Classical Music n Such

{ Faith } Mezzo-Soprano. Cellist. Opera lover. mom to a 10 lb bunny

[aletheyass]

when tumblr users post tweets on tumblr it’s postmodern intertextuality when twitter users post tumblr posts on twitter it’s loser behavior hope this helps

[foreignerongermansoil]

Excerpt from Kató Lomb’s “Polyglot: How I Learn Languages”

[macrolit]

Happy birthday, e.e. cummings (born on this day in 1894)

[sproutlett]

if you’re not paying attention to trees and how they sway in the wind then what are you even doing

[talkgentlytome]

Tag yourself I’m the “Overdressed and Underappreciated”. Artist : http://www.mattadrian.com/ 

[vvillowenna]

If you thought “hm those styles of art AND speech seem very familiar,” you are right because it is the same person that did these

[the-husbando]

Oh my god damn

[cockbiteproductions]

“all that matters is that u tried ur best”

me: *instantly flashes back to every moment i procrastinated and wasted*

me: ha hah haahah…… ….. yeah…….. my best……. that is the thing i totally did

[stonebluerue]

Your best is not always the best you could do at your peak it is the best you could do at that moment.

[sawasawako-archived]

thinking about how orpheus turning to look back at eurydice isn’t a sign of mortal frailness but a sign of love

[meduseld]

“Eurydice, dying now a second time, uttered no complaint against her husband. What was there to complain of, but that she had been loved?” ― Ovid, Metamorphoses

[dean-winchesters-clit]

This is true no matter the version you're reading.

1. Eurydice trips and Orpheus turns to help her because he loves her.

2. Orpheus cannot hear Eurydice behind him, and fearing that he's been tricked, turns to make sure she's there.

3. Orpheus makes it out of the Underworld, and so full of love and excitement to be with Eurydice, turns to embrace her, forgetting that they both need to be out of the Underworld.

No matter what happens in the story, Orpheus loses Eurydice because his love for her compels him to look.

[wildefluorescent]

Orpheus, I can forgive you, then, There’s not a soul alive who wouldn’t have looked back

The Descent, by Tyler King

[princesssarisa]

Don’t forget Gluck’s opera, where Eurydice doesn’t know Orpheus is forbidden to look back, Orpheus is also forbidden to tell her, she assumes he must not love her anymore, and Orpheus finally looks back to reassure her of his love because he can’t bear her anguish.

In that version in particular, but possibly in all retellings, a part of us wants Orpheus to look back, because his failure proves his love.

[thoughtkick]

“We do not heal the past by dwelling there. We heal the past by living fully in the present.”

— Marianne Williamson

[viejospellejos]

AUDIO POR DIOSSSSSS!!!!

[slr2198]

Beyond perfect 🤣👍

[5triderofthenorth]

Dude’s got pipes

[vodkassassin]

Damn he is BELTING it.

[ms-demeanor]

If you can’t unmute: It’s four dudes playing a pretty awesome cover of Sweet Child Of Mine using two acoustic guitars, two blue plastic bowls, two water bottles, and a vocalist who shreds pretty dang hard. The sound is more twangy hillbilly than hollywood hair metal but it rocks nonetheless.

[schizoidwire]

This is Adam and the Metal Hawks!

They’ve done a lot of short covers like this over the course of quarantine. I think their most popular is their cover of Crazy Train. They’re on instagram @/amhband

[onlinecounsellingcollege]

“Angry is just sad’s bodyguard.”

— Liz Palmer

[meangirlnurse]

anyone else remember being a child and seeing the very neat handwriting of other little girls and somehow knowing that you were a different genre of person than they were

[rontieremodeled-deactivated2023]

*me flirting*

so… have you… learned anything interesting lately?

[pusheen]

[caesarsaladinn]

So much of what is “cringe” is just… earnest.

[argumate]

what if you made an honest expression of genuine human emotion and someone saw it!

[slfcare]

this pandemic will end and you’ll claim the window seat in your favorite cafe, stand in a crowd at a concert, visit a museum and make crappy art in the park. sometimes things feel like they’ll go on forever, sometimes bad things feel heavier than good things, sometimes life feels like it’s slowing down and all you’re doing is waiting for the full stop— but just because this hopelessness is all that you’re feeling right now, doesn’t mean that it’s all there is. there’s always more and you will experience that, and you will feel alive again.

[sunfortune]

“maybe if bernie showed a little skin” look what yall did. got him slut shamed on the senate floor 

[mossyredwood]

We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the Earth as its other creatures do.