The day cannot pass without mention of today’s excellent Google Doodle – an animated nighttime street scene, set to the music “Claire de Lune” by Claude Debussy:
A nice effort, very well made.
Music For The Day
Music For The Day
The first and second movements from Symphony no. 2 by Jean Sibelius (1902).
Performed here by Leonard Bernstein and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.
It’s a good version, albeit alternately overwrought and halting on occasions, and not a patch on the LSO/Davis recordings and performances, which remain the best available to date.
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Music For The Day:
“Sad Professor”, by the band R.E.M. from Athens, Georgia, USA.
If we’re talking about love
Then I have to tell you
Dear readers I’m not sure where I’m headed.
I’ve gotten lost before.
I’ve woke up stone drunk
Face down in the floor.
Late afternoon the house is hot.
I started I jumped up.
Everyone hates a bore.
Everyone hates a drunk.
This may be a lit invention
Professors muddled in their intent
To try to rope in followers
To float their malcontent.
As for this reader,
I’m already spent.
Late afternoon, the house is hot.
I started, I jumped up.
Everyone hates a sad professor.
I hate where I wound up.
Dear readers, my apologies.
I’m drifting in and out of sleep.
Long silence presents the tragedies
Of love. note the age. get afraid.
The surface hazy with attendant thoughts.
A lazy eye metaphor on the rocks.
Late afternoon, the house is hot.
I started, I jumped up.
Everyone hates a bore.
Everyone hates a drunk.
Everyone hates a sad professor.
I hate where I wound up.
I hate where I wound up.
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Music For The Day
A beautiful arrangement of the spiritual “Deep River”, which forms the finale of the cantata / secular oratorio “A Child Of Our Time” by British composer Michael Tippett. Performed here in my favourite recording of this piece, given by the London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Richard Hickox:
And from the same work, Tippett’s arrangement of “Steal Away”:
More about Tippett’s “A Child Of Our Time” can be read here.
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“In Trutina” from “Carmina Burana”, composed by Carl Orff.
In trutina mentis dubia
Fluctuant contraria
Lascivus amor et pudicitia.
Sed eligo quod video
Collum iugo prebeo
Ad iugum tamen suave transeo.
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