Sarswati

Sarswati 09072m sunday 2045 sunny oslo, jsbach played by marieclaire elan organ, 2 radios same great station, nrk altid klassisk, which is one of oslo best features, but why not all norway??? this is one of the state stations, plays classical music 24 hours a day every day. i have been over the years one of the movers and shakers for this, very gratifying. There is also here a jazz station every day, seven days, from 1700 to 2000, marv. now glen gould. wait i have to change tape to record from radio. i do not record more than asmall fraction. I am not particularly a fan of Gould, he is a bit sissified. but he and Horowitz and Murray Pariah share with me the habit of sitting low at the piano. I have not played for years, tho.I do not play difficult stuff,but what i play i do with great touch and intellect and profound feeling. I am a connoiser of a few arts,but i do not like ballet. i used to think i did not like opera, but eventually discovered i really like opera but not Verdi. My favorite opera singer of all time is Magda Olivero. And i realized i love opera when i heard an LP of Madi Mesple´. My favorite pianist of 20th century is Jorge Bolet. i am new to using computers, so this is a special day for me, especially as i am at the apartment of my favorite person aside from my own descendants, while she fishes in the north of norway2 weeks. as you see i am not particular about spelling etc. i am however a master of my language, i e, American (English is an earlier form of American). I am a throwback---a cultured Bostonian. and very arrogant and what used to be called in high school “conceited”. I have been extremely fortunate in my life generally. for a prime example, i was there at Symphony Hall for several years when the Boston Symphony Orchestra was being conducted by the greatest conductor recorded, i e, Charles Munch. Very few people ever in history have been so blessed as to attend his concerts---there is an expression: “o to have been an ancient greek, o to have been an athenian, o to have been an athenian in the time of Pericles”---O to have been able to attend the concerts of BSO conducted by Charles Munch!!!!!! But i never was present when Magda Olivero sang. ah well. But i saw her on TV (as well as hearing her recordings, tho too often not hifi, but more of that anon). TV is now the great art form (more of that anon too).thisisatest26501. 31may200l hello. The other night a TV show in the marvellous series “NYPD Blue” was particularly interesting in the dimension of focus of relationship acting: of course in that show the characters act into each other in the sense that the cops try to manipulate the crooks and swim in how they all perceive the fluid situation from moment to moment; anyway, in this episode one of the detectives is highly praised by his fellows, and goes alone to regard himself in the mirror, feeling his pride, alone and posing for himself. Brilliant. It is this sort of control of esthetic dimensions that really places that series at the highest level. Also, recently, I watch the excellent Canadian series “DaVinci Inquest”, which had a couple weeks ago one of the all time great episodes on any series (The one that starts with dead wife at bottom of cellar stairs). 21jun01 06:40am Especially children should not be discouraged from acting in everyday life---i mean screaming and yelling and doing what way-out characters do on TV et c. i mean they are being acting.

250701 16:42 My great idea: a new art form: the simultaneous discussion quartet international:

260701 04:34 The simultaneous discussion could be as jazz of any sort , or as polyphonic music, or any sort of combinative operation. First person A and person B speak simultaneously. Then they comment on what the other has said (phase two). Then they respond to these comments and questions. They are judged for aptness etc. It is all videotaped. More people can participate, making eg, quartet. The point is that more than one person is speaking at a time. At no time is only one person speaking.

290801 0500 In the wonderful tv series “Daria”, a lovely feature is the rythmic relationship of the legs walking, of Daria and her friend Jane (Jane being taller) --- this is a cartoon series, and we note the deliberate difference in rate of movement of the taller v v the shorter; recently, as tour de force (?) they twice in that show went around a corner. I mention that Haydn used to great effect the sexy relationship two-on-three-beats; Haydn is very sexy. Some of Mozart´s concertoes are sexy, too.

061001 2351 re Shakespeare: Hamlet could be blithe, optimistic and detached and foolishly confident and underestimate the enemy --- and he should be optimistic in terms of his actions; when he says “To be or not to be” you could have it take place in like a garden, and he´s discussing it like Aristotle might, --- and he doesn´t actually accept that he himself is in danger; the other guys are like the mafia, and they are serious, and of course we have the results at the end. But Hamlet is not always thinking that things are gonna go worse, he thinks it´s gonna be better. He thinks he´s pretty well able to deal with these people. He doesn´t realize that he´s slipping into quicksand. That interpretation can be a good one, particularly at this time, when the American People hadn´t realized that they were in trouble. And again all this goes back to Dallas ´63, as per Oedipus: “Who killed your king?” So we see that Hamlet is naive similarly to us at start of “Richard the Third”, until we actually see the first victim --- and similar to the sad fellow trapped who says “all my chickens and their damm in one fell woops” or something like that. And I think that is one thing that Shaksper (my spelling saves 3 letters) is saying generally: people are much worse than you think they are. Sweet Will?! Paranoid? When people tell me not to be paranoid, I hide. And I would like to see Polonius insultingly mocked as senile while he makes that nutty speech (guys cleaning their fingernails, etc) --- Skaksper again telling us to trust no-one.

onsdag 14. november 2001 04:23 I bought a couple of theater books yesterday. One by Barrault. One about directing .

søndag 18. november 2001 04:11 I (among millions of others) love the play “Shakuntala” by Kalidasa, and at last on tv see an actual lady named Shakuntala --- a BBC reporter in Singapore! Yes!

sarswati søndag 13. januar 2002 20:27 After 42 years, “The Fantasticks” closes today. Another binladn casualty?