Mr President Obama: you are ffffing awesome. And I rarely/hate use that word unless it is used in its proper Middle English context-wish I needed a pardon for Old Norse! They seemed to have had a great time. At the bloody expense of others. Prime Minister Tony Blair asked for mea culpa over 'you know what': 'Ooops: I (and my advisors) had some bad 'trips' over that few years.' ! Oh really?!!! At least Nixon tried to get America out of Vietnam (I know-very arguably...). That's another movie.
A war that should never have been fought by America. I do not believe that President Obama condoned (or ever did) the actions of Chelsea Manning. The media buzz suggests that you do. There is so so much more to say on that, and how the NSA and major US telecommunications companies flagrantly violated the Constitutional rights of millions of Americans (not to say Europeans), who should not? be treated as she was? Arguable I know ...but......You, Mr President did not condone those actions either. But will 'they' ever believe you? We do. We know.
but I've been immersing myself in the art world all day. So I only just heard. I rather have my phone switched off when I am with art. Sounding like an old fogy I truly believe you breathe better.
I'm stunned. Thinking what else to say. Good thing I don't tweet: I'd been given loads of 'bs' bird seed at Christmas for being a budgerigar instead of the eagle that I am.....!-:)
Guessing the White House food budget will decrease immeasurably from Jan 20. Feed the birds, tuppence a bag, tuppence, tuppence, tuppence a bag.
what care!: Some fowls to be shot because they bit the farmer's balls. Like he could ever get it....!
That being said: how many of the younger generation have read Orwell's Animal Farm? French novelist Michel Houellebecq was just a writer raked over the coals because he saw real life coming.
They don't want to hear the truth Jemima Puddle-Duck (again......!--)
..ever considered pretending to be dead in the water?
Did all those lives (both sides) really have to be lost on Okinawa?
Who of the younger generation remembers Daniel Ellsberg? Was what he did right/wrong/another? He braved the sea. But never a sailor. Never a lighthouse keeper. The sea is the most beautiful, deadliest adversary. Even to those who, may, rightly claim its shores; in a world darkly well away from the foam.
I'd Rather Leave When I'm in Love
and: this- is a song interpretation for those ...who...how/what do they talk?.....
Tweet or Moaeow , Moo...? ;) Suddenly, one fine morning...I knew.
Nothing seems to matter anywhere in the world. Nowadays. Anymore. I know. Everybody is fine. Well: 'BS'- THEY and WE and YOU all are NOT! The 'bs' suffocates. !
Some more Eydie Gorme. WHO?! 100 more times brilliant than many some performers. But few ever care. They never did. It is all/and ever was about kissing the arse and making money. Well: let ME tell YOU. It was NEVER that. There is something called beauty and art that may not build new mountains, may not alleviate the suffering of millions, but at least those qualities allow the world to breathe a little longer.
Wednesday, 18 January 2017
Sunday, 1 January 2017
A terrible beauty is born
Hacksaw Ridge opens UK wide Jan 27.
In a 12 hour period Desmond Doss saved 75 men single-handedly in the WWII Battle of Okinawa, conditions of hell.
to be continued... Perhaps...
photo courtesy: Tree Service of Nashville
The Poplar
A tall slim poplar That dances in
A hidden corner
Of the old garden,
What is it in you
Makes communion
With this wind of autumn, The clouds, the sun?
You must be lonely Amidst round trees
With their matron-figures And stubborn knees,
Casting hard glances Of keen despite
On the lone girl that dances Silvery white.
But you are dearer
To sky and earth
Than lime-trees, plane-trees Of meaner birth.
Your sweet shy beauty Dearer to us
Than tree-folk, worthy, Censorious.
Ivor Gurney
I saw things in Iraq that didn’t line up with my idea of being a soldier.
The truth is always stranger than the fiction....
.....A Boy From Texas
Ample make this bed.
Make this bed with awe;
Sibelius: Symphony No.5-Finale
Allegro molto not vivace or presto? Feels like a brisk Finnish canter to me…but what do I know about Finland;) (The speed of a canter varies between 16 and 27 kilometres per hour). Bernstein's much later version with the Wiener Philharmoniker still has vestiges of that fire but is non piu molto. I can't imagine Bernstein heard Karajan's 1960 Philharmonia Orch recording. There are similarities. The final pages both totally !! Both different. Both Brit orchestras. Where would he find time! I remember hearing a Mahler 9 on radio and wondering who the 'f'! is this! Utter awe. I should know! I mean I should know! But I didnt'/couldn't. It was Bernstein. In point of fact, Bernstein's Sibelius London tempi were almost the same as Eugene Ormandy back in 1954. Is Philadelphia like London?;) But again-the arc will always be different. Or are the animals always: just ever so slightly different. This is becoming so much more fun than reviewing for, say, The Gramophone. G forbiddy: time on one's hands....I can say what I want;) You know what that is like Bernadette! Wish I had a green lizard and could be allowed to blow my its horn Lola☺ Andrew SHUT UP:!
Now Horenstein is interesting (Northern Brit orch- how Sir Simon Rattle started...though Birmingham...rather THE Birmingham) And Rozhdestvensky makes it a fascinating mix of Sibelius meets Shostakovich meets Tchaikovsky. (I worked with Rozhdestvensky-like u do/did;) Sounds like a Malcolm McDowell tape for ...what is that TV series...?
[Kulenkampff tangent: Robert Schumann's Violin Concerto in D minor almost never saw the light of day. In 1937 Georg Kulenkampff gave the premiere of the rediscovered work. It was written in 1853 for Joseph Joachim who never performed it. After Schumann’s ‘health problems’ and death in a sanatorium in Endenich, Joachim never let go of the manuscript. Why we shall never know. Clara listened and the Violin Concerto was neglected from the Complete Works edition. Joachim stated in his will that the work never be played until 100 years after his death (1956). But a 1933 séance in London attended by Joachim's two violinist grand-nieces channeled a message to release the work to the world.] Unbelievable!
And Brit Barbirolli /Halle oft makes one long for Texas with that Copland-esque brass. ! (Nothing without the wind, though) More American than Lenny B. All depends how you direct the blow...(musical term..)
Go figure;)
Tchaikovsky in Texas: sounds like a great idea for a 30min ep classical music TV show by a monolith company that sells books to folk who no longer read books. ;)
...what does – Misterioso – Un pochettino largamente – Largamente assai – Un pochettino stretto really mean? Can ANY ONE SAY...Could you ever know what happened in that family?!! Whether it be human/animal/mineral/vegetable: how could you know?
I guess Frank Sinatra was the most over-rated singer in musical history! Some Came Running. More Came Running. (btw- there isn't a Sinatra painting First Lady Nancy Reagan in your 'attic' that you could bequeath to my BrilliantAdventures ART Collection:).....Guess it is a little late to ask. There is a line one must never cross without descending into the abyss: to totally be a Dante. Andante moltisimo.;) ....The Butler
How could you ever know?!
Welcome.....
Birds of a feather
May I ask you allow me to be totally musically/politically incorrect and quote THIS. ! If it had been written by Elton John or , or , or , OR: then you would probably/maybe think of it totally anew. The lyrics are timeless....but they were flown by a bird of another feather....
Tell Me on a Sunday ....
does anyone know how to write lyrics of pain to heal anymore: Mr Tony Bennett?! After all these centuries does the soul still need- a seal of approval...!
Love, design, tension, composition, light, balance: __________________________________________________-
In a 12 hour period Desmond Doss saved 75 men single-handedly in the WWII Battle of Okinawa, conditions of hell.
to be continued... Perhaps...
photo courtesy: Tree Service of Nashville
The Poplar
A tall slim poplar That dances in
A hidden corner
Of the old garden,
What is it in you
Makes communion
With this wind of autumn, The clouds, the sun?
You must be lonely Amidst round trees
With their matron-figures And stubborn knees,
Casting hard glances Of keen despite
On the lone girl that dances Silvery white.
But you are dearer
To sky and earth
Than lime-trees, plane-trees Of meaner birth.
Your sweet shy beauty Dearer to us
Than tree-folk, worthy, Censorious.
Ivor Gurney
I saw things in Iraq that didn’t line up with my idea of being a soldier.
The truth is always stranger than the fiction....
.....A Boy From Texas
Ample make this bed.
Make this bed with awe;
Sibelius: Symphony No.5-Finale
Allegro molto not vivace or presto? Feels like a brisk Finnish canter to me…but what do I know about Finland;) (The speed of a canter varies between 16 and 27 kilometres per hour). Bernstein's much later version with the Wiener Philharmoniker still has vestiges of that fire but is non piu molto. I can't imagine Bernstein heard Karajan's 1960 Philharmonia Orch recording. There are similarities. The final pages both totally !! Both different. Both Brit orchestras. Where would he find time! I remember hearing a Mahler 9 on radio and wondering who the 'f'! is this! Utter awe. I should know! I mean I should know! But I didnt'/couldn't. It was Bernstein. In point of fact, Bernstein's Sibelius London tempi were almost the same as Eugene Ormandy back in 1954. Is Philadelphia like London?;) But again-the arc will always be different. Or are the animals always: just ever so slightly different. This is becoming so much more fun than reviewing for, say, The Gramophone. G forbiddy: time on one's hands....I can say what I want;) You know what that is like Bernadette! Wish I had a green lizard and could be allowed to blow my its horn Lola☺ Andrew SHUT UP:!
Now Horenstein is interesting (Northern Brit orch- how Sir Simon Rattle started...though Birmingham...rather THE Birmingham) And Rozhdestvensky makes it a fascinating mix of Sibelius meets Shostakovich meets Tchaikovsky. (I worked with Rozhdestvensky-like u do/did;) Sounds like a Malcolm McDowell tape for ...what is that TV series...?
Can’t find a Furtwängler Sibelius 5th. But there’s the Violin Concerto from 1943. Legend has it that Furtwängler once stormed out of a Toscanini concert, cursing the Maestro as a mere "time-beater." Interestingly, the recently deceased Sir Colin Davis and the Boston Symphony are very similar in tempi to Bernstein's. Davis (or Sibelius;) even manages a profound hint of Scarpia’s death in Tosca. Davis was so generous with his time at the Royal Academy of Music.
[Kulenkampff tangent: Robert Schumann's Violin Concerto in D minor almost never saw the light of day. In 1937 Georg Kulenkampff gave the premiere of the rediscovered work. It was written in 1853 for Joseph Joachim who never performed it. After Schumann’s ‘health problems’ and death in a sanatorium in Endenich, Joachim never let go of the manuscript. Why we shall never know. Clara listened and the Violin Concerto was neglected from the Complete Works edition. Joachim stated in his will that the work never be played until 100 years after his death (1956). But a 1933 séance in London attended by Joachim's two violinist grand-nieces channeled a message to release the work to the world.] Unbelievable!
And Brit Barbirolli /Halle oft makes one long for Texas with that Copland-esque brass. ! (Nothing without the wind, though) More American than Lenny B. All depends how you direct the blow...(musical term..)
Go figure;)
Tchaikovsky in Texas: sounds like a great idea for a 30min ep classical music TV show by a monolith company that sells books to folk who no longer read books. ;)
...what does – Misterioso – Un pochettino largamente – Largamente assai – Un pochettino stretto really mean? Can ANY ONE SAY...Could you ever know what happened in that family?!! Whether it be human/animal/mineral/vegetable: how could you know?
I guess Frank Sinatra was the most over-rated singer in musical history! Some Came Running. More Came Running. (btw- there isn't a Sinatra painting First Lady Nancy Reagan in your 'attic' that you could bequeath to my BrilliantAdventures ART Collection:).....Guess it is a little late to ask. There is a line one must never cross without descending into the abyss: to totally be a Dante. Andante moltisimo.;) ....The Butler
How could you ever know?!
Welcome.....
Birds of a feather
May I ask you allow me to be totally musically/politically incorrect and quote THIS. ! If it had been written by Elton John or , or , or , OR: then you would probably/maybe think of it totally anew. The lyrics are timeless....but they were flown by a bird of another feather....
Tell Me on a Sunday ....
does anyone know how to write lyrics of pain to heal anymore: Mr Tony Bennett?! After all these centuries does the soul still need- a seal of approval...!
Love, design, tension, composition, light, balance: __________________________________________________-
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