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sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2010-10-07 03:12 pm
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And dreamt that only by wishing I could bring some silk into their lives

We interrupt your regularly scheduled vampirism for a couple of announcements.

On the 24th of this month, I will be performing in Music to Cure MS: The 8th Annual Accelerated Cure Project Benefit Concert. Details can be found at the website, but the salient points are three to five o'clock in the evening, many fine musicians, and a cause worth buying tickets for. I will be singing the "Embroidery Aria," from Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes. You should be there.

Lola Montès (1955) is a film I can't imagine why it took me until last night to see. If you crossed it with with Ulrike Ottinger's Johanna d'Arc of Mongolia, in fact you'd get Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus. I need to see more by Max Ophüls. He's completely rewired my view of Peter Ustinov.

This is brilliant.
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[identity profile] asakiyume.livejournal.com 2010-10-07 07:22 pm (UTC)(link)
That's wonderful, Sovay--about your performing in the benefit concert, I mean.

Someone needs to do punnett squares for all the various film crosses you mention.

[identity profile] asakiyume.livejournal.com 2010-10-07 09:57 pm (UTC)(link)
(and yes, that YouTube video really is brilliant. I sent it to my brother and his wife)

[identity profile] handful-ofdust.livejournal.com 2010-10-07 10:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Ha! I wondered if you were watching that. I stumbled across it when I was up after finishing Twelve, and couldn't pull myself away for half an hour. I'd known about it previously, from Danny Peary's Cult Movies, but hadn't actually realized it was A) in colour and B) in French. Even though it's Ophuls. Yeah, I don't know either.;)

[identity profile] handful-ofdust.livejournal.com 2010-10-08 02:26 am (UTC)(link)
Also...my mother spent some time being obsessed with Peter Grimes, to the point that I ended up buying it for her on DVD and CD. Sometimes I still get this urge to look at her and sing out, randomly/hysterically: "Peter Grrriiiiiiiiimes! Peter GRRRRIIIIIIIIIIMES!/i>"

[identity profile] gaudior.livejournal.com 2010-10-08 02:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh cool, and break a leg!

Any chance that your performance will end up on YouTube, or otherwise accessible? Cuz that would be cool to see, and I will be sorry to be elsewhere!

[identity profile] ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com 2010-10-09 07:32 am (UTC)(link)
It's awesome that you're singing in the benefit concert. If I lived in the area, I'd definitely go.

Happy Birthday!
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