My youtube algorithm just served me Carl M. Ziehrer's rather wonderfully named polka-mazur "Cis und Trans", which I believe will be of interest to several people on here, for all sorts of reasons www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MJC...
Death by Shakespeare
Causes of 74 deaths in Shakespeare's plays
#ShakespeareDay
It's a real page-turner, and you don't have to read it sequentially -- you can just pick any chapter you are curious about and start from there. That's what I did initially (before I knew I was going to translate it), and I soon got hooked.
It took us eighteen months, and there were six of us!
I am one of the French translators of her book on the political history of ACT UP (the 1,200-page doorstopper on the table in front of me), and she was here on a book tour. It was an extraordinary experience.
J. H. Prynne wrote a guide to reading works of literature for Cambridge students. This was the postscript:
Yours truly (right, holding a microphone) with Sarah Schulman (left).
So this happened.
Was this filmed on location in Arles? The café actually exists and looks just like this, even today.
Three cool scientists introduce their work "Our new theory has been submitted to a peer-reviewed journal, but we feel its depths and intricacies are best appreciated on the limited-edition vinyl release."
My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com
And yet there are many such people. In my circle of friends, almost everyone has ties to more than one country, and the ones who don't wish they did.
Indeed! I hadn't had a look at the libretto in quite a while, though :)
I find it interesting that, as far as I know, this "controversial" opera ("un'opera da molti ritenuta divisiva") is only controversial in America. I have my own theory about that, but I'd be interested in hearing other people's.
Fun fact: Handel's Solomon has characters identified in the libretto as the First and Second Harlots.
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So we’ll go no more a-roving George Gordon, Lord Byron So we’ll go no more a-roving So late into the night, Though the heart be still as loving, And the moon be still as bright. For the sword outwears its sheath, And the soul wears out the breast, And the heart must pause to breathe, And Love itself have rest. Though the night was made for loving, And the day returns too soon, Yet we’ll go no more a-roving By the light of the moon.
Quintessential #Romantic Lord Byron – “half a Scot by birth, and bred / a whole one” – died #OTD, 19 April, 1824
Byron included this #poem in a letter to Thomas Moore from Venice in 1817, when Byron was feeling particularly shagged out after Carnevale…
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www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43845/...
Couverture de l'édition chez Pinguin du livre de cuisine d'Alice B. Toklas. Peinture représentant un plat d'huîtres, un couteau et un pot gris sur une table.
Aller, brunch du dimanche avec Alice Babette Toklas ? 👀🦪🧀
She was actually born in what is now France (in Metz, in German-occupied Lorraine). She probably regarded herself as a victim of the Treaty of Versailles, and beautiful Metz as her "lost" homeland.
...opera performances came to an end. By February 1945, the Staatsoper itself was a bombed-out shell, and it did not reopen for ten years. A fine interpreter of French music, as this recording suggests, Lemnitz supported a government that eventually invaded and ravaged France.
I think part of the point is that these great artists were involved in the wholesale destruction of the culture they claimed to serve. So much was about to be denounced as "entartete Musik," including the best of German music from that period. By 1943 ("totaler Krieg"), theatres were closed and...
I know. Great singer, dreadful human being.
...enough virtue at the time *clears throat*). I always have trouble with these problematic archives. Lemnitz herself was deeply compromised and was said to have been promoted to the Berlin Staatsoper by Göring himself. She was none the less allowed to remain until 1957.
...if it weren't in German (does it really mattter?). The vocal technique sounds quintessentially Germanic, but she understands the difference between Bizet and Richard Strauss, and this is truly the prayer of a brave young woman who doesn't let fear distract her from doing her duty (a rare...
Micaela's aria again--the Nazi version (Berlin 1936). I haven't listened to the complete recording, but I suspect that the singing is glorious (what a cast!). Micaela is sung by Tiana Lemnitz whose rendition of the aria (starting shortly after 1:25:30) is the best I have heard, or would be...
An ancient artifact on display in a museum: a clear glass vessel in the shape of a dove, mostly full of a clear liquid, with a small heap of pinkish substance in the bottom, and dark substances in the head and tail.
Roman blown-glass unguentarium or balsamarium in the shape of a dove, found at Rovasenda near Vercelli in N Italy, sealed since its manufacture about 1900 years ago, containing the remains of a cosmetic and the liquid in which it was once suspended. One would have snapped off the tail to open.
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The sad truth is that I do most of my reading in English, with some Italian and German thrown in :)
It sounds very Nouveau Roman, but I can't think of anything specific.
...the crooked strait, and the rough places plain...
