Luis Soares's Blog, page 302
February 1, 2017
Rowan Ricardo Phillips - Violins
He never saw a violin.
But he saw a lifetime of violence.
This is not to presume
That if he had simply seen
A violin he would have seen
Less violence. Or that living among
Violins, as though they were
Boulangeries or toppling stacks
Of other glazed goods like young adult
Fiction, would have made the violence
Less crack and more cocaine,
Less of course and more why god oh why.
More of one thing
Doesn’t rhyme with one thing.
A swill of stars doesn’t rhyme
With star. A posse of poe...
January 31, 2017
Gallant's Tiny Desk Concert
When Christopher Gallant was featured in Forbes' 30 Under 30 list, the testimonial came from none other than Elton John, who said, "When I hear his voice, I just lose it." The two even performed Gallant's song "Weight In Gold" together back in September.
Gallant performed a stripped-down version of that hit when he came to the Tiny Desk earlier this month, and preceded it with another of his best-known songs, "Skipping Stones." Written with Jhené Aiko, that tune radiates sultry intensity and...
Ron Padgett - How Long
in memory of Lorenzo Thomas
How long do you want to go on being the person you think you are?
How Long, a city in China
The nouns come toward you
“Knee how,” they say
To the cluster of synonyms also approaching
… has that evening train been gone?
How long, how long, baby, how long?
Let me know
if you ever change your mind
about leaving, leaving me behind
or at least tell yourself
before you find yourself on that train
winding its way through the mountains of How Much Province
The ten...
Dynastie
J.S. Bach - Harpsichord Concerto No.1 in D Minor / BWV 1052
Jean Rondeau, the imaginative young French harpsichordist, describes the Bach family as “one of the great dynasties of western music”. Having devoted his first Erato disc, Imagine, to works by the towering Johann Sebastian, he now returns to Bach’s world for his third release, Dynastie, which complements concertos by Johann Sebastian with concertos by his three most famous sons, Wilhelm Friedemann, Carl Philipp Emmanuel and Johann...
Call Me By Your Name
'Call Me by Your Name' isn’t just the steamy, sad story of a slightly illicit gay romance. It’s also a witty, observant depiction of the social rhythms of life.
You’ll see that in this exclusive clip from director Luca Guadagnino’s beautiful Sundance hit, which shows the first stirrings of a connection that’s maybe more than platonic between precocious teen Elio (Timothée Chalamet) and Oliver (Armie Hammer), the grad student Adonis spending the summer at Elio’s family’s summer home in north...
Happy Eightieth, Mr. Glass
Philip Glass' Violin Concerto No. 2, titled 'The American Four Seasons', received its world premiere in Toronto on December 9, 2009, with violinist Robert McDuffie, for whom the work was composed, and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra under conductor Peter Oundjian. Its European premiere was in London on April 17, 2010, with McDuffie and the London Philharmonic Orchestra under conductor Marin Alsop.
Glass composed the work in the summer and autumn of 2009 after several years of exchanges betwee...
D.H. Lawrence - People
I like people quite well
at a little distance.
I like to see them passing and passing
and going their own way,
especially if I see their aloneness alive in them.
Yet I don't want them to come near.
If they will only leave me alone
I can still have the illusion that there is room enough in the world.
January 30, 2017
Se tudo correr bem...
...em princípio de Abril vou ver e ouvir isto na Gulbenkian. Uma nota breve só para dizer que a temporada de piano da Gulbenkian é de nível mundial e inclui, entre novos e menos novos, nomes absolutamente extraordinários. Yuja Wang será só mais um.
Yuja Wang has been playing the Say/Volodos paraphrase on Mozart's Rondo 'Alla Turca' for a while now, but recently she performed it in front of the Berlin Philharmonic in Berlin, which means that we can all now marvel at her virtuosity in high-def...
People Have The Power
Patti Smith's official music video for 'People Have The Power'.
I was dreamin' in my dreamin'
Of an aspect bright and fair
And my sleepin' it was broken
But my dream it lingered near
In the form of shinin' valleys
Where the pure air recognized
Oh, and my senses newly opened
And I awakened to the cry
And the people have the power
To redeem the work of fools
From the meek the graces shower
It's decreed the people rule
People have the power
People have the power
People have the power
People have the power
Killer in Red
Content marketing by Campari. Watch Killer in Red now, a noir short movie directed by Paolo Sorrentino and starring Clive Owen.
