as the seasons return
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yamamanamaThere was a Twenty One Pilots concert that day and a woman whose birthday was that day had blue and pink beads and blue and pink makeup over her eyes and she was holding a sign so I thought there was some kind of anti-terf protest. A man with a sheltie got on at JFK/UMass but I am sad to say that he didn't get on the same train car I was on.
I decided to listen to 10,000 Maniacs, which have nothing to do with Twenty One Pilots.
There was a man playing accordion on the bridge in the Boston Public Garden. I was finishing a beef empanada that I got from the arepa cart.
One of the houses was decorated with giant spiders, and one of them was lit in green.
Samuel Barber - Summer Music for wind quartet (that is to say, bassoon, oboe, flute, and clarinet) and French horn.
It’s meant to evoke summers of idyll, not summers of swatting mosquitos.
Kenneth Fuchs - Quiet in the Land for flute, English horn, clarinet, viola, and cello
To me, it sounds like Ralph Vaughan Williams but more abstract and more ambient than Vaughan Williams. It was composed in 2003 and is meant to evoke the endless plains and tall skies of the midwest.
Zoltán Kodály - Szerenád for two violins and viola.
Usually, a serenade has five movements, usually in the style of dances but this one has three. A plucked violin sounds a lot like a ukulele.
It was the only work Kodály produced while blacklisted for accepting a position in Béla Kun’s Hungarian Soviet Republic (not actually part of Soviet Union, kupo. Soviet is just a Russian word meaning council. In fact, Kun was arrested and executed in a Stalinist purge. But he was close to Lenin), which elevated the Academy of Music to university status, and then was overthrown by Romania and the political system returning to the nationalist aristocracy. It kind of reminds me of the TPLF, which took power from the Derg and proceded to run Ethiopia even deeper into the ground for twenty seven years afterward, after which point, a coalition of every other ethnic group took power away from them via democratic elections and are dissolving the old Lebanese system of “your ethnic group is your party.” Also territorial conflicts.
Intervention from Bartók saved Kodály’s career and so did the reception of the Psalmus Hungaricus and Háry János.
So good was his career that when Hungary was strong-armed into the Axis even though their gripe was with Romania and Slovakia, and when Horthy was essentially overthrown for a) trying to negotiate with the Soviets and b) dragging his feet on the Jewish problem (but by then, there wasn't much of a Holocaust left), he was able to use his influence to keep Emma from harm, much like Richard Strauss in Germany. Bartók, meanwhile, moved to the United States, and died soon after but at least he outlived the Szalási regime.
Hungary definitely punches above its weight with regards to (and I hate this term in this context) classical music.
I said that there are three types of fascism: German, Italian, and Japanese, but maybe you could argue that Evolan Fascism is distinct enough from the other three. All other types of fascism are merely variants of the big three. In Hungary's case, it was German fascism but more populist and anti-semitism meant all Semitic people and not just Jews.
Anton Bruckner - String Quintet in F Major
By string quintet, I mean two violins and two violas and a cello.
The first movement, gemäßigt had a lot more sturm and drang than the first half. The second movement, the scherzo was stately to the point of parody. The third movement, andante, is pastoral, and the finale, lebhaft bewegt, builds up to cello chugging.
It was the longest work they played but it didn’t feel long.
They have a hierarchy of chameleons. It goes like this, from top to bottom.
Panther chameleon
Jeweled chameleon
Peacock chameleon (I had to look this up and learned that the name is used to refer to Trioceros wiedersheimi, but not officially)
Rainforest chameleon
Crested chameleon
Veiled chameleon
Graceful chameleon
burning question: So, when Apollo cursed Cassandra, did he also have to make it so people listen to people like JonTron and James Lindsay and L. Jagi Lamplighter who are always wrong about everything?
I decided to listen to 10,000 Maniacs, which have nothing to do with Twenty One Pilots.
There was a man playing accordion on the bridge in the Boston Public Garden. I was finishing a beef empanada that I got from the arepa cart.
One of the houses was decorated with giant spiders, and one of them was lit in green.
Samuel Barber - Summer Music for wind quartet (that is to say, bassoon, oboe, flute, and clarinet) and French horn.
It’s meant to evoke summers of idyll, not summers of swatting mosquitos.
Kenneth Fuchs - Quiet in the Land for flute, English horn, clarinet, viola, and cello
To me, it sounds like Ralph Vaughan Williams but more abstract and more ambient than Vaughan Williams. It was composed in 2003 and is meant to evoke the endless plains and tall skies of the midwest.
Zoltán Kodály - Szerenád for two violins and viola.
Usually, a serenade has five movements, usually in the style of dances but this one has three. A plucked violin sounds a lot like a ukulele.
It was the only work Kodály produced while blacklisted for accepting a position in Béla Kun’s Hungarian Soviet Republic (not actually part of Soviet Union, kupo. Soviet is just a Russian word meaning council. In fact, Kun was arrested and executed in a Stalinist purge. But he was close to Lenin), which elevated the Academy of Music to university status, and then was overthrown by Romania and the political system returning to the nationalist aristocracy. It kind of reminds me of the TPLF, which took power from the Derg and proceded to run Ethiopia even deeper into the ground for twenty seven years afterward, after which point, a coalition of every other ethnic group took power away from them via democratic elections and are dissolving the old Lebanese system of “your ethnic group is your party.” Also territorial conflicts.
Intervention from Bartók saved Kodály’s career and so did the reception of the Psalmus Hungaricus and Háry János.
So good was his career that when Hungary was strong-armed into the Axis even though their gripe was with Romania and Slovakia, and when Horthy was essentially overthrown for a) trying to negotiate with the Soviets and b) dragging his feet on the Jewish problem (but by then, there wasn't much of a Holocaust left), he was able to use his influence to keep Emma from harm, much like Richard Strauss in Germany. Bartók, meanwhile, moved to the United States, and died soon after but at least he outlived the Szalási regime.
Hungary definitely punches above its weight with regards to (and I hate this term in this context) classical music.
I said that there are three types of fascism: German, Italian, and Japanese, but maybe you could argue that Evolan Fascism is distinct enough from the other three. All other types of fascism are merely variants of the big three. In Hungary's case, it was German fascism but more populist and anti-semitism meant all Semitic people and not just Jews.
Anton Bruckner - String Quintet in F Major
By string quintet, I mean two violins and two violas and a cello.
The first movement, gemäßigt had a lot more sturm and drang than the first half. The second movement, the scherzo was stately to the point of parody. The third movement, andante, is pastoral, and the finale, lebhaft bewegt, builds up to cello chugging.
It was the longest work they played but it didn’t feel long.
They have a hierarchy of chameleons. It goes like this, from top to bottom.
Panther chameleon
Jeweled chameleon
Peacock chameleon (I had to look this up and learned that the name is used to refer to Trioceros wiedersheimi, but not officially)
Rainforest chameleon
Crested chameleon
Veiled chameleon
Graceful chameleon
burning question: So, when Apollo cursed Cassandra, did he also have to make it so people listen to people like JonTron and James Lindsay and L. Jagi Lamplighter who are always wrong about everything?
