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between two worlds
Feb. 24th, 2025 05:34 pmThere’s an advantage to taking the commuter rail from Braintree to South Station, that is to say, it’s free and fast, or at least free when the alternative is busing, but there’s a disadvantage in that drawing people is harder.
I got a chickpea and fava plate at Tatte, which also includes caramelized red onions, Aleppo chili oil, dukkah, and herb salad. You’re probably asking about dukkah because I know I was. It’s a mix of seeds and toasted nuts from Egypt.Tthere’s a bookstore in Beacon Hill with a squirrel named Paige as their mascot. It’s not a used bookstore but they did have Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel, which I just remembered the existence of. Which came out almost 3 years ago. Huh. I didn't think the shelf life of a book was that long, especially in the days of Amazon.
I also got Strange Bird from a library and Alien Embassy from a used bookstore.
I didn’t get on the commuter rail for the way home. The drawings I made were mostly quick ones.
There was a rally for Ukraine on the Common, which makes sense because Trump's plan for peace is "let Russia keep their territorial gains and then give us half your resources." And to that, I think we can all say "иди на хуй."
Pavel Haas, Wind Quintet, Op. 10
A french horn is not a wind instrument, although I won't tell anyone if you don't. It reminds me of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring at times, which makes sense because it's based on Moravian folk music, as well as Jewish songs both secular and sacred. It was composed in 1929, published in 1934, mostly lost after the war, and in 1991, one of his former students found a copy of the score in the Moravian Museum in Brno.
Things didn’t end well for Haas, though he divorced his wife to spare her and hisn daughter the worst of Nazi rule. Thereisenstadt was presented to the world a a model vision of separate but equal but then once that served its purpose, they were all shipped off to Auschwitz to die. The story goes that Pavel Haas started coughing uncontrollably when standing next to Karel Ančerl and so Mengele chose him for death. Which might have been preferable, knowing what I do about Mengele.
Alban Berg, Adagio from Kammerkonzert for violin, clarinet & piano
The adagio is an ABA form in which the A sections are inversios and the second half is the first half played in retrograde
Darius Milhaud, La création du monde – Suite de concert pour piano et quatour à cordes, Op. 81b
Darius, or as they call him in Persia, Dārayavaʰuš, is a Jewish composer of neither Sephardic nor Ashkenazi heritage, but of a community in Occitania dating to 2000 years ago. There’s a version for small orchestra and there’s this version for, for those of you who don’t speak le Français, piano and string quartet.
Darius traveled in the early 20s and heard jazz on the streets of Harlem and in clubs in London and when he went back to France, he wrote this. The critics hated it and it would seem it provoked the very reaction Darius was looking for.
George Rochberg, Between Two Worlds (Ukiyo-e III) for flute & piano
This was composed in 1982, breaking from the theme of the interwar. Ukiyo translates roughly to "the floating world" not literally but in a sense of transience and impermanence. Ukiyo-e refers to woodblock prints depicting scenes of urban life in Yoshiwara.
It sounds a lot like traditional Japanese music.
Erich Korngold, Suite for two violins, cello & piano left-hand, Op. 23
It’s broken down into a präludeum und fugue, a walzer, a groteske, leid, and rondo, which are obvious enough in English. Except for lied, which means song. If you know anything about music, you’d know that.
It was commissioned by Wittgenstein, the same Wittgenstein who performed Ravel’s Concerto for the Left Hand. I wonder if there’s a concerto for no hands that’s supposed to sound like playing the piano with your feet or playing the piano by bashing your head against the keys. Maybe PDQ Bach.
That’s two Moravians in the same concert.
burning question: does anyone else think Trump knows he won’t be re-elected and is trying to create long-term problems?
He needs 38 which means there only has to be twelve states that don’t sign on to his bullshit “two consecutive terms or three terms whichever comes first.” And there's at least twelve states I trust to not sign on to his bullshit.
If he wasn’t 79, I’d say something about Trump Putining his way into permanent power by alternating between himself and a puppet president.
I got a chickpea and fava plate at Tatte, which also includes caramelized red onions, Aleppo chili oil, dukkah, and herb salad. You’re probably asking about dukkah because I know I was. It’s a mix of seeds and toasted nuts from Egypt.Tthere’s a bookstore in Beacon Hill with a squirrel named Paige as their mascot. It’s not a used bookstore but they did have Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel, which I just remembered the existence of. Which came out almost 3 years ago. Huh. I didn't think the shelf life of a book was that long, especially in the days of Amazon.
I also got Strange Bird from a library and Alien Embassy from a used bookstore.
I didn’t get on the commuter rail for the way home. The drawings I made were mostly quick ones.
There was a rally for Ukraine on the Common, which makes sense because Trump's plan for peace is "let Russia keep their territorial gains and then give us half your resources." And to that, I think we can all say "иди на хуй."
Pavel Haas, Wind Quintet, Op. 10
A french horn is not a wind instrument, although I won't tell anyone if you don't. It reminds me of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring at times, which makes sense because it's based on Moravian folk music, as well as Jewish songs both secular and sacred. It was composed in 1929, published in 1934, mostly lost after the war, and in 1991, one of his former students found a copy of the score in the Moravian Museum in Brno.
Things didn’t end well for Haas, though he divorced his wife to spare her and hisn daughter the worst of Nazi rule. Thereisenstadt was presented to the world a a model vision of separate but equal but then once that served its purpose, they were all shipped off to Auschwitz to die. The story goes that Pavel Haas started coughing uncontrollably when standing next to Karel Ančerl and so Mengele chose him for death. Which might have been preferable, knowing what I do about Mengele.
Alban Berg, Adagio from Kammerkonzert for violin, clarinet & piano
The adagio is an ABA form in which the A sections are inversios and the second half is the first half played in retrograde
Darius Milhaud, La création du monde – Suite de concert pour piano et quatour à cordes, Op. 81b
Darius, or as they call him in Persia, Dārayavaʰuš, is a Jewish composer of neither Sephardic nor Ashkenazi heritage, but of a community in Occitania dating to 2000 years ago. There’s a version for small orchestra and there’s this version for, for those of you who don’t speak le Français, piano and string quartet.
Darius traveled in the early 20s and heard jazz on the streets of Harlem and in clubs in London and when he went back to France, he wrote this. The critics hated it and it would seem it provoked the very reaction Darius was looking for.
George Rochberg, Between Two Worlds (Ukiyo-e III) for flute & piano
This was composed in 1982, breaking from the theme of the interwar. Ukiyo translates roughly to "the floating world" not literally but in a sense of transience and impermanence. Ukiyo-e refers to woodblock prints depicting scenes of urban life in Yoshiwara.
It sounds a lot like traditional Japanese music.
Erich Korngold, Suite for two violins, cello & piano left-hand, Op. 23
It’s broken down into a präludeum und fugue, a walzer, a groteske, leid, and rondo, which are obvious enough in English. Except for lied, which means song. If you know anything about music, you’d know that.
It was commissioned by Wittgenstein, the same Wittgenstein who performed Ravel’s Concerto for the Left Hand. I wonder if there’s a concerto for no hands that’s supposed to sound like playing the piano with your feet or playing the piano by bashing your head against the keys. Maybe PDQ Bach.
That’s two Moravians in the same concert.
burning question: does anyone else think Trump knows he won’t be re-elected and is trying to create long-term problems?
He needs 38 which means there only has to be twelve states that don’t sign on to his bullshit “two consecutive terms or three terms whichever comes first.” And there's at least twelve states I trust to not sign on to his bullshit.
If he wasn’t 79, I’d say something about Trump Putining his way into permanent power by alternating between himself and a puppet president.
