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-The Muses Leaving their Father Apollo to Go Out and Light the World-

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Listening isn't enough I need to inject THAT part of Jupiter from Holsts Suite to the Planets directly into my bloodstream.

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“Opera has the power to warn you that you have wasted your life. You haven't acted on your desires. You've suffered a stunted, vicarious existence. You've silenced your passions. The volume, height, depth, lushness, and excess of operatic utterance reveal, by contrast, how small your gestures have been until now, how impoverished your physicality; you have only used a fraction of your bodily endowment, and your throat is closed.”

— Wayne Koestenbaum, The Queen’s Throat: Opera, Homosexuality, and the Mystery of Desire.

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spoiled myself by getting three little treats today

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I saved some pictures for the latest moodboard and I need you all to see how pretty these libretti covers are

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Music Inspired By Trains

Bruckner and Dvořák loved them, Wagner hated them and Mendelssohn found a trip on a free-wheeling locomotive “agony for the nerves”. Dvořák was, literally, a trainspotter: he loved nothing more than visiting the Franz-Josef Station in Prague and loved chatting with locomotive engineers. Percy Grainger adored travelling by train, and during journeys loved to spread his manuscripts out and…

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We're just not talking about my collage of Erik Satie enough.

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miss looking at this cake-like ceiling

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