-Medieval chivalric romance (when is it my turn)
-Used in my favorite Lars Von Trier movie (Melancholia)
-I had to learn about this in my music history course and I cried at 10:00 A.M. listening to Act III: Liebestod
-Itâs for the boys who want to drink prosseco, smoke a celadon and run around their victorian apartment thatâs on the national registry of historic buildings; akin to a madame in french aristocracy. how many letters until I truly reach you?
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Jan 1, 2025
A cinematic performance of PÄteris Vasksâs Vox Amoris, Bachâs âIch ruf zu dirâ, and Arnold Schoenbergâs âVerklĂ€rte Nacht by the Australian Chamber Orchestra. Discovered it on Kanopy but canât find the full thing anywhere else for free. They have Vox Amoris on YouTube (linked).
Played it while making breakfast this morning. It deserved more of my attention but part of the total enjoyment was seeing which moments in the compositions caught me and pulled me out of my daily motions. It was my first time hearing Vox Amoris (a composition written for the violinist Richard Tognetti and ACO) and it moved me to wet wet tears while I scrambled my eggs.
It had also been awhile since I listened to VerklĂ€rte Nacht / Transfigured Night in its entirety. Truthfully, for a while, the Spotify-ication of my brain rendered me unable to listen to a full album or composition and I would just skip to IV Sehr breit und langsam because it left a mark on me. Listening to it in full again, I almost felt ashamed that I had been circumventing the story, jumping to the chapter I liked, and limiting myself to being moved rather than transformed. It is, after all, about the redemptive power of love. We canât be redeemed if weâre unwilling to become something new.
âYou have brought the glow into me,
You have made me like a child myself.â
Feb 17, 2025
âŠfrom Karl Friedrich Schinkelâs 1816 design for the Hall of the Queen of the Night in Mozartâs Magic Flute. Itâs so gorgeous.
May 25, 2025
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Accountability is exhausting. Take the plane, not the high road.
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Id like to indulge in the fantasy of being a necromancer; the high tower, the alchemy, the grimoire, the robe. I donât want the power of a necromancer really could care less. I only ask for the romance, the sublime, the unknown , the art religion of it all :]
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