The lovely spring weather does have a downside, however. The pollen count! We're in the red zone here today and for the next several days, so I won't be going outside much. **sigh**
An unusually beautiful performance of the Vivaldi. It's often been said among musicians that Vivaldi wrote the same piece at least four hundred times -- meaning that he wrote to formula, never expanded his harmonic vocabulary, and used similar figurations and accompaniment patterns through his work. There's a lot of truth to that, but in The Seasons -- particularly this segment on La primavera (spring) -- a remarkable sensitivity and a good deal of originality in making musical "pictures" comes out wonderfully. The images accompanying this are some of the most beautiful -- and appropriate -- I've ever seen in a music video.
I'd love to know who the performers were and where they came from, etc.
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The lovely spring weather does have a downside, however. The pollen count! We're in the red zone here today and for the next several days, so I won't be going outside much. **sigh**
ReplyDeleteIt's definitely spring! This morning, I heard baby birds chirping in the birdhouse on our front porch.
ReplyDelete'Tis spring, sweet spring.
ReplyDeleteThe bird is on the wing.
That's odd; I always heard
The wing was on the bird!
- Anonymous
_ At Bellingrath Gardens _
ReplyDeleteIntoxicated spring
With lovely flowers crowned
Forgets they form the bridge
'Twixt heaven and the ground.
~ FreeThinke
An unusually beautiful performance of the Vivaldi. It's often been said among musicians that Vivaldi wrote the same piece at least four hundred times -- meaning that he wrote to formula, never expanded his harmonic vocabulary, and used similar figurations and accompaniment patterns through his work. There's a lot of truth to that, but in The Seasons -- particularly this segment on La primavera (spring) -- a remarkable sensitivity and a good deal of originality in making musical "pictures" comes out wonderfully. The images accompanying this are some of the most beautiful -- and appropriate -- I've ever seen in a music video.
ReplyDeleteI'd love to know who the performers were and where they came from, etc.
FT,
ReplyDeleteApparently, only you and I like "highbrow" music.