tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5554498168264477884.post7959160422977275387..comments2023-09-26T03:53:17.142-04:00Comments on Pentimento: La Folle JournéePentimentohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17161146891505294679noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5554498168264477884.post-46747472728769524322008-03-30T18:38:00.000-04:002008-03-30T18:38:00.000-04:00I wish I had taken Music 101 from someone like you...I wish I had taken Music 101 from someone like you. My instructor was OK, but music should shake you with a dramatic reminder that you are alive!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5554498168264477884.post-50805929375262545212008-03-26T22:01:00.000-04:002008-03-26T22:01:00.000-04:00I think Bergman was a great opera director. I lov...I think Bergman was a great opera director. I love the way that the singers' gestures seem to come right out of the music, as if the music is emanating from them.Pentimentohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17161146891505294679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5554498168264477884.post-22513397475280212482008-03-26T15:02:00.000-04:002008-03-26T15:02:00.000-04:00Oh man, I love that Bergman film. I saw it for the...Oh man, I love that Bergman film. I saw it for the first time only a year or so ago, and can't remember now whether I posted something on my blog about it or just thought about doing so, but it came after watching a most unsatisfactory video <I>Ring</I> and so was doubly impressive.Maclin Hortonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14668262478751660870noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5554498168264477884.post-12525602859475732008-03-24T08:19:00.000-04:002008-03-24T08:19:00.000-04:00Maybe you can get a sitter and come to my class ne...Maybe you can get a sitter and come to my class next week!Pentimentohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17161146891505294679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5554498168264477884.post-47169512625684508152008-03-23T22:25:00.000-04:002008-03-23T22:25:00.000-04:00You know, the first opera I ever saw was a require...You know, the first opera I ever saw was a requirement for <I>my</I> Music 101 class. I sat in the Family Circle and watched Madame Butterfly while trying simultaneously to read every word in the paper libretto. I was surprised by how much I liked it.<BR/><BR/>Subsequently, my grandmother used to take the bus to NYC to take me to the opera several times a year, and she bought the premium orchestra seats and took me out for an expensive meal at Fiorello's. So I saw La Boheme, Carmen, Tosca, Porgy and Bess, Hansel and Gretel, and a few others until she got too frail to keep coming. <BR/><BR/>I really wanted to see The Marriage of Figaro because I knew the play and because I sang Cherubino as an exercise...but somehow it never happened.<BR/><BR/>Boy, I really miss those operas with my grandmother...dreshnyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18424918342383875584noreply@blogger.com