an echo of the lightning
Jul. 25th, 2018 08:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yamamanamaI knew it would rain by this time last week. Just another monsoon day.
I have absolutely no clue what the suite from Bernstein’s Mass entails. They decided not to put the program notes on the site. I’d imagine it’s just Things Get Broken without the vocalist and maybe a somewhat different orchestra, as the Mass calls for organ, acoustic guitar, electric guitars, kazoos, banjo, bass guitars, synthesizers, finger cymbals, bongos, temple blocks, drum kits, alto and tenor saxophone, steel drums, gourds, tambourine, bottles, and tin cans. The FBI told Nixon that there are anti-war messages contained within the text and maybe he shouldn’t applaud or “AROOOOO” lest he be embarrassed.
In A Mind Forever Voyaging, it’s on a list of banned works because of messages of religious tolerance, along with Profiles in Courage, The Trial, Animal Farm, The Fate of the Earth, and Walden.
What I do know about the Rite of Spring is that everything2 calls it “Le sacre de printemps,” in Russian, it’s called Sacred Spring, “Весна священная” instead, it’s a ballet in which primitive people perform rituals celebrating spring, which culminates with a young girl dancing herself to death, and it caused riots at its premiere. I read somewhere that either Debussy or Ravel told the rioters to cram it down and shut the hell up because he couldn’t hear the music. After 1917, he kind of abandoned modernism in favor of neoclassicism, which is really too bad. It’s very dissonant and very arhythmic, perfect to be covered by Birdsongs of the Mesozoic.
I’ve heard the Candide overture and I’m pretty sure I’ve heard the Symphonic Dances from West Side Story, maybe not for wind ensemble. The bassoon-played-as-high-as-it-can-possibly-go-as-to-be-unrecognizable intro is based on a Lithuanian folk song and there are a few other Russian songs in there. There are parts of this that evoke Saturn, the Bringer of Old Age.
Mallory, who has multiple cats, has no idea what “meow” means.
I forgot to put this in the last post: Michael compared Trump to Charles II of Spain, who looks a lot like his father.
He said that George V, Wilhelm II, and Nikolai II look like brothers.
He also said that the Roman Republic was notoriously corrupt and he doubts most people even noticed when Julius Caesar declared himself dictator.
burning question: what are the odds that it monsoons on a concert that doesn’t have a planned rain date or rain location?
Ugh, it still beats last year.
I have absolutely no clue what the suite from Bernstein’s Mass entails. They decided not to put the program notes on the site. I’d imagine it’s just Things Get Broken without the vocalist and maybe a somewhat different orchestra, as the Mass calls for organ, acoustic guitar, electric guitars, kazoos, banjo, bass guitars, synthesizers, finger cymbals, bongos, temple blocks, drum kits, alto and tenor saxophone, steel drums, gourds, tambourine, bottles, and tin cans. The FBI told Nixon that there are anti-war messages contained within the text and maybe he shouldn’t applaud or “AROOOOO” lest he be embarrassed.
In A Mind Forever Voyaging, it’s on a list of banned works because of messages of religious tolerance, along with Profiles in Courage, The Trial, Animal Farm, The Fate of the Earth, and Walden.
What I do know about the Rite of Spring is that everything2 calls it “Le sacre de printemps,” in Russian, it’s called Sacred Spring, “Весна священная” instead, it’s a ballet in which primitive people perform rituals celebrating spring, which culminates with a young girl dancing herself to death, and it caused riots at its premiere. I read somewhere that either Debussy or Ravel told the rioters to cram it down and shut the hell up because he couldn’t hear the music. After 1917, he kind of abandoned modernism in favor of neoclassicism, which is really too bad. It’s very dissonant and very arhythmic, perfect to be covered by Birdsongs of the Mesozoic.
I’ve heard the Candide overture and I’m pretty sure I’ve heard the Symphonic Dances from West Side Story, maybe not for wind ensemble. The bassoon-played-as-high-as-it-can-possibly-go-as-to-be-unrecognizable intro is based on a Lithuanian folk song and there are a few other Russian songs in there. There are parts of this that evoke Saturn, the Bringer of Old Age.
Mallory, who has multiple cats, has no idea what “meow” means.
I forgot to put this in the last post: Michael compared Trump to Charles II of Spain, who looks a lot like his father.
He said that George V, Wilhelm II, and Nikolai II look like brothers.
He also said that the Roman Republic was notoriously corrupt and he doubts most people even noticed when Julius Caesar declared himself dictator.
burning question: what are the odds that it monsoons on a concert that doesn’t have a planned rain date or rain location?
Ugh, it still beats last year.
