passing through, passing away
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yamamanamaI had a Thai chicken salad with peanuts, peanut dressing, carrot shavings, peapods, green and red peppers. Near me sat a man with a clock face tattoo and elsewhere a woman with blue hair and tattoos on her arm that I couldn't see too well. I also learned that there is a TV station devoted entirely to golf.
Memorial Hall looks like it was a gym at one point. Nearby, there's a place called the Spire which looks like a converted church. I thought that the New Pornographers should play there.
At Pilgrim Hall, there is an exhibit of depictions of the Pilgrims over time, including a painting by Henry Sargent, a painting of the first Thanksgiving with a Wompanoag wearing a Lakota war bonnet and in the background, a log cabin, a sword of Damascus steel with the number 1149 (if it's 1149 A.H., it did not belong to Myles Standish), and a buckled hat. Buckled hats were the height of style in the 1670s and were used in the 19th century to illustrate outmoded fashions, and an exhibit of Wompanoag artifacts and several photographs of living Wompanoag people with the message "We are still here."
Lili Boulanger's D'un matin de printemps is a paean to spring, appropriate for a pretty nice day by the low standards of early spring. You can hear echoes of Debussy, Ravel, and Dukas.
L’Arsenniene Suite: Yeah, yeah, we all know this one… wait a minute, this is different... Okay, there are two suites and they both open with that March of the Magi motif, and, damnit, they’re magi, not kings. Or maybe they’re both. But they’re definitely Magi. Anyways, this is the first suite, which consists of the March of the Magi and variations including a duet of clarinet and saxophone, a minuet featuring harp and flute, an adagietto, and horns that mimic carillon bells.
I don’t really have too much to say about Mahler’s first symphony that I haven't already said except for this: the conductor, in his pre-concert talk, talked about a wood engraving with a coffin and a procession of forest animals, stoats and minks, roe deer and European rabbits raising their banners high, some Eurasian eagle-owls and unidentifiable passerines, called Wie die Thiere den Jäger bergraben, and how the 3rd movement is half-rejoicing in the hunter’s death (klezmer) and half, well, we should be sad because it’s a death but really, we’re quite happy about this (Frère Jacques in a minor key) played on a double bass, which never happens in a symphony (I looked this up and it said Mahler may have been giving solos to Jewish musicians who had been pushed to the background).
the program brings up an incident in which young Gustav heard his parents arguing and ran outside and a man with a hurdy-gurdy was playing in the streets.
Mahler even put directions on raising trumpets. He was a conductor first, after all. The score called for seven trumpets but they used eight.
He told a story that sounded like something out of the Simpsons, about the time he played in Memorial Hall before the renovation and it was cold enough that he could see his breath and there were a couple of buckets of water.
Kate, a double-bassist, has a quasi-mohawk of lavender-colored hair, and the glimpse of a tattoo.
My seat was on the floor level. It has its advantages, like how the acoustics aren't as good as Symphony Hall, and it has its disadvantages: it's still kind of cramped and all the chairs are at the same height.
burning question: who would win in a golf tournament between Kim Jong Il and Charles Montgomery Burns?
Memorial Hall looks like it was a gym at one point. Nearby, there's a place called the Spire which looks like a converted church. I thought that the New Pornographers should play there.
At Pilgrim Hall, there is an exhibit of depictions of the Pilgrims over time, including a painting by Henry Sargent, a painting of the first Thanksgiving with a Wompanoag wearing a Lakota war bonnet and in the background, a log cabin, a sword of Damascus steel with the number 1149 (if it's 1149 A.H., it did not belong to Myles Standish), and a buckled hat. Buckled hats were the height of style in the 1670s and were used in the 19th century to illustrate outmoded fashions, and an exhibit of Wompanoag artifacts and several photographs of living Wompanoag people with the message "We are still here."
Lili Boulanger's D'un matin de printemps is a paean to spring, appropriate for a pretty nice day by the low standards of early spring. You can hear echoes of Debussy, Ravel, and Dukas.
L’Arsenniene Suite: Yeah, yeah, we all know this one… wait a minute, this is different... Okay, there are two suites and they both open with that March of the Magi motif, and, damnit, they’re magi, not kings. Or maybe they’re both. But they’re definitely Magi. Anyways, this is the first suite, which consists of the March of the Magi and variations including a duet of clarinet and saxophone, a minuet featuring harp and flute, an adagietto, and horns that mimic carillon bells.
I don’t really have too much to say about Mahler’s first symphony that I haven't already said except for this: the conductor, in his pre-concert talk, talked about a wood engraving with a coffin and a procession of forest animals, stoats and minks, roe deer and European rabbits raising their banners high, some Eurasian eagle-owls and unidentifiable passerines, called Wie die Thiere den Jäger bergraben, and how the 3rd movement is half-rejoicing in the hunter’s death (klezmer) and half, well, we should be sad because it’s a death but really, we’re quite happy about this (Frère Jacques in a minor key) played on a double bass, which never happens in a symphony (I looked this up and it said Mahler may have been giving solos to Jewish musicians who had been pushed to the background).
the program brings up an incident in which young Gustav heard his parents arguing and ran outside and a man with a hurdy-gurdy was playing in the streets.
Mahler even put directions on raising trumpets. He was a conductor first, after all. The score called for seven trumpets but they used eight.
He told a story that sounded like something out of the Simpsons, about the time he played in Memorial Hall before the renovation and it was cold enough that he could see his breath and there were a couple of buckets of water.
Kate, a double-bassist, has a quasi-mohawk of lavender-colored hair, and the glimpse of a tattoo.
My seat was on the floor level. It has its advantages, like how the acoustics aren't as good as Symphony Hall, and it has its disadvantages: it's still kind of cramped and all the chairs are at the same height.
burning question: who would win in a golf tournament between Kim Jong Il and Charles Montgomery Burns?
