Month: August 2022

Wait- You Know Roger?

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RDP Wednesday: CONCERT

I used to like it when the train I took to work was packed with people.

Each car had it’s little club and it’s own vibe- like there was the reader car where everyone read their phones or books- there was the upper deck car where there was chess games that for some reason people who didn’t even know how to play chess would hang out because they had their favorite players that they cheered for.

Some cars were full of chatty people who talked at the tops of their lungs – they talked to each other at full volume and when they talked on their phones they could drown out the train engine.

I liked the chatty people, they were fun to watch and sometimes they were fun to listen to. It’s not like what they were saying was super interesting but they had the wildest facial expressions that went along with their story telling and I liked that a lot.

After the Covid restrictions were lifted a lot of those people either started to work from home or like some people I know they drive to work because they didn’t want to take public transportation anymore so now the train cars are not quite half full and for the most part they’re a little boring.

Sometimes though little gems show up, like the Millennials who sat in the row across from me a couple of months ago. They were excited because they had been on line buying concert tickets to celebrate not being in lockdown anymore.  One of them was really excited because his parents were taking him to the UK and he planned on seeing  shows there too.

I figured I wouldn’t know anyone these young-uns were into. I was right when they popped off the names of two groups and then one said, ” and guess what, I scored tickets to Roger Daltrey. ”

One guys said, ” No way- he’s still” he paused and I figured he was going to say ” alive ” but he said “touring? ”

” Yep. And dude, I get to say I saw Roger Daltrey. ”

” That is pretty damn cool ” his friend told him and then I tuned them out because I was amazed that this kid was going to see Roger Daltrey and he thought it was a big deal and he understood rock and roll history enough to know Daltrey was a big part of it.

Growing up I was a big fan of The Who and I saw them in the mid 70’s and in 1980 in Seattle and friends, I was about 13 the first time I saw them and just under 16 the second time so I at the time I was considered a ‘new fan’

I got into The Who because my guitar teacher thought he would be remiss in his duties if he didn’t teach me songs by The Who, so that’s how I got into them.  I guess the older fans may have felt the same way I did when I heard the Millenials chatting about ” my Roger Daltrey ” and now I can laugh about it in a good way.

Here are two of my favorite Who/Daltrey songs- I hope you enjoy them with that-

Rock on.

amm

Little Window

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True or False?

Classical Music You Know But Can’t Name

Tracklist: 0:00:00 Strauss II – Frühlingsstimmen (Voices of Spring), Op. 410 0:07:37 Strauss II – An der schönen blauen Donau (On the Beautiful Blue Danube), Op. 314 0:19:01 Mozart – Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, K. 525: I. Allegro 0:25:04 Mozart – Piano Sonata No. 11 in A Major, K 331: III. Alla Turca 0:28:43 Rossini – Il Barbiere di Siviglia: “Cavatina di Figaro” 0:33:39 Boccherini – String Quintet in E Major, G. 275: III. Minuetto 0:37:39 Vivaldi – The Four Seasons, Concerto No. 1 in E major, RV 269 “Spring”: I. Allegro 0:40:55 Grieg (arr. Naughtin) – Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Op. 46: Morning Mood 0:44:16 Pachelbel – Canon and Gigue in D major, P. 37: I. Canon 0:48:51 Bach – Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D Major, BWV 1068: II. Air on the G String 0:54:40 Brahms – 5 Lieder, Op. 49: No. 4, Wiegenlied (Brahms’ Lullaby) 0:56:48 Chopin – Nocturnes, Op. 9: No. 2 in E-Flat Major 1:01:32 Chopin – 24 Préludes, Op. 28: No. 15 in D-Flat Major, “Raindrop” 1:08:06 Beethoven – Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 27 No. 2 “Moonlight Sonata”: I. Adagio sostenuto 1:14:11 Satie – Trois gymnopédies: No. 1, Lent et douloreux 1:17:27 Tchaikovsky – The Nutcracker, Op. 71a: 2b, Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy 1:19:15 Saint-Saëns – The Carnival of the Animals, R. 125: VII. Aquarium (Live) 1:21:34 Tchaikovsky – Swan Lake, Op. 20: Scene by a Lake 1:24:06 Tchaikovsky – The Nutcracker, Op. 71a: Waltz of the Flowers (Arr. for Two Cellos) 1:26:34 Shostakovich – Suite for Variety Orchestra: VII. Waltz No. 2 (Arr. for Two Cellos) 1:29:29 Händel – Suite No. 11 in D Minor, HWV 437: III. Sarabande 1:32:18 Barber – Adagio for Strings 1:37:56 Giazotto – Adagio in G Minor “Albinoni’s Adagio” (Arr. for Piano by F. Pott) Mozart – Requiem, K. 626 (Live): 1:45:23 Introitus. Requiem 1:50:47 Sequentia. Dies Irae 1:52:29 Sequentia. Confutatis & Lacrimosa 1:58:05 Prokofiev – Ten Pieces for Piano from the Ballet “Romeo and Juliet”: No. 6, Montagues and Capulets (Dance of the Knights) 2:02:06 Orff/Killmayer – Carmina Burana: O Fortuna (Live) 2:04:45 Mussorgsky – Night on Bald Mountain (Live) 2:16:01 Vivaldi – The Four Seasons, Concerto No. 2 in G minor, RV 315 “Summer”: III. Presto Vivaldi – The Four Seasons, Concerto No. 4 in F minor, RV 297 “Winter”: 2:18:42 I. Allegro non molto 2:21:58 III. Allegro 2:25:03 Jenkins – Concerto Grosso for Strings “Palladio”: I. Allegretto 2:27:36 Mozart – Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, K. 550: I. Molto allegro (Live) 2:35:47 Beethoven – Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67: I. Allegro con brio (Live) 2:43:24 Dvořák – Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, Op. 95 “From the New World”: IV. Allegro con fuoco (Live)

Creative Stews and Other Messy Marvels

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One of my FAVORITE creative writing exercises is Automatic Writing ( how to HERE ) Sometimes I get some cool ideas from that exercise and sometimes I look  at  the results and think- wow-  I haven’t seen a mess like that since the time I ate those fried twinkies and chased them down with a couple of Strawberry Margaritas ( well it was more like a FEW ) and didn’t make it to the littlest room in the house fast enough.

 At any rate,  I am always entertained by the results.

So today I combined RDP Tuesdays prompt VAPOR with the AW Exercise and I went to town.

To make it easy for you to read I did try to chop up the words so they would be easy to read and I left the RDP word Vapor in a string so you could see part of the process. Before I did that all of these words ran together.

I like to use a single  word for Automatic Writing- some people choose a topic and write whatever pops into their head but I find that too restrictive. Sometimes I look at a painting and just throw down every word that comes into my head when I’m concentrating on the picture, but most of the time I just hear music so I don’t do that one often.

One of my friends in highschool was super duper religious and she really hated it when I did this exercise because she thought I could let demonic influences into my head and I never had the heart to tell her they were probably already there hahahaha.

So here is today’s result:

 

Vaporvaporvapor

snakes and stones

vaporvaporvapor

where did those bones come

 from where they always there?

Are they warm to the touch, cool to the tongue do they

vaporvaporvapor

do they scream and cry when you close the lid on the pot vaporvaporvapor

my kitchen is so busy at midnight when the ghouls and  my dog want in to be fed.

 

Now I can see a story here and maybe a poem and each has it’s own spin. 

Like I said this is a fun exercise and it hasn’t let me down yet.

Anita Marie

Anthonij (Anton) Rudolf Mauve

Let’s Twist Again!

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RDP Monday: MEANDER

Sometimes I want to be laugh and giggle

and I want  peace and love an positive vibes to ooze from my pores

and sometimes I’d rather twist and squeeze all of those things out of someone else

until  my hands start to hurt

and my upstairs neighbors start pounding on the floor for me to keep it down.