tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11301779.post111782673252101347..comments2024-02-16T19:27:54.675-05:00Comments on Think Denk: ReleaseJeremy Denkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16997540220711182521noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11301779.post-44719765060229322222009-11-22T05:56:20.531-05:002009-11-22T05:56:20.531-05:00Who knows where to download XRumer 5.0 Palladium? ...Who knows where to download XRumer 5.0 Palladium? <br />Help, please. All recommend this program to effectively advertise on the Internet, this is the best program!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11301779.post-1148996807217084872006-05-30T09:46:00.000-04:002006-05-30T09:46:00.000-04:00Jeremy--I'd like your permission to quote this pos...Jeremy--<BR/><BR/>I'd like your permission to quote this post in my book on 20th century music. Feel free to e-mail me. Thanks.<BR/><BR/>Steve HcieknAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12939881701345686354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11301779.post-1125365164516726562005-08-29T21:26:00.000-04:002005-08-29T21:26:00.000-04:00Reading through the archives of your blog, I begin...Reading through the archives of your blog, I begin to connect strange threads into this post, an e-Ariadne drawing thin cotton conclusions through and out of your entries. Specifically, your thoughts regarding the similarities between metaphor and music (metaphor as a sort of meta-metaphor for a passage?) reminded me a bit of Messiaen's program notes for the piece. While of course they don't begin to compare to the music itself, I do find them uncommonly appealing for program notes.<BR/><BR/>"Outpourings of blue-orange lava," he writes, and somehow the juxtaposition of the antithetical colors underscores the score, its aching beauty, its contrast with the circumstances of its composition. So many pieces sort of transcend their historical context, but with this Messiaen the piece both transcends and is intimately entangled with its history (another melding of opposites!). His descriptions are secondary, and upon hearing the music they burn away like a flambe, but leave a trace of flavor beneath the repast of the performance. Somehow, these concrete layers (history, the composer's own preface) in addition to the abstract layers usually present in a wonderful piece give Quartet for the End of Time - an unbelievably moving piece at any rate - an extra sort of weight and inertia that never fails to involve me so thoroughly it's almost unsettling.<BR/><BR/>In any case, I'm sorry to invade your blog with my verbose and amateurish descriptions of ol' Olivier, but thank you for your thoughts; I find them lovely.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11301779.post-1118892603924707952005-06-15T23:30:00.000-04:002005-06-15T23:30:00.000-04:00This entire blog is an exercise in narcissistic pr...This entire blog is an exercise in narcissistic pretense.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11301779.post-1118267083755404292005-06-08T17:44:00.000-04:002005-06-08T17:44:00.000-04:00Audiences are also "therapized" by music. I cannot...Audiences are also "therapized" by music. I cannot hear that Shubert piece (forgive me, I always forget the proper name for it)or the slaves' chorus from the opera Nabuco (?sp) or the slow movement from Brahms second concert without having all the nitty-gritty stuff take its rightful place--in the back seat of life--for a wonderful, albeit sometimes short, period of time. <BR/><BR/>"Affectionately", your steadfast, biggest fan.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11301779.post-1118256625980919522005-06-08T14:50:00.000-04:002005-06-08T14:50:00.000-04:00In an art form hardly of the level of Messiaen, th...In an art form hardly of the level of Messiaen, the play I am doing, I have had trouble emotionally performing stories such as the <BR/>Wandering Jew looking in the fence at Buchenwald. Nice to feel that this is not a unique instability but maybe even a sensitivity we share. Great entry on June 3! Inspiring and a joy to us in NM.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11301779.post-1118181364322993082005-06-07T17:56:00.000-04:002005-06-07T17:56:00.000-04:00True, one of the greatest pieces of recent music, ...True, one of the greatest pieces of recent music, one of the finest works of art conceived in war out of listening to birds. And you have written beautifully about the experience of playing such sublime music.<BR/><BR/>Few composers have understood the what birds can teach us as well as Messiaen. For more on that side of him, see: www.whybirdssing.comAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11301779.post-1118166400544068212005-06-07T13:46:00.000-04:002005-06-07T13:46:00.000-04:00What a wonderful piece of music. I love the simpli...What a wonderful piece of music. I love the simplicity and breadth of those chords! They have a spirituality, distinctly Messiaen's, similar to the opening movement of Vingt Regards performed by Serkin: echoes within an infinite space.<BR/><BR/>I appreciated your reflections on the piece.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11301779.post-1117913356706193652005-06-04T15:29:00.000-04:002005-06-04T15:29:00.000-04:00this is beautifuli look forward to reading more of...this is beautiful<BR/><BR/>i look forward to reading more of your penséesAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11301779.post-1117904048531407772005-06-04T12:54:00.000-04:002005-06-04T12:54:00.000-04:00Thank you for writing this -- it is very moving. I...Thank you for writing this -- it is very moving. I am probably more moved by the entry than I would be by the actual music ...Erinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06736176758196612844noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11301779.post-1117855898263613452005-06-03T23:31:00.000-04:002005-06-03T23:31:00.000-04:00Would you consider posting an email address in you...Would you consider posting an email address in your profile? I'd like to write, but perhaps you feel that private communication is against the spirit of blogging? ;)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com