One Masterpiece Coming Up...
Gould used the Peters edition of the score (no.218) which has missing the
last 7 bars of Contrapunctus XIV, (which they and Gould erroneously call
Contrapunctus XV). There were several print editions of this work and
several early editions chose cadential points that the editors felt were
more structurally . . .
The Pretence
Commented on Tap's Politics – the pretence of rescue from above
Heard suggestions, this programme got past the ‘what’s expected’ and, ‘Rulers-acceptable’. Certainly what’s allowed to be commissioned mainstream – therefore, because it’s produced one-step off this… Maybe, ‘this is a series worth watching’ but I’m . . .
Sex
What is it about sex?
First three in the search-engine #news: Why so much drunk-led sex among young adults? (Females, English and Welsh, the…); Sex Dust, posh 'Paltrow'-goop, and; Comic, 'Luke Warm Sex', who says, will “take a very broad view of what sex can be”.
Without reading further, . . .
The Art of Fugue
It is difficult to write about the things you love most. For me, Johann Sebastian Bach’s Die Kunst der Fuge (‘Art of the Fugue’) is tantamount to a sacred text, an artwork so quintessentially perfect in form, so unutterably beautiful from the dual perspectives of the mind and heart, intellect and emotions, that the best thing I . . .
Who’ll Drive Everybody Crazy
Rappoport at it again. One quote. From an article full of his own cut-above writing:
Henry Miller, the American writer who, in his time, in his own way, was as reviled and infamous as Trump is now, once wrote (paraphrasing): People say America needs a President who will restore sanity to the country. That’s wrong. What . . .
Aria
Johann Sebastian Bach's Goldberg Variations has become an iconic monument in Western music. On one level, it's simply a beautiful keyboard work, and on another, it's a Rubik's Cube of invention and architecture.
From its apocryphal back story (based on a count's sleepless nights), to its . . .
How Wars Begin?
Here's something, you're never taught in school? Here in the good ol' U.S. of A. All your wars have been fake... so begins Melissa Dykes. This brilliant primer into false flags, is just the ticket, for a wake-up.
Now who could we re-post this to? I know it's tough to push some. But war is avoidable, the war . . .