Chris Lydgate....I assumed he was probably in Hollywood or something cuz his writings are soooo enchanting and makes the stories just pop up and come to life so to speak,but he's not in Hollywood,he's here close to us.
Ain't he great? We ARE lucky. Your comment reminds me I should post the full archive of his Mozart class. And you saw he's leading a Dune class next month too? I've never read Dune and he's the perfect guy to get me into it
That was great! I loved the metaphor of those "da capo" repetitions in Mozart as good friends, but met in very different places of travel. I used to think like Chris that the Mozart opera plots were silly, and some of them are--but even in the ridiculous Cosi fan tutte, there are moments Mozart bumps into that are sad, or dire, and he realizes it--the guys pretend to go off to (fake) war, leaving their girlfriends behind, and these women are devastated by the ruse--they're gonna die!--and the music for that is devastating. Also, on October 17, 1989, I was heading for the SF Opera to hear Idomeneo and the big old earthquake hit. When we got back into the opera house to finally see it a couple of weeks later, the entire ceiling was strung with a huge net to prevent chandeliers and plaster from falling, and the set for Idomeneo, the devastation of Troy after the war, looked just like earthquake damage. And Elektra's rage aria! Okay, I'll stop. Looking forward to Mozart!
Chris Lydgate....I assumed he was probably in Hollywood or something cuz his writings are soooo enchanting and makes the stories just pop up and come to life so to speak,but he's not in Hollywood,he's here close to us.
How super Lucky is that.
Ain't he great? We ARE lucky. Your comment reminds me I should post the full archive of his Mozart class. And you saw he's leading a Dune class next month too? I've never read Dune and he's the perfect guy to get me into it
That was great! I loved the metaphor of those "da capo" repetitions in Mozart as good friends, but met in very different places of travel. I used to think like Chris that the Mozart opera plots were silly, and some of them are--but even in the ridiculous Cosi fan tutte, there are moments Mozart bumps into that are sad, or dire, and he realizes it--the guys pretend to go off to (fake) war, leaving their girlfriends behind, and these women are devastated by the ruse--they're gonna die!--and the music for that is devastating. Also, on October 17, 1989, I was heading for the SF Opera to hear Idomeneo and the big old earthquake hit. When we got back into the opera house to finally see it a couple of weeks later, the entire ceiling was strung with a huge net to prevent chandeliers and plaster from falling, and the set for Idomeneo, the devastation of Troy after the war, looked just like earthquake damage. And Elektra's rage aria! Okay, I'll stop. Looking forward to Mozart!
Thank you for listening to it and leaving this comment! I would love to take an opera class from you sometime, Brian. I have so much to learn.