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ich studiere
verbs for today:
sagen, tun, wollen, möchten, arbeiten, singen, kommen, sprechen, schlafen, kosten, nehmen, sehen, sein, haben, bitten, reden, fallen, fangen, tragen, antworten, wissen, fahren, müssen, können, dürfen
ö = alt 0246
ä = alt 0228
ü = alt 0252
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Conducting Lessons from Barenboim
This is awesome, from last night's NYE concert in Vienna. He takes a moderately crappy piece, shapes it beautifully, gets the audience to participate when appropriate, and even shapes their performance. And it's all done with a great sense of humor. Video stolen from opera chic:
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Goverment To Arts: Suck It
Interesting article from Michael Kaiser in the Washington Post today entitled No Bailout for the Arts?He makes a very strong case for a government subsidy (of sorts) for the arts in these troubling times. He's not just asking for a handout. He's saying that the soul of a nation is at stake. Hair-on fire panicking? yes. True? yes ( Read more... ) -
Very Funny Mr. Wu
So if we take Adele's laughing aria in Act II ( Read more... ) -
Notes from the Macbeth Sourcebook
Censorship ( Read more... ) -
So that's how you do it?
I've wondered about the Parsifal Prelude for sometime.
So basically in a quasi 8 for the first 5 bars, then hold your breath and go in a large, broad 4 in the next 14 bar section (where some people are in 4/4 and others are in 6/4) then back to the quasi 8 for 5 bars. Back to large, broad 4 for 14 bars, etc. etc. (It would be nice if my FS had ( Read more... ) -
Tosca, Act I, # 65
Text:
Scarpia: (Or tutto e' chiaro la provvista del sacrista d'Angelotti fu la [preda!)]
Tempo: a tempo (from previous section. See Reh. # 61)
Time: 2/4
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