2009-08-15

sovay: (Psholtii: in a bad mood)
I dreamed that Benjamin Britten had set both the first and second series of the Barrack-Room Ballads (1892 and 1896) for voice and piano; the recordings had just become available on CD. You should have heard Peter Pears on "Follow Me 'Ome."
sovay: (Lord Peter Wimsey: passion)
To make up for the music I only dreamed, the mail this afternooon brought me several fine things, including a paperback of Michael Cisco's The Tyrant and a package of Kaori Yuki's Godchild—courtesy of [livejournal.com profile] teenybuffalo, who enclosed postcards of herons and heat lightning—and my contributor's copy of Jabberwocky #4. [livejournal.com profile] erzebet co-edited this issue and it is lovely, lovely. Check out the table of contents; I especially recommend Nicole Kornher-Stace's "Notes Toward a Comparative Mythology," Alex Dally MacFarlane's "Always Two," Jeannelle Ferreira's "Anniversaries," Becca de la Rosa's "The History of Iolo and Nye," Mike Allen's "The Parcae," and Erik Amundsen's "Barge on the Styx," but that's a fraction of the cornucopia. There is also my poem "Berakhah," written for and dedicated to my ungodchild Peter Burson. I still have a cold, but today is automatically better.
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