May 2012
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At just under five hours, it seemed a little too short.
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Weekend Music Don't worry, this is not about to become an all-Wagner blog. I may write about him Sunday, or may not depending on how much time I have. But a great deal of my time apart from my job has been or will be (Götterdämmerung this afternoon) spent attending the Ring this week, so naturally it's…
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The closing words of Siegfried: leuchtende Liebe,lachender Tod! or radiant love,joyful death! Now of course there’s a way of meaning those words that could be very true and very Christian, but I’m afraid it’s just death-wish romanticism. Correct me if I’m wrong.
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I'm not sure when I'll have a chance to say more about last night's Siegfried, but here's a quick note about the singer in the title role, Jay Hunter Morris. I'm not very knowledgeable about classical singers, just enough that I generally recognize the big names. I did not recognize Morris's name, but didn't assume…
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Seems like it would be a shame to pass up the opportunity to eat popcorn at the opera at least once.
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I saw this second opera of The Ring last night, all four hours of it, and thoroughly enjoyed it. I'm definitely into this now; I hope nothing prevents me from seeing Siegfried Wednesday and Götterdämmerung on Saturday. I believe I like Walküre better than Rheingold musically. Although for the most part I've been finding Wagner more interesting than moving, the…
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Part of my routine when I arrive at work every morning involves downloading some data from the web site of a company we work with. They always have a quotation on the login page, and they change it every day. Sometimes it's humorous, more often it's vaguely inspirational in a pop-psychology self-help you-can-do-it sort of…
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Today is Mother's Day, and has been very full of activity. I've had no time to write, so I will offer you something I wrote for Mother's Day 2006. It's hard for me to believe that that was six years ago. And I've been contemplating the fact that the year 2000 now seems a fairly…
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Though it did catch my eye. Apparently there is some sort of sub-sub-genre of disposable music for dance clubs which is called “lounge,” and the album art is often something like the picture below. I nearly always stop and look at images like this for a moment, though the music is of no interest to…
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Weekend Music This is from an album called Southward, another album that I sampled on eMusic only because the art and the title intrigued me, and ended up buying. It consists of old gospel samples mixed with rhythm tracks, synths, and other things. This is probably my favorite track. Here's the cover:
Light On Dark Water 