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George Gershwin - Cuban Overture
Carlos Chávez - Sinfonia india
If you were expecting sitars, I don’t know what to tell ya, this sinfonia has fuck all to do with India and everything to do with the indigenous peoples of the Americas who are erroneously called Indians because Columbus, much like Dora the Explorer, couldn’t find his arse with both hands and a treasure map.
In the 1930s, there was a renewed insterest in Precolumbian civilizations and their artifacts.
They use various indigenous percussion or at least modern instruments designed to replicate their sound: jicara de agua, half a gourd submerged in a pool of water, which produces an eerie resonance when struck, and some geese flew by honking when the percussionist demoed it; the tenebari or butterfly cocoon; the güiro; the cascabeles or pellet rattle; teponaxtles, or slit drum; tlapanhuéhuetl, or upright drum; and grijutan, or deer hooves on a string.
There are three folk melodies used, one of the Náayerite or Wixáritari, one Hiaki, and one Comcaac. The program compares it to Stravinsky, and while some of the faster movements may be as frenzied as Stravinsky, if not as dissonant, for the most part, it reminds me of Aaron Copland or of Silvestre Reveultas’ La noche de los mayas.
Traditional - Seis Chorreao
It’s called a cuatro because it originally had four strings. There’s an eight-stringed version used in the south of Puerto Rico but it’s still a cuatro and not an ocho because the strings are paired like a 12-string guitar. Modern cuatros have five pairs of strings.
Florence Price - Folksongs in Counterpoint
Arrangements of Calvary, Oh My Darlin’ Clementine, and Shortnin’ Bread.
You might know the second as Found a Peanut if you live here or Israel (which has its own Hebrew lyrics). As a kid, I pictured the narrator of that song as a squirrel.
Fabiola Méndez - Bomba pa’ la diaspora
A bomba is a big-ass cask drum. The orchestra substituted congas.
Traditional - Aguinaldo Orocoveño
A sung gift from the town of Orocovis. She sang two other songs as a quasi-encore but I can’t remember the names of them. And that’s why I didn’t get on the train until 9:30.
Felix Mendelssohn - Symphony no. 4, Italian
The first movement I’ve heard before because it’s definitely used in cartoons and by cartoons, I mean The Simpsons.
I'm not that knowledgable but the first movement doesn't sound particularly Italian. The other three do, the third movement a stately minuetto and the fourth movement a saltarello. Not a rain saltarello, thankfully. Although I don't know, we probably needed it and the concert was over anyway.
I didn’t learn anything by looking it up on the Simpsons wiki. Okay, I did learn one thing: the song list on the Simpsons wiki is woefully incomplete.
But I checked IMDB and it said Million Dollar Maybe, not Four Great Women And A Manicure like I thought. The late SD era all blurs together. The early HD era all blurs together. And all the seasons after FOX 25 took the show out of syndication blur together.
I like how non-janky the wii (excuse me, zii) controls are.
The air conditioning on the train was turned to Victorialand.
I didn't get home until 11 because the train was taken out of service and we had to wait 15 minutes at Andrew for the next train to arrive.
I didn’t understand most of their conversation because it was half in Portuguese or at least something related like Spanish (I think I heard a /∫/ which doesn’t show up in standard Spanish) or maybe even Ladino or Romanian and half in English. She did say “I command you to open” to the door and her friend did say “I just want to get home.”
burning question: Why does WB-Discovery want to damnatio memoriae Infinity Train? I mean, David Zaslav is the same asshole who foisted the Duggars upon us.
George Gershwin - Cuban Overture
Carlos Chávez - Sinfonia india
If you were expecting sitars, I don’t know what to tell ya, this sinfonia has fuck all to do with India and everything to do with the indigenous peoples of the Americas who are erroneously called Indians because Columbus, much like Dora the Explorer, couldn’t find his arse with both hands and a treasure map.
In the 1930s, there was a renewed insterest in Precolumbian civilizations and their artifacts.
They use various indigenous percussion or at least modern instruments designed to replicate their sound: jicara de agua, half a gourd submerged in a pool of water, which produces an eerie resonance when struck, and some geese flew by honking when the percussionist demoed it; the tenebari or butterfly cocoon; the güiro; the cascabeles or pellet rattle; teponaxtles, or slit drum; tlapanhuéhuetl, or upright drum; and grijutan, or deer hooves on a string.
There are three folk melodies used, one of the Náayerite or Wixáritari, one Hiaki, and one Comcaac. The program compares it to Stravinsky, and while some of the faster movements may be as frenzied as Stravinsky, if not as dissonant, for the most part, it reminds me of Aaron Copland or of Silvestre Reveultas’ La noche de los mayas.
Traditional - Seis Chorreao
It’s called a cuatro because it originally had four strings. There’s an eight-stringed version used in the south of Puerto Rico but it’s still a cuatro and not an ocho because the strings are paired like a 12-string guitar. Modern cuatros have five pairs of strings.
Florence Price - Folksongs in Counterpoint
Arrangements of Calvary, Oh My Darlin’ Clementine, and Shortnin’ Bread.
You might know the second as Found a Peanut if you live here or Israel (which has its own Hebrew lyrics). As a kid, I pictured the narrator of that song as a squirrel.
Fabiola Méndez - Bomba pa’ la diaspora
A bomba is a big-ass cask drum. The orchestra substituted congas.
Traditional - Aguinaldo Orocoveño
A sung gift from the town of Orocovis. She sang two other songs as a quasi-encore but I can’t remember the names of them. And that’s why I didn’t get on the train until 9:30.
Felix Mendelssohn - Symphony no. 4, Italian
The first movement I’ve heard before because it’s definitely used in cartoons and by cartoons, I mean The Simpsons.
I'm not that knowledgable but the first movement doesn't sound particularly Italian. The other three do, the third movement a stately minuetto and the fourth movement a saltarello. Not a rain saltarello, thankfully. Although I don't know, we probably needed it and the concert was over anyway.
I didn’t learn anything by looking it up on the Simpsons wiki. Okay, I did learn one thing: the song list on the Simpsons wiki is woefully incomplete.
But I checked IMDB and it said Million Dollar Maybe, not Four Great Women And A Manicure like I thought. The late SD era all blurs together. The early HD era all blurs together. And all the seasons after FOX 25 took the show out of syndication blur together.
I like how non-janky the wii (excuse me, zii) controls are.
The air conditioning on the train was turned to Victorialand.
I didn't get home until 11 because the train was taken out of service and we had to wait 15 minutes at Andrew for the next train to arrive.
I didn’t understand most of their conversation because it was half in Portuguese or at least something related like Spanish (I think I heard a /∫/ which doesn’t show up in standard Spanish) or maybe even Ladino or Romanian and half in English. She did say “I command you to open” to the door and her friend did say “I just want to get home.”
burning question: Why does WB-Discovery want to damnatio memoriae Infinity Train? I mean, David Zaslav is the same asshole who foisted the Duggars upon us.
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Date: 2022-08-24 12:31 pm (UTC)