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yamamanamaApril and friends were having a conversation partially in English but partially in what I assume is Arabic going by the Lebanon cedar pendant that her friend had, but it could have been Akkadian or Aramaic. The words had that throaty Semitic sound to it and didn't sound like Protoss with a French accent (Persian) or German chopped up into syllables and rearranged but with a few French vowels thrown in there (Turkish) and I don't actually know what Kurdish sounds like. Huh, turns out Arabic for "no" is also "la." But yes is not "anna." Dark eyes and black hair are common in many places. There was another conversation in Spanish.
The train was exceptionally slow after an almost tolerable summer, maybe because of the work or maybe because an Ashmont train just departed JFK for Andrew at the moment we arrived and we had to move slower to compenstate.
We got a bonus concert that wasn’t announced. It was all strings and consisted of the allegro from Vivaldi’s concerto for for two cellos in G minor and I was drawing a guy with tattoos of black and violet smears and a circle on his elbow and a hexagon motif; Carlos Gardel’s Por Una Cabeza, a tango with lyrics about a guy with a gambling problem; and the third movement from Shostakovich’s third string quartet, entitled “forces of war unleashed.” So that Stalin would not pull out the label “formalism” from his morass of invented terminology, he named the movements to make it sound like program music about war.
Hector Berlioz - Roman Carnival - It sounds appropriately festive.
A real Roman carnival would involve a lot more bloodshed though.
Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Op. 92
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - The Sleeping Beauty - Waltz / Aurora's Wedding Varation
They call her Aurora and I learned today that the name Aurora for Sleeping Beauty originates in the Tchaikovsky ballet. Aurore if you’re French or just a francophile like Tchaikovsky. Had I known that, or maybe I learned it and then just buried it in the deepest recesses of my memory, I’d have eaten a steamed ham instead of a taco. And also, I had beef mozambique (that is to say, a Portuguese sauce) birria tacos from Augie's Food Truck today. And despite what I’ve read about Boston being the second worst city for tacos next to Cleveland, I have to disagree. Boston and environs are perfectly decent places to find tacos (and burritos for that matter), even if we do have a very low ratio of tacos to everything else. We just don’t have anything else Mexican.
The king’s name in the ballet is Floristan. I’m not sure but maybe they didn’t use that because fluoristan was the trade name for tin(ii) fluoride aka stannous fluoride.
David Kempers - Dey - based on a traditional Haitian melody, with various instruments taking the place of the vocals.
Kareem Roustom - Armenian Dances - I’m not sure what the impetus was for playing this, if they wanted to keep it from fading into and then out of memory, or if it has something to do with the flareup between Azerbaijan and Armenia. They actually did post this one on Youtube, which is nice. I’m still waiting for the entirety of Views.
The music reminded me of Khachaturian at times.
The dancers wore blue with highlights of red and gold.
Hershy Kay - Cakewalk: Concert Suite. The second movement used a parodic version of the Dies Irae. All the dancers came onstage at the end.
Crystal has pink hair that she just did yesterday in a style that made me think she's been in hibernation for the last fifteen years and a very bright pink outfit.
Erica had just started Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer, a book I have not read for one reason and one reason alone: each of the three books is are rather short and probably should be compiled into an omnibus rather than me shelling out 15 dollarydoos for each of them.
I was thinking about reading Borne and I probably will by the end of next year since while Dead Astronauts and I believe Hummingbird Salamander are set in the same milieu and that means I have to acquire them. I haven’t bought a book new in over a year and I haven’t been to Harvard Books which is, while worse than Brattle in almost every possible way, is at least a place to go if I want anything published this century.
I do wholeheartedly recommend the Ambergris books and Veniss Underground.
burning question: can they not, I don’t know, redesign the space around Charles/MGH Station so you don’t have to cross four (4) crosswalks each with their own walk/don’t walk cycle to get from the footbridge to the station? Brought to you by the fact that I missed a train last week. I didn’t miss a train this time, I just had to wait over 20 minutes because they decided they’d send two Ashmont trains in a row again.
The train was exceptionally slow after an almost tolerable summer, maybe because of the work or maybe because an Ashmont train just departed JFK for Andrew at the moment we arrived and we had to move slower to compenstate.
We got a bonus concert that wasn’t announced. It was all strings and consisted of the allegro from Vivaldi’s concerto for for two cellos in G minor and I was drawing a guy with tattoos of black and violet smears and a circle on his elbow and a hexagon motif; Carlos Gardel’s Por Una Cabeza, a tango with lyrics about a guy with a gambling problem; and the third movement from Shostakovich’s third string quartet, entitled “forces of war unleashed.” So that Stalin would not pull out the label “formalism” from his morass of invented terminology, he named the movements to make it sound like program music about war.
Hector Berlioz - Roman Carnival - It sounds appropriately festive.
A real Roman carnival would involve a lot more bloodshed though.
Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Op. 92
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - The Sleeping Beauty - Waltz / Aurora's Wedding Varation
They call her Aurora and I learned today that the name Aurora for Sleeping Beauty originates in the Tchaikovsky ballet. Aurore if you’re French or just a francophile like Tchaikovsky. Had I known that, or maybe I learned it and then just buried it in the deepest recesses of my memory, I’d have eaten a steamed ham instead of a taco. And also, I had beef mozambique (that is to say, a Portuguese sauce) birria tacos from Augie's Food Truck today. And despite what I’ve read about Boston being the second worst city for tacos next to Cleveland, I have to disagree. Boston and environs are perfectly decent places to find tacos (and burritos for that matter), even if we do have a very low ratio of tacos to everything else. We just don’t have anything else Mexican.
The king’s name in the ballet is Floristan. I’m not sure but maybe they didn’t use that because fluoristan was the trade name for tin(ii) fluoride aka stannous fluoride.
David Kempers - Dey - based on a traditional Haitian melody, with various instruments taking the place of the vocals.
Kareem Roustom - Armenian Dances - I’m not sure what the impetus was for playing this, if they wanted to keep it from fading into and then out of memory, or if it has something to do with the flareup between Azerbaijan and Armenia. They actually did post this one on Youtube, which is nice. I’m still waiting for the entirety of Views.
The music reminded me of Khachaturian at times.
The dancers wore blue with highlights of red and gold.
Hershy Kay - Cakewalk: Concert Suite. The second movement used a parodic version of the Dies Irae. All the dancers came onstage at the end.
Crystal has pink hair that she just did yesterday in a style that made me think she's been in hibernation for the last fifteen years and a very bright pink outfit.
Erica had just started Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer, a book I have not read for one reason and one reason alone: each of the three books is are rather short and probably should be compiled into an omnibus rather than me shelling out 15 dollarydoos for each of them.
I was thinking about reading Borne and I probably will by the end of next year since while Dead Astronauts and I believe Hummingbird Salamander are set in the same milieu and that means I have to acquire them. I haven’t bought a book new in over a year and I haven’t been to Harvard Books which is, while worse than Brattle in almost every possible way, is at least a place to go if I want anything published this century.
I do wholeheartedly recommend the Ambergris books and Veniss Underground.
burning question: can they not, I don’t know, redesign the space around Charles/MGH Station so you don’t have to cross four (4) crosswalks each with their own walk/don’t walk cycle to get from the footbridge to the station? Brought to you by the fact that I missed a train last week. I didn’t miss a train this time, I just had to wait over 20 minutes because they decided they’d send two Ashmont trains in a row again.
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Date: 2023-08-28 01:56 pm (UTC)