#St John Passion

[samusique-concrete]

1052R

i read something today that forced me to reconstruct the history within it as my favorite instance of what the kids today categorize as “game recognizing game.” both game entities in my favorite recognition instance happen to be johann sebastian bach, because bach is and was unparalleled. he’s the only one that could go head to head with his mind. this thought brings me comfort.

historians and musicologists today presume bach wrote a violin concerto so difficult to perform that it led to it not being preserved by [lack of] virtue of there simply not being many around able to keep playing it. late in his life, historians and musicologists today presume, he’d recover this concerto and repurpose it as a harpsichord-centered piece, thus making it more accessible. this ended up becoming the 1052. the reconstruction of the presumed original violin version is known today as 1052R. bach was so painfully aware of the magnitude of his snapping with the original 1052 that he refused to let it die. the previous sentence is my reconstruction of the history inside the hypothesis.

i like to think about him often. i think about him writing the minor, lesser pieces in his repertoire because i like thinking about how, in contrast, his bigger, grander pieces feel in terms of showmanship. i like to imagine him symbolically waving away the tails of a period-and-culture-inaccurate frac before sitting down at his clavier stool (a gesture that could only mean “Time To Break Out The Big Guns”) in order to write works like the 1004, the 582, the 997, the apostles’ passions, the mass, the offering, the variations - as opposed to writing something like the WTC prelude N°1 tucked in bed in his nightgown by candlelight. this is why i speak of showmanship; the c major prelude is one of the most perfect portraits of western music sensibilities - it just happens to be subtle about it. both the lesser pieces and the grander pieces required of him the same amount of skill, albeit with different subsets and configurations of it. these are, again, my reconstructions of a particular history.

history does something funny to us: we let it wrap itself around our perception of it in such a way that there ends up being room for only one conjecture to be conjured. reading about the conception of the offering is a great example of this: it is impossible to finish that story without thinking of bach as what the same kids that’d classify him as “game” would call a “baller.” we like to think of bach as a baller. when i finally went to see a live performance of the 582, the organist told the audience a bach-biographical baller story i’d never heard. we like to think of his pilgrimage to buxtehude’s door as a baller move. i like to think of his body of work as the biggest flex on his contemporaries. this only inflates the image of bach the showman. this is the biggest reconstruction of all.

bach loved god. bach feared god. this is as far away as we can get from a reconstruction of his persona: it being the closest we can get to a fact, it leaves us with more of a reproduction. whether devotion and showmanship can coexist is not what i wanna argue. i wanna argue that historians and musicologists throughout the years have pretty much determined the presence of one of these traits in him, and not so much the other. i don’t want to argue whether we should reconstruct him possessing the latter trait or not. i just know we do. i also know this inevitably makes him, fortunately or not, a baller.

[wolfie-wolfgang]

An Easter Meeting in Leipzig with JS Bach - 300 years on.

Even people who don’t think they like classical music know and even like at least some of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 – 1750). Those who love classical music are mostly in consensus that he was probably the greatest of all the classical composers. I certainly feel that he stands tall not just in the world of music, but in the world of human creativity too. I believe that we are all a…

[lionofchaeronea]

The Crucifixion, Stefano da Verona, ca. 1400

[cheesebrainz]

A five-year-old winterheart In a place called home Sailing the waves of past

Partially referenced from a Simona Rossi & Eon illustration.

[shredsandpatches]

Our beloved local outdoor summer musical theater venue is doing Les Mis this summer and they're looking for 20 extra singers from the symphony chorus to fill out the ensemble on "Do You Hear the People Sing," "One Day More," and the finale -- it would basically involve a couple of days of intensive rehearsals (necessitating two days of vacation time) and a week of performances, it's after the symphony season is over, and it would allow me to do something I've dreamed of since I was ten.

So why am I waffling about it? Oh right, it's my mother's voice in my head. (It's probably also that recovering from covid has got me worried that my voice won't come back--even just with the symphony there's so much amazing stuff happening this season)

eta: it's actually 10 days that we need to be available for rehearsals, I think, which would make it a lot less doable for me, but idk if the supers need to be there the whole time -- I guess I'll go to the interest meeting in a couple of weeks and find out. We get 180 hours of vacation time a year but I will actually need to take a real vacation at some point

[cherrydreamer]

A combination of seeing all the Teacher!AUs floating around and looking at my own upcoming staff training got me thinking about a Harringrove AU where Steve becomes a nurse, but he's also very passionate about teaching First Aid (because, y'know, he knows the importance of patching people up!) and he's really good with people, so he often gets sent into workplaces to deliver their mandatory First Aid training.

And one of these workplaces just so happens to be an elementary school.

The elementary school where Billy just so happens to be working.

And Steve doesn't notice at first, cause he's busy setting up all his practical skills stations and making sure he's got his presentation ready, but then he hears a wolf-whistle and an all too familiar, "Well hello, Nurse! Fancy seeing you here, Harrington," and he turns around to see Billy clearly fresh from his classroom after a long day of teaching: his hair is mussed, frizzy strands of it escaping from a loosely tied bun; he's got a smear of bright green paint on his cheek; there's a macaroni necklace around his neck sprinkling glitter whenever he moves and, adorably, there's the head of a toy dinosaur peeking out from his top pocket.

And he's smiling. A tired smile, but one that's so bright and utterly content that, despite the teasing, Steve can't help but smile back at him.

(It all bites Steve on the ass a little later when he asks for a volunteer for some of the practical skills, and Billy's hand is the first and only one to shoot into the air, his soft smile from before now turned to an utterly filthy grin as he says, "Go on then, Nurse, I'll let you get your hands on me, bet you'll fix me up real nice," with a wink, and Steve realises that he's in for a very long evening of having to try and stay professional.)

[beckmessering]

if i shouldn’t bop at jesus’ crucifixion then MAYBE j.s.bach shouldn’t have put so many boppy choruses in his passions. just sayin

[orthodoxicons]

“To surrender and fall into passions is the worst slavery, since freedom is only obtained by ruling over them”

- St. John Chrysostom

[twobrothersatwork]

And bearing his own cross, he went forth to that place which is called Calvary, but in Hebrew Golgotha.

Jn. 19:17 Douay-Rheims Bible

Artwork: Ángel Zárraga (Mexican, 1886-1946) La Caída del Señor en el camino de la cruz

[britneyshakespeare]

Absolutely devastating. If someone described the way I kissed as "it was not striking;" I would perish instantly.

[stjohncapistrano67]

A medieval Catholic religious painting of the Crucifixion of Our Lord. The fifth Sorrowful Mystery of the Most Holy Rosary. Artist unknown.

[keepsmilinglyss]

[brittanytaylorbarber]

The Art of "The Passion of St. George"

Classical art is a huge part of the narrative in my story, “The Passion of St. George.” Not only is it an art piece with a mythological subject that instigates the horror and starts the plot, but Sally, the main character, is an art history major and very passionate about art. Because of this, Sally references a lot of real art pieces in her narration. I thought would be a good idea to put…

[emeraldmoonbeam]

So.. I joined TVD’s bandwagon. And after 7 seasons I’m confused, mad and disappointed. I don’t see any character development. I don’t like Stefan, he’s an ass. He’ll only do good if he benefits from it. I had hopes for Damon but he doesn’t learn anything. Every time he makes the WORST decisions and begs his friends AGAIN to forgive him and promise to do better. Elena has the maincharacter syndrome and only cares what she feels and want. The only characters I got attached to is Bonnie and Enzo. They had to endure sooo much. Bonnie didn’t deserve it. She is powerful, kind and lovely. Why does everybody treat her like shit and only as a key to every problem they have. And poor Enzo.. abandoned, hurt and used. But all this time you could see the good in him. And in S7 they become a thing?! With little to no explainaition how?! I need a spin off of Bonnie and Enzo.

[dianaleaghmatthews]

Easter Song Story: St. John Passion

The Passion or oratorio “St. John Passion” was written by Johann Sebastian Bach. It was written during his first year as director of church music in Leipzig and was first performed on April 7, 1724, at Good Friday Vespers at the St. Nicholas Church. There are two halves, which are intended to flank a sermon. The Passion narrates the Passion of Christ as told in the Gospel of John. Bach revised…

[scruffpuppy]

please bring back 2014 indie pop (i could care less that a few of these songs were pre or post the 2014 era if the song fits it fits)

cecelia and the satellite by andrew mcmahon in the wilderness

i wanna get better by bleachers

cigarette daydreams by cage the elephant

ways to go by grouplove

girls by the 1975

miracle mile by cold war kids

take a walk by passion pit

little talks by of monsters and men

tongue tied by grouplove

midnight city by m83

undercover martyn by two door cinema club

i can talk by two door cinema club

young blood by the naked and famous

kids by mgmt

1901 by phoenix

young folks by peter bjorn and john

daylight by matt & kim

animal by neon trees

stolen dance by milky chance

out of my league by fitz and the tantrums

talk too much by coin

greek tragedy by the wombats

chocolate by the 1975

anna sun by walk the moon

everybody talks by neon trees

what you know by two door cinema club

dancing on glass by st lucia

FEEL FREE TO READ THE PART AT THE TOP WHERE I SAY ITS NOT ALL FROM 2014 THANKS!