#bartók

[derring-do]

John Relyea and Crispin Lord in Duke Bluebeard's Castle at ENO

"Allison Cook, cast as Judith, withdrew from the performance late in the day because of illness. With only two hours’ rehearsal, Jennifer Johnston sang, not from the side of the stage, as one might expect, but as a costumed, albeit largely immobile presence within Joe Hill-Gibbins’s production. The role was acted, meanwhile, wonderfully well, by Crispin Lord, one of ENO’s staff directors, handsome yet androgynous in a white singlet and silk skirt, so that Bluebeard’s final partner, in a remarkable twist, effectively becomes his husband rather than his wife."

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[samusique-concrete]

tracklist should've looked like this..

[scherzokinn]

Didn't have the guts to post this here but now I do. Here's Béla Bartók and Saul Goodman.

Béla Bartók and (the real) Saul Goodman:

Funny Reddit comment:

[koshigurajumy]

Béla Bartók - Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, Sz. 106 - 3. Adagio Conductor: Herbert von Karajan Berlin Philharmonic

[sureshsingaratnam]

[rolflovesclassicalmusic]

Concert review, ★★★★, BlattWerk Quintett @ Auditorium Maximum, ETHZ, Zurich, 2023-01-31 (Musik an der ETH und UZH) — Rameau: Nouvelles suites de pièces de clavecin, Suite in A minor, RCT 5; Ravel: "Ma Mère L'Oye", M.60a; Albéniz: Suite "Iberia" — 2. El Puerto, 1. Evocación, 7. El Albaicín; Wranitzky: Ballet "Das Waldmädchen" — Parthia in F major, IPW 7; Bartók: Suite, op.14, Sz.62, BB 70 — Allegretto (all works arranged for wind quintet)

Blog post #640

[psikonauti]

Pablo Schugurensky (Argentinian,b.1954)

Béla Bartók, 2016

Oil on canvas

[doyouknowthisopera]

[davidhudson]

Béla Bartók, March 25, 1881 – September 26, 1945.

[habitual-sadness]

István Gaál, Béla Bartók: The Music of the Night, 1970

[marcogiovenale]

barbe bleue (3/12) / pina bausch. 1977

1/12 ici: https://youtu.be/J15mFLT-pP4 Une création de Pina Bausch datant du 8 janvier 1977. Adaptation de l’opéra de Béla Bartók : Barbe Bleue. Continue reading barbe bleue (3/12) / pina bausch. 1977

[earhartsease]

well this just keeps happening - spent years trying to find a lovely song by Kodály from our childhood and once again the reason why we couldn't find it is because it turns out it's by Bartók - anyway listen to this mmmmm

we sang an english version, but the original hungarian is saying something like:

only tell me, my rose, by which road you leave me - and that road I'll plough with a [golden?] ploughshare - and I'll sow it with pearls and harrow it with my heavy tears

(any hungarians want to correct this? it's a very rough attempt)

[puffinet]

Béla Bartók: Duke Bluebeard's Castle (1988, Leslie Megahey)

[gnome-adjacent-vagabond]

Another picture of Vendel, accompanied by his dearest Delphine and a little excerpt I wrote down in my class sketchbook. It's around 1929 here.

[onenakedfarmer]

COLM TÓIBÍN Restlessness: A Syllabus

I am interested in texts that are pure voice or deal with difficult experience using a tone that does not offer relief or stop for comfort. Sometimes, the power in the text comes from powerlessness, whether personal or political. Sometimes, death is close or danger beckons or violence is threatened or enacted. Sometimes, there is a sense of real personal risk in the text’s revelations. Sometimes, there is little left to lose. All the time, the tone is incantatory or staccato or filled with melancholy recognitions.

Euripides, Medea

Sophocles, Electra

Sophocles, Antigone

Sylvia Plath, Ariel

Louise Glück, The Wild Iris

Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red

Juan Goytisolo, Forbidden Territory

Joan Didion, A Book of Common Prayer

Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

Nadine Gordimer, The Late Bourgeois World

Ingmar Bergman, Autumn Sonata

John McGahern, The Barracks

Béla Tarr and Ágnes Hranitzky, The Turin Horse

Doris Lessing, The Grass Is Singing

J. M. Coetzee, Age of Iron

Béla Bartók, Bluebeard’s Castle

Constance Debré, Love Me Tender

[lesbian-of-nine]

going to my piano recital. shitting crying throwing up screaming etc etc

(ft my new haircut)