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On 22 Jan 2009 11:17:38 -0500, Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospam com> wrote:
>On Thu, 22 Jan 2009 09:32:22 +0000, Invisible wrote:
>
>> Stephen wrote:
>>
>>> I dare you not to sing along to Beethoven's setting of "Ode to Joy" (An
>>> die Freude).
>>
>> 1. That was Beethoven?
>>
>> 2. There are *words*??
>
><facepalm>
Indeed <facepalm>
--
Regards
Stephen
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On Thu, 22 Jan 2009 11:02:07 -0800, Darren New wrote:
> Well, yes, I think that's right. And given the record player, it
> probably wasn't the whole symphony. (I guess "Ode to Joy" is just the
> last movement, then, yes?)
Yes, only in the final movement.
Jim
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Stephen wrote:
> Dietrich Fisher-Dieskau ;)
>
Gorgeous! So beautiful!
Have you also seen Faust by Charles Gounod?
I've never went to the opera.
But I watched an old play of Faust.
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bluetree
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On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 12:32:25 +0100, bluetree <sea### [at] yahoode> wrote:
>Stephen wrote:
>> Dietrich Fisher-Dieskau ;)
>>
>
>Gorgeous! So beautiful!
>
Sad and beautiful is Mahler's Kindertotenlieder
Yes I listen to "lieder" as well. (English usage)
>Have you also seen Faust by Charles Gounod?
Yes, I've seen it a few times sung in English and in French. The English version
at the ENO was one of the best and most glamorous productions I've ever been to.
The French version at the ROH was very dark especially when Marguerite was
tormented by the witches (a ballet).
But Hey! The music is stirring.
I also love Berlioz's The Damnation of Faust.
>I've never went to the opera.
>But I watched an old play of Faust.
The only play about Faust that I have seen was by the 17th century English
playwright Christopher Marlowe, The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus. In fact
one of my most over used quotations is from it:
"Why this is hell, nor am I out of it.
Think'st thou that I, who saw the face of God,
And tasted the eternal joys of heaven,
Am not tormented with ten thousand hells
In being deprived of everlasting bliss?"
--
Regards
Stephen
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Darren New escreveu:
> That's why I rented it. The box said "like the Matrix!" and I figured
> that would mean it's awful enough to be worth renting, while it actually
> turned out to be one of my favorite movies.
It's like a cross between Matrix bullet-time kung-fu and 1984 opressive
future. All behind a blueish photography unlike Matrix's phosphor... :P
Perhaps you'd enjoy Ultraviolet as well...
BTW, that Batman guy is more expressionless than both Keany Reeves and
Schwarzzenegger... :P
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nemesis wrote:
> Perhaps you'd enjoy Ultraviolet as well...
Watched it. Silly.
> BTW, that Batman guy is more expressionless than both Keany Reeves and
> Schwarzzenegger... :P
He's drugged to his gills. He's *supposed* to be expressionless. That's why
it's a dystopia! Watch the second half of the movie.
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
"Ouch ouch ouch!"
"What's wrong? Noodles too hot?"
"No, I have Chopstick Tunnel Syndrome."
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On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 13:46:36 +0000, Stephen wrote:
> I also love Berlioz's The Damnation of Faust.
That's a good one. I also like the Symphonie Fantastique. There is a
certain irony in KBYU broadcasting that one, it's like they don't know
what the story behind the music is. (KBYU is the radio station run by
Brigham Young University, which is owned by the LDS Church - a very
conservative organization).
Jim
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Darren New escreveu:
> He's drugged to his gills. He's *supposed* to be expressionless.
But he stopped! :P
> why it's a dystopia! Watch the second half of the movie.
I watched it until the end, I believe. Was there part 2?
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SPOILERS FOR EQUILIBRIUM BELOW!
nemesis wrote:
> Darren New escreveu:
>> He's drugged to his gills. He's *supposed* to be expressionless.
>
> But he stopped! :P
Yes. And then the acting wasn't wooden any more. (On the other hand, he'd
spent his whole life like that and was trying to look wooden so he wouldn't
get caught, and was a highly trained cleric type dude.) Check out the
interplay of expression at the very beginning, before you even know any of
the story.
>> why it's a dystopia! Watch the second half of the movie.
> I watched it until the end, I believe. Was there part 2?
After he stopped taking the drugs. The hand on the railing. While he's
rearranging his desk. Stuff like that. It's subtle, because he's trying
to hide it.
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
"Ouch ouch ouch!"
"What's wrong? Noodles too hot?"
"No, I have Chopstick Tunnel Syndrome."
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On 23 Jan 2009 13:27:44 -0500, Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
>On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 13:46:36 +0000, Stephen wrote:
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>> I also love Berlioz's The Damnation of Faust.
>
>That's a good one. I also like the Symphonie Fantastique.
Especially the movement with the 13 timpani.
Harold in Italy?
>There is a
>certain irony in KBYU broadcasting that one, it's like they don't know
>what the story behind the music is.
Fourth movement: "Marche au supplice"
Convinced that his love is spurned, the artist poisons himself with opium. The
dose of narcotic, while too weak to cause his death, plunges him into a heavy
sleep accompanied by the strangest of visions.
Fifth movement: "Songe d'une nuit de sabbat"
>(KBYU is the radio station run by
>Brigham Young University, which is owned by the LDS Church - a very
>conservative organization).
>
I always read that as "LSD Church". It must be a Freudian slip.
--
Regards
Stephen
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