Monday, August 16, 2010

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Rediscovery of Gounod's opera "The Bleeding Nun"

Charles Gounod's opera "The Bleeding Nun " was written around 1852 . Gounod was then 36 years old, so it's a composer quite master of his means and technique that gave his audience a very endearing score! Since its presentation at the Paris Opera this book had success, but in a short period of time because it was quickly removed Poster!

We know today that a cabal of shape due to the undermining of frogs clams at the time, that prompted the opera poster hurriedly left the ... Indeed , history, gore for the time, talking about a phantom nun marrying by striking with his son's killer to get better at revenge, all in a setting worthy of the struggles of steeples way between rival families Capulet and Montague!

This statue of the Commander was uncomfortable to the ultras-cathos to shake their rantings and soporific. It is true that the libretto, written by Eugene Scribe, modeled after an English novel of the late eighteenth century ("The Monk " Matthew Gregory Lewis), is very original compared to the literary habits French reluctant to imagine ghosts in a tale of thwarted love. However these 'ghosts' are as we know very abundant in the English culture! From Shakespeare to Mary Shelley's broth creatures how "Thriller" ... We also learn that this book, almost "cursed", passed between various famous hands, including those by Berlioz who kept 5 years without managing to leave a note! It was there that Gounot collar and succeeds brilliantly put it in music and voice.

Theater Osnabrück
With "The Nun bloody " Gounod's sumptuous music while inaugurating the Once he was going to write operas including "Faust, Mireille and Romeo and Juliet the most famous and best sites of its religious creations including the famous and brilliant oratorio" Mors et Vita. " It also traces the way for future large pages of French opera of the late romantic operas with the coming of Saint-Saens, Massenet and Bizet particular. The story was only slightly modified for this great and only resumed in order to give it more clarity.


CPO which is a music publishing company whose catalog contains true treasures and rarities, had the good idea to leave the cabinet 2cd from Gounod's opera, so far as to completely forget the scene that registration. The capture was made at the opera in the city of Osnabrück, in Lower Saxony, which still has its famous painter Felix Nussbaum and Erich Maria Remarque.

City of Osnabrück

The conducting Hermann Bäumer is excellent all along the 5 acts and melodic treasures they contain. Hats off also to the Osnabrück Symphony Orchestra as the choir and performers, whose only qualification will involve only the French diction not always very good. But it is a criticism that should be applied to so many contemporary recordings or older it becomes almost unnecessary to emphasize it again!

French is indeed not an easy opera to these Foreign performers, and indeed to the French singers themselves, who often compensate the lack of clarity in the pronunciation of other vocal qualities and their game Ideally at this level is difficult to find and requires no probably go back very far to meet a nice "reference" and a voice like that of Georges Thill (tenor) Has been a model of clarity and without too many "nasalization" (frequent risk among tenors) for major roles in our directory.


The main performers are Marco Vassal Yoonki Baek, Natalia Atmanchuk Eva Schneidereit, especially all but unknown in France giving a great interpretation of this work.

fact is often repeated in recent decades to find the masterpieces of the past and our culture, revived by great foreign admirers: Heads conductors, directors and managers of collection (POC , Hyperion, Chandos, Naxos etc..). However, we must not forget the immense talent in France and work Michel Plasson, with the orchestra of the Capitole de Toulouse (EMI at ), who reclaimed the great composers of today such sometimes ignored Magnard and recorded many works from French repertoire. So to honor all those who helped us regain our heritage and to rehear Gounod, Berlioz, Massenet, Thomas, Schmitt, D'Indy, Pierne and much more!











Friday, August 6, 2010

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The poetry of the universe!





is a simple observation and, moreover, very surprising that we can do about minerals and especially of semi- valuable. If you look closely, you will find that these stones are an epitome of the universe in their colors, shades and shine!

Indeed, the range of colors offered by the meetings of the cosmos back to what these stones mirrors in the veins of the earth concentrated in their heart. Whether during a direct observation during an evening of Astrorama, or through the wonderful photographs of galaxies, stars, planets, gas clouds and constellations, you'll see them closer to the infinitely large as these stones appear to have ground parts of the sky like mirrors of a Temple precious!

carnelian reds of apples galaxy of love, blue-green flurorine simmering at infinity, onyx shimmering clouds of jade, silk shiny rhodonite, lapis lazuli gold studded with white dwarfs, vapors heliotrope, quartz and labradorite in incandescent scarves, caramel amber and turquoise petals in the garden of stars! To say that we can have in our hands a piece of the infinite is more than disturbing!


Nature has provided us with so-called beneficial medicinal plants, water and special curative and various foods that are not turning off our thirst or our hunger, because all we are also working to cure or prevent certain diseases, for instance: thyme, garlic, lemon, water from Vichy, honey etc.. among the most famous, and the very air we breathe, depending on the location or elevation, can cleanse us and we perk up.

It's the same for the jewels from the bowels of the earth, beauty mineral-rich benefits of radiation that many employees tell us their wisdom and their benefits! Yes very often "a pure spirit grows under the bark of the stones "...


Choose a stone can be done in several ways: Kick-heart by affinity on the colors and shades, by reconciliation with his zodiac sign if you are "astrophile" and looking for a specific job, as a protection or a need for spirituality.

stones such as terrestrial plants and other benefits are no substitute for faith or belief that you can maintain otherwise, they simply seek to foster such ability, to prevent such trouble, to bring such a feeling.


Here are some guidelines on the stones and their "domain" for informational purposes, since the sites on the net are not lacking in this regard:

= opal hope

Peridot = fidelity

amethyst = sincerity (see photo below)

turquoise = innocence

tourmaline = joy and strength

labradorite = regenerative power and protection (see photo at end of article )



I also note that the Bible, the Apocalypse, describes the heavenly Jerusalem as follows:

"The city shone with brightness similar to that of a precious stone, a jasper, clear as crystal. She had a very high wall with twelve gates, twelve angels guarding the doors. On the gates were written the names of the twelve tribes of Israel. There were three doors on each side, three east, three north, three south and three west. The wall of the city had twelve foundation stones on which were inscribed the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. "

Amethyst

"The angel who talked with me had a measuring rod of gold to measure the city, its gates and its wall. The city was square, its length was equal to its width. The angel measured the city with the reed: twelve thousand units of distance, it was as high as wide and long. He also measured the wall: one hundred forty-four cubits high, according to the measure he used ordinary. The wall was made of jasper, and the city itself was pure gold, as clear as glass. The foundations of the city wall were adorned all kinds of precious stones: the first foundation was jasper, the second sapphire, the third agate, the fourth emerald, the fifth onyx, the sixth carnelian, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh and twelfth turquoise amethyst. The twelve gates were twelve pearls, each gate was made of one pearl. Instead of the city was pure gold, like transparent glass. "

He who never dreamed cast the first stone ...


Labradorite



Notes:



lithotherapy: Wikipedia article



stones and their symbolic Article








Monday, August 2, 2010

Zpit Lesiaki Raniżów

Modern Fable: The Mad, the Disabled and Gay Dream!

In section bottomless "banana skin between gay," I recently heard on a platform telephone meeting, the following message: "M ... disability research guy, but not crazy ... .

Firstly, it is a strange process that placing an ad on dating concluding remarks as negative ... In fact, in the domain announcements, introduce themselves, talk a little about yourself and say what we seek in a few words seems quite enough, and then there are so many "crazy" without knowing it! Which assures us that whoever sent this message via the telephone or the internet is not "one"? ... "Who wants to play the angel plays the beast" Pascal said, which translates elgébétique language in "Who wants to do is macho guinea" ...

In the imagination and fantasies gay this anti-poisoning has been going mad for too long, no doubt turn of the sixties, forgetting that crazy Stonewall were the first to fight against homophobic discrimination, we developed a representation of a "prototype" of a boy manly mustache (then) rather muscular (Beefcake the years that marked the spirits), standing out clearly from the image of the homosexual as it was portrayed in the mainstream society: that of a man frail, sickly, mannered, timid, cultivated , noisy and not very sexy ...

All imaginary rocked, and it is straight people who copy gays at the beginning of the XXI ° s, fashion dress, the look and attitude, tattoos and so on. Gay, they never stop overdevelop concept of hyper-masculine gay caricature in profile; which could suggest that "fags" are now on the side of fathers ...


In the example given in Initially, what is "fun" to see, but it is a forced laugh is that this internal homophobia and vindictive against "crazy" also comes from groups already themselves discriminated, such as disabled as pleasantly ... Imagine the havoc that a "mad disability" could be rolling on the feet of right-minded gays and chuckling away to take off fake eyelashes in a last gasp of effort, poplin shirt in pink shorts and leather pendants, to sneak into a parade of lesbians and gay parents for example ...

Stigma never been limited, the gay ghetto to ghetto opens another "crazy" in the form of Dante's Inferno, with the motto: "You who enter here abandon all hope of meeting a boy ... so manly that we" ...

In fact, what a crazy? This catch-all appointed for a long time a boy with gay leanings marked female, where refinement and transvestism were mixed depending on the occasion. Today the term seems to cover a definition much more "elastic", it seems we are still "wild" for someone in the gay community ... Let me explain, " ; mad "becomes an insult word to describe that which was evil but not necessarily mannered behavior with grandiose as its ancestors, the real" crazy "!


"Wild" means the one to knock out because it reminds a little too inconvenient and that what scares among gay men whose obsession is to escape from themselves in the imaginary world Neverland mid-mid-commedia dell'arte of handsome guys always stereotyped, always with big manly attributes still young, they have created over the years in queer culture! Publications, photographs, videos, and manipulations of any kind in consumerism ambient have pressed the point home.

Gays have been trying for over 30 years to erase the image of the "mad" to probably the best win in society. "Tough fight," as the other to mean that gays are "straight" even more straight colorfast than others and are able to marry, have children, to adopt and carry out a social project. What exotropia disturbing for those who covet this Eldorado bourgeois while gesturing toward the well filled panties, sex for sex and body without spirit.


As the wicked queen in Walt's best friend's tragic gay, disabled or not, remains confident his mirror: "Tell me that I am the most beautiful, sexiest, best damn, most virile, the best fucker "he questioned several times a day for reassurance and it adds the eye moist in prayer:" Take away the crazy out of my way!

However, this gay lambda, lost in his hypnotic dream, do not see that her mirror finally reacts like the portrait of Dorian Gray because, in the icy water where it pours, each hour the threat, frozen in his arrogance, and especially the light is gone.

The Picture of Dorian Gray, a film by Albert Lewin from O Wilde.


Bibliography:

THE TALEC Jean-Yves Folles de France. Rethinking male homosexuality, preface by Michel Bozon, Paris, La Découverte, 2008.