#The Philharmonics

[tetchy-frog]

*Slides this into your feed*

Finding some peace in suburbia

[velnna]

to tame champagne and creatures of the night

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Favorite Chaotic Queen Moments Part 2

(in honor of Freddie’s birthday)

Roger selling Freddie’s jacket and Freddie running after the guy, ripping the jacket off him and giving him his money back

John and Roger sitting silently in front of a camera waiting for the other to talk before bursting out laughing 

“John…is wearing a horse…”

Roger: *singing/playing* Freddie: come on blondie!

*singing* Freddie and Roger: got a girl, named Daisy Roger: she almost drives me crazy Freddie: she f***s me really crazy Roger and Brian: 🙄😅 Freddie: 😁

“Do you like my claws? They’re real diamonds! They’re a present from the devil himself. You don’t believe me, *turns around to Roger* THEY DON’T BELIEVE ME hehehehe 😈”

Roger trying to bleach his hair and somehow ending up green (HOW DOES THAT EVEN HAPPEN)

As mentioned in a recent previous post, Roger, in drag, pretending to have an affair with the IWTBF video director 

Freddie, aggressively waving his legs in the air while someone is trying to remove his tights: TAKE THEM OFF!!

John letting an actual gun be pointed down his pants 

Roger locking himself in the tape closet in solidarity with I’m In Love With My Car

Nobody: Roger: I took a girl there once and she got her breasts out in the…in the middle of the meal. […] yeah right in the middle of the restaurant in the middle of the meal—sorry that’s just a little aside there—

“Your dreams: wet”

Freddie straight-up not recognizing his own boyfriend in a suit

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The New Year's Concert at Vienna Philharmonic

photo: Vienna Philharmonic www.myviennaaustria.at

[holonetwork]

Luke and Mara (Mara Jade's Theme), conducted by composer Arturo Díez Boscovich, performed live by The Malaga Philharmonic Orchestra at the MOSMA Festival in Spain in 2017. The new compositions were written and performed to accompany Timothy Zahn's classic novel, Heir to the Empire. Speaking about this beautiful piece, composer Boscovich said, "I have composed the love theme for Luke Skywalker, who falls in love in this book -- don't think that Luke is as innocent as the Virgin Mary! He is also passionate man, and inside this chaos there is a woman, who is related with the Empire, she was a student of the Emperor. The love theme... this is the love theme between them; it is actually the theme for her, her leitmotif. This girl came from the dark side and she hates Luke Skywalker -- you know, it's like the classic story between Catwoman and Batman, these femme fatales who want to destroy these men. In this situation, we have the same thing; it is passionate love but also it has some real dark moments."

[pixiedeadbeat]

Deep Purple and classical composer and conductor, Malcolm Arnold, 1969. A publicity photo for the album Concerto for Group and Orchestra

[t0ast-the-gh0st]

hey can we talk about how The Conductor of The Literal New York Philharmonic was moved to tears by vocaloid. please.

[swimming-karyss]

had a thought after watching Water7&Enies Lobby and wanted to share it with you :)

also on a side note on this hc - I've read that stress-induced graying hair can disappear after the person spends some time in a less stressful environment, so post-ts Robin would have less white hair because she feels safe and at peace with strawhats :) (although "safe" relatively speaking considering the life they lead :"D )

[secular-jew]

In 1920, Syria Palestina was a Roman-named colony or region, not a country, (aka Palestine), stretching from Iraq to southern Syria, and of course, there was no country called Jordan. The word Palestine was 100% derived from the Hebrew name for the Philistines. There is no evidence of a written language left by the philistines and the only name that they were known by was the name given to them by the Hebrews at the time. The evolution of the word went something like this:

פלש—פלישתים—ארץ פלשת—סוריה פלסטינה/פלשתינה—פלסטין/פלשתין

PaLaSh—plishtim—the land of paleset—Syria Palestina (the name given to the land of Israel and Judea as a punishment by the Roman)—- Palestine

PaLaSh is the Hebrew root word for invade meaning we called the sea fairing invaders by their actual name, invaders

Important to know that the Arabs absolutely DENIED ANY RELEVANCE and would not ascribe and meaning re: "Palestine" for themselves.

Arab nationalists in the post-WWI period ADAMANTLY rejected the designation. Arab spokesmen continued to insist that the land was, like Lebanon, merely a fragment of Syria. On the grounds that it dismembered an ideal unitary Arab state, they fought before the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry and at the United Nations. The Arab historian Philip K. Hitti informed the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry that “there is no such thing as Palestine in history.”

In 1937, Awni Bey Abdul-Hadi, founder of the first Palestinian Arab political party, testified to the Peel Commission, "There is no such country as Palestine. 'Palestine' is a term the Zionists invented. There is no Palestine in the Bible. Palestine is alien to us."

In May 1956, Ahmed Shukairy, who became the first head of the Palestine Liberation Organization (at a time when Jordan had annexed the "West Bank" and Egypt controlled Gaza), declared to the United Nations Security Council, “It is common knowledge that Palestine is nothing but southern Syria.”

In February 1970, Prince El Hassan bin Tala of Jordan, stated to the Jordanian National Assembly that "Palestine is Jordan and Jordan is Palestine; there is one people and one land, with one history and one and the same fate." Seven months later, the PLO attempted to take over Jordan, lost, and were unceremoniously, kicked out.

In 1977, PLO Executive Committee member Zahir Muhsein stated, "The Palestinian people do not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for our continuing struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. … In reality there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians, and Lebanese."

One might argue that this particular group of Arabs established, sometime in the mid 1960s, a political identity as "Palestinians," when Arafat returned from strategic partnership meetings with the Soviets communists who were attempting to gain a larger foothold in the region, and advised him how to use "Palestine" identity as a cudgel against Israel.

What they are NOT is "ancient" inhabitants of the region which, under Ottoman rule, was also dubbed "Syria-Palestine." What they are NOT is any sort of distinct ETHNIC group—like the Judeans (Judea/Samaria/Israel), the Phoenicians (Lebanon), the Kurds, the Druze, or the Circassians. They are Arabs, sharing the language, culture, religion, cuisine, ethnic group, etc. of the people of Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia. Prior to the 1960s, before the PLO was created, there were ZERO Arabs self-identifying as Palestinians. During the 19 years that Jordan controlled the so-called "West Bank" (Judea and Samaria, which had been cleansed of Jews by the Jordanians) and when Egypt controlled Gaza, there was no movement to create a "Palestinian" state.

Attached is a photo of the Palestine Symphony Orchestra in 1936, which consisted of 73 jewish musicians, and conducted by none other than Arturo Toscanini (born in Parma, father was a tailor). Toscanini was the music director at La Scala, before spending spent 7 years conducting the New York Metropolitan Opera (1908-1915) and the New York Philharmonic (1926-1936). He lived out his latter years in NYC, about a 1/2 mile from where I lived for a decade from 2005-2015 in Riverdale (Bronx), which is now called Wave Hill, a non-profit cultural institution and botanical garden, located on 26 acres adjacent to the Hudson River.

[theworldisyonces]

Beyoncé attended all three nights of the “Eldorado Ballroom” curated by Solange for Saint Heron at the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Jay, Ms.Tina, Rumi, and Blue Ivy attended some nights as well. (10/10, 10/12, and 10/13/24)

[tetchy-frog]

An Unexpected Comic: Director’s Cut!

Oh god where did the 24th page come from and why is it not in the master post where did I go wrong-

Anyways, here is the big long post with all 24(?) parts of An Unexpected Comic! At some point soon, I’ll be amending my Master Post since apparently something went wrong… until then, happy reading and thank you for being here!

P.s. Watching my art style develop so quickly is giving me whiplash :’}

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[holonetwork]

The March of Grand Admiral Thrawn, conducted by composer Arturo Díez Boscovich, performed live by The Malaga Philharmonic Orchestra at the MOSMA Festival in Spain in 2017. The new compositions were written and performed to accompany Timothy Zahn's classic novel, Heir to the Empire. About this new theme for Grand Admiral Thrawn, Boscovich said to the audience, "We have the march, the military march for Admiral Thrawn, who is the villain or one of the them in the book. He is related with the Empire, and because of that I tried to use that martial atmosphere to create a parallel with the Imperial March. You can also hear lyrical music within the march, because he is a real evil man, he is an alien, he has blue skin and red eyes, but he is also a true art lover. This admiral, besides being a magnificent strategist, is a charismatic person; he is elegant and he has a sensitive taste for the arts. He is a multifaceted character, and I have tried to translate all of this into the music."