LK_Sass

LK_Sass, 7 months ago to classicalmusic

Rameau performed by Maria Sohn, violin, Teodoro Baù, viola da gamba, Dubee Sohn, harpsichord.

https://youtu.be/N8l-ezMVuoA?si=jmx7NStI0Cwsfqfa

La Laborde: Rondement; La Boucon: Air gracieux; L’Argaçante: Rondement; Premier Menuet, Duexième Menuet

@classicalmusic @baroquemusic #ClassicalMusic #BaroqueMusic

LK_Sass, 8 months ago to poetry

Insomnia
by RYNN WILLIAMS

I try floating out along the long O of lone,
to where it flattens to loss, and just stay there
disconnecting the dots of my night sky…
>>Read the rest https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/50347/insomnia-56d22d5d85335

@poetry #poetry
#amreading

LK_Sass, 8 months ago to classicalmusic

Beethoven. Symphony No 2 in D Major (N. Harnoncourt)
https://songwhip.com/ludwigvanbeethoven/symphony-no-2-in-d-major-op-36-iv-allegro-molto

Beethoven’s at-dawn early-riser morning ritual included counting out exactly 60 coffee beans to make his cup of coffee.

@classicalmusic #classicalmusic #beethoven #coffee

LK_Sass, 9 months ago to classicalmusic

Louis de Caix d’Hervelois, Plainte (Do Majeur), performed by Jordi Savall
https://songwhip.com/jordi-savall/plainte-do-majeur-dhervelois

Today’s early morning coffee accompaniment.
@classicalmusic #classicalmusic @baroquemusic

LK_Sass, 9 months ago to classicalmusic

Melanie “Mel” Bonis
Quatre pièces dans le style ancien: I. Pavane, Op. 81 No. 1
https://songwhip.com/laurentmartin/quatre-pieces-dans-le-style-ancien-i-pavane-op-81-no-1

@classicalmusic #classicalmusic #piano

LK_Sass, 9 months ago to classicalmusic

Listening to the ‘30 Bach’ podcast episodes for the umpteenth time. Great series and guests take on the Goldbergs from every angle.
https://spotify.link/lzHKjTHJjDb

@classicalmusic #classicalmusic #bach

LK_Sass, 9 months ago to classicalmusic

Night, all.
Handel Rodelinda, HWV 19, Aria "Dove sei?" performed by Andreas Scholl
https://songwhip.com/george-frideric-handel/rodelinda-hwv-19-atto-i-scena-6-aria-dove-sei

BERTARIDO Dove sei, amato bene?
Vieni l'alma a consolar; sono oppresso da tormenti, ed i crudi miei lamenti sol con te posso bear.

@classicalmusic #classicalmusic #opera

LK_Sass, 9 months ago to classicalmusic

CPE Bach Magnificat Wq215: VIII. Gloria/IX Sicut erat
https://songwhip.com/rias-kammerchor/magnificat-wq-215-8-chor-gloria-patri-et-filio

That feeling when your first and most dreaded call of the workday is cancelled. Pardon me while I go relax for another hour with coffee and biscotti.
@classicalmusic #classicalmusic #coffee

LK_Sass, 9 months ago to classicalmusic

CPE Bach Magnificat Wq215: VIII. Gloria/IX Sicut erat
https://songwhip.com/rias-kammerchor/magnificat-wq-215-8-chor-gloria-patri-et-filio

That feeling when your too-early first and most dreaded call of the workday is cancelled. Pardon me while I go relax for another hour with a second coffee and biscotti.

@classicalmusic #classicalmusic #coffee

LK_Sass, 9 months ago to classicalmusic

Tombeau for Bolesław Leśmian
by Roman Turovsky
Performed by Maciej Kończak (theorbo) https://youtu.be/hH7Zj2XJYOQ?si=g2UZxOPnXxc6W9uP

Haunting and gorgeous, as are most of Turovsky’s compositions.

Bolesław Leśmian was “the most eminent poet of his day and one of the most important Polish poets of the 20th century” More: https://culture.pl/en/artist/boleslaw-lesmian

ClassicalMusic #poetry #lute @classicalmusic @poetry

LK_Sass, 9 months ago to poetry

Because You Asked about the Line between Prose and Poetry
by HOWARD NEMEROV

Sparrows were feeding in a freezing drizzle
That while you watched turned into pieces of snow
Riding a gradient invisible
From silver aslant to random, white, and slow.

There came a moment that you couldn't tell.
And then they clearly flew instead of fell.

—-
Royer, Pièces de clavecin, Book 1, No. 11: Le Vertigo
Performed by Jean Rondeau

https://songwhip.com/jean-rondeau/pieces-de-clavecin-book-1-1746-no-11-le-vertigo-rondeau

#ClassicalMusic #Poetry #BaroqueMusic @poetry

LK_Sass, 9 months ago to classicalmusic

Johann Joseph Fux
Sonata a 3 violini senza basso: II. Allegro
https://songwhip.com/ensemblediderot/sonata-a-3-violini-senza-basso-ii-allegro

That rapturous first cup of coffee in the morning after being up a little too late the night before.

@classicalmusic #classicalmusic #needcoffee #nowlistening

LK_Sass, 9 months ago to classicalmusic

Johann Wilhelm Wilms, Harpsichord Concerto, E Major, Op. 3: II. Poco adagio
Performed on fortepiano.

https://songwhip.com/ronald-brautigam/harpsichord-concerto-in-e-major-op-3-ii-poco-adagio

Having a difficult time getting this out of my head. Binge listening to both recent volumes of his piano concertos.

“Driven by an apparently inexhaustible thirst for activity, he was successful…as a composer, pianist, orchestral flautist, organist, private teacher, consultant, music critic and academy member.”

@classicalmusic #classicalmusic

LK_Sass, 9 months ago to classicalmusic

BOTD Nadia Boulanger.
Three Pieces for Cello & Piano, No. 3: “Vite et nerveusement”
Originally for organ, transcribed for cello by the composer soon after the original.

https://songwhip.com/sophiekauer/n-boulanger-3-pieces-for-cello-and-piano-no-3-vite-et-nerveusement-rythme

A force of nature who knew all, embraced teaching as an art, students among the finest of the 20th-c. A conductor and composer who broke glass ceilings everywhere she went.

#classicalmusic @classicalmusic #nowlistening

LK_Sass, 9 months ago to poetry

Chance
by ROBERT MORGAN

We feel the volt inside our veins,
inside the vines, inside the rain,
and through the capillaries of
a tree. We feel the pulse above
in storms, vibrato of thunder,
the whispering rhythms of a river,
magnetic currents in the earth,
the alternating flow of breath,
the push of tides, reversing air
from caves, dilating hum and dance
of bees, the chant of auctioneer.
All oscillate together, or
they seem to, in this play of chance,
beneath the stars' indifference.

@poetry

LK_Sass, 9 months ago to baroquemusic

Franz Benda. Violin Sonata in E-Flat Major: III. Allegro assai
https://songwhip.com/georg-kallweit/violin-sonata-in-eflat-major-iii-allegro-assai

Another luminary from the court of Frederick the Great.

@classicalmusic #classicalmusic
@baroquemusic #BaroqueMusic
#nowlistening

LK_Sass, 9 months ago to classicalmusic

Beethoven Symphony No. 1 in C Major: I. Adagio molto-Allegro con brio.

That rebellious first chord still earns a suppressed grin every time.

https://songwhip.com/ludwigvanbeethoven/symphony-no-1-in-c-major-op-21-i-adagio-molto-allegro-con-brio

@classicalmusic #classicalmusic #nowlistening

LK_Sass, 9 months ago to poetry

From “Reading Milosz”
by ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI

You always wanted to go
beyond poetry, above it, soaring,
but also lower, to where our region
begins, modest and timid.

Sometimes your tone
transforms us for a moment,
we believe—truly—
that every day is sacred,

that poetry—how to put it? —
makes life rounder,
fuller, prouder, unashamed
of perfect formulation.
[…]
Read the rest of the poem: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57093/reading-milosz

#amwriting #amreading #poetry @poetry

LK_Sass, 9 months ago to poetry

Music of the Spheres
by ROBERT MORGAN

The first music we don't hear but
know, is inner, the rings around
atoms singing, the bright levels
in matter revealed by colors
through spectrum scales all up and down
the quantum ladder in fireworks
of the inner horizons, each
zone voicing its wavelength with
choirs in the tiny stadiums
of harmony of the deeper
galaxies, ancient octaves
and intervals, lit cities
within every speck of substance.

#poetry @poetry
#amwriting
@magdelenehall

LK_Sass, 9 months ago to poetry

Noah Knocks on my Door, Drunk
by ME SILVERMAN

Open the door, dove.
Pull back the shade, son.
Let me and the gin—damnit!

Between the ocean and rain, a boat.
Between a boat and the sun, more rain.
Between rain and a sky, stars, one sun.
[…]
Today
the flood
begins.
———-
>> Read the rest of the poem: http://www.ucityreview.com/7_Silverman_ME.html#noah

@poetry #poetry

LK_Sass, 9 months ago to poetry

Emily Dickinson at the Poetry Slam
by DAN VERA

I will tell you why she rarely ventured from her house.
It happened like this:

One day she took the train to Boston,
made her way to the darkened room,
put her name down in cursive script
and waited her turn.
[…]
Her second poem erased the memory of every cellphone
in the nightclub,

>>>Read the rest of the poem: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/153025/emily-dickinson-at-the-poetry-slam

Read aloud by Rick Davis:
https://youtu.be/1Sy4wzrIDNA?si=UJVKli3IWHgBPwbQ

@poetry #poetry

LK_Sass, 9 months ago to poetry

“Human reason is beautiful and invincible.
No bars, no barbed wire, no pulping of books,
No sentence of banishment can prevail against it.
It establishes the universal ideas in language, And guides our hand so we write Truth and Justice
With capital letters, lie and oppression with small…”

Incantation
by Czesław Miłosz
@poetry #poetry

LK_Sass, 9 months ago to poetry

Substantial Planes
by A.R. AMMONS

It doesn't
matter

to me
if

poems mean
nothing:

there's no
floor

to the
universe

and yet
one

walks the
floor.

@poetry #poetry

LK_Sass, 9 months ago to poetry

Finding the One Brief Note
by MAXINE KUMIN

“We eulogize autumn, we long for a better world, we seek to deliver a purer hemidemisemiquaver, the one brief note that says we mean, roughshod and winged, to last forever.”

Read the complete poem: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?contentId=37913

@poetry #poetry

LK_Sass, 9 months ago to classicalmusic

The Goldberg Variations, performed by Trevor Pinnock. 75,700+ notes start with a glow, burst into flame, end in the embers. Worth an end-to-end listen for the whole glorious musical story.

https://songwhip.com/trevor-pinnock/bach-goldberg-variations-italian-concerto

@classicalmusic @baroquemusic @magdelenehall #classicalmusic #Bach

LK_Sass, 9 months ago to classicalmusic

Labor Day (US): Composers & Labor Actions

• Boss Prince: “Imma need you to work overtime. Palace lawn party season is running long.”
• Manager Haydn: “?!!…”
• Team Orchestra: “?!@&*!”
• Manager Haydn: [Malicious compliance]
• Boss Prince: …
• Team Orch: “Hop on the bus, we’re going home!”

Symphony 45, IV: Presto-Adagio Better with the visual (8 min):
https://youtu.be/vfdZFduvh4w?si=PFF_hh5sOAJirPVF

#laborday #workersrights @classicalmusic #classicalmusic

LK_Sass, 9 months ago to classicalmusic

Composers in court and at Court: Heinichen
Another day of big court decisions (US), so here’s another composer who went to law school.
Heinichen actually practiced, tho—law, organ AND harpsichord.
Finally ditched his day job, opting to teach music and compose full time. The pay was probably better with royals as students.

Johann Heinichen
Overture in G Major Seib 205: Air
2 oboes, bassoon, strings, continuo
https://songwhip.com/ilfondamento/ouverture-g-major-2-oboes-bassoon-strings-and-bc-seibel-205-air-2

@classicalmusic #classicalmusic

LK_Sass, 9 months ago to poetry

“No one ever wrote a poem about the middle / Because the middle is elusive and good…”

Raphael typed poems on paper trimmings given to him by a friend at the antique letterpress shop next to his apt—the same shop designed & printed our journal. Long story short, we were delighted to debut his work.

Raphael stepped in as co-editor when I left, eight issues after we published “The Average Heart” and three other poems from that first raw-edged bundle.

http://www.ucityreview.com/3_Maurice_Raphael.html

@poetry #poetry

LK_Sass, 9 months ago to baroquemusic

No, SL Weiss did not go to medical school — it only seems that way because he’s so good at ripping your heart out.

Sylvius Leopold Weiss
Sonata 32, F Major
Robert Barto
https://open.spotify.com/track/2jThlXS9zyTiih7qxioIqj?si=r8Yq2OXCQuGpEFFMozGLJg

@classicalmusic #classicalmusic #lute @baroquemusic #BaroqueMusic

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MetalClassicalRocks, 9 months ago to classicalmusic

Who is your favorite composer for each letter of the alphabet?

I'll go first!

A - Adams
B - Beethoven
C - Chesky
D - Dvorak
E - Erkin
F - Farr
G - Ginastera
H - Honegger
I - Isaac
J - Janacek
K - Khachaturian
L - Liszt
M - Mosolov
O - Offenbach
P - Prokofiev
Q - N/A
R - Ravel
S - Shostakovich
T - Tchaikovsky
U - Ustvolskaya
V - Villa-Lobos
W - Walton
X - Xenakis
Y - Yoshimatsu
Z - Zemlinsky

#music #ClassicalMusic @classicalmusic

LK_Sass, 9 months ago to classicalmusic

Successfully connected cables and cords—yes, almost added an ‘h’ to ‘cords’—and now finding out what happens when you turn up the volume to 11 on CPE Bach’s ‘Magnificat’ last movement, the rafter-shaking fugue. Superb performance.

https://open.spotify.com/track/22XywMmmOaJ8vdTzTyvNsi?si=q1wAgrh5SFSBTbXQVf1eFA&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A4oNe2aK7vFfIHhMhX0n6Xp

OK, fine—bonus opening movement. Excellent singalong for road trips... https://open.spotify.com/track/1tWCfPEtjRIgj7j92acVTl?si=QuiG6cCrSu2v_N8Uff1TFw

@classicalmusic #classicalmusic

LK_Sass, 9 months ago to poetry

Full moon tomorrow night, but even the waxing gibbous tonight should be an excuse to do this:
—
“Walk out onto the planet tonight. Even the moon is giving back your share of borrowed light and you take it back, in the name of everything you can’t take back in your life.”

~David Clewell
“New Year’s Eve Letter to Friends”
—
Read the whole poem (worth it, I promise):
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/36022/new-years-eve-letter-to-friends

@poetry #poetry #amreading

LK_Sass, 9 months ago to poetry

"When He Holds Out His Hands, Bees Stream from His Fingertips”
by Rebecca Elliott
"at night they circle down again in long arcs
[…] and whisper things, like maybe, and radiant,
and tomorrow afternoon the answer.

Rebecca is an author & illustrator of 20 books and illustrator for 200 more. We were smitten with her then-unpublished poetry back in 2011, so featured her as our third Noteworthy poet in UCity Review:
http://www.ucityreview.com/3_Elliott_Rebecca.html

@poetry #poetry
#amwriting @bookstodon

magdelenehall, 10 months ago to classicalmusic German

Friedrich Gernsheim: Cello Sonata No.3 in E Minor, Op.87 (1914)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=p6ig3ZbI3II&si=BHAok5HI0zOoN3Hu
@classicalmusic
#AlexanderHülshoff
#Cello
#OliverTriendl
#Piano
#CelloSonataN3
#FriedrichGernsheim

LK_Sass, 10 months ago to classicalmusic

Night, peeps. Night track with no backstory for a change! Andreas Scholl’s voice just seemed to cool down a very hot hazy night.
From Handel’s Rodelinda, HWV 19, "Dove sei?"

BERTARIDO Dove sei, amato bene?
Vieni l'alma a consolar; sono oppresso da
tormenti, ed i crudi miei lamenti sol con te
posso bear.
https://songwhip.com/george-frideric-handel/rodelinda-hwv-19-atto-i-scena-6-aria-dove-sei

Illus. Derek Overfield, ‘Fuchsia Hands’ pastel and chalk.
@classicalmusic

LK_Sass, 10 months ago to classicalmusic

The best time of the year is less than a month away — when worlds collide, as hockey season and symphony season start up. Helmet hair is always stylish.
Here, have one of my fav Haydn piano trio movements to celebrate, performed by the van Swieten Trio.

https://songwhip.com/van-swieten-trio/piano-trio-in-e-major-hob-xv28-ii-allegretto

@classicalmusic #classicalmusic @hockey #hockey
(Go Blues!)

LK_Sass, 10 months ago to poetry

What Work Is
by PHILIP LEVINE

We stand in the rain in a long line
waiting at Ford Highland Park. For work.
You know what work is—if you’re
old enough to read this you know what
work is, although you may not do it.
Forget you.
[…]
you can hardly stand
the love flooding you for your brother,
who’s not beside you or behind or
ahead because he’s home trying to
sleep off a miserable night shift
at Cadillac…

Read the rest:
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/52173/what-work-is
@poetry

LK_Sass, 10 months ago to classicalmusic

For—and from—Detroit, my old hometown:
“Pork & Beans” by Rick Robinson https://on.soundcloud.com/Y6oyf

Rick Robinson is one of my favorite musicians— he was with DSO, then left to start the Classical Revolution chapter in Detroit (think ‘random acts of classical’ happening in unexpected places). He’s also a marvelous composer and classical music evangelist.

More about CutTime: https://cuttime.com/about-2/compositions-of-rick-robinson/
@classicalmusic

LK_Sass, 10 months ago to classicalmusic

Some Arne to go with your coffee. Two minutes of ear candy —
Cantata V: The Morning. ‘The Glitt’ing Sun.’
Sara Macliver, Orchestra of the Antipodes.

#ClassicalMusic #BaroqueMusic
@classicalmusic

https://songwhip.com/sara-macliver/cantata-v-the-morning-the-glittring-sun

LK_Sass, 10 months ago to classicalmusic

A delightful “Coffee Cantata” from the Netherlands Bach Society to accompany the many cups I’ll need today.

JS Bach, BWV 211 ‘Schweight stille, plaudert nicht’ (‘Be still, stop chattering’)
“If I couldn't three times a day, be allowed to drink my little cup of coffee, in my anguish,
I will turn into a shriveled-up roast goat. …more delicious than a thousand kisses, milder than muscatel wine."
@coffee #coffee #classicalmusic @classicalmusic

https://youtu.be/B6Loyexw3uk

LK_Sass, 10 months ago to classicalmusic

Big day in the courts, so time for another law school dropout: Adam Falckenhagen (1697-1754) was at Wilhelmina’s court.
• Allemande https://songwhip.com/andrewmaginley/allemande

• Sonata in E-flat Major, Op1 No 2
https://songwhip.com/andrewmaginley/lute-sonata-in-eflat-major-op-1-no-2-ii-allegro-un-poco

• Updated playlist: “Music at Court: Composers who studied law.”
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3owe6M7s4KPt75qiRtvzCf?si=5nD6MyobT8OXU5pyuLMILA

@classicalmusic #classicalmusic

franciscawrites, 10 months ago to bookstodon

In honor of Gary Larson's birthday, repost with a Far Side cartoon that you love.

#Farside #comics #WritingCommunity
@bookstodon

LK_Sass, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago) to writers

Two Drops
by ZBIGNIEW HERBERT

No time to grieve for roses, when the forests are burning.
-Juliusz Słowacki

The forests were on fire—
they however
wreathed their necks with their hands
like bouquets of roses
[…]
To the end they were brave
To the end they were faithful
To the end they were similar like two drops
stuck at the edge of a face

—
From his first book, Chord of Light (1956).Translated by Czesław Miłosz and Peter Dale Scott
@poetry #poetry
@writers #amwriting
#maui