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yamamanamaDon’t be sad that it’s over until next year, be annoyed that your knees are wet for no apparent reason. At least, because I ate my dinner at Pauli's, the bee was no doubt off harassing someone else.
Jess is an archivist who was holding a black and white photograph of a building with the saturation turned way way up that I thought was a drawing. On one arm is a tattoo of a bilateral gynandromorphic butterfly. I want to say it’s a butterfly because of the shape of the antennae but it might be a moth.
Gabriella brought Theresa with her.
Zhou Tian - Broken Ink: The Mighty River Runs Eastward
(念奴嬌·大江東去)
It’s the last movement of Broken Ink, which depicts the Battle of Red Cliff between the forces of Cáo Cāo and the allied forces of Sūn Quán, Liú Bèi, and Liú Qí at the end of the Han Dynasty, with a beat from cymbals, taiko drum, and finger cymbals, and the dream of Sū Shì, who saw the rocks not as warring soldiers but as people living in harmony.
Maurice Ravel - Daphnis et Chloé Suite No. 2
So there are two suites from this. I don’t know why they were deemed necessary since the full-length work is only about an hour long, but I guess if you have to pair something with the 52 minute Mahler symphony, you can do no wrong with this.
They were printed in the wrong order in the booklet. It goes Lever du jour – pantomime – Danse générale
Lever de jour is a poetic way of saying sunrise, and so we have harps and flutes and clarinets mimicking the swirls of mists and dew, and the songs of birds, the calls of shepherds, and the sun rising. The pantomime is flute soloist playing as Daphnis and Chloé ct out the myth of Syrinx turning herself into reeds on a riverbank and Pan fashioning a flute from them. Kind of weird but okay. Then the shepherdesses dance in celebration and I’m like, why is this taking so long?
The first suite, if you’re wondering, was taken from the middle of the work.
burning question: What is this I am hearing about Donald Trump taking control of South Station?
Jess is an archivist who was holding a black and white photograph of a building with the saturation turned way way up that I thought was a drawing. On one arm is a tattoo of a bilateral gynandromorphic butterfly. I want to say it’s a butterfly because of the shape of the antennae but it might be a moth.
Gabriella brought Theresa with her.
Zhou Tian - Broken Ink: The Mighty River Runs Eastward
(念奴嬌·大江東去)
It’s the last movement of Broken Ink, which depicts the Battle of Red Cliff between the forces of Cáo Cāo and the allied forces of Sūn Quán, Liú Bèi, and Liú Qí at the end of the Han Dynasty, with a beat from cymbals, taiko drum, and finger cymbals, and the dream of Sū Shì, who saw the rocks not as warring soldiers but as people living in harmony.
Maurice Ravel - Daphnis et Chloé Suite No. 2
So there are two suites from this. I don’t know why they were deemed necessary since the full-length work is only about an hour long, but I guess if you have to pair something with the 52 minute Mahler symphony, you can do no wrong with this.
They were printed in the wrong order in the booklet. It goes Lever du jour – pantomime – Danse générale
Lever de jour is a poetic way of saying sunrise, and so we have harps and flutes and clarinets mimicking the swirls of mists and dew, and the songs of birds, the calls of shepherds, and the sun rising. The pantomime is flute soloist playing as Daphnis and Chloé ct out the myth of Syrinx turning herself into reeds on a riverbank and Pan fashioning a flute from them. Kind of weird but okay. Then the shepherdesses dance in celebration and I’m like, why is this taking so long?
The first suite, if you’re wondering, was taken from the middle of the work.
burning question: What is this I am hearing about Donald Trump taking control of South Station?
