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I still have the hell-cold! It could go away already! It's like Monty Woolley on Kleenex.
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ratatosk to see the Alloy Orchestra accompany a selection of short silent surrealist films at the Somerville Theatre tonight, because seriously, what about that program doesn't appeal? I am especially curious about Hans Richter's Filmstudie (1926), but I expect I'll come back raving about things I'd never heard of. Not literally, one hopes, but I suppose that will depend on how weird these things really are.
Before then—
Jeremy Denk on Charles Ives. The way he writes about the composer succeeds in making me want to hear how he plays him.
Evie Nagy on Miss Fury. I am not as familiar with superheroes of the 1940's as I am with most other media from that period, but I still feel I should really have heard of Marla Drake. I will be looking for this collection.
Vienna haunts William Boyd. (Look! There's Wittgenstein again!)
I am off to catch a bus.
I am nonethless going with
ratatosk to see the Alloy Orchestra accompany a selection of short silent surrealist films at the Somerville Theatre tonight, because seriously, what about that program doesn't appeal? I am especially curious about Hans Richter's Filmstudie (1926), but I expect I'll come back raving about things I'd never heard of. Not literally, one hopes, but I suppose that will depend on how weird these things really are.Before then—
Jeremy Denk on Charles Ives. The way he writes about the composer succeeds in making me want to hear how he plays him.
Evie Nagy on Miss Fury. I am not as familiar with superheroes of the 1940's as I am with most other media from that period, but I still feel I should really have heard of Marla Drake. I will be looking for this collection.
Vienna haunts William Boyd. (Look! There's Wittgenstein again!)
I am off to catch a bus.
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The concert was part of a conference on music criticism at Oberlin College. I was not involved in the conference except to attend concerts, but there are ten or fifteen reviews of the evening on line if you are interested in seeing them. The link is here: http://new.oberlin.edu/office/rubininstitute/
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I'll take that as a point in his playing's favor.
I was not involved in the conference except to attend concerts, but there are ten or fifteen reviews of the evening on line if you are interested in seeing them.
Thanks.
Wild and Weird
I want to be a Rarebit Fiend too. Maybe carrot cake eaten after midnight will do just as well.
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Lucky for you . . .
(They were selling copies at the theater—I'd have gotten one for you if I'd known!)
I want to be a Rarebit Fiend too. Maybe carrot cake eaten after midnight will do just as well.
Report back if you get anything!
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Carrot cake is, alas, only good for a dreamless sleep.
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Hell.
You could write to Roger Miller at the address listed here and see about ordering to the UK.
Alternately, the next time I am at a show of theirs, I will see if I can get you a copy.
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I hope you've enjoyed the films and their musical accompaniment.
I've not heard enough Ives to say anything about him. I live close enough to his hometown that I suppose I should remedy that. I do like how Denk writes on him.
Evie Nagy on Miss Fury. I am not as familiar with superheroes of the 1940's as I am with most other media from that period, but I still feel I should really have heard of Marla Drake.
Fascinating. I feel as if I should have heard of her as well. The idea of a superhero who relies on her own strength and skill, with supernatural abilities held in reserve, is fascinating. I find myself wondering what comics would look like in the alternate history where Miss Fury became an iconic character.*
*They might be even more interesting than comics in the world where Friedrich Nietzsche emigrated to the United States, turned from philosophy to popular entertainment, and became the father of superhero comics, creating such classics as "Zarathustra and the Legion of Overmen".
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I have only heard a little of his music, but everything I've heard, I've really liked: he doesn't sound like anything else from the decades he wrote.
They might be even more interesting than comics in the world where Friedrich Nietzsche emigrated to the United States, turned from philosophy to popular entertainment, and became the father of superhero comics, creating such classics as "Zarathustra and the Legion of Overmen".
Did you make that up?
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True. He doesn't really seem to sound like anything else at all, other than himself.
I'm right now listening to a recording of himself playing a movement from his Piano Sonata No. 2. I don't know how typical it is, but I rather like it.
I was put off him a bit to begin with by reading descriptions of pieces where the vocal part would be in one key and the accompaniment would be in something completely different that sounded clashy (F against D? I don't recollect.); I think I'd rather have heard his music before reading articles about it, really.
Did you make that up?
I did. It's an idea I've had floating round for years--I don't know how I'd ever use it, as I can't think what else would be different with superhero comics developing in the 1860s or 70s, or perhaps it's better to say I can't think how everything besides comics would be different.*
*I suspect it would work best with a more German US, perhaps even a largely German (or Schwebisch** with heavy Yiddish influence?)-speaking US, and I don't feel well able to write that, other than some fourth-wall-breaking snark about no Prohibition leading to mass-market beer that's actually drinkable.
**(ETA)I do know that Schwebisch is a German dialect, of course--I suppose I was thinking of a line in an alternate history story where an ATL Pennsylvanian military officer said to an explorer from a world closer to ours: [paraphrased] "Yes, we all speak Pennsylvanisch. You _could_ call it German, but a Prussian would likely take offense if you did." My mother once said that the Amish variety of German sounded like Schwebisch to her.
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I don't know enough about the history of comics to say (and that second point is the problem with real alternate histories), but I like the idea of Zarathustra and the Legion of Overmen.
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:(
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I am getting things done anyway!
Note to self
When I scroll around and see what you're up to, I'm getting really annoyed at not being in the Boston area anymore.
Thanks for the Vienna article. Reminds me once more that I really do need to read Musil's "Man without Qualities" at long last. I guess that's another one of those things on my to-do-list after that wretched dissertation is finished.
Greetings from ice-cold Erfurt!
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Thank you. It may finally be starting to ease. I find myself wary of even saying that.
When I scroll around and see what you're up to, I'm getting really annoyed at not being in the Boston area anymore.
You'll just have to come back to visit.
Reminds me once more that I really do need to read Musil's "Man without Qualities" at long last. I guess that's another one of those things on my to-do-list after that wretched dissertation is finished.
I'll trust you if you tell me what you think of it, although then I'll be demoralized that I'll probably still have to read it in translation. Short-form, fine. Epic novels, I'm not so sure about right now.
Greetings from ice-cold Erfurt!
Hello, Erfurt! Sorry about the cold!