Classical Music, Poetry and stuff

[Birgitta]

Try getting up at 4am to practise, Brigitta. That should be early enough.

Hihihi, poor neighbours

I am taking recorder lessons, i love the fluteeeeee!

[Birgitta]

Hi, can anyone perhaps recommand me some early music with the recorder, i love the recorder....i am listening to french baroque now 1700-1740, blavet, hottetere, couperin

The Dutch have been producing exceptional early music artists for years -here is Franz Bruggen, playing a recorder with his legs crossed!

Thhhanks yes he is great!

[maaarc]

This has always been one of my favorites:

The Emperor of Ice-Cream

Call the roller of big cigars,
The muscular one, and bid him whip
In kitchen cups concupiscent curds.
Let the wenches dawdle in such dress
As they are used to wear, and let the boys
Bring flowers in last month's newspapers.
Let be be finale of seem.
The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream.

Take from the dresser of deal,
Lacking the three glass knobs, that sheet
On which she embroidered fantails once
And spread it so as to cover her face.
If her horny feet protrude, they come
To show how cold she is, and dumb.
Let the lamp affix its beam.
The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream.

-- Wallace Stevens

[Prospero]

My favourite Wallace Stevens is The Blue Guitar. Have you read that? it's very long and there is a marvellous edition with illustrations by David Hockney.

This is another good one which is much shorter.

Anecdote of the Jar

Wallace Stevens

I placed a jar in Tennessee,
And round it was, upon a hill.
It made the slovenly wilderness
Surround that hill.

The wilderness rose up to it,
And sprawled around, no longer wild.
The jar was round upon the ground
And tall and of a port in air.

It took dominion every where.
The jar was gray and bare.
It did not give of bird or bush,
Like nothing else in Tennessee.

[hippifried]

Right, for starters: Beethoven, influenced by tgirls or not?

I think he was more by his own woes. You can hear the frustration of going deaf in the first movement of the Pathetique:

[Jericho]

Kind of appropriate around here......

Love In The Asylum - Dylan Thomas

A stranger has come
To share my room in the house not right in the head,
A girl mad as birds

Bolting the night of the door with her arm her plume.
Strait in the mazed bed
She deludes the heaven-proof house with entering clouds

Yet she deludes with walking the nightmarish room,
At large as the dead,
Or rides the imagined oceans of the male wards.

She has come possessed
Who admits the delusive light through the bouncing wall,
Possessed by the skies

She sleeps in the narrow trough yet she walks the dust
Yet raves at her will
On the madhouse boards worn thin by my walking tears.

And taken by light in her arms at long and dear last
I may without fail
Suffer the first vision that set fire to the stars.

[Yvonne183]

It was the rap, rap, rapping, the tapping, I could no longer ignore, upon my chamber door, so I pondered I would post as way of a toast, The Raven for Lenore once and evermore.

Poe is buried near where I live,, original goth, cool

My poetry

Roses are reddish
Violets are blueish
If it wasn't for Jesus
We'd all be Jewish.


I like this one, I forget who wrote it.

Yesterday upon the stair,
I met a man who wasn't there.
He wasn't there again today,
Oh how I wish he'd go away.

I also like classical music,, the Beatles are my favorite

[gsman1968]

this is working for me today:

[maaarc]

My favourite Wallace Stevens is The Blue Guitar. Have you read that? it's very long and there is a marvellous edition with illustrations by David Hockney.

This is another good one which is much shorter.

Anecdote of the Jar

Wallace Stevens

I placed a jar in Tennessee,
And round it was, upon a hill.
It made the slovenly wilderness
Surround that hill.

The wilderness rose up to it,
And sprawled around, no longer wild.
The jar was round upon the ground
And tall and of a port in air.

It took dominion every where.
The jar was gray and bare.
It did not give of bird or bush,
Like nothing else in Tennessee.

Wallace is my favorite and The Man with the Blue Guitar" is one of his best

[maaarc]

Pavarotti - Nessun Dorma