ARVO PÄRT /

 'FRATRES' FOR VIOLIN & PIANO.
 GIDON KREMER & KEITH JARRETT

ABSOLUTELY DIVINE.

 ONE CANNOT HAVE ENOUGH PÄRT IN ONE'S LIFE.

ARVO PÄRT /

 'TABULA RASA', I. LUDUS: CON MOTO

 "O, WHEN WILL THE PERIOD APPEAR

 WHEN I SHALL UNITE IN YOUR SONG?

 I'M WEARY OF LINGERING HERE

...

 I'M FETTERED AND CHAINED UP IN CLAY;

 I STRUGGLE AND PANT TO BE FREE

 I LONG TO BE SOARING AWAY

..."

 - MARIA DE FLEURY, 'PANTING FOR HEAVEN', 1791.

MAGNIFICAT / 

 ARVO PÄRT  /  MAGNIFICAT.

  I HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO STOP LISTENING TO THIS FOR THE PAST WEEK.

  ARNOLD BÖCKLIN  /  'THE ISLE OF THE DEAD' IV (BASEL VERSION), 1880


"...AND WHEN, AMID NO EARTHLY MOANS,
DOWN, DOWN THAT TOWN SHALL SETTLE HENCE,
  HELL RISING FROM A THOUSAND THRONES
  SHALL DO IT REVERENCE,
  AND DEATH TO SOME MORE HAPPY CLIME
  SHALL GIVE HIS UNDIVIDED TIME."

- EDGAR ALLAN POE, 'THE DOOMED CITY [THE CITY IN THE SEA]', 1831

 

"HE WAS FRETFUL AND BESIDE HIMSELF LIKE A CHILD...AND AT THE SAME TIME HE WAS A MAN, DARK AND POWERFUL AND INFURIATED BY HIS OWN WEAKNESS.  BY SOME FATAL FLAW, HE COULD NOT BE BY HIMSELF, HE HAD TO DEPEND ON THE SUPPORT OF ANOTHER.  AND THIS VERY DEPENDENCE ENRAGED HIM...HE KNEW THE HATRED WAS NONSENSE, HE KNEW IT WAS THE OUTCOME OF HIS OWN WEAKNESS."

 - D.H. LAWRENCE, 'THE BLIND MAN' (1922).

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"DANCE, DANCE...OTHERWISE WE ARE LOST."

- PINA BAUSCH.

11.04.12
A TOUCH OF MADNESS;
 BEATING HEAD AGAINST THE WALL
 TO LET IT ALL OUT.

"...A PLACE OF PURE ECSTASY...IT'S UNIVERSAL, IT'S FOR EVERYONE."
  - BJÖRK x ARVO PÄRT, FROM BBC'S 'MODERN MINIMALISTS', 1997