the all-seeing eye
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yamamanama32 days until the vernal equinox
I saw Madison and she remembered me but I said that I do this so much that I don’t immediately remember everyone I draw. She asked me about long-form art like paintings and I showed her a few of them and I said I’d like to get back into it someday, but it’s obviously easier to just bring a sketchbook and some pens than to bring a canvas and entire sets of paint or colored pencils. And I’m also blaming the death of Deviantart and the fact that the modern day interbutt is AI and Elon turning a dial that says “RACISM” on it now. Madison has two dogs. I believe one is named Melody and I forget the other one's name but I think it's a human name. I said that in New York, there were little you-are-here lights on the train maps and I think that we need them.
I had fish masala curry (made with white fish, tamarind, green chilies, and tamarind) along with some garlic naan and a can of coke. It’s a two on Mumbai Spice's spicy scale, which means it has a kick to it but it won’t turn you into Trogdor the Burninator.
Ben was talking about the time he heard the opera Pelléas et Mélisande but it was two pianos instead of the orchestra.
I’d rather have the 23rd because Death of Stalin but whatevs. This is (a) one of 2 concertos in a minor key and (b) as close as Don Giovanni as he’d get. It really speaks for itself. The second movement is a romance, the third is virtuosic.
The encore was Mozart's Allemande which reminded me of Bach and not just because Bach also wrote an allemande for keyboard.
I know I’ve heard a Bruckner but I have no idea what it was (A search of my notes and a trip to the Internet Archive tells me it was the 8th. As for the 9th, he dedicated it to God, has a cup of tea, worked it on it, and then croaked). But it isn’t seven because the last performance was 12 years ago, the last BSO performance was 15 years ago, and the last BPO performance was 14 years before that.
Symphony Hall is by far the best space for Bruckner, along with many others. He spent his life in the church, which has long reverberations, thouh it was conceived for the concert hall. Make a good decision.
Here's what the critics said:
“antimusical ravings of a halfwit” - Hans von Bülow
“interminable stretches of darkness, leaden boredom, and feverish overexcitement” “- Eduard Hanslick, a much-feared critic in Vienna.
“a symphonic boa constrictor” - Brahms.
However, in modern times, there are people coming in from Denmark to hear this. Denmark!
On the subject of Denmark, if there's a silver lining to Trump's Greenland fiasco, it's that Europe's far rightist like Jonatan Palessen are rueing that it's hurting far right European parties.
It opens with a tremolo, giving a sense of anticipation and wonder. A shimmer of sound. The cellos backed up by the low horns. They start a melody, joined by the violas and it goes on for 25 bars. Not too slow that it can not be free. And then repeated with everybody, in E-major.
The B theme moves in step motion on the clarinet and oboe. It goes up in one long line and then hesitates. The horns are going ba-ba-ba-ba stifling freedom.
There’s a counterpoint from the orchestra and a gigantic climax with a pedal note that sounds like the full might of an organ.
The 3rd theme repeats three times and then changes. The minimalists would understand.
He played fiddle in dance bands and this is a dance theme.
2 oboes play the second theme upside down, like they’re in Australia and not Austria (fun fact: Australia comes from the Latin word for south but Austria comes from the German word for east)
The second violins take on the main melody but in C minor while the first play a heartbreaking melody.
The dance then builds to a gigantic climax.
The second movement is when you see the tuba player walk over to the other side of the stage to join the Wagner tubas, which was comissioned by Wagner when he wrote the Ring Cycle to bridge the gap between a tuba and a French horn. Wagner himself just called them tubas. Anyways.
When he started writing this, Wagner’s health had declined. Wagner died on Feb 13, which was not a Friday and a guy in the audience wondered if that was a deliberate choice.
I don’t know what it is about Wagner that Viennese society objected to but it sure as hell wasn’t his politics.
The contrasting theme is a lilting Viennese melody. The coda is unimaginable radiance.
It was played by German radio when losing the Battle of Stalingrad and on the death of Hitler so in Poland associated with just desserts (listen, I was making a Final Fantasy VII reference and I know it's actually just deserts and the meaning of desert in that context is lost and really only exists in that phrase), payback, and victory.
The first movement is 20 minutes long and the adagio is 25 minutes.
The third movement is a scherzo with a fierce rhythm and trumpet fanfare, then a tender trio, and then back to the trumpet.
The final movement brings back the tremolo and has three themes.
I feel like this always happens. Lavish attention on the first and second movements but run out of steam and time for the later movements.
It's about 70 minutes in total and I didn't get out until 10:30 and this is why Bruckner doesn't get performed that much. It's too short to be put on its own but it's hard to pair it with things because otherwise it goes on too long.
Jason was the name of one of the T Ambassadors and I thought he is the last name I’d want to encounter on that day. Maybe Pamela.
Emma has long fake eyelashes.
Reese, or however you spell her name, has beet red dyed hair and eyebrow piercings and works with clay and is extra-impressed that I drew the frog on her bag as well.
On the ride home, the train kept stopping for a few minutes at each stop and someone sang “I’m a loser, baby, so why don’t you kill me?” and she told her friend that Beck had much better songs. That’s how I feel about Jane’s Addiction. Jane Says and Been Caught Stealing are nowhere as good as say, Hypersonic.
burning question: who the hell thought it was a good idea to play Kanye West’s Hitler song? Did they think it was a satire like Springtime For Hitler or Der Führer’s Face?
I saw Madison and she remembered me but I said that I do this so much that I don’t immediately remember everyone I draw. She asked me about long-form art like paintings and I showed her a few of them and I said I’d like to get back into it someday, but it’s obviously easier to just bring a sketchbook and some pens than to bring a canvas and entire sets of paint or colored pencils. And I’m also blaming the death of Deviantart and the fact that the modern day interbutt is AI and Elon turning a dial that says “RACISM” on it now. Madison has two dogs. I believe one is named Melody and I forget the other one's name but I think it's a human name. I said that in New York, there were little you-are-here lights on the train maps and I think that we need them.
I had fish masala curry (made with white fish, tamarind, green chilies, and tamarind) along with some garlic naan and a can of coke. It’s a two on Mumbai Spice's spicy scale, which means it has a kick to it but it won’t turn you into Trogdor the Burninator.
Ben was talking about the time he heard the opera Pelléas et Mélisande but it was two pianos instead of the orchestra.
I’d rather have the 23rd because Death of Stalin but whatevs. This is (a) one of 2 concertos in a minor key and (b) as close as Don Giovanni as he’d get. It really speaks for itself. The second movement is a romance, the third is virtuosic.
The encore was Mozart's Allemande which reminded me of Bach and not just because Bach also wrote an allemande for keyboard.
I know I’ve heard a Bruckner but I have no idea what it was (A search of my notes and a trip to the Internet Archive tells me it was the 8th. As for the 9th, he dedicated it to God, has a cup of tea, worked it on it, and then croaked). But it isn’t seven because the last performance was 12 years ago, the last BSO performance was 15 years ago, and the last BPO performance was 14 years before that.
Symphony Hall is by far the best space for Bruckner, along with many others. He spent his life in the church, which has long reverberations, thouh it was conceived for the concert hall. Make a good decision.
Here's what the critics said:
“antimusical ravings of a halfwit” - Hans von Bülow
“interminable stretches of darkness, leaden boredom, and feverish overexcitement” “- Eduard Hanslick, a much-feared critic in Vienna.
“a symphonic boa constrictor” - Brahms.
However, in modern times, there are people coming in from Denmark to hear this. Denmark!
On the subject of Denmark, if there's a silver lining to Trump's Greenland fiasco, it's that Europe's far rightist like Jonatan Palessen are rueing that it's hurting far right European parties.
It opens with a tremolo, giving a sense of anticipation and wonder. A shimmer of sound. The cellos backed up by the low horns. They start a melody, joined by the violas and it goes on for 25 bars. Not too slow that it can not be free. And then repeated with everybody, in E-major.
The B theme moves in step motion on the clarinet and oboe. It goes up in one long line and then hesitates. The horns are going ba-ba-ba-ba stifling freedom.
There’s a counterpoint from the orchestra and a gigantic climax with a pedal note that sounds like the full might of an organ.
The 3rd theme repeats three times and then changes. The minimalists would understand.
He played fiddle in dance bands and this is a dance theme.
2 oboes play the second theme upside down, like they’re in Australia and not Austria (fun fact: Australia comes from the Latin word for south but Austria comes from the German word for east)
The second violins take on the main melody but in C minor while the first play a heartbreaking melody.
The dance then builds to a gigantic climax.
The second movement is when you see the tuba player walk over to the other side of the stage to join the Wagner tubas, which was comissioned by Wagner when he wrote the Ring Cycle to bridge the gap between a tuba and a French horn. Wagner himself just called them tubas. Anyways.
When he started writing this, Wagner’s health had declined. Wagner died on Feb 13, which was not a Friday and a guy in the audience wondered if that was a deliberate choice.
I don’t know what it is about Wagner that Viennese society objected to but it sure as hell wasn’t his politics.
The contrasting theme is a lilting Viennese melody. The coda is unimaginable radiance.
It was played by German radio when losing the Battle of Stalingrad and on the death of Hitler so in Poland associated with just desserts (listen, I was making a Final Fantasy VII reference and I know it's actually just deserts and the meaning of desert in that context is lost and really only exists in that phrase), payback, and victory.
The first movement is 20 minutes long and the adagio is 25 minutes.
The third movement is a scherzo with a fierce rhythm and trumpet fanfare, then a tender trio, and then back to the trumpet.
The final movement brings back the tremolo and has three themes.
I feel like this always happens. Lavish attention on the first and second movements but run out of steam and time for the later movements.
It's about 70 minutes in total and I didn't get out until 10:30 and this is why Bruckner doesn't get performed that much. It's too short to be put on its own but it's hard to pair it with things because otherwise it goes on too long.
Jason was the name of one of the T Ambassadors and I thought he is the last name I’d want to encounter on that day. Maybe Pamela.
Emma has long fake eyelashes.
Reese, or however you spell her name, has beet red dyed hair and eyebrow piercings and works with clay and is extra-impressed that I drew the frog on her bag as well.
On the ride home, the train kept stopping for a few minutes at each stop and someone sang “I’m a loser, baby, so why don’t you kill me?” and she told her friend that Beck had much better songs. That’s how I feel about Jane’s Addiction. Jane Says and Been Caught Stealing are nowhere as good as say, Hypersonic.
burning question: who the hell thought it was a good idea to play Kanye West’s Hitler song? Did they think it was a satire like Springtime For Hitler or Der Führer’s Face?
