09-17-2022, 02:47 AM
(09-16-2022, 09:20 PM)JasonBlack Wrote:Quote:You can tell that Eric is brilliant due to his love for the music of J S Bach. Bach is not for dullards. People who know their art, music and literature are rich in ways that dimwits who cannot see the word luxury as a commercial hustle are poor even if they get some expensive stuff. Even great cinema melds art, literature, and often music
I was just listening to some Bach earlier tonight. While I'm here, I'd also like to say that I hope the next 1T brings back the modest elegance common among the GIs (especially the women). The modern notion that sexiness and beauty have to be loud, histrionic and narcissistic is one I think we all hope will die sooner rather than later.
In the meantime, enjoy the beautiful voice of Eula Beal's (1919-2008) rendition of Erbarme Dich (song in English) from Bach's Saint Matthew's Passion.
In Bach's magisterial choral works one finds the gamut of emotion if the tight counterpoint of his fugal works is not present. See also Gustav Mahler, who once said that his musical education was Beethoven and Wagner. At times Mahler seems to be the successor of Bach as the composer of his Passions and B-Minor Mass.
The violinist is Yehudi Menuhin and the conductor is Antal Dorati Menuhin's playing speaks for itself, and Dorati may have been about as pure a musician as a conductor (no showmanship).
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.