A wee tiny production house specializes in productions found off the well-weathered trails; however, the silver foxes will still be pleased with a dash of Mozart and Rossini.
http://www.chicagooperatheater.org/?gclid=CP720MuXwZoCFQFHFQodEVzCtQ
Not now, not never could Terry Riley conceive of such a MIDI-driven rodeo rendition:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/27/arts/music/27rile.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=terry%20riley&st=cse
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/arts/music/07kozi.html?ref=music
sorry bout all the linkage todag.
NOW SERVING: “Double the Sax, Double the Mint for Reich” and “Ligeti Spaghetti Special”
The expressive psycho-dramatism flowing from the mind of Achim Freyer into Dorothy Chandler Sunday afternoon was both exacting and exuberant.
“The world has raised its prices again,
and the sky is still blue.
The fuel it takes to fire the night
is riddled to break bread,
and the grass’ green song can
still be heard.
Misery metal cola quenches the land’s thirst,
and the brook’s clear bubbles
still gargle.
Ancient youth chides adolescent wisdom,
and the wrinkles of a cold smile
still gleam.
The Tetris clouds of Lego-locked storms
shower sour tears from
foreign amber,
and the wind’s willow-licked kiss
still swings the heated wheat.
Swan-like cattle feed on bull-headed geese,
and the carob-caked soil still bleeds.
One limb upon limb still spills
sweat and sweet step
while the leprosy leopard
still lies,
all and none.”
“We passed through capsules
and facades,
both real and a farce,
where foot tread treks
pave bronze the
gold of old
ill will.
To arrive in
the heart and liver, where
Grandfather meets a child’s children
to face what spirit he has left,
to rise and pace to the coming.”
“Through passageways and parodies,
I have arrived at a grand efficacy.
I am in the very forgery where
any two metals can melt
into either iron or gold.
Simple complexities.
Hard truths.
Honest teeth.”
“a not unamusing place frequented by English upper-class bohemians, wealthy Americans, French aristocrats, lesbian novelists from Roumania, Spanish princes, fashionable pederasts, modern literary & musical figures, pale and precious young men, and distinguished diplomats towing bright-eyed youths.” VT
“A vital element in keeping the peace is our military establishment. Our arms must be mighty, ready for instant action, so that no potential aggressor may be tempted to risk his own destruction.
Our military organization today bears little relation to that known by any of my predecessors in peacetime, or indeed by the fighting men of World War II or Korea.
Until the latest of our world conflicts, the United States had no armaments industry. American makers of plowshares could, with time and as required, make swords as well. But now we can no longer risk emergency improvisation of national defense; we have been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions. Added to this, three and a half million men and women are directly engaged in the defense establishment. We annually spend on military security more than the net income of all United States corporations.
This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence — economic, political, even spiritual — is felt in every city, every State house, every office of the Federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources and livelihood are all involved; so is the very structure of our society.
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the militaryindustrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.
Akin to, and largely responsible for the sweeping changes in our industrial-military posture, has been the technological revolution during recent decades.
In this revolution, research has become central; it also becomes more formalized, complex, and costly. A steadily increasing share is conducted for, by, or at the direction of, the Federal government.
Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been overshadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields. In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers.
The prospect of domination of the nation’s scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded.
Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientifictechnological elite.
It is the task of statesmanship to mold, to balance, and to integrate these and other forces, new and old, within the principles of our democratic system — ever aiming toward the supreme goals of our free society.” DDE
“Forest night, wondrous cool, I greet you a thousandfold; after the noisy turmoil of the world, oh, how sweet is your rustling! Dreamily I buy my weary limbs in the soft moss, and it is as if I were freed from all my confused torments.
Sound distant flute song, which stirs a vast longing and leads my thoughts to the lovely distance, oh so begrudged! Let the forest night lull me and silence my pain, and I breathe a blissful contentedness with its fragrance.
In your secretive, close confines you will recover, restless heart. And peace floats downward on gently beating wings. Sing me to gentle slumber, tender bird songs! Begone, delirious torments; good night, then, restless heart!” PH
“1. That you may be saved - ‘For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.’ - J 3:16
2. That Salvation is free - ‘Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost.’ - I 55:1
3. That God does not license sin - ‘The soul who sins is the one who will die.’ - E 18:4. ‘He who does what is sinful is of the devil.’ - J 3:8
4. That God is just, and sin must be punished - ‘For the wages of sin is death.’ - R 6:23. ‘Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. The lake of fire is the second death. If anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.’ - R 20:14-15. ‘The wicked return to the grave, all the nations that forget God.’ - P 9:17
5. That God sees your very acts [whether in thought, word or deed] - you cannot hide them from him, ‘There is nothing concealed that will not be disclosed, or hidden that will not be made known.’ - M 10:26
6. That every Blessing you enjoy in the life, even the air you breathe, comes from God. Have you thanked Him for them? ‘Let everything that has breath praise the Lord. Praise the Lord.’ - P 150:6
7. That you have been placed here on earth to serve God; and not the devil - ‘Worship the Lord your God, and serve him only.’ - M 4:10
8. That your future life depends upon what you make of the present - ‘Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows.’ - G 6:7
ACCEPT CHRIST NOW!” FTS
“I want to remind you of the gospel…by this gospel you are saved…:that CHRIST DIED for our sins according to the Scriptures, that HE WAS BURIED, that HE WAS RAISED on the third day according to the Scriptures…We all, like sheep, have gone astray; each of us has turned to his own way; AND THE LORD HAS LAID ON HIM the iniquity of us all…HE IS THE ATONING SACRIFICE for our sins: and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world…For Christ died for sins ONCE FOR ALL, the RIGHTEOUS for the UNRIGHTEOUS, to bring you to God…You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died fro the UNGODLY…But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: while we were still sinners, CHRIST DIED FOR US…For the Son of Man came to SEEK and to SAVE what was lost…IT IS FINISHED.” IC.I.J.P.R.L.J
“The poet sees those rare ones who help the heavens. The heavens, the heavenly themselves, are in need of help, specifically, the help of the sign, that is, of the poet. The poet must name the gods, say them in their essence. ‘A sign is needed…’; the poet must be, that is, the demigods, the ‘heroes’; the demigods are the rivers:
Not in vain do
Rivers run in the dry. Yet how? Namely, they are
To be to language.
The sign, the demigod, the river, the poet: all these name poetically the one and singular ground of the becoming homely of human beings as historical and the founding of this ground by the poet.” MH
