Category: Blog
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Autumn Movement
“I cried over beautiful things knowing no beautiful thing lasts.
The field of cornflower yellow is a scarf at the neck of the copper sunburned woman, the mother of the year, the taker of seeds.
The northwest wind comes and the yellow is torn full of holes, new beautiful things come in the first spit of snow on the northwest wind, and the old things go, not one lasts.”
~ Carl Sandburg (1878 – 1967)
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Big Mac Attack
Cornell MacNeil (above) and Ileana Cotrubas bring down the house in the “Si, vendetta!” duet from Verdi’s RIGOLETTO. I love Cotrubas dipping into chest voice on “Perdonate!…“, and Mac’s final note is a triumph.
Ileana Cotrubas & Cornell MacNeil – RIGOLETTO duet – Met bcast 1977
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Songs of the Sea II
Gladys Ripley sings ‘Where Corals Lie’ from Elgar’s SEA PICTURES.
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Forgotten French Artists
Above: Une philosophe, by Jean Louis Ernest Meissonier, c.1878
Another wonderful article from Artsy: LINK
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Au cimetière
Above: Sunset Chapel in Acapulco
Cemeteries have always fascinated me. As a teen-ager in the little town, I used to take my girlfriend to the local cemetery to make out. No one would think to look for us there, though we sometimes heard other couples nearby on moonlit nights.
A great article – with photos – from Artsy here.
Eleanor Steber – Au Cimetière from Berlioz’s LES NUITS D’ETE
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Abscheulicher! wo eilst du hin?
Elizabeth Connell as Leonore in Beethoven’s FIDELIO.
Abscheulicher! – FIDELIO – Elizabeth Connell – Met bcast 2~16~91
“You monster! Where will you go?
What have you planned in your cruel fury?
The call of pity, the voice of mankind,
Will nothing move your tiger’s heart?
Like storm-driven ocean waves,
Ire and anger rage in your breast.And yet, a rainbow on my path still shines,
Which brightly rests o’er sombre clouds:
It looks so calm, so peaceful to me,
reminding me of happier days
And soothing thus my troubled heart.Come hope, let not the last bright star
be obscured by doubt!
Illuminate my goal, however far:
Through love I shall reach it still.I follow my inner calling,
I shall not waver:
Strength I derive
From my marital vows.
Oh you, for whom I have endured so much:
If only I could penetrate
Where malice has imprisoned you,
And bring to you sweet comfort!
I follow my inner calling…
In faithfulness and love, I shall triumph!”
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