As usual, I drift off topic by including music. Skateluvr, I thought of this on my way home, and it's one of the most sublime pieces of music ever: Ralph Vaughan Williams' "Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0U6sWqfrnTs
I don't know whether any of you are familiar with the Narnia books. Sometimes several of my friends and I try to come up with music that best embodies each character. To me, this is Aslan's music.
Skateluvr, if you listen to it, I hope it brings you the refreshment and solace it brings me.
this was beautiful. so nice, dearest Olympia. thank you and all offerings. i must try to sleep. imagine, the season over. sad to see the programs skated -meryl and charlie were magnificent, yes? so deserving. Also a great carmen by two teams. voir were gorgeous. i love carmen. so triumphant. i never tire of it. time to sleep, perchance to dream. who said that? a play by william S.? i cannot recall.
Goodness! You're right, Louisa! Mea culpa. I was working on lessons for both those plays last month, and they got tangled in my mind. Whoops!
Thanks for rectifying the error. I should have verified rather than writing that with one eye open at the crack of dawn. I've gone back and placed a correction.
But isn't that Merchant of Venice quote sublime? My favorite part is below. In early days, people thought that the motion of the stars and planets made music. I know that nowadays we know that there can be no sound in space, because there's no air for the sound waves to travel through, but this is such a lovely way to envision the universe, isn't it?
Look how the floor of heaven
Is thick inlaid with patens of bright gold.
There’s not the smallest orb which thou behold’st
But in his motion like an angel sings,
Still choiring to the young-eyed cherubins.
I am deeply sorry for your loss. I send my prayers.
Jeffrey Buttle 2008 SOI 'Eclogue for Piano and Strings
-I listen to this music often because it calms me. Gerald Finzi - Eclogue for Piano and Strings
Sorry for your loss. My dad is going through chemo right now.Cannot imagine losing him. Here are a few i like also.
Kurt "bring him home" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jcHqx7Dsgw
Jeffrey http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7-TDjXB4xQ
Dai" Amelie" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6fC5Idj5_g
This set, along with Lyra Angelica 1998 Nationals, would be what I would watch
skateluvr, In lieu of flowers, please accept the following programs as a celebration of your mom's life?
Grishuk & Platov Memorial & Requiem
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXNmarKjyiY
Janet Lynn, who felt her skating was from God, and a gift to the rest of us, respresenting God's promise
Janet Lynn, Afternoon of a Faun,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7kTnyOcPy4
Janet Lynn, 1973
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e59ai1_lY4s
And the most beautiful pairs program ever, IMO
Bereznyah & Sikuralidze Lady Caliph
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AB2lyUWrEcE