changeling67 | Entries tagged with classical music

Spring feels like it is here, with the first semi warm and sunny days since September last. I have to fight the urge to go out and catch some shots of the first shoots of spring. Chapter 2 isn't exactly in the bag - in fact, I posted it with great trepidation as a cry for help (messy beyond belief and I couldn't get past rearranging the same old crap). Now I have some breathing space, it is time to go through and write up crucial notes for Chapter 3, rather than sit around letting the grass grow under my feet.

Some good and not so good news about my former fellow students. On the NSGN front - a student who was an FdA from my old college dropped out re discrepancies about her work. A genuine mistake on her part and it got to such a position, she dropped out in December. I am glad to hear she is doing well and in a nice job, but ultimately very disappointing. Her running partner also is struggling, as she took English with Politics and is finding it a strain, not to mention quite alienating. On a brighter note, another fellow Truro colleague, who graduated last September has passed his teacher training literary test and the all important evil maths test - closer steps in becoming a teacher. I am very pleased for him, think he will do a good job, too.

Anyway it's tappitty tap time :-)

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I have written out 2,633 words today and barely made a dent (just over 10% of it) but it should settle soon, because it is about fleshing key characters out and that will be narrowing down shortly. I have to concentrate on the relationships with the protagonists' key mother figures and add the others in as incidentals, as and when. Dead tired now and I have Prodigal 1 and granddaughter over tomorrow, so I won't be seeing this til about 2 in the afternoon.

Current Music: Christobal De Morales - Parce mihi Domine
Crossposts: http://calico-pye.livejournal.com/1512527.html

Reminds of my mother and how we used to listen to Radio 3 at six in the morning. I was three years old and remember it like it was yesterday.

Current Music: Ravel - Daphnis et Chloé, Suite n°2

Hail to thee, blithe Spirit!

Bird thou never wert,

That from Heaven, or near it,

Pourest thy full heart

In profuse strains of unpremeditated art.

Higher still and higher

From the earth thou springest

Like a cloud of fire;

The blue deep thou wingest,

And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest.

In the golden lightning

Of the sunken sun,

O'er which clouds are bright'ning,

Thou dost float and run;

Like an unbodied joy whose race is just begun.

The pale purple even

Melts around thy flight;

Like a star of Heaven,

In the broad day-light

Thou art unseen, but yet I hear thy shrill delight,

Keen as are the arrows

Of that silver sphere,

Whose intense lamp narrows

In the white dawn clear

Until we hardly see, we feel that it is there.

All the earth and air

With thy voice is loud,

As, when night is bare,

From one lonely cloud

The moon rains out her beams, and Heaven is overflow'd.

What thou art we know not;

What is most like thee?

From rainbow clouds there flow not

Drops so bright to see

As from thy presence showers a rain of melody.

Like a Poet hidden

In the light of thought,

Singing hymns unbidden,

Till the world is wrought

To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not:

Like a high-born maiden

In a palace-tower,

Soothing her love-laden

Soul in secret hour

With music sweet as love, which overflows her bower:

Like a glow-worm golden

In a dell of dew,

Scattering unbeholden

Its a{:e}real hue

Among the flowers and grass, which screen it from the view:

Like a rose embower'd

In its own green leaves,

By warm winds deflower'd,

Till the scent it gives

Makes faint with too much sweet those heavy-winged thieves:

Sound of vernal showers

On the twinkling grass,

Rain-awaken'd flowers,

All that ever was

Joyous, and clear, and fresh, thy music doth surpass.

Teach us, Sprite or Bird,

What sweet thoughts are thine:

I have never heard

Praise of love or wine

That panted forth a flood of rapture so divine.

Chorus Hymeneal,

Or triumphal chant,

Match'd with thine would be all

But an empty vaunt,

A thing wherein we feel there is some hidden want.

What objects are the fountains

Of thy happy strain?

What fields, or waves, or mountains?

What shapes of sky or plain?

What love of thine own kind? what ignorance of pain?

With thy clear keen joyance

Languor cannot be:

Shadow of annoyance

Never came near thee:

Thou lovest: but ne'er knew love's sad satiety.

Waking or asleep,

Thou of death must deem

Things more true and deep

Than we mortals dream,

Or how could thy notes flow in such a crystal stream?

We look before and after,

And pine for what is not:

Our sincerest laughter

With some pain is fraught;

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

Yet if we could scorn

Hate, and pride, and fear;

If we were things born

Not to shed a tear,

I know not how thy joy we ever should come near.

Better than all measures

Of delightful sound,

Better than all treasures

That in books are found,

Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground!

Teach me half the gladness

That thy brain must know,

Such harmonious madness

From my lips would flow

The world should listen then, as I am listening now.

One of Mozart's most beautiful pieces; I heard on the Inspector Morse episode 'Fat Chance' and just now on Classic FM.

Current Music: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Laudate Dominum

Current Music: The Flower Duet - Leo Delibes

From their website
On the 130th anniversary of the founding of Banco Sabadell we wanted to pay homage to our city by means of the campaign "Som Sabadell" (We are Sabadell) . This is the flashmob that we arranged as a final culmination with the participation of 100 people from the Vallès Symphony Orchestra, the Lieder, Amics de l'Òpera and Coral Belles Arts choirs.

Current Music: Som Sabadell flashmob - BANCO SABADELL

Beautiful music for the Easter weekend, but becomes even more special when the choir join in around 3:52 - worth listening to :-)

Current Music: Karl Jenkins - Benedictus

Current Music: Wolfgang Amadadeus Mozart - Laudate Dominum

I am sure they play a version of this on HBO's 'Carnivale.'

Current Music: Falla: Ritual Fire Dance from El Amor Brujo

This music was one of my first ever memories - my mother used to be an avid Radio 3 listener and all of her aunts and uncles had a fine supply of classical music. Sometimes I think that some pieces have almost been embossed upon my brain stem LOL :-)

Current Mood: cheerful
Current Music: Verdi - Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves

Passio Domini Nostri J.C. Secundum Evangelistam Matthaeum translates to "The Passion of our Lord J[esus] C[hrist] according to the Evangelist Matthew."

I have wanted to know the title/composer of this music for over two decades. Thanks to Classic FM, I have found it. It was on my favourite episode of 'Inspector Morse' - Who Killed Harry Field? The music just reminds me of the wonderful Freddie Jones, who played the grieving Harry Field Snr and who sometimes reminds me unbearably of my father.

Beautiful :-)

Current Mood: productive
Current Music: J.S.Bach - Matthäus-Passion - Wir setzen uns mit Tränen nieder

Current Mood: crushed
Current Music: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Laudate Dominum

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Entries tagged with classical music

Major Dissertation Ch 3 Notes - It Begins

Ravel - Daphnis et Chloé, Suite n°2

World Poetry Day 2016: Percy Bysshe Shelly - Ode to a Skylark (Music: Ralph Vaughan Williams)

Laudate Dominum

The Flower Duet - Leo Delibes

Som Sabadell flashmob - BANCO SABADELL

Benedictus

Laudate Dominum

Falla: Ritual Fire Dance from El Amor Brujo

Verdi - Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves

J.S.Bach - Matthäus-Passion - Wir setzen uns mit Tränen nieder

Laudate Dominum

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