This office is starting to sound like Las Vegas.
I've got the World on a String
Songwriters: BURKE, JOHNNY / JOHNSTON, ARTHUR
writers: Harold Arlen/ T. Koehler
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
New York, New York
It's was a big orchestra for my office, but we managed.
New York, New York
Michael Dodaro, (Sinatra)
Songwriters: KANDER, JOHN/EBB, FRED
New York, New York
Michael Dodaro, (Sinatra)
Songwriters: KANDER, JOHN/EBB, FRED
Sunday, February 5, 2012
Monday, January 30, 2012
Sunday, November 20, 2011
Autumn Festival of Songs
Arabella, by Richard Strauss
Sarah Fletcher; Diane Althaus, Sopranos, Josh Brown, pianist
Warm as the Autumn Night, by Douglas Moore
Roland Ken Sabalza, baritone, Josh Brown, pianist
Don Giovanni; La ci darem la mano, by Mozart
Sarah Fletcher & Roland Ken Sabalza, Josh Brown, pianist
Danza de la moza donasa, by Ginastera
Josh Brown, pianist
Cavallaria Rusticana, Voi lo sapete, by Mascagni
Sarah Fletcher, Josh Brown, pianist
Linda di Chamounix, by Donizetti
Megan Chenovick, soprano, Josh Brown, pianist
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Sarah Fletcher; Diane Althaus, Sopranos, Josh Brown, pianist
Warm as the Autumn Night, by Douglas Moore
Roland Ken Sabalza, baritone, Josh Brown, pianist
Don Giovanni; La ci darem la mano, by Mozart
Sarah Fletcher & Roland Ken Sabalza, Josh Brown, pianist
Danza de la moza donasa, by Ginastera
Josh Brown, pianist
Cavallaria Rusticana, Voi lo sapete, by Mascagni
Sarah Fletcher, Josh Brown, pianist
Linda di Chamounix, by Donizetti
Megan Chenovick, soprano, Josh Brown, pianist
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Sunday, October 23, 2011
Art and Truth; Is Truth Enervating?
Is art that is truthful will-shattering? Art that reveals the meaninglessness and arbitrary violence of the world destroys the will to maintain an arduous struggle toward virtue or artistic elegance. After Schopenhauer's descent into chaos and futility, Friedrich Nietzsche posed a solution to the dilemma of will-shattering truth.
Nietzsche in The Birth of Tragedy describes the tension that he found in the Greek tragedies between Dionysian and Apollonian art. Dionysian art embodies the chaotic energy of the world, which in Greek thought is antithetical to reality as differentiated by form delineated in Apollonian art and philosophy.
Nietzsche was for a time an admirer and promoter of the music dramas of Richard Wagner. He saw in Wagner's music an illusion that could sustain the will against the chaos of Dionysus.
Here are a few references that may be useful:
Nietzsche; The Birth of Tragedy
Arthur Schopenhauer
Aaron Ridley on Nietzsche; Art and Truth
To put the quesion in more contemporary setting, here is a link to my review of a book by Carson Holloway titled All Shook Up; Music, Passion, and Politics.
The question of art and will makes an interesting discussion. How is an artist to persist against the banality and chaos of the world?
Nietzsche in The Birth of Tragedy describes the tension that he found in the Greek tragedies between Dionysian and Apollonian art. Dionysian art embodies the chaotic energy of the world, which in Greek thought is antithetical to reality as differentiated by form delineated in Apollonian art and philosophy.
Nietzsche was for a time an admirer and promoter of the music dramas of Richard Wagner. He saw in Wagner's music an illusion that could sustain the will against the chaos of Dionysus.
Here are a few references that may be useful:
Nietzsche; The Birth of Tragedy
Arthur Schopenhauer
Aaron Ridley on Nietzsche; Art and Truth
To put the quesion in more contemporary setting, here is a link to my review of a book by Carson Holloway titled All Shook Up; Music, Passion, and Politics.
The question of art and will makes an interesting discussion. How is an artist to persist against the banality and chaos of the world?
Saturday, October 22, 2011
It's not Vertigo
She gets mild light headedness
Mild but frequent enough to be disturbing
Too often it comes on when she sings
With the expansive breathing
It started after several phone calls to her aunt in Cincinnati
The last of which was to security at the senior residence
Who had to force the door
To find Alice cold on the floor
The last of three sisters
This memorial service was the end
Her father had been gone three years by then
No more trips to Cincinnati
The doctors have suspected low blood pressure
Ear infections
Ménière's disease
And one by one eliminated each as a diagnosis
The disorienting illusion persists
Usually in the afternoon
Exercise seems to ward it off in the morning
Physical therapists, chiropractors, acupuncturists seemed to help
A number of them have applied their cures
Now a cranial-sacral deep tissue masseuse
Recommends books by Illuminati
The saints, medieval and modern are strewn about our cushy chairs
They variously recommend living with the disturbance
Asking what it has to tell us
Being in the joy and pain of here and now
Outside the window it's warmer than it appears
The wind is mild, spacious with a few flecks of rain
A walk to the mailbox is not unpleasant
Despite bills from physicians and labs that insurance won't pay
And the HSA can't seem to process
A maple is red against the firs
This sky has many shades of grey
And opens to infinity beyond what ails us here
Its coming in would elicit a sensation like vertigo
Mild but frequent enough to be disturbing
Too often it comes on when she sings
With the expansive breathing
It started after several phone calls to her aunt in Cincinnati
The last of which was to security at the senior residence
Who had to force the door
To find Alice cold on the floor
The last of three sisters
This memorial service was the end
Her father had been gone three years by then
No more trips to Cincinnati
The doctors have suspected low blood pressure
Ear infections
Ménière's disease
And one by one eliminated each as a diagnosis
The disorienting illusion persists
Usually in the afternoon
Exercise seems to ward it off in the morning
Physical therapists, chiropractors, acupuncturists seemed to help
A number of them have applied their cures
Now a cranial-sacral deep tissue masseuse
Recommends books by Illuminati
The saints, medieval and modern are strewn about our cushy chairs
They variously recommend living with the disturbance
Asking what it has to tell us
Being in the joy and pain of here and now
Outside the window it's warmer than it appears
The wind is mild, spacious with a few flecks of rain
A walk to the mailbox is not unpleasant
Despite bills from physicians and labs that insurance won't pay
And the HSA can't seem to process
A maple is red against the firs
This sky has many shades of grey
And opens to infinity beyond what ails us here
Its coming in would elicit a sensation like vertigo
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