Just because I like it:
“… by the spirits of the distant cradles.”
Along the quay, the great ships,
that ride the swell in silence,
take no notice of the cradles.
that the hands of the women rock.
But the day of farewells will come,
when the women must weep,
and curious men are tempted
towards the horizons that lure them!
And that day the great ships,
sailing away from the diminishing port,
feel their bulk held back
by the spirits of the distant cradles.
[name here]r is mad because my band proffessor is making her play the second oboe part….and i’m a flute
So sorry, but I’ve not been good about the whole “Top Ten” from Mr Tommasini. So I’m just going to put links up for the rest of his series. You’ll have to click on over to read and watch the videos.
Top 10 Composers: Hailing Opera’s Shakespeare, and Its Proust
Top 10 Composers: The Female Factor
The Top 10 Composers: The Romantics
Agree? Disagree? Think it’s ridiculous to even attempt a top 10 list? I know this really did get some people up in arms. Me? I just figure if it gets anyone interested in listening to any of this music I’m a happy camper. I’m easy that way.
Update:
I just found another Top 10 List (this blog entry is the top 2, but I’m sure you can figure out how to read about the rest), by John Althouse Cohen. (And this is a new blog to me, so I’ll be checking it out now.)
… but only if you are in a different state …
Found online:
The third concert in Symphony Orchestra Augusta’s Symphony Series, Job, Satan & God , will focus on the religious aspect of human life.
Maestro Shizuo Kuwahara will lead the symphony in works by three English composers: Percy Grainger, Benjamin Britten and Ralph Vaughan Williams. The performance will begin at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at First Baptist of Augusta. The program will include Shepherd’s Hey by Grainger, Sinfonia da Requiem by Britten and Job: A Masque for Dancing by Williams.
“Throughout this season, we have presented programs which deal with different aspects of human life, and this concert reflects the religious aspect. What does it mean to have faith, and how can one see or feel what one believes? Perhaps it is difficult to understand or explain in words, but there are clues to these questions in sound. This concert is a presentation of composers’ interpretation of religion in music,” Kuwahara said in a release.
There are at least a couple of things that make this sort of interesting to me.
All The Cats Join In
Kind of the first time all year I don’t want to have an oboe lesson.
Wishing Maestro Domingo a most wonderful birthday.
Here he is a few years back:
Singing Granada:
And here on the Cosby Show:
And here he is, singing in Japanese:
E lucevan le stelle:
[name here] is officially a failure at the oboe.
Bach fuga BWV 537
Flanders Recorder Quartet
90s SITCOMS HAD SO MUCH SAD OBOE
… I can’t, in fact, remember the last one I saw in a theater. Hmmm. Maybe it was (embarrassed shrug) that James Cameron movie that was winning awards a few years ago … what was it called again?
BUT …! :
First announced early last year, Dustin Hoffman‘s directorial debut—an adaptation of Ronald Harwood‘s stage comedy “Quartet”—is now set to begin production this fall after the actor-turned-director wraps up on the David Milch-backed HBO horse-racing drama “Luck.”
The project is shaping to be a real actor’s film boasting a powerful leading trio with English thespians Maggie Smith, Albert Finney and Tom Courtenay for the story of “four retired opera singers living in a retirement home, who decide to sing once more at a gala concert to celebrate Verdi’s birthday.” And it looks like some more accomplished talent may be joining the ranks: the original play’s scribe Harwood, who won an Oscar for his work on Roman Polanski’s “The Pianist,” is adapting for the screen.
Yep. I’ll be wanting to see that one!
I read about it here.
stupid oboe why are you so difficult?!
Opera star Elina Garanca sings “Age of Aquarius” … and again I have to credit Opera Chic who seems to find everything!
First Netrebko and now this? What shall I put up next? Hmm?
How about we put both Netrebko and Garanca together and have ‘em sing something … oh I dunno … operatic or something? Hmm?
I don’t know what to make of this, but I suppose I should thank Opera Chic for bringing it to my attention.
Philipp Kirkorov & Anna Netrebko:
After posting a $5.6 million deficit for the 2008-2009 season, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra announced Wednesday that a balanced budget was achieved for the 2009-2010 season. That fiscal year, which ended Aug. 31, 2010, yielded an operating surplus of $4,116. This is the third balanced budget in the past four years.
“We’re moving in a cautiously forward direction,” said BSO president and CEO Paul Meecham. “It feels very different from last year.”Although there were sufficient cash reserves to cover the ’08-’09 deficit, the challenges of balancing the ’09-’10 budget during the lingering recession proved considerable. Cost-reduction measures were taken across the board.
The budget was reduced to
$24.3 million from $28.3 million the previous year.
BSO musicians volunteered $1 million in reduced pay and benefits and spearheaded a productive fundraising campaign called Music Matters. Music director Marin Alsop contributed $50,000 to that campaign and also donated back $100,000 in conducting fees. Administration staffers also absorbed cuts.On the other side of the ledger during FY2010, the orchestra received more than 10,000 contributions, the highest number in BSO history, up from 7,000 four years earlier.
Read that and more here.
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