Music
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The Soul is unbound
Ever since we have been traveling this globe, our exposure to the exotic or merely to the other (individual, culture, tradition, belief), has left us impressed, influenced, at least touched. Henry F. Gilbert was born 1868 in Somerville, a town in the Boston metropolitan area where I lived in the mid 1980s. He attended the…
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Sing
If you can’t sing, sing. If you’re happy, sing. When you are sad, sing. Whenever you are confused, sing. If you are angry, sing. If confused, sing. If you want to be in happiness, sing. Sing your heart out. Sing your mind out. Sing your insecurity out, sing your confidence out. If you wish to…
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Celebrating the life of Shirley Verrett
Shirley Verrett was born in New Orleans on the 31st of May in 1931. Her operatic debut was 1957 in Benjamin Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia. Not the best choice, considering her family practiced Seventh-Day Adventism, and was not in agreement with her pursuing an opera career. In 1968 she made her New York Metropolitan…
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Music and Philosophy
Music pushes us to listen. Philosophy pushes us to think.
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to be, to do
Some say: I do philosophy Some say: I make music Some say: I am music Some say: I am a musician And I am wondering, what does that say of each. Notes taken during the room “The thin line between philosophy and music”, in the club “Opera, Blood, and Tears”, on Clubhouse. May 11 2021
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There is a very thin line between music and philosophy
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Listening while relaying a message
The musician on stage is a hearing conglomerate. He has to listen to himself, perceive what he plays, and react to it. At the same time, he has to anticipate his playing and overlook the complete piece. Simultaneously, he plays for the listeners in the tenth or twenty-third row, and listens, as it were, with…
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Fragility, Hunger, Strength
Art and music can not ever be sold or bought — only the so called pieces may. Seen and heard art can not be class bound. The artist with depth is inherently hungry, just because art and music can not be sold or bought. When I tremble in emotions, in bolts of clarity, in sudden…
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O.P.E.R.A
I’m thinking that opera ought to be dissected. Well, everything in life ought to be dissected. Spread out on a beautiful table. Looked at, again and again. Digested, regurgitated, enjoyed 360 degrees. Dissect love, dissect life, dissect the self, discard of the ego wanting to reach completion. Go on.
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What happens through music once it finishes, before the applause begins?
There is a spiritual, physical, and mental space between the moment understood as the end of a music piece, and that in which no notes are left to be intonated. What is the quality of that space? When is the right time for the expected applause? Should it be expected? Join Vlad Vexler, philosopher and…
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Unnoted Music — I
There is a spiritual space, physical space, mental space between the moment understood as the end of a music piece, and the moment in which no notes are left to be intonated. This moment usually bridges the music performance with the reaction of the audience, customarily known as applause. I question the conditions and conditioning…
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This week at the Metropolitan Opera
All performances at the MET begin streaming at 7:30 pm EST Tuesday, April 6Verdi’s RigolettoStarring Christiane Eda-Pierre, Isola Jones, Luciano Pavarotti, Louis Quilico, and Ara Berberian, conducted by James Levine. Production by John Dexter. From December 15, 1981. Wednesday, April 7Tchaikovsky’s Eugene OneginStarring Anna Netrebko, Elena Maximova, Alexey Dolgov, Peter Mattei, and Štefan Kocán, conducted by…
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Music and Poetry
In melodies or words, a composition is amongst the purest intentionalities in accepting nothing, living under nothing, subjugating to nothing — an effort of a moment, minutes, hours or weeks, during which the composer will inhale, dissect, assemble, into something which never was, turned into a finished piece which never ends, as if avoiding death,…
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