Fierce and Demented

Actually, he’s not. I’m just blind.

Mon, 20 May 2013 19:14:47 +0100

Actually, he’s not. I’m just blind.

Curiously, Boulez is using a baton in this performance.

Mon, 20 May 2013 19:13:16 +0100

Curiously, Boulez is using a baton in this performance.

Watching this performance of Tristan und Isolde. Is it sad that...

Mon, 20 May 2013 19:09:42 +0100

Watching this performance of Tristan und Isolde. Is it sad that I haven’t been this excited in months??

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somethingbypuccini: “Out There” [from The Huntchback of Notre...

Mon, 20 May 2013 15:58:40 +0100

somethingbypuccini:

“Out There” [from The Huntchback of Notre Dame] | Lea Salonga
Broadway Backwards 5

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Mon, 20 May 2013 15:57:23 +0100

Unusual Date Ideas

Mon, 20 May 2013 15:56:10 +0100

theconsultingbadwolf:

If anyone were to take me on a date like this I would probably fall immediately in love with them

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Mon, 20 May 2013 15:52:36 +0100

dailyclassicalmusic: Wagner Week, Day One Composer: Richard...

Mon, 20 May 2013 15:51:02 +0100

dailyclassicalmusic:

Wagner Week, Day One

Composer: Richard Wagner (1813 - 1883)

Work: Dich, teure Halle from Tannhäuser und der Sängerkrieg auf Wartburg (1842 - 1845)

Performer: Lucia Popp, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks; conducted by Bernard Haitink

janehoffmansoprano: parmandil: So are we not going to talk...

Mon, 20 May 2013 15:49:24 +0100

janehoffmansoprano:

parmandil:

So are we not going to talk about the time when Jonas had long hair and a beard and looked like Jesus

#jonas christ

I come back from a weekend away and this is here.

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Mon, 20 May 2013 15:49:16 +0100

casualcynic: So my mom and I have been working the same...

Mon, 20 May 2013 15:48:42 +0100

casualcynic:

So my mom and I have been working the same waitress job for 5-6 years now. She had been waitressing years before, but this is recently. Anyway, about… 15 minutes ago this guy she waited on left and told her to take care. Just that. Prior to this she had talked to him about Italy. Her people are from Florence, this and that, and she said she’s never been. She’s got 8 years of art education and she’s working a waitress job. It’s pretty… Sad and disappointing, I guess. Her and my father divorced 6 years ago and she hasn’t had a real job ever. Just been stuck in a small town she’s not from.

This man who we have never seen before tipped her 1000 dollars for a trip to Italy. Walked out, not another word.

…you know. Just when I start to lose faith in humanity….Hm.

kleemoney: fag-ology: sluttyoliveoil: onlylolgifs: Macaroni...

Mon, 20 May 2013 15:47:45 +0100

kleemoney:

fag-ology:

sluttyoliveoil:

onlylolgifs:

Macaroni being made

make it rain

this is foreplay for me.

ya ^

donjuansrecklessdaughter: A magnificent performance from...

Mon, 20 May 2013 15:46:48 +0100

donjuansrecklessdaughter:

A magnificent performance from American baritone Sherrill Milnes singing the aria ‘Pieta, rispetto, amore’ from Verdi’s opera Macbeth.

In this scene, the usurper, murderer and now King of Scotland Macbeth is awaiting the advance of a Scottish rebellion in his castle, confined and alone. Here we see all the fluctuations of Macbeth’s emotional state, from his initial unflinching resolve and assumed supernatural assurance of survival (‘For none of woman born shall harm you’), to the increasingly lingering doubts about his own mortality, and the fact that his death will be devoid of honour, respect and love (‘Pieta, rispetto, amore’). These are the recurring pangs of conscience for Macbeth, who is slowly beginning to realise that his high and bloody ambition has been at the sacrifice of his very soul.

Milnes sings this aria with such a spectrum of vocal colour, highlighting every moment of delusion, frailty, guilt and despondency of Macbeth. The legato line is yearning, almost haunted by grief, and the ringing High Gb4 signifies his ravaged, inescapable state of humanity.

h0wwl: “Harry Potter isn’t real” they said “Magic is fake” they said “What’s that green light...

Mon, 20 May 2013 15:46:13 +0100

h0wwl:

“Harry Potter isn’t real” they said

“Magic is fake” they said

“What’s that green light coming out of that stick” they said

"It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else’s life..."

Mon, 20 May 2013 15:46:00 +0100

“It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else’s life with perfection.”

- The Bhagavad Gita (via thatkindofwoman)

IT'S THE 20TH OF MAY, SO HAPPY ELIZA DOOLITTLE DAY!!

Mon, 20 May 2013 15:45:02 +0100

inlovewithaudreyhepburn:

What a doctor, not classically-trained in music, has learned after years of attending symphony concerts.

Mon, 20 May 2013 15:44:58 +0100

What a doctor, not classically-trained in music, has learned after years of attending symphony concerts.:

mahleriana:

finding-forte:

I seriously laughed so hard

“Wagner’s chief disciple was Anton Bruckner, who wrote the same symphony 11 times, elevating the idea of chord progressions as music to its highest level.”

holy shit