Akhenaten's Dream In Plato's Mind

It’s been a long way since Earth was created from cosmic dust plus initial energy from the Big Bang left unleashed especially for us by an un-metaphorically cause that still remains undisclosed, un-theological, & humanly grasped. Despite there’s no consensus about such a spectacular phenomenon; body, mind & intelligence remain as lively fate-hunters of what make sense about us that I have to welcome you, Friend, to the Drama of Human Condition in search of the Artist’s Signature.

Monday, January 31, 2011

Good Listening: Chicago

20SEP/096

Good Listening: Chicago – Live in New York – 6/20/77

Written by: Matt Wardlaw

As I was digging around in my collection today, I pulled out two CDs worth of Chicago, recorded live in New York City in 1977. While this isn't the best sounding show that I've got from Chicago, it was interesting to me at the time that I first got it a few years ago for several reasons:

1. Any day that someone hands you a vintage Chicago show with Terry Kath on guitar is a good day. 32 years ago when this show originally occurred, I was a few months shy of turning three years old - which means that I had no chance to see Kath and Chicago "back in the day" prior to Kath's tragic death which happened less than a year after this show. Bootlegs of Chicago (and other bands) were hard for me to locate pre-internet, and thanks to shows like this one, I now have the opportunity to experience the tours for some of my favorite Chicago albums from back then.

2. Cool setlist! I was originally intrigued by this show when I saw "Anyway You Want" in the setlist - Chicago VIII was one of the early 70s-era Chicago albums to catch my ear, along withChicago II - both are nicely represented here in this performance. This particular show dates from the era when the band was touring in support of Chicago XI.

3. The band is on fire! Just listen to Parazaider's sax solo on "Just You 'N Me" for one prime example.

The show was originally broadcast by WLIR at the time, and it's apparent that this particular copy has gone through a few generations of "dude, you GOTTA hear this Chicago show" type moments, shared from friend to friend. It remains a worthy listen, and if perhaps you're out there sitting on a better copy, feel free to get in touch - I'd love to hear it.

Chicago
Nassau Coliseum
Uniondale, NY
6/20/77

The One To One Benefit

Broadcast by WLIR-FM

Band:

Robert Lamm
Peter Cetera
Terry Kath
James Pankow
Walter Parazaider
Lee Loughnane
Danny Seraphine
Laudir De Olivera

Setlist:

Disc One:

zipped download

Mississippi Delta City Blues
Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?
Call On Me
You Are On My Mind
Once Or Twice
Just You 'N Me
Beginnings
Ballet For A Girl In Buchannon

Disc Two:

zipped download part one
zipped download part two

Anyway You Want
Question 67 And 68
Scrapbook
A Hit By Varese
If You Leave Me Now
Takin' It On Uptown
Saturday In The Park
(I've Been) Searchin' So Long
Mongonucleosis
Drum Solo
25 or 6 to 4

Encore:

I'm A Man
Feelin' Stronger Everyday

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Progressive Rock - Discographies

Sunday, January 30, 2011

The greatest Chicago formation...

Chicago performs the Ballet for a Girl in Buchanan at Tanglewood, MA in 1970 part 1
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Chicago performs the Ballet for a Girl in Buchanan at Tanglewood, MA in 1970 part 2
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Chicago performs Beginnings at Tanglewood, MA in 1970
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Chicago performs I'm a MAn at Tanglewood, MA in 1970
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Chicago- Make Me Smile

This is footage of the band performing one of their biggest hits, "Make Me Smile", only 3 months after it hit the Top 10. In fact, it was their first big hit. So, this footage is obviously very old.

It was filmed on July 21, 1970 at Tanglewood in Lenox, MA.

This features the original band which included Terry Kath, Peter Cetera & Danny Seraphine. The other four musicians still tour as 'Chicago' with their replacements. Quite nicely, I might add!

Great place...

SUPER APORTES: PROG y VANGUARDIA

Revisa mis Discografias:
Los TR3S,
Jon Anderson,
ELP,
Genesis,
Charly,
Steve Howe,
Hendrix,
Jethro Tull,
Los Jaivas,
John Lennon,
Paul Mc Cartney,
Fito Paez,
The Police,
Ponty,
Sting,
Spinetta,
Ringo Starr,
Wakeman,
The Who,
Stevie Wonder,
YES

Aforismo: Ocurrencia nocturna XXXIV

Cuando Nietzsche descubrió, escandalosamente, que Dios había muerto... asesinado por sus propias criaturas; en realidad desnudaba una milenaria coartada que sojuzgó por muchos años al ser humano.

A su vez, dejaba a la intemperie tantas teologías engreídas que se habían asentado poderosamente, como anclas, en la mente humana.

Pero también se destapaba una caja de Pandora que, a diferencia de aquella del mito griego, derramaba una plétora de posibilidades impresionantemente angustiantes de autonomía y libertad.

Ahora sí, parafraseando a Sartre, lo humano estaba condenado a ser libre: “El universo no juega a los dados… pero, ¿qué tal al ajedrez?”

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Desde mi barricada: Hölderlin por Mariano Berdusán ("Como en un día de...

Desde mi barricada: Hölderlin por Mariano Berdusán ("Como en un día de...: "SGS Como en un día de fiesta, al alba, sale el labrador a ver el campo después que los relámpagos han caído sin parar refrescando la noche ..."

Apuntes: Hölderlin y el imperativo de la belleza.

Apuntes sobre Hölderlin Nº 1

Apuntes sobre Hölderlin Nº 2

Apuntes sobre Hölderlin Nº 3

Apuntes sobre Hölderlin Nº 4

Apuntes sobre Hölderlin Nº 5

Un extra [taken from here]:

Rilke came relatively late to discover and admire intensely the work of Hölderlin, and set forth in a poem entitled An Hölderlin (To Hölderlin), written in 1914 when Rilke was 38 and first published in 1934, eight years after his death, his understanding of Hölderlin’s imperative towards a wholeness of vision and his own quite opposite situation. The poem reads in part:

To linger, even at what is most familiar,
is not given to us; from fulfilled
images the mind plummets to ones waiting for sudden fulfilment; lakes
exist only in the eternal. Falling is here
what we achieve best. From the feeling we’ve mastered
to plunge down into that we anticipate, further.
But to you, you splendid one, to you, you conjurer, a whole life was given
to feel as an urgent image, when you spoke it out,
each line closed like destiny, death was
even in the gentlest, and you entered it; but
the god who preceded you led you out and above it (Rilke 2, 1996: 123).

Hölderlin- An die Parzen- A las Parcas

An die Parzen

Nur Einen Sommer gönt, ihr Gewaltigen!
Und einen Herbst zu reifem Gesange mir,

Daβ williger mein Herz, vom süβen

Spiele gesättiget, dann mir sterbe.

Die Seele, der im Leben ihr göttlich Recht

Nicht ward, sie ruht auch drunten im Orkus nicht;

Doch ist mir einst das Heilige, das am

Herzen mir liegt, das Gedicht, gelungen,

Willkomen dann, o Stille der Schattenwelt!

Zufrieden bin ich, wenn auch mein Saitenspiel

Mich nicht hinab geleitet; Einmal

Lebt ich, wie Götter, und mehr badrfs nicht.

A las parcas

Sólo un verano os pido, ¡oh Poderosas!

Y un otoño para madurar mi canto,

y así mi corazón dispuesto, del dulce

juego saciado, gustoso morirá.

El alma que en la vida de su divino derecho

no gozó, tampoco hallará reposo en el Orco;

pero una vez surgió de mi lo sagrado

que vive en mi corazón, la poesía,

Bienvenido pues, ¡oh silencio del mundo de las sombras!

Feliz estoy aunque mi lira

no me acompañe abajo; un día

viví como los dioses, y no necesito nada más.

Saturday, January 22, 2011

Phaedra - Oper von Hans Werner Henze!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

DeutscheOperamRhein | November 05, 2010

Ein „kretisch, maritim, urzeitiges" Musiktheater wollte Hans Werner Henze (*1926) mit seiner Oper „Phaedra" auf das Libretto des Lyrikers Christian Lehnert komponieren -- und präsentierte mit der Uraufführung 2007 an der Berliner Staatsoper ein magisches Spätwerk. Geheimnisvolle Schattierungen, exotische Klangwirkungen und kammermusikalische Durchsichtigkeit vereinen sich zu einer ganz eigenen Musiksprache. Entstanden ist ein Meisterwerk, dessen labyrinthische, der Dramaturgie eines imaginären Theaters folgende Strukturen tief hinein in die ebenso faszinierende wie fremde Welt des antiken Mythos entführen. Die Zeitschrift „Opernwelt" kürte „Phaedra" zur Uraufführung des Jahres; für die Neuinszenierung der Deutschen Oper am Rhein im Rahmen des Henze-Projekts „Neue Musik für eine Metropole" der Kulturhauptstadt Europas RUHR.2010 konnte die Regisseurin Sabine Hartmannshenn gewonnen werden, die seit ihrer zur Produktion des Jahres 2002 gewählten „Lulu"-Inszenierung an der Oper Göteborg mit ihren Arbeiten an vielen internationalen Bühnen begeisterte.

Eine Koproduktion der Deutschen Oper am Rhein Düsseldorf Duisburg und der Kulturhauptstadt Europas RUHR.2010 für „Das Henze-Projekt"

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Hans Werner Henze

PHAEDRA
Konzertoper in zwei Akten
Text von Christian Lehnert

In deutscher Sprache mit Übertiteln

Musikalische Leitung Wen-Pin Chien
Inszenierung Sabine Hartmannshenn
Bühne Dieter Richter
Kostüme Susana Mendoza
Licht Volker Weinhart
Dramaturgie Anne do Paço

Phaedra Ursula Hesse von den Steinen
Aphrodite Anke Krabbe
Hippolyt Jussi Myllys
Artemis Vasily Khoroshev
Minotaurus (Sänger) Richard Sveda
Minotaurus (Tänzer) Jhane Hill
Gehilfe der Artemis Harald Beutelstahl
Orchester Duisburger Philharmoniker

Video: Ralph Goertz

Category:

Entertainment

PHAEDRA de Henze: un mito escrito en el viento.

http://rapidshare.com/files/143112429/Henze_Phaedra.rar.001

http://rapidshare.com/files/143120465/Henze_Phaedra.rar.002

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Desde el Zarathustra de Nietzsche:

Oh Mensch! Gieb Acht!
Was spricht die tiefe Mitternacht?
«Ich schlief, ich schlief—,
«Aus tiefem Traum bin ich erwacht: —
«Die Welt ist tief,
« Und tiefer ais der Tag gedacht,
« Tief ist ihr Weh—,
«Lust — tiefer noch ais Herzeleid:
« Weh spricht: Vergeh!
«Doch alie Lust will Ewigkeit—,
«— will tiefe, tiefe Ewigkeit!«
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[¡Oh, hombre! ¡Presta atención! /
¿Qué dice la profunda medianoche? /
«Yo dormía, yo dormía—, /
De un profundo sueño he despertado: — /
El mundo es profundo, /
Y más profundo de lo que el día ha pensado. /
Profundo es su dolor.- /
El placer — es más profundo aún que el sufrimiento: /
El dolor dice: ¡Pasa! /
¡Mas todo placer quiere eternidad—, /
— ¡Quiere profunda, profunda eternidad!»]

Pero Mahler tiene una aproximación soberbia,
de maestro a maestro en su Symphony No. 3.

Rubén Darío: El Cisne....

Fué en una hora divina para el género humano.

El Cisne antes cantaba sólo para morir.

Cuando se oyó el acento del Cisne wagneriano

Fué en medio de una aurora, fué para revivir.

Sobre las tempestades del humano oceano

Se oye el canto del Cisne; no se cesa de oir,

Dominando el martillo del viejo Thor germano

Ó las trompas que cantan la espada de Argantir.

¡Oh Cisne! ¡Oh sacro pájaro! Si antes la blanca Helena

Del huevo azul de Leda brotó de gracia llena,

Siendo de la Hermosura la princesa inmortal,

Bajo tus blancas alas la nueva Poesía

Concibe en una gloria de luz y de harmonía

La Helena eterna y pura que encarna el ideal.

Prosas Profanas (1908)

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Documental: Comprar, tirar, comprar

Excelente documetal donde se pone en la mesa la programación del consumo en nuestras sociedades... quizás la próxima vez que deseemos algo lo udieramos pensar mejor antes de sacar la cartera...

Comprar, tirar, comprar

Chicago en Monterrey.

Monday, January 10, 2011

Extra Stuff!

The Walking Dead - comic book series - constantly udated!

Description

cbr, hq, english
Download:

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Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Endorsement by Werner Herzog, director of Rescue Dawn:

"Hölderlin, the greatest of all German poets, explored the outer limits and the deepest depths of the German language, and has been considered untranslatable. We have waited so long for an English translation that does justice to the inexplicable mystery of his early mature work; with Hoff’s beautiful versions we have one at last."

Friday, December 31, 2010

Chicago - 1970-07-21 - Lenox, MA (DVDfull pro-shot)

Thursday, December 30, 2010

Karajan & Beethoven's 5th Symphony

Herbert von Karajan - Beethoven Symphony No. 5
29:32 - Vor 4 Jahren

Herbert von Karajan Conducts - Beethoven Symphony No. 5
Symphony No. 5 c-minor, Op. 67
1. Allegro con brio
2. Andante con moto
3. Allegro
4. Allegro
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Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 (Karajan / BPO)
32:47 - Vor 4 Jahren

Symphony No. 5 c-minor, Op. 67
1. Allegro con brio
2. Andante con moto
3. Allegro
4. Allegro Recorded at the Philharmonie, 1982
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Wilhelm Kempff plays Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata mvt. 1-3

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Dieses Video ansehen auf video.google.de
15:39 - Vor 3 Jahren
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Wilhelm Kempff playing Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata movement 1-3. Wilhelm Kempff (November 25, 1895 – May 23, 1991) was a renowned German pianist. Wilhelm Kempff was born in Jüterbog near Berlin and grew up in nearby Potsdam where his father was a royal music director and organist at St. Nicolai Church. His grandfather was also an organist and his brother Georg became director of church music at the University of Erlangen. Kempff studied music first in Potsdam and then in Berlin. He was also a composer. Kempff toured very widely in Europe and much of the rest of the world. Between 1936 and 1979 he performed ten times in Japan and a small Japanese island was named Kempu-san in his honor. Kempff made his first London appearance in 1951 and in New York in 1964. He gave his last public performance in Paris in 1981 and died in Positano, Italy at the age of 95. Wilhelm Kempff recorded over a period of some sixty years. He is celebrated today for his recordings of Schumann, Brahms, Schubert, Mozart, Bach, Liszt, Chopin and particularly, of Beethoven. He was among the first to record the complete sonatas of Franz Schubert, long before these works became popular. He also recorded two renowned sets of the complete Beethoven sonatas (and one early, almost complete set on shellac 1926-1945), one in mono (1951-1956) and the other in stereo (1964-1965). One anecdote may illustrate Kempff's ability as an interpreter of Beethoven. During a stay in Finland, his friend the composer Jean Sibelius asked him to play the Hammerklavier of Beethoven and, after Kempff finished, Sibelius told him, "You did not play that as a pianist but rather as a human being."[citation needed] Kempff also played chamber music with Yehudi Menuhin and Pierre Fournier, among others. Particularly famous are the recordings of the complete Beethoven sonatas for violin and piano with Menuhin. Wilhelm Kempff playing Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata movement 1-3. Wilhelm Kempff (November 25, 1895 – May 23, 1991) was a renowned German pianist. Wilhelm Kempff was born in Jüterbog near Berlin and grew up in nearby Potsdam where his father was a royal music director and organist at St. Nicolai Church. His grandfather was also an organist and his brother Georg became director of church music at the University of Erlangen. Kempff studied music first in Potsdam and then in Berlin. He was also a composer. Kempff toured very widely in Europe and much of the rest of the world. Between 1936 and 1979 he performed ten times in Japan and a small Japanese island was named Kempu-san in his honor. Kempff made his first London appearance in 1951 and in New York in 1964. He gave his last public performance in Paris in 1981 and died in Positano, Italy at the age of 95. Wilhelm Kempff recorded over a period of some sixty years. He is celebrated today for his recordings of Schumann, Brahms, Schubert, Mozart, Bac...Alles » Wilhelm Kempff playing Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata movement 1-3. Wilhelm Kempff (November 25, 1895 – May 23, 1991) was a renowned German pianist. Wilhelm Kempff was born in Jüterbog near Berlin and grew up in nearby Potsdam where his father was a royal music director and organist at St. Nicolai Church. His grandfather was also an organist and his brother Georg became director of church music at the University of Erlangen. Kempff studied music first in Potsdam and then in Berlin. He was also a composer. Kempff toured very widely in Europe and much of the rest of the world. Between 1936 and 1979 he performed ten times in Japan and a small Japanese island was named Kempu-san in his honor. Kempff made his first London appearance in 1951 and in New York in 1964. He gave his last public performance in Paris in 1981 and died in Positano, Italy at the age of 95. Wilhelm Kempff recorded over a period of some sixty years. He is celebrated today for his recordings of Schumann, Brahms, Schubert, Mozart, Bach, Liszt, Chopin and particularly, of Beethoven. He was among the first to record the complete sonatas of Franz Schubert, long before these works became popular. He also recorded two renowned sets of the complete Beethoven sonatas (and one early, almost complete set on shellac 1926-1945), one in mono (1951-1956) and the other in stereo (1964-1965). One anecdote may illustrate Kempff's ability as an interpreter of Beethoven. During a stay in Finland, his friend the composer Jean Sibelius asked him to play the Hammerklavier of Beethoven and, after Kempff finished, Sibelius told him, "You did not play that as a pianist but rather as a human being."[citation needed] Kempff also played chamber music with Yehudi Menuhin and Pierre Fournier, among others. Particularly famous are the recordings of the complete Beethoven sonatas for violin and piano with Menuhin.

One of my B's from the BBB

“You might speak of
‘the divine Rossini.’
You can also speak
of ‘the divine Mozart.’
But you cannot say
‘the divine Beethoven.’

That does not sound right.
You must say
‘the human Beethoven.’
It is in this way that he is great….
With Beethoven humanity enters
into music for the first time as the
principal argument in the place of
interplay of figures."

So mused Busoni in 1920... Go here or here

Let's take a chance and here what follows:

Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67
CONDUCTOR : Wilhelm Furtwängler /
ORCHESTRA : Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
(Berliner Philharmoniker) / year 1947

1. Allegro con brio (8:04)
2. Andante con moto (11:11)
3. Allegro - attacca (5:50)
4. Allegro (8:13)

Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 9 in D minor "Choral", Op. 125

CONDUCTOR : Herbert von Karajan
ORCHESTRA : The Philharmonia Orchestra
YEAR: 1955

1. Allegro ma non troppo, un poco maestoso (15:04)
2. Molto vivace (10:09)
3. Adagio molto e cantabile (16:06)
4. Recitative: (Presto – Allegro ma non troppo – Vivace – Adagio cantabile – Allegro assai – Presto: O Freunde) – Allegro assai: Freude, schöner Götterfunken – Alla marcia – Allegro assai vivace: Froh, wie seine Sonnen – Andante maestoso: Seid umschlungen, Millionen! – Adagio ma non troppo, ma divoto: Ihr, stürzt nieder – Allegro energico, sempre ben marcato: (Freude, schöner Götterfunken – Seid umschlungen, Millionen!) – Allegro ma non tanto: Freude, Tochter aus Elysium! – Prestissimo: Seid umschlungen, Millionen! (24:07)

My Little Alexandria Library

Breaths So Far (An Index):

Hölderlin once said: "Language, most dangerous of possessions." Therefore, this is an attempt of writing a small book of poetry in a language that's not my own. However, I feel fortunate… Index (Suggested Order)

Next, you will find several extra poems which are related to the topics covered in the previous poems.

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Another small book under construction. It is called Sweats, and it is supposed to be as follows (once again, suggested order):

Index

Adornos’ Sweat
Lennon’s Sweat
Judas Sweat
Comming Soon!
Comming Soon!
Comming Soon!
Comming Soon!
Comming Soon!
Comming Soon!
Comming Soon!

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Other Poems

My Own translations:

Czeslaw Milosz
A Hölderlin (Rilke)
"Musée des Beaux Arts" (French for "Museum of Fine Arts") is the title of a poem by W. H. Auden

My Own English Poetry:

Think Different (a quite interesting movie ad) - my post