Tag: Orchestra
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My Soulful Love for Music, and why I’m Against Music Elitism
My first introduction to Classical Music came from developing interests through the annals of Black Music, and not in distinct contrast (or opposition) to it. This perspective is very different from the perspective of, for example a White music elitist. I am generally opposed to unrealistic elitist-racialist opinions about music genres fixated in this seeming…
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Poem: Into the Land of Heroes | Wagner, Das Reingold: Vorspiel
INTO THE LAND OF HEROES AND FRIENDS By Dominique Johnson I rise with you,As you do in me.I am shedding my skins,To unfold youSitting on the throne of the slainLight about your pavilion, Brooding deep with three piercing eyes Whisper at this hour the things your two eyes have seen.I saw the well in a…
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Preludes, Book 1, L. 117: X. The Sunken Cathedral | Claude Debussy, Erich Kunzel
Believe that your potentiality is not at its end, That it has no end. Prepare a life towards renewal and hope. Rise up for the trials that still lie ahead. What wonders might you adorn?What shall your life be. . . .
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The Sensualist and the Sexless Heaven
The sensualist is treated as depraved and materialistic, which I disagree with. If hypocrisy is an indomitable vice (THE PLATONIST, 1881, p. 2) of the sensualist, so is the blindness and double hypocrisy of the thinker and authority, who though mortal and flowing with the same nervous system as other mortals, pretends to be above…
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Gustav Holst: Saturn, Bringer Of The Old Age
Come forth DREAMER, MIGHT of elder father, so that you may rise again; Dream as you would when in longing, It is from an Old Age your gifts sprang. It was the churning hot elements from the stars that bore you.
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Carl Orff: In Taberna Quando Sumus – Kurt Eichhorn
“Here no-one fears death,but they throw the dice in the name of Bacchus…May those who slander us be cursedand may their names not be written in the book of the righteous.” Precisely my sentiment. When we’re in the tavern In taberna quando sumusnon curamus quid sit humus,sed ad ludum properamus,cui semper insudamus.Quid agatur in tabernaubi…
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Bogoroditse Devo (Virgin, Mother of God) | Rachmaninoff: Vespers (All-Night Vigil)
Blessed is the Virgin (Bogoroditse Devo)Rachmaninoff Vespers, No. 6 Rejoice, virgin, God-bearer (Bogoroditse Devo, raduysia) Mary, full of grace (Blagodatnaya Mariye), the Lord be with you. (Hospod s’Toboyu)Blessed are you amongst women (Blagoslovenna Ti v’zhenah).and blessed is the Fruit of your Womb (i Blagosloven Plod chreva Tvoyego).for you have borne the Savior of our souls…
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Sanctus! — Mozart and Süssmayr
Such magnificence leave us desirous to soar and delve into the sacred. SANCTUS Sanctus. Sanctus, Sanctus,Dominus Deus Sabaoth!Pleni suni coeli et terra gloria tua.Osanna in excelsis. Holy, holy, holy,Lord God of Sabaoth.Heaven and earth are full of Thy glory.Hosanna in the highest.
The American Minervan 