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yamamanama) wrote2025-01-12 07:06 pm
yamamanama) wrote2025-01-12 07:06 pm
phase state transition
66 days until the vernal equinox
Mariann is studying environmental science. She likes to stand on the sidewalk and draw buildings but not necessarily the people. I pointed out that in Los Angeles, it has hardly rained since May. This is more snow than Mariann’s friend has seen in the last two years. Mariann moved around a lot. She has a ponytail and earrings and a small bit of hair on her eyebrow missing.
Martini, a dog, was riding the train with her human, who says that dogs are the best.
I had dinner at Amelia's. I got some chili chatka kurkure (what chatka is, I have no idea) and a Japanese lychee soft drink that has just about the most complicated opening mechanism I’ve ever seen. Unwrap it, take the plastic bit and force the marble down, and then drink it in such a way so that the marble gets caught on the two indentations. Drink it all in one sitting, I assume.
At the concert, I was between some people from Texas and some people from Japan. I’m not sure if it was the former’s first orchestral concert or their first Beethoven symphonies.
The first symphony you might mistake for late Haydn or Mozart. There’s a moment of dissonance at the beginning. The booklet actually mentions that this was played approximately 144 times and was most recently played in 2012. I’m not seeing the next concert of the Beethoven-a-thon (no time) so I’ll mention that they did the 4th 240 times and the 5th 454 times.
The second symphony pushes classicism a bit further and replaces the minuet with a scherzo. Haydn invented the scherzo but used it for other things. And now everyone uses it in their symphonies. And there are signs of things to come interspersed throughout. Second movement is a folk song and the last movement is a hiccup followed by a groan followed by a rondo. It has been performed approximately 174 times.
The third is my last Beethoven symphony, in that this marks the first time I’ve heard it live. Here romanticism is born. We start with a heroic allegro, then a funeral march that was used in Civilization II and then a joyous scherzo and a triumphal scene of the new world.
It’s almost as long as the first two symphonies combined. I was worried it would be late but it wasn’t that late.
He dedicated this symphony to Napoleon at first but then he declared himself Emperor, which meant he was just another tyrant and so he scratched Napoleon’s name out of the score.
Eroica (it means heroic in Italian) is not to be confused with Erotica (that comes from a Greek word), which is something Schulhoff wrote in 1919 in which a soprano imitates an orgasm. I am not lying to you. If you’re going to look this up, WEAR HEADPHONES.
It’s been performed approximately 428 times.
burning question: what’s with the marble anyway, Japan? Are you trying to reinvent the bottlecap?
Mariann is studying environmental science. She likes to stand on the sidewalk and draw buildings but not necessarily the people. I pointed out that in Los Angeles, it has hardly rained since May. This is more snow than Mariann’s friend has seen in the last two years. Mariann moved around a lot. She has a ponytail and earrings and a small bit of hair on her eyebrow missing.
Martini, a dog, was riding the train with her human, who says that dogs are the best.
I had dinner at Amelia's. I got some chili chatka kurkure (what chatka is, I have no idea) and a Japanese lychee soft drink that has just about the most complicated opening mechanism I’ve ever seen. Unwrap it, take the plastic bit and force the marble down, and then drink it in such a way so that the marble gets caught on the two indentations. Drink it all in one sitting, I assume.
At the concert, I was between some people from Texas and some people from Japan. I’m not sure if it was the former’s first orchestral concert or their first Beethoven symphonies.
The first symphony you might mistake for late Haydn or Mozart. There’s a moment of dissonance at the beginning. The booklet actually mentions that this was played approximately 144 times and was most recently played in 2012. I’m not seeing the next concert of the Beethoven-a-thon (no time) so I’ll mention that they did the 4th 240 times and the 5th 454 times.
The second symphony pushes classicism a bit further and replaces the minuet with a scherzo. Haydn invented the scherzo but used it for other things. And now everyone uses it in their symphonies. And there are signs of things to come interspersed throughout. Second movement is a folk song and the last movement is a hiccup followed by a groan followed by a rondo. It has been performed approximately 174 times.
The third is my last Beethoven symphony, in that this marks the first time I’ve heard it live. Here romanticism is born. We start with a heroic allegro, then a funeral march that was used in Civilization II and then a joyous scherzo and a triumphal scene of the new world.
It’s almost as long as the first two symphonies combined. I was worried it would be late but it wasn’t that late.
He dedicated this symphony to Napoleon at first but then he declared himself Emperor, which meant he was just another tyrant and so he scratched Napoleon’s name out of the score.
Eroica (it means heroic in Italian) is not to be confused with Erotica (that comes from a Greek word), which is something Schulhoff wrote in 1919 in which a soprano imitates an orgasm. I am not lying to you. If you’re going to look this up, WEAR HEADPHONES.
It’s been performed approximately 428 times.
burning question: what’s with the marble anyway, Japan? Are you trying to reinvent the bottlecap?