May 2009
2 posts
More symbols of hope from Chicago?
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
Cork Music →
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
sailingfanblues:
sorry bout all the linkage todag.
April 2009
2 posts
NOW SERVING: “Double the Sax, Double the Mint for Reich” and “Ligeti Spaghetti Special”
Must Gestate
The expressive psycho-dramatism flowing from the mind of Achim Freyer into Dorothy Chandler Sunday afternoon was both exacting and exuberant.
October 2008
6 posts
“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...
“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
“New beauty should fill the air when the cannons fall silent.”
“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...
September 2008
25 posts
“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...
“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....
“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...
“Rest your head, then, sweet child, and dream of lore and coming splendor.”
“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...
“I think of Germany in the night
And then sleep leaves me.
Everything is purely fictitious.
All historical people and events, any similarities are purely coincidental. This is no joke. The judicial reality of everyday life makes this disclaimer necessary. Thirty heirs of Hitler have already come forward with legal claims, and they are not alone. For Hitler was never tried: this leads to...
“War in our time is a war of machines. And this makes magazines technically necessary, just as the dominance of the machine in industry promotes the concentration of the means of production and management. In the main, however, the bureaucratic armies of the past, equipped and provisioned by the lord, have risen when social and economic development has absolutely or relatively diminished the...
”Now come, fire!
We are impatient
To look upon Day,
And when the trial
Has passed through the knees
One may perceive the cries in the wood.
But, as for us, we sing from the Indus,
Arrived from afar, and
From the Alpheus, long we
Have sought what is fitting,
Not without wings may one
Reach out for that which is nearest
Directly
And get to the other side.
But here we wish to...
“You are trapped only because of your habit for mistaking the imaginary for the...”
“The strongest and most evil spirits have so far done the most to advance humanity: time and again they rekindled the dozing passions - every ordered society puts the passions to sleep -, time and again they reawaken the sense of comparison, of contradiction, of delight in what is new, daring, unattempted; they forced men to pit opinion against opinion, ideal model against model…What...
“We have turned the ‘love bonds’ between nature and man into ‘ropes,’ we have ‘mocked’ the bounds of the human and the natural. We have become a ‘cunning generation’ that, moreover, is proud of being just that. Thus one no longer sees the earth, no longer hears the cry of the bird, and language among men has ‘withered.’ All...
“The Life which is God is our life. There is but one Life and this is the life of all being, of every individual. We individualize this eternal Life, and it is no less God in one than in another, and it is diseaseless and deathless in all. Our consciousness of this truth is the healing influence within us.” JSG
“There will be but one beauty; and mankind and nature will unite in one all-embracing divinity.” FH
“For a long time, the majesty of the soul free of fate has been more present to me than all else; in glorious solitude I have at times lived within myself; I have grown accustomed to shaking off outward things like flakes of snow; how, then, should I shy from seeking so-called death? have I not liberated myself a thousand times in thoughts? how, then, should I hesitate to do it one time in...
“Enough to step aside and weep like a widow.”
“To be sure, there is pervasive unhappiness, and the happy consciousness is shaky enough—a thin surface over fear, frustration, and disgust. This unhappiness lends itself easily to political mobilization; without room for conscious development, it may become the instinctual reservoir for a new fascist way of life and death. But there are many ways in which the unhappiness beneath the...
“Take thought, my son, on all these things:
It’s common knowledge, any human being can go wrong.
But even when he does, a man may still succeed:
He may have his share of luck and good advice
But only if he’s willing to bend and find a cure
For the trouble he’s caused. It’s only being stubborn
Proves you’re a fool.” S
“The sky is thin as paper here.”
“…in short, do not let man know until late that there are men, that there is anything else outside of him, for only thus shall he become a man. But man is a god as soon as he is a man. And when he is a god, he is beautiful…
The first child of human, of divine beauty is art. In art, divine man rejuvenates and repeats himself. He wants to feel himself, therefore he sets his...
“Man is the world of men, the state, society. This tate and this society produce religion, which is an inverted consciousness of the world because they are an inverted world. Religion is the generalized theory of this world, its encyclopaedic compendium, its logic in popular form, its spiritualistic point d’honneur, its enthusiasm, its moral sanction, its solemn complement, its general...
“If each citizen did not learn, in proportion as he individually becomes more feeble and consequently more incapable of preserving his freedom single-handed, to combine with his fellow citizens for the purpose of defending it, it is clear that tyranny would unavoidable increase together with equality.” ADT
“The wave is one with the ocean, indivisible and inseparable from the whole ocean. All that the ocean is, the wave is; and all the power, all the energy, all the strength, all the life, and all the substance of the ocean are expressed in every wave. The wave has access to all that lies beneath it, for the wave really is the ocean, just as the ocean is the wave, inseparable, indivisible,...
“Thus in characterizing the encountering of Others, one is again still oriented by that Dasein which is in each case one’s own. But even in this characterization does one not start by marking out and isolating the ‘I’ so that one must then seek some way of getting over to the Others from this isolated subject? To avoid this misunderstanding we must notice in what sense we...
“The goal, Absolute Knowing, or Spirit that knows itself as Spirit, has for its path the recollection of the Spirits as they are in themselves and as they accomplish the organization of their realm. Their preservation, regarded from the side of their free existence appearing in the form of contingency, is History; but regarded from the side of their [philosophically] comprehended...
“Just as fear and the impotence from which fear springs are anti-political principles and throw men into a situation contrary to political action, so loneliness and the logical-ideological deducing the worst that comes from it represent an anti-social situation and harbor a principle destructive for all human living-together. Nevertheless, organized loneliness is considerably more dangerous...