a 40 year old movie, blows up.
It includes tenor tuba, bass oboe, alto flute, and organ.
Holst was alive when Pluto was discovered and for reasons of his own, never wrote anything for Pluto. There are things called Pluto, The Redeemer; Pluto, Lord of the Underworld; Earth, the Bringer of Life; et cetera, out there. Plus Neptune ends it so perfectly. Maybe if you wrote it between 1979 and 1999, it would make sense.
The only zodiac themed works I could think of Makrokosmos. And these compilations. The artwork for the Belias album is a pastoral scene sheep standing in a field amongst a holly tree, and in the distance are majestic mountains and a village and its fields on fire. Belias includes Mars, Feste Romane, The Alien God and Dance of the Evil Spirits, The Infernal Dance of King Kashchei, Night On Bald Mountain, In The Hall of the Mountain King, Ride of the Valkyries, Allegro Moderato from Borodin's second symphony, Finlandia, and March of the Mogul Emperors, which is pretty perfect considering it was compiled by someone who had probably not played Final Fantasy XII. Chaos is pastoral and could use a hymn and fuguing tune by Cowell. Zalera, I think, should be nothing but requiems, perhaps a requiem made from various requiem fragments, Zeromus has the dual themes of the moon and summer. Hashmal is really fricking cool and has Dance of the Tumblers, one of the Pomp and Circumstance marches, and Cortege de Bacchus. Ultima apparently goes for stately charm and elegance and Schubert, whose sign was Famfrit. I'm not entirely sure what the theme of Cuchulainn is. Shemhazai is triumphant. I don't know what's going on with Adrammelech and Famfrit. Famfrit doesn't have a water theme. I know Famfrit is technically an air sign but in an even more technical way, Famfrit is the water sign, so, I don't know, La Mer or The Moldau or Vltava or The Blue Danube or Water Music. Mateus is equally themeless. Maybe I could make sense of them if I had access to the liner notes.
You could put together the Planets suite with these albums. Belias, Exodus, Ultima, Shemhazai, Adrammelech, Famfrit, Mateus.
burning question: what’s your favorite Planet? From the Holst suite, I mean.
I'm pretty sure if I come back to Brattle in three weeks, they'll have an entirely different selection. Except for Heinlein. The only people who would be interested in Number of the Beast or Time Enough For Love or Friday or Sixth Column or Farnham's Freehold are completionists. Hmm, spell check recognizes Protoss but not completionist.
For reasons known only to themselves, Verts is now known as Noon. That's not where I ate: I got a taco from Anna's because I was buying books as well.
I met a woman with a St. Christopher pendant and a dagger constellation of freckles above her eye. I saw a woman with pale thistle hair and cherry blossom tattoos and a man with bathypelagic blue hair.
The new footbridge was almost complete. It looked like it just needed to be paved and something needed to be done about a part where you'd have to limbo or crawl under the old footbridge.
Gabriella was dressed in midnight blue and afternoon blue and moonsilver instead of black and white.
Pomp and Circumstance (the name is a reference to Othello) is five marches. The first one is the most famous, played for Elgar's commencement and then used for pretty much every graduation in the USA ever. If you're in the Philippines or Latin America, you'll hear Gloria al'Egitto ad Iside/La marcia trionfale instead.
Festive Alleluiah by Lyn Williams is an a cappella work that to me evokes Poulenc’s Mass, and repeats the words “Alleluiah”. The Paulina Voices performed at the premiere of The Planets and they performed here. Holst was director of music at the St. Paul's Girls' School.
In the tradition of Arthur Fieldler, two bonus works were played: Summer Skies by Leroy Anderson and a choral work about some kind of bird flying south for the winter. I want to say it was crows but I’m sure anyone could tell you that crows are not migratory. Unless you’re really far north. So far north, in fact, that you’re in Canada.
I wrote it down. I just lost the paper. A few weeks ago, I found a note I meant to give to Ashley, which means it was a very long time ago, and used it as a bookmark in The Heart Of What Was Lost. Or I could just look up Andy Beck's choral music.
Clair de lune was written for piano and arranged for orchestra by Debussy's friend. According to the booklet, Claude Debussy died in 1915. No, he died on March the 25 of 1918, as Paris was being bombarded by the German Army, although it was colon cancer that killed him. It was raining.
Pegasus Promenade is their act of defiance against Trumpism. It's not as overt as the Commonwealth Shakespeare Company putting on Richard III and the Actors' Shakespeare Project putting on Julius Caesar, or the Boston Lyric Opera's performance of The Rape of Lucretia or The Handmaid's Tale. When they got the season's repertoire up, it was titled Constellations.
Pegasus is appropriate because Bellerophon is the first extrasolar planet discovered orbiting a main sequence star. There are planets out there that make Venus look like a day at the beach. Promenade is appropriate because it was inspired by Pictures at an Exhibition.
Aphrodite, represented by the sign Exodus: balance, romance, creativity. Jennifer says she wanted us to feel like we were walking on stars very happily. She sings and the girls’ choir provides wordless vocals.
Proteus, represented by the sign Zalera: Two distinct personalities, one half is quick-witted, fun, and expressive, and the other has a tendency to become serious, thoughtful, and restless. Represented by two instruments with different frequencies, says Rehanna. Rehanna speaks about duality and indecision and wood and brass meander around her voice.
Soteria, represented by the sign Zeromus: Comfort and warmth associated with the zodiac sign.
Hermes, represented by the sign Ultima: Repetitive piano and two cohesive rhythms and lyrics about the pressure to be perfect. It ends with the introduction of a Ghanian drumming ensemble beating on two types of cowbell and shaking a gourd covered in cowrieshells, and then four of them banged on drums. I think the tall one is a fontomfrom.
The first four movements mirror a symphony. Mars is inhuman and mechanical, as was war in 1916. Bernstein likens it to machine guns and tanks. There is a cavalry charge, with only the illusion of triumph. Venus is slow and gentle. It’s funny because Mars could be made habitable while Venus is so inhospitable we can’t study it in any detail because everything we send there melts. Mercury is at times multi-key and polyrhythmic. Jupiter is triumphant. Some people end it with Jupiter but life isn't supposed to have happy endings.
Saturn, long and slow and plodding and stark and yet strangely beautiful, is the opposite of Mercury, Uranus is wild and theatrical and evokes a bearded wizard with stars and moons embroidered on his robe, the opposite of Venus, and Neptune, ambient and disembodied, drifting off into the outer darkness beyond the heliopause as the door slowly closes over the chorus, is the opposite of Mars. Mars and Neptune are both in 5/4 time.
Parts of the Imperial March evoke Mars (or Mary Poppins. Or Mahler’s 6th symphony) and I believe something like it plays when the Death Star, spoiler alert for a 40 year old movie, blows up.
It includes tenor tuba, bass oboe, alto flute, and organ.
Holst was alive when Pluto was discovered and for reasons of his own, never wrote anything for Pluto. There are things called Pluto, The Redeemer; Pluto, Lord of the Underworld; Earth, the Bringer of Life; et cetera, out there. Plus Neptune ends it so perfectly. Maybe if you wrote it between 1979 and 1999, it would make sense.
The only zodiac themed works I could think of Makrokosmos. And these compilations. The artwork for the Belias album is a pastoral scene sheep standing in a field amongst a holly tree, and in the distance are majestic mountains and a village and its fields on fire. Belias includes Mars, Feste Romane, The Alien God and Dance of the Evil Spirits, The Infernal Dance of King Kashchei, Night On Bald Mountain, In The Hall of the Mountain King, Ride of the Valkyries, Allegro Moderato from Borodin's second symphony, Finlandia, and March of the Mogul Emperors, which is pretty perfect considering it was compiled by someone who had probably not played Final Fantasy XII. Chaos is pastoral and could use a hymn and fuguing tune by Cowell. Zalera, I think, should be nothing but requiems, perhaps a requiem made from various requiem fragments, Zeromus has the dual themes of the moon and summer. Hashmal is really fricking cool and has Dance of the Tumblers, one of the Pomp and Circumstance marches, and Cortege de Bacchus. Ultima apparently goes for stately charm and elegance and Schubert, whose sign was Famfrit. I'm not entirely sure what the theme of Cuchulainn is. Shemhazai is triumphant. I don't know what's going on with Adrammelech and Famfrit. Famfrit doesn't have a water theme. I know Famfrit is technically an air sign but in an even more technical way, Famfrit is the water sign, so, I don't know, La Mer or The Moldau or Vltava or The Blue Danube or Water Music. Mateus is equally themeless. Maybe I could make sense of them if I had access to the liner notes.
You could put together the Planets suite with these albums. Belias, Exodus, Ultima, Shemhazai, Adrammelech, Famfrit, Mateus.
burning question: what’s your favorite Planet? From the Holst suite, I mean.
