Interlude

[dodari]

Yes, Billie Holiday, truly one of the absolute greatest. I still have an LP, "Lady Day Sings the Blues". Her "Strange Fruit" was quite a lesson/message in that era. The Lady sang like you'd believe she had been there. Indeed, she had. Wow, what a Lady. Died too young, sadly.

 

[bassmonster]

It was 1968, was on furlough stateside, Santa Fe, NM, up in a crash-house far up on Canyon Rd., you could walk on the enchanted mota smoke, but we, of the higher calling, had escaped it all with our little fired up glass pipes with the Saint "O" in them.

Her aroma stirred me and we became one in tantra for what seemed to transcend forever for a few hours and then we fell into a deep satisfied rest.

Morning came and this song.
Merrilee Rush & the Turnabouts - Angel of the Morning - YouTube

I let her go. What a damned fool I am, old fool reminiscing.

quite the wordsmith, you are. Very nice

 

[bassmonster]

Thought I'd revive this thread with one of my favesFrédéric Chopin's "Raindrop" Prelude, Op 28, No. 15 - YouTube

 

[dodari]

Thought I'd revive this thread with one of my favesFrédéric Chopin's "Raindrop" Prelude, Op 28, No. 15 - YouTube

Ah, Frederick Chopin, one of my Mom's favorites, very demanding technically she said. Genius cut short at about age 39.

Thought about putting up one of my shorter Wagner favorites with Birgit Nilsson, soprano. LoveDeath. Very heavy from an event in my past, but maybe some other time.

Used to do a lot of jazz long ago. Now it's mostly heavy blood and guts world dominion musik(symphony) except for Mahler's #2 in C, nicknamed "Resurrection" and it's ultimate transcendency. Not for the faint hearted nor shallow, it is 5 movements, the last 2 with a monstrous orchestra, a huge choir and the 4 best German opera soloists in the world. Bernstein is the best interpreter of Mahler.

Got to see it performed in N.Y.C. at the Phil. under Bernstein, a privilege.

It ended thus:

Was du geschlagen

zu Gott wird es dich tragen!

the orchestra, which was huge, having crescendoed to a crushing final chord. For what seemed forever there was absolute, really absolute, dead complete silence. Then, about 5 rows back, someone exclaimed "GOD" and then we resumed breathing. It has been said that Mahler built worlds.