Sunday 29 July 2012



SAPPHO 31 /


TO ME HE SEEMS LIKE A GOD
 AS HE SITS FACING YOU AND
 HEARS YOU NEAR AS YOU SPEAK
 SOFTLY AND LAUGH

 IN A SWEET ECHO THAT JOLTS
 THE HEART IN MY RIBS.  FOR NOW
 AS I LOOK AT YOU MY VOICE
 IS EMPTY AND

 CAN SAY NOTHING AS MY TONGUE
 CRACKS AND A SLENDER FIRE IS QUICK
 UNDER MY SKIN.  MY EYES ARE DEAD
 TO LIGHT, MY EARS

 POUND, AND A SWEAT POURS OVER ME.
  I CONVULSE, GREENER THAN GRASS,
 AND FEEL MY MIND SLIP AS I
 GO CLOSE TO DEATH,

 YET, BEING POOR, MUST SUFFER
 EVERYTHING.


- SAPPHO, 'UNTITLED (FRAGMENT 31)', c.600 BCE.

/
(FROM A SECOND VERSION OF A TRANSLATION
 BY WILLIS BARNSTONE, 1988.)





Saturday 28 July 2012





CHARLES AUGUST MENIN /
 'SAPPHO’, (1877)









"'...HE LITTLE THINKS OF THE MARVELOUS PART HE HAS TO PLAY IN THE FUTURE.'
 'SO HE IS TO GO WITH US AS FAR AS -'
 'AS FAR AS THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH, AXEL.'"


 - JULES VERNE, 'JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH', 1864.




GENEVIÈVE BJARGARDÓTTIR /
 ''þoka (MIST), SUMMER IN THE EAST FJORDS', (2010)


/


OUR TROUBLES AND OUR TRIALS HERE
 WILL ONLY MAKE US RICHER THERE
 WHEN WE ARRIVE AT HOME,
 WHEN WE ARRIVE AT HOME.


- ANON, 'GARDEN HYMN', FROM A SUPPLEMENT TO THE 'KENTUCKY HARMONY', 1826.




Wednesday 25 July 2012

Sunday 15 July 2012








SOL-FA -> SOLFÈGE /
 SINGERS OF THE 98th HENAGAR UNION SACRED HARP CONVENTION AND PHILIP GLASS ENSEMBLE.





Wednesday 11 July 2012









'BELOVED' (1998), JONATHAN DEMME.










Monday 2 July 2012





ARVO PÄRT /
 'FRATRES' FOR VIOLIN & PIANO.
 GIDON KREMER & KEITH JARRETT


ABSOLUTELY DIVINE.
 ONE CANNOT HAVE ENOUGH PÄRT IN ONE'S LIFE.




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