for i believe the 2 years before covid 3 nutcracker songs were in my most played of the year. i kind of feel about tchaikovsky like i do about gladiator 2. i don’t know anything about it or why people like it or why i’m supposed to like it dislike it, nor do i like it or think that it’s good so much as it scratches a weird sensational itch like when i used the same eyebrows in the sims for 5 years. like this is exactly what ive been looking for
Yes I do think the Met should do more Russian opera and less Italian opera. Like my favourite underrated Tchaikovsky opera Mazeppa. I'm (hopefully, probably) going to see Mazeppa next summer and that's getting me through the dark winter
Grange Park Opera over here in the UK https://grangeparkopera.co.uk/whats-on/mazeppa/ - they've got a great bass in for the title role. The final scene is haunting - there was a very good Mariinsky recording online during the pandemic, and I'll see if it's still floating around somewhere...
i've been trying to conjure a decent winter playlist...if i was in earnest about it i would have started a month ago but
i live in arizona and it is still 70 degrees down here, so it's hard to summon any real kind of winter mood, nevertheless i've been trying to avoid the looseness of summer listening. branch out into unfamiliar projects and genres, lean less on vocal music. no high tempos, no strong basslines, no 808s. my current projects are to get more into jazz and IDM (there's an interesting '90s Japanese ambient compilation that came out recently that I've been working through https://open.spotify.com/album/47QH9uMKRjEbbAyjpOPJe3 and the new Nala Sinephro is lovely and very inviting, feels almost electronic.) i heard Get Lonely by the Mountain Goats today, one of my only blindspots with them, and it strikes me as a perfect winter album as well.
also i need to finish utena this month or i will die. that dance is lovely!
I also really want to get into jazz more in the new year ... some of my fondest live music experience of the past two years have been seeing live jazz on a whim. It's great to go in totally blind and let yourself be wowed but I would love to have a greater sense of understanding why I am loving what I am loving
Excited to listen to this! Other than the ballets, I've mostly listened to the quartets (because Tolstoy liked No. 1) and the sextet Souvenir de Florence (in all things, I look up the thing someone wrote when they went to Italy). But I need to visit more of the operas!
for i believe the 2 years before covid 3 nutcracker songs were in my most played of the year. i kind of feel about tchaikovsky like i do about gladiator 2. i don’t know anything about it or why people like it or why i’m supposed to like it dislike it, nor do i like it or think that it’s good so much as it scratches a weird sensational itch like when i used the same eyebrows in the sims for 5 years. like this is exactly what ive been looking for
i want a whole fran ballet piece
ok noted … next year
Yes I do think the Met should do more Russian opera and less Italian opera. Like my favourite underrated Tchaikovsky opera Mazeppa. I'm (hopefully, probably) going to see Mazeppa next summer and that's getting me through the dark winter
who is putting on Mazeppa? not familiar with this one… need to listen
Grange Park Opera over here in the UK https://grangeparkopera.co.uk/whats-on/mazeppa/ - they've got a great bass in for the title role. The final scene is haunting - there was a very good Mariinsky recording online during the pandemic, and I'll see if it's still floating around somewhere...
I saw a performance of Lady Macbeth at Carnegie that was awesome, really made me consider how little Russian opera I’m exposed to otherwise
only tangentially related but remind me to tell you my jemima kirke story @ next hang
pls
i've been trying to conjure a decent winter playlist...if i was in earnest about it i would have started a month ago but
i live in arizona and it is still 70 degrees down here, so it's hard to summon any real kind of winter mood, nevertheless i've been trying to avoid the looseness of summer listening. branch out into unfamiliar projects and genres, lean less on vocal music. no high tempos, no strong basslines, no 808s. my current projects are to get more into jazz and IDM (there's an interesting '90s Japanese ambient compilation that came out recently that I've been working through https://open.spotify.com/album/47QH9uMKRjEbbAyjpOPJe3 and the new Nala Sinephro is lovely and very inviting, feels almost electronic.) i heard Get Lonely by the Mountain Goats today, one of my only blindspots with them, and it strikes me as a perfect winter album as well.
also i need to finish utena this month or i will die. that dance is lovely!
I also really want to get into jazz more in the new year ... some of my fondest live music experience of the past two years have been seeing live jazz on a whim. It's great to go in totally blind and let yourself be wowed but I would love to have a greater sense of understanding why I am loving what I am loving
Peter and the Wolf is by Sergei Prokofiev, not Stravinsky.
fml writing on 6 hours of sleep
Excited to listen to this! Other than the ballets, I've mostly listened to the quartets (because Tolstoy liked No. 1) and the sextet Souvenir de Florence (in all things, I look up the thing someone wrote when they went to Italy). But I need to visit more of the operas!