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2016-11-06 10:51:03
The announcer on our local classical-music station said she was going to play George Butterworth’s English Idyll No. 2 with the fourth word pronounced “iddle”; that is, rhyming with griddle. I sat down to write a blog entry denouncing her ignorance but, as I sometimes do, I did some investigation first. To my horror, I found that the British pronunciation is indeed “iddle.” This means that Tennyson’s work is “Iddles of the King.” How could we ever have taken it seriously? John Greenleaf Whittier’s Snowbound: A Winter Idyl, which no one reads anyway, except Massachusetts eighth-graders in 1956, is still an “eye-Dill,” since it’s American. So that’s another British oddity, which I had to wait till an advanced age to learn about. I already knew – and had written about – keep your pecker up, which has nothing, or little, to do with erectile dysfunction. Apparently Shaw never said we’re […]
2016-04-18 21:07:08
And so we reach No Man’s Land in the realm of writing and publishing: that point in between published books, where I write and feed my brain with whatever I can snatch that might work magic on the gray cells. Like, dunno, Chopin music, M.R. James stories, spicy kimchee, cold baby Dill pickles, absolute silence up and down the neighborhood, and Trader Joe’s gummy bears. Among other things. So it’s that time when I’m still hard at work on The Flowers of St. Aloysius and have nothing concrete to share regarding technical stuff like word count, release date, etc. I do think I’ve reached the halfway mark, though, and the feeling’s getting stronger and surer as I go. So it’s definitely going to be far shorter than Guardian Angel, possibly clocking in just shy of 100,000 words. I spent part of my time digging up images (or approximate […]
2014-11-10 07:00:17
Classical music: Is Rameau the French Bach? UW-Madison faculty players and Baroque scholar Charles Dill will explore Rameau throughout this season. The first two FREE events are this Thursday and Friday nights.
By Jacob Stockinger For some musicologists and audiences, the French Baroque composer Jean-Philippe Rameau (below) is wholly misunderstood, under-performed and underappreciated. Some even see him as the French counterpart to Johann Sebastian Bach . But a year-long project by the University of Wisconsin School of Music aims to correct that lack of knowledge and appreciation. That effort starts with two FREE concerts this week. Here is a link to a Q&A about Rameau done with UW-Madison musicologist Charles Dill for the UW-Madison School of Music blog: http://www.music.wisc.edu/2014/10/16/rameau-Dill/ THURSDAY On Thursday night, Nov. 13, at 7:30 p.m. in Room 180 of Science Hall, at the intersection of Langdon Streets and North Park Street, the FREE program “Rameau and Musical Expression” will take place. The subject is the French composer Jean-Philippe Rameau. The 250th anniversary of his death is being marked this year around the world. Music of the […]
2014-07-26 18:39:57
[…] Viola Sonata: II. Evocativo Viola Sonata: III. Agitato While I was unable to locate a video of this CD’s Brazilian music, here is Ms. Westphal in Schubert’s String Quintet in C-Major: And next, here is Mozart’s string quintet, with the following players: Anke Dill, Violin Ulf Schneider, Violin Barbara Westphal, Viola Volker Jacobsen, Viola Gustav Rivinius, Cello Tags: Brazilian music, Viola, piano, Barbara Westphal, Christian Ruvolo
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