English Folk Song Suite - Movement 1: Seventeen Come Sunday
composed by Ralph Vaughn Williams; performed by the Eastman Wind Orchestra, 2008 (audio only)
EFS :)
Backkk
back from m’sia. Emotionally overwhelmed. Found out that im just a puppet, an outsider. Oh well. Everyone hates me.
Though still in bed, my thoughts go out to you, my Immortal Beloved, now and then joyfully, then sadly, waiting to learn whether or not fate will hear us - I can live only wholly with you or not at all
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| — | Ludwig Van Beethoven (via medusasmother) |
Ludwig van Beethoven: Music is… a dreadful thing. What is it? I don’t understand it. What does it mean?
Anton Felix Schindler: It - it exalts the soul.
Ludwig van Beethoven: Utter nonsense. If you hear a marching band, is your soul exalted? No, you march. If you hear a waltz, you dance. If you hear a mass, you take communion. It is the power of music to carry one directly into the mental state of the composer. The listener has no choice. It is like hypnotism. So, now… What was in my mind when I wrote this? Hmm? A man is trying to reach his lover. His carriage has broken down in the rain. The wheels stuck in the mud. She will only wait so long. This… is the sound of his agitation. “This is how it is.” the music is saying. “Not how you are used to being. Not how you are used to thinking. But like this.
Anton Felix Schindler: It - it exalts the soul.
Ludwig van Beethoven: Utter nonsense. If you hear a marching band, is your soul exalted? No, you march. If you hear a waltz, you dance. If you hear a mass, you take communion. It is the power of music to carry one directly into the mental state of the composer. The listener has no choice. It is like hypnotism. So, now… What was in my mind when I wrote this? Hmm? A man is trying to reach his lover. His carriage has broken down in the rain. The wheels stuck in the mud. She will only wait so long. This… is the sound of his agitation. “This is how it is.” the music is saying. “Not how you are used to being. Not how you are used to thinking. But like this.
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| — | Immortal Beloved (Beethoven) |
9 years ago……
Well took a slow but rushed trip around bishan today. Almost every has changed. Well not that everything did. Those that I remembered were left there to rot. Forgotten. Well like the library. Not many ppl know about it. Now its locked in a corner and left to die. Well but it brings back many memories. I’m surprised at what I could remember. Either that, or I have forgotten what I could remember. It’s kind of scary to see the small and demure me in kindergarden transform into a hyper freak now. Well nobody would ever believe that, right? Well people change. And apparently places do, too.
