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Diane
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One of his operas, Satyagraha, focuses on the life of Mahatma Gandhi. Beautiful, contemplative music.
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Widget
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Oh and then there is Einstein On the Beach and Hydrogen Jukebox that he co-wrote with Allen Ginsberg......and my favorite piece Witchita Vortex Sutra wich is sooOOOOoooOOOOoo amazing it'll blow your mind! Glass has so many things going on in his music sometimes that it just doesn't seem to work but does work on a completely different plane. Or its so beautiful and emotive that it reduces you to tears. And then other times (i.e. Kwayanaskatsi....spelling?) its completely maddening in a Frank Zappa way. I'm pritty damn excited about seeing him and cannot beleive i got the tickets i did for the price i did. it'll be him, a grand piano.....and Widget....completely breathless, soul aquiver in musical anticipation....third row center. EEeeK!
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Kiwi Keith
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| Widget wrote: | | Oh and then there is Einstein On the Beach and Hydrogen Jukebox that he co-wrote with Allen Ginsberg......and my favorite piece Witchita Vortex Sutra wich is sooOOOOoooOOOOoo amazing it'll blow your mind! Glass has so many things going on in his music sometimes that it just doesn't seem to work but does work on a completely different plane. Or its so beautiful and emotive that it reduces you to tears. And then other times (i.e. Kwayanaskatsi....spelling?) its completely maddening in a Frank Zappa way. I'm pritty damn excited about seeing him and cannot beleive i got the tickets i did for the price i did. it'll be him, a grand piano.....and Widget....completely breathless, soul aquiver in musical anticipation....third row center. EEeeK! |
So are you going to the parolympic games?
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Widget
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| Quote: | | Oh and then there is Einstein On the Beach and Hydrogen Jukebox that he co-wrote with Allen Ginsberg......and my favorite piece Witchita Vortex Sutra wich is sooOOOOoooOOOOoo amazing it'll blow your mind! |
And then he plays Witchita Vortex Sutra along to a recording of Allen Ginsberg reciting the poem, and you're three rows away from him and can see the keys moving in the reflextion off the grand piano, and feel the music in your chest and heart and you close your eyes and suddenly you are somewhere else in a dimension where music is four dimensional and sound is colour and acoustic anomalies swirl up from a mad rush of sound and envelop you.......oh oh oh how do you decribe Phillip Glass live....other then i was shaking and had goosebumps and my best friend grasped my hand so tight and cried because his music, his amazing music is so unspeakably beautiful....
It was an hour and a half of pure, unadulterated Phillip Glass. Metamorphosis, Etudes, Night on a balcony, Mad Rush, Whichita Vortex Sutra and Closing........I'm still realing. Each piece was more beautiful than the previous....I have never, ever heard music like that before.
No you really can't describe it because he takes music apart and puts it back together in a completely different way.
It was just so amazing.
I'm speechless.
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Widget
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On yesterday's run this song, Nugget by Cake, struck me as having particularly fantastic lyrics. Thought I would share them:
[i]heads of state who ride and wrangle
who look at your face from more than one angle
can cut you from their bloated budgets
like sharpened knives to chicken mcnuggets
shut the f*** ahhh
no shut the f*** up
right right learn to buck up
right shut the f*** up
now now learn to buck up
now nimble fingers that dance on numbers
we`ll eat your children and steal your thunder
while heavy torsos that heave and hurl
will crunch like nuts in the mouths of squirrels
shut the f*** ahhh
no shut the f*** up
right now learn to buck up
right shut the f*** up
learn to buck up
now simple feet that flicker like fire
and burn like candles in smokey spires
do more to turn my joy to sadness than
sombre thoughts of burning planets
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Widget
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'Middle Cyclone' by Neko Case....amazing....fantastic...original....scintillatingly poetic....emotive.....I cannot get enough....
And she's a red head.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULue-itg8eA
I think CBC Concerts on Demand has the entire concert, which is well worth a listen....while your doing the dishes, glueing broken china back together, cleaning your running shoes....etc.
Umm....What do other runners like to listen to?
(it gets so quite on the forum sometimes....like i'm in a giant hall yelling out hallo hallo....and people hear me but no one answers...like a cruel game of Marco polo...)
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Widget
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WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW.....
She gets even better and better.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qclxx4uO0ac
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