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marieclaire
Yes, I'm afrais so, my dear, I plead guilty to having writen it all! Not only that, but enjoyed it too!!!
Thanks for dropping in.
posted by
ariel70
on October 23, 2006 at 6:44 AM
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wow! never read your stuff before. what a lovely surprise.
did you really write this stuff?? it is so soothing, it almost cured my headache... and I love Spain by the way. It is my favourite country after France and Italy
posted by
marieclaire66
on October 22, 2006 at 7:42 PM
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Troosha
Thank you for dropping in again. I'm glad you like my lullaby. You can sing it to your kids if you like LOL
I'm sure that there is a great demand out there for simple, poeticl poems of a traditional kind ; if only publishers would come down from their ivory towers and see it. Everyone needs love and romance, expressed in simple language that they understand, and I try to give 'em it!
el Tel
posted by
ariel70
on October 22, 2006 at 10:07 AM
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Passion
Thanks for calling in. How one makes classical music popular, is play it! How much would it hurt to cut out a bit of drivel and play some real music.
It isn't as if people -- even kids -- wouldn't like it, 'cos it's been proved time and again that fed good music, people come to like it in time.
When they chose " Nessun Dorma" for the World Cup anthem, it became enormously popular all over the world. Okay, it was only for a while, but the bandwagon could have been kept rolling. Trouble is, there isn't the will, and there's too much moolah in pop.
el Tel
posted by
ariel70
on October 22, 2006 at 10:04 AM
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Glennb
1. An interesting post of misplaced ideals! 2. Music and prose are one in the same that affect us zero! 3. There is no connection to the music we hear and the acts of man! 4. Your contradictions are glaring! 5.When in human history has music brought man "Peace" with his fellow man?
1.Thank you for your interest. It is far better to have ideals, however " misplaced" than no ideals at all ; a sad condition in which you appear to exist. I say " exist" for a life without ideals is a brute existence.
2. This is confirmed by your statement in 2. How sad never to have been moved to joy and sadness ; to anger and grief by the music and the writings of others. You are apparently wholly unaware of the glaring paradox in 2., that your own words must be futile and meaningless, hence unworthy of a moment's attention. Why write them, knowing that they can have no impact upon others?
3. Au contraire, there is an intimate connection between music and action,otherwise what is the point of dance? once more, I find it sad that you can admit tacitly that music leaves you unaffected.
4. I really would appreciate examples of my contradictory views or writing, for nobody else seemed to have noted them.
5. Their benefits of course are wholly unquantifiable and unproveable, but are you really saying that all the music festivals, attended by people from all over the world ; all the musical exhanges between radically different cultures are futile and pointless? That music has, and does now, fail to forge any bonds between people?
Your must indeed be a stark and dismal twilight world, devoid of all light and joy ; what Thomas Hobbes described as a life " Nasty, brutish and short"
Although of course, I would never wish your life to be abridged, but rather for it to become warmed by the friendship, love and compassion of well meaning people
posted by
ariel70
on October 22, 2006 at 9:51 AM
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With a new great granddaughter come to gladden our family,
this lullaby poetry is exactly on cue. How small the universe, and how serendipitous. Thanks El Tel, you're on the mark again! :)pat
posted by
Pat_B
on October 22, 2006 at 8:56 AM
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Ariel70,
An interesting post of misplaced ideals! Music and prose are one in the same that affect us zero! There is no connection to the music we hear and the acts of man! Your contradictions are glaring! When in human history has music brought man "Peace" with his fellow man?
posted by
Glennb
on October 22, 2006 at 7:28 AM
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You can hardly keep up with the changes in American pop music.
We do need to return to simpler times. But how to make classical music attractive to the average American???
posted by
Passionflower
on October 21, 2006 at 9:55 PM
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Your lullaby was fabulous!
I could picture you singing it softly to your daughter. Beautiful thoughts and words.
posted by
Troosha
on October 21, 2006 at 3:36 PM
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Tony
Beware Earthling! My ray gun is fully charged!
Well, well, that's great! Never thought I'd see the day that pop merchants would see the light. Next thing, we'll have Throbbing Gristle playing Dowland. There's hope for us all, I think. ER .. about the music, I mean LOL
John Williams is very good, but I do not like Julian Bream's performances, because they're so unbalanced. Everyone just has to accompany him. He's an egotist.
I say, you don't happen to know a good songwriter, do you? Someone to set my lullaby to music?LOL again
Paco el Guapo
posted by
ariel70
on October 21, 2006 at 3:17 PM
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Hi El Tel (don't spose that can be shortened to ET!)
I sympathise with you about the music. I'm sure we all lose out by this, but i think there is likelihood there will be a revival of interest in it,. As we speak, Sting has gone very high in the charts with an album of Elizabethan lute music, bringing it to a new audience. I've got a CD by John Williams who plays some Elizabethan material by Byrd, and others (Dowson?) on the guitar, and it's very pleasing. A touching personal take on the lullaby, too.
posted by
Antonionioni
on October 21, 2006 at 3:08 PM
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Nautikos
Thank you for your comment. I find it highly disturbing, what we are doing, and permitting to be done to our children, and it's nice to know that others feel the same.
You don't happen to know a good songwriter, do you?LOL
posted by
ariel70
on October 21, 2006 at 2:24 PM
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ariel,
your lullaby is utterly charming!
And your are not "alone in the whole wide world in being concerned about the evil effects of wall-to-wall, 24/7 screeching, mindless obscene and trivial pop music." At least I am with you!
posted by
Nautikos
on October 21, 2006 at 2:19 PM
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I never thought of lullabies as an art form, Ariel
but I think you may have just convinced me.
I heard some fantastic Brazilian jazz this morning, music does have charms to soothe the savage breast indeed (and thanks for clearing up that confusion, I was never sure).
posted by
Blanche.
on October 21, 2006 at 1:41 PM
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