Posted on 10/30/2013 5:59:48 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska
Good evening, Luv....how are you and your wing doing after PT? And thanks.
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Wow...reminds me of something that happened to me in High School.
I did a painting of the Madonna and Child in Art Class. Since at that time I was going through a “Russian Angst” period, I painted the Christ Child as a small adult, with a face full of tired wisdom. It happened to be my vision at the time.
The next day I arrived at the school to find that my art teacher had “touched up” the Christ Child to turn Him into a rolly-poly chubby Italian Baby!
I was so furious I destroyed the painting!
I love Rimsky-Korsakov, but I wish he hadn’t Homogenized Bare mountain!
Thanks for posting the original...I had never heard it before!
On your iPad....how do your get your graphics? That is way cool!!
I am impressed!
That is a fantastic composition...in any form! :)
From Fotki graphics...”share” then under “more sharing options” the HTML code is listed as “direct link to image”. And add the brackets, etc and voila!
Know you can do it, even though it’s more tedious. Sometimes a person just doesn’t have her laptop handy. :)
Lots of Halloween wallerin’ music tonight.
Feeling a bit tired and sore after my first PTcsession. I will be taking an Advil PM soon and rest it and me.
It’s going to be good to go in “only” a month or so. I was told I didn’t have to wear my “torture device” all the time now, so that is a big help.
Good evening, Kathy.
Sorry to say there are no children close to where I live. I hope to Skype with my little Grandson, though. Seeing him will make my day.
Those drinks look very tasty.
Cheers! and Happy Halloween.
This video has Japanese subtitles, so I’ll supply the English lyrics and commentary.
It begins in A minor with the fate rhythm of Beethoven’s Fifth in the left hand.
In the dim light the mountains already fade;
The ship drifts on the sea’s smooth swell.
With the queen and her dwarf on board.
She gazes up at the high arching vault.
At the blue distance, interwoven with light,
Streaked with the pale Milky Way.
Frannie ratchets up the tension by modulating to C minor. The queen decides that her horoscope says she is to die now, and she’s not going to fight the stars.
”Stars, never yet have you lied to me,”
She cries out, “Soon now I shall be no more.
You tell me so; yet in truth I shall die gladly.”
The dwarf’s verses shift down to B minor and then back to C minor, ending with a triumphal C Major leading to A minor. The Beethoven Fifth motif is openly stated in the left hand.
Then the dwarf comes up to the queen, begins
To tie the cord of red silk about her neck,
And weeps, as if he would soon go blind with grief.
He speaks: “You are yourself to blame for this suffering,
Because you have forsaken me for the king;
Now your death alone can revive joy within me.
”Though I shall forever hate myself
For having brought you death by this hand,
Yet now you must grow pale for an early grave.”
Schubert plays his trump card, a shift from A minor to A Major, as he peers into the queen’s deranged mind. Only the great composers can pull this off. Master and servant are reversed. The queen pleads, but yet the major key indicates a masochistic longing for death. The musical material, again in A minor, is from the first verse.
She lays her hand on her heart, so full of youthful life,
And heavy tears flow from her eyes
Which she would raise to heaven in prayer.
At the words, “She says,” the cord is pulled tight, and the dwarf strangles her. At the end of this verse, the Beethoven fate motif is very obvious.
”May you reap no sorrow from my death!”
She says – then the dwarf kisses her pale cheeks,
Whereupon her senses fade.
It ends in a bleak A minor.
The dwarf looks upon the lady in the grip of death:
He lowers her with his own hands deep into the sea.
His heart burns with such longing for her,
He will never again land on any shore.
Schubert: “The Dwarf”, D. 771 (Waltraud Meier accompanied by Joseph Breini)
Lessons on Halloween day?
I had my excellent students today, and we did a lot of spooky classic rock favorites like “Riders of the Storm”, “Stairway to heaven”, “Time of the season”, and Of Course “Spooky”.
A wee dram...
Sure is! Lots of fun to be had....whooooooooooooo.......
I’ll provide English lyrics.
You ask me where I am, where I turned to
When my fleeting shadow vanished.
Have I not finished, reached my end?
Have I not loved and lived?
Would you ask after the nightingales
Who, with soulful melodies,
Delighted you in the days of spring?
They lived only as long as they loved.
Did I find my lost beloved?
Believe me, I am united with him
In the place where those who have formed a bond
Are never separated, where no tears are shed.
There you will find us again,
When your love is as our love;
There too is our father, free from sin,
Whom bloody murder can no longer strike.
And he senses that he was not deluded
When he gazed up at the stars.
For as a man judges so shall he be judged;
Whoever believes this is close to holiness.
There, in space, every fine, deeply felt belief
Will be consummated;
Dare to err and to dream:
Often a higher meaning lies behind childlike play.
Schubert: “Thekla: A Ghost’s Voice”, D. 595 (Brigitte Fassbänder accompanied by Graham Johnson)
One of my favorite trio’s. d:o)
Well, meow. Black cats are sometimes the sweetest cats you could meet.
Hallowe’en is the night before All Hallows (or Saints) Day. Everyone in heaven gets a commemorative day on 11/1. I guess hell is supposed to get theirs first, like the rabbit before the greyhound? God just squashes Satan flat. It’s people who are the problem here and why it isn’t over in a flash. God is waiting for those who are in the devil’s grip to pull free, if they will accept the power.
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