It doesn't hurt that she's drop dead adorable.
Lucia Micarelli - Kashmir
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knMrQGHRJ7s
Link to the Original score ?
It doesn't hurt that she's drop dead adorable.
Lucia Micarelli - Kashmir
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knMrQGHRJ7s
I’m still not sure about you, but bump.
Children have no such context.
Years ago, I took my daughter, who was 7 at the time, to the symphony for the performance of The Firebird. I was quite familiar with the piece and had "learned" to enjoy it from several listenings. In my opinion, it was "different" from the usual fare but I had come to like it. I learned to like it.
I thought my daughter, who had not previously listened to it, might not enjoy it. However, she found it to be great fun. I think it was because she had no preconceived notions of whar music "should" sound like.
I learned a lot from her that evening.
Years ago, with misgivings and low expectations, I visited the place. It's not that big, and, lo and behold, I was there for almost four hours....completely enthralled.
I took the edifying tour around the galleries with the group guide....then went back alone for further and more leisurely study of the artiste's works.
I was almost mesmerized. Dali was a conventional artist as well as a surrealist. His paintings as a child show early genius. As an adult he did little painted cameos and huge two-story epic hangings. He concocted fun "fool the eye" works. His fertile brain created the weird, the wonder-ful, the conventional, the insane, the mesmerizing, the bad, the beautiful and the sublime.
Ostensibly, he was as nutty as a fruitcake, but I don't buy it. He was a genius in his various genres, canny with money and personal PR, maybe close to the edge of madness in some peoples' eyes....but his work is never dull, dated, trite or easily categorized.
If you ever get to St. Pete, by all means, hit the Dali Museum. I would not steer you wrong...and, unless you don't appreciate art at all, you will thank me for the referral and you'll find it an afternoon extremely well spent. Bring the kids, too, for a real cultural learning experience.
I intend to return there to drink it all in again as soon as possible...and to again enjoy searching for the devil and the sublime in all the details of Dali's canvases.
Leni
For the life of me I will never understand how any idiot could have reacted like that to a piece of symphonic music.
No wonder Europe killed itself off in the 20th century, they became loony toons.
Rite of Spring probably still sucks. And is there anything wrong with Norman Rockwell?
Imagination, like any other tool, is best when used in the service of a well-formed soul.
If you haven’t seen it, Dali collaborated with Walt Disney to produce the short (6:31) movie ‘Destino’.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GFkN4deuZU
'Rite of Spring' was a challenge for bassoonisoids...
Ping, and plus 1 on the Dali museum. Best thing in Florida.
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I would love to have been a fly on the wall on that May day in 1913 to witness the premiere of “Rite of Spring”!