Music
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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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Metropolitan Opera Streamings — week 55
Monday, March 29Bellini’s NormaStarring Sondra Radvanovsky, Joyce DiDonato, Joseph Calleja, and Matthew Rose, conducted by Carlo Rizzi. Production by Sir David McVicar. From October 7, 2017. Tuesday, March 30Strauss’s CapriccioStarring Renée Fleming, Sarah Connolly, Joseph Kaiser, Russell Braun, Morten Frank Larsen, and Peter Rose, conducted by Sir Andrew Davis. Production by John Cox. From April 23, 2011.…
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Music and Poetry
When being in Life and imagining Deathwill music and poetry help avoiding Deathor be the haven to conquer Death?
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Music
Music is intrinsicExistentialIt is not funIt is not workIt flows with intentThis is to beTo be musicOr not to breathe Sila Blume / March 2021
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Metropolitan Opera Streamings (upcoming)
Friday, March 12Giordano’s FedoraStarring Mirella Freni, Ainhoa Arteta, Plácido Domingo, Dwayne Croft, and Jean-Yves Thibaudet, conducted by Roberto Abbado. Production by Beppe De Tomasi. From April 26, 1997. Saturday, March 13Giordano’s Andrea ChénierStarring Maria Guleghina, Wendy White, Stephanie Blythe, Luciano Pavarotti, and Juan Pons, conducted by James Levine. Production by Nicolas Joël. From October 15, 1996. Sunday,…
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Sencha, Madame Butterfly & Marina Abramovic, or touch me (an invitation to a conversation)
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In an unbearable lightness, and bearable heaviness of a legitimate painless suffering which suddenly surfaces.
Suddenly I experienced a level of painless suffering I never knew before. Since a very early age, the furnishing in my home included at least a piano. I played with it regularly — physically and mentally. But the portable simplicity of a guitar always attracted me. As a left handed person, however, my exploration possibilities…
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Blindness, Incompletion, and Wisdom — Tchaikovsky’s Opera “Iolanta” [Event]
Born blind, Princess Iolanta lives protected from the outside world, while unaware of her impairment — until love reveals her limitations. Join Sila Blume to discuss incompleteness, and wisdom, based on Peter I. Tchaikovsky’s last opera, on Thursday, March 4 2021, at 4:30 pm EST, in Clubhouse. Please, go to https://www.joinclubhouse.com/event/MzapOQZp
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Iolanta, the blind Princess
Iolanta:Why have I been given eyes?So that I may weep…Vaudemont:Does that mean there is no desire in your heart to see the light, and the glory of the universe?Iolanta:What does the word “see” mean?Vaudemont:To know the beautiful light.Iolanta:Knight, what is light? From the operaIOLANTAMusic — Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky Libretto – Modest Tchaikovsky (Translation by Evangeline…
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I am truly listening to Sergei Rachmaninoff
Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff was born in Russia, on the first of April of 1873 into a musical family, and began playing the piano at the age of four. He spent many years living in New York City. Thinking of him as a neighbor, gives me a wonderful sensation, knowing that such an iconic human lived…
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