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-Medieval chivalric romance (when is it my turn)
-Used in my favorite Lars Von Trier movie (Melancholia)
-I had to learn about this in my music history course and I cried at 10:00 A.M. listening to Act III: Liebestod
-It’s for the boys who want to drink prosseco, smoke a celadon and run around their victorian apartment that’s on the national registry of historic buildings; akin to a madame in french aristocracy. how many letters until I truly reach you?
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A cinematic performance of Pēteris Vasks’s Vox Amoris, Bach’s “Ich ruf zu dir”, and Arnold Schoenberg’s “Verklärte Nacht by the Australian Chamber Orchestra. Discovered it on Kanopy but can’t find the full thing anywhere else for free. They have Vox Amoris on YouTube (linked).
Played it while making breakfast this morning. It deserved more of my attention but part of the total enjoyment was seeing which moments in the compositions caught me and pulled me out of my daily motions. It was my first time hearing Vox Amoris (a composition written for the violinist Richard Tognetti and ACO) and it moved me to wet wet tears while I scrambled my eggs.
It had also been awhile since I listened to Verklärte Nacht / Transfigured Night in its entirety. Truthfully, for a while, the Spotify-ication of my brain rendered me unable to listen to a full album or composition and I would just skip to IV Sehr breit und langsam because it left a mark on me. Listening to it in full again, I almost felt ashamed that I had been circumventing the story, jumping to the chapter I liked, and limiting myself to being moved rather than transformed. It is, after all, about the redemptive power of love. We can’t be redeemed if we’re unwilling to become something new.
“You have brought the glow into me, You have made me like a child myself.”
Played it while making breakfast this morning. It deserved more of my attention but part of the total enjoyment was seeing which moments in the compositions caught me and pulled me out of my daily motions. It was my first time hearing Vox Amoris (a composition written for the violinist Richard Tognetti and ACO) and it moved me to wet wet tears while I scrambled my eggs.
It had also been awhile since I listened to Verklärte Nacht / Transfigured Night in its entirety. Truthfully, for a while, the Spotify-ication of my brain rendered me unable to listen to a full album or composition and I would just skip to IV Sehr breit und langsam because it left a mark on me. Listening to it in full again, I almost felt ashamed that I had been circumventing the story, jumping to the chapter I liked, and limiting myself to being moved rather than transformed. It is, after all, about the redemptive power of love. We can’t be redeemed if we’re unwilling to become something new.
“You have brought the glow into me, You have made me like a child myself.”
Feb 17, 2025
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…from Karl Friedrich Schinkel’s 1816 design for the Hall of the Queen of the Night in Mozart’s Magic Flute. It’s so gorgeous.
May 25, 2025
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đź“ťI love words that, although appearing innocuous and superficial are packed with either rich history or an applied *hidden meaning* brought forth from our weird silly brains.
my favorites: -Gothic (who ARE the goths?!) -Zany —the mixture of work and play: comedy as affective labor? -Vibe —aesthetics? ethos? ambience? -Camp -”Guys girl” -Urban -Wholesome -Cute
my favorites: -Gothic (who ARE the goths?!) -Zany —the mixture of work and play: comedy as affective labor? -Vibe —aesthetics? ethos? ambience? -Camp -”Guys girl” -Urban -Wholesome -Cute