From Italy again …
(Grazie! and big smile to O, a real Italian.)
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December 19th, 2012
Was there supposed to be a link somewhere?
December 19th, 2012
???
December 19th, 2012
Okay, this is getting weird, weird, weird. Same thing happened with yesterday’s video. In both cases, I know the embed links were there when I created the entry. I checked. With this one, I checked twice. Then sometime in the couple of hours between the time I created the post and the time it was scheduled to go live … the links disappeared.
Sigh. I’ll ask Oliver. And I guess for the time being, I’ll only post videos when I can take them live right then.
December 19th, 2012
I saw it! Bravo! One of my favorite pieces of music.
Oh, how I wish Americans could do this sort of thing every day…
Loved seeing all the children dancing, pretending to conduct… just smiling.
December 19th, 2012
The link is there now, and it was lovely! Thanks again. You’re getting me into the spirit…
December 19th, 2012
That’s beautiful.
Try this one.
Carpet of the Sun. Not the best reproduction — I have it on LP, and this doesn’t quite do it justice.
Not a flashmob, but fun: 2 Cellos
December 19th, 2012
WOW!!! That’s beautiful. Thank you so much. My fave.
December 19th, 2012
Whoo! Those 2 Cello guys are freakin’ rock stars! That was amazing.
But did you see those bows shred? They must go through more bows in one performance than most cellists go through in a lifetime.
(And I loved the comment somebody made that if you challenged either one of those guys to an arm-wrestling contest, he’d rip your arm straight off your shoulder and hand it to you.)
December 19th, 2012
Yeah, I imagine they’re pretty strong. I did notice the shredding, which is kind of funny, given that they were sort of shredding. I was also amused at people giving them tips, considering the price of a carbon-fiber cello. Well, that’s irrelevant, but still amusing, to me anyway.
Had to look up one of the most beautiful choral pieces I’ve ever heard. Dirait On, a poem by Rainier Maria Rilke, music by Morten Lauridsen.
December 19th, 2012
Happiest bit: The children living the experience to the fullest.
Saddest bit: The adults who felt compelled to filter the experience through the screen of their smartphones.
Thank you, Claire, and here’s to jammin’ with the kids.
December 19th, 2012
I’m not one to grab my phone at the smallest provocation… but I think I would have for that.
December 20th, 2012
Lovely, Claire. Thanks.
December 20th, 2012
Ooooh, a flash orchestra! Delightful!
And subtle pro-EU propaganda: the Ode to Joy is the official anthem of the EU. Or not: read the words to Schiller’s complete poem some time.
December 20th, 2012
Only you (or somebody in the EU) would know that bit of trivia, SA. I’ve read the Schiller poem, though it seems to mean something different in everybody’s translation.
http://www.gordscafe.net/id58.html
And it has a history of being changed to suit politics:
http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/42920
Hm … wonder how the EU ended up with such a purely German anthem?
December 21st, 2012
Want to restore your faith in humanity, at least for a little while?
http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/moments-that-restored-our-faith-in-humanity-this-y
Didn’t know how else to get this link to ya.
Jake in Boerne TX