Luis Soares's Blog, page 99
August 12, 2019
Carol Muske-Dukes - No Hands
He rode “no hands,” speeding
headlong down the hill near
our house, his arms extended,
held rigid away from his body,
our small daughter behind him
on the bike in her yellow sunsuit,
bareheaded. She held on to him
for her life. I watched them from
above—helpless failed brake.
Far below us, a stop sign rose
like a child’s toy shield. He could
not stop, he would not. That hunger
for display overrode danger, illusions
of safety. Even death had less to do
with it than the will’s eventual triumph
over s...
August 9, 2019
Current Mood
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra - Wagner - Ride of the Valkyries
Richard Wagner (composer)
James Levine (conductor)
Die Walküre, WWV 86B
Jonas Kaufmann
Deborah Voigt
Eva-Maria Westbroek
Metropolitan Opera House, New York, United States
Frank O'Hara - As Planned
After the first glass of vodka
you can accept just about anything
of life even your own mysteriousness
you think it is nice that a box
of matches is purple and brown and is called
La Petite and comes from Sweden
for they are words that you know and that
is all you know words not their feelings
or what they mean and you write because
you know them not because you understand them
because you don’t you are stupid and lazy
and will never be great but you do
what you know because what else is there?
August 8, 2019
I'm Getting Back Into Getting Back Into You
Silver Jews "I'm Getting Back Into Getting Back Into You" / Video of song from "Tanglewood Numbers" album. Video directed by Michael Tully, shot in Jerusalem.
White Noise
Photographer Jesse Diamond was coming off a divorce, and struggling with loneliness and uncertainty when he began making the black-and-white photographs that comprise his forthcoming book, White Noise (minor matters). Without realizing why, he was drawn to compositions that set lone figures in empty spaces, and to crowded scenes. Looking back, Diamond writes, his attraction to the scenes he captured relates to his childhood on the road with his musician father. “To this day, I find co...
August 7, 2019
He was despised
G.F. Handel (1685-1759) - Aria "He was despised" from "Messiah" HWV56.
Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir - 22.12.2018
Martin Haselböck – conductor
Bartosz Michałowski – choir director
Sunhae Im – soprano
Jakub Józef Orliński – countertenor
Samuel Boden – tenor
José Antonio López – baritone
Check the full recording of the concert in the Warsaw Philharmonic:
Messiah part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrWWi...
Messiah part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kC_xR...
Derrick Adams
Derrick Adams is a multidisciplinary New York-based artist working in performance, video, sound and 2D and 3D realms. His practice focuses on the fragmentation and manipulation of structure and surface, exploring self image and forward projection.
A recipient of a 2009 Louis Comfort Tiffany Award, and 2014 S.J. Weiler Award, Adams received his MFA from Columbia University, BFA from Pratt Institute, and is a Skowhegan and Marie Walsh Sharpe alum.
His exhibition and performance hig...
August 6, 2019
BWV 1005 - Largo
Isabelle Faust Plays Bach's Sonata No. 3 in C Major, BWV 1005, Largo in the WQXR Cafe. More at www.wqxr.org/cafeconcerts
Lizzo: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
July 29, 2019 | Stephen Thompson -- Lots of musicians cut corners during sound check. It's a time to make sure everyone's in tune and in balance, everyone's blocked properly for the cameras, and every piece of recording equipment is doing its job the way it's supposed to, but it's not as if anyone's rolling tape for posterity. Sometimes, Tiny Desk artists do their sound check in shabby street clothes before ducking into the green room to don their fancy performance wear. It's standard proced...
Current Mood
The Queen of the Night aria from Mozart's "Magic Flute" sung by Albina Shagimuratova at the Teatro alla Scala di Milano
Soprano Diana Damrau sings 'Der Hölle Rache', the famous Queen of the Night aria from Mozart's The Magic Flute, with Dorothea Röschmann as Pamina.
