Notes of One Kind Or Another
Hey.
Sorry for the quiet weekend. Had to do it because Saturday was my Mom's birthday.
Went into Knoxdad today in a futile attempt to locate the new Hobbytown USA at Turkey Creek (which will be the future site of our IPMS/Knox meetings). On the way back, I heard the local public radio station play Orff's Carmina Burana suite. Looking up the libretto...I'll probably come back to it again and again. I can see why the Germans of the time had a love/hate view of this music. We associate O Fortuna with charging armies on the way to battle (thanks to the movie Excalibur) but it's really about disaster and being cheated by circumstance. The songs as a group don't exactly tell a story as an overt opera would. You don't have distinct characters as such. But that's not the point. Hmm.
More to come.
FP
Sorry for the quiet weekend. Had to do it because Saturday was my Mom's birthday.
Went into Knoxdad today in a futile attempt to locate the new Hobbytown USA at Turkey Creek (which will be the future site of our IPMS/Knox meetings). On the way back, I heard the local public radio station play Orff's Carmina Burana suite. Looking up the libretto...I'll probably come back to it again and again. I can see why the Germans of the time had a love/hate view of this music. We associate O Fortuna with charging armies on the way to battle (thanks to the movie Excalibur) but it's really about disaster and being cheated by circumstance. The songs as a group don't exactly tell a story as an overt opera would. You don't have distinct characters as such. But that's not the point. Hmm.
More to come.
FP