[Publius]

I liked the way Johnson crashed the career of other composers. That reference to "Faust" killed off the second movement of the Mahler Eighth. The final reference killed off the entire career of Hugo Wolf.

I'll admit when I read the sentence about the late Noctures for Piano written for Clara Schumann, a tear almost fell from my eye.

We lost a lot of great music.

[Publius]

ROCKUMENTARY: OCTOBER 18,1972

#20 – Johnny Nash: “I Can See Clearly Now”

This reggae artist had his biggest hit.

Johnny Nash: “I Can See Clearly Now”

[ConorMacNessa]

Somewhat serendipitously. I downloaded La Damnation de Faust, a work I had the pleasure to sing as a Tenor Chorister in the Oratorio Society of Washington a couple of decades ago under the baton of the late Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos. A most impressive conductor - he conducted without a score.


"Dia shábháil ar fad anseo!"

Genuflectimus non ad principem sed ad Principem Pacis!

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)