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Apparently, there’s basically no new posts feature my favorite Pokémon couples since all of the other stuff I’ve posted. Tragic.
Instead, have this little picture banner that I stole from Serebii because it had Machamp and Alakazam together on it, and I was so happy with that.
Day 11
A modern visionary, and some say the greatest English composer since the Baroque times, today we celebrate:
Benjamin Britten
“Simple Symphony” more like “Ridiculously-Difficult-to-Play Symphony”
Benjamin Britten was a very popular composer in his day and looking at his often complex and pleasing composition style its easy to see why. He had a 35 year relationship with Peter Pears. Very few measures were taken to hide his homosexuality; actually, many of his operas surround characters who are misfits or outcasts in their own way. It’s very possible this was Britten trying to publicly deal with how he felt from an unaccepting society at the time. However, his music remained incredibly popular and he remains to be the pride and joy of England’s music world today
Simple Symphony Online Competition announced for Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon, features Pokémon with only one type
Simple Symphony Online Competition announced for #PokemonUltraSunMoon, features Pokémon with only one type
Pokémon with Only One Type Are Invited to the Simple Symphony Online Competition!
The next Online Competition featuring the Pokémon Ultra Sun and Pokémon Ultra Moon games is an intense test for your Pokémon that have only one type. In the Simple Symphony Online Competition, Trainers create a team using Pokémon with only one type, excluding Legendary and Mythical Pokémon (see the competition…
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There is NOTHING simple about Simple Symphony
This music is how today's weather makes me feel~ (gonna be performing it in February)
Simple Symphony
Emotions are like a playlist stuck on a shuffling repeat. Some are a sweet symphony, reminding you of the joys in life. Others are a bitter song, pulling memories from the past to remind you what pain is.
The difference between music and emotions is you can turn music up or down while emotions are stuck on full volume. They are an ever present reminder that we are only humans.
Being only human, we can orchestrate and imbibe our emotions if we only try. Staring at a blank staff, an out of tune instrument, is the equivalent to letting your emotions gain full access to you.
Some of the best symphonies are inspired by love's eternal duet, by the song a broken heart sings when the bleeding stops choking it. Music has become the new way of expressing us. Our deep depression, our boiling rage. The bittersweet memories of the past come rushing forward like a child starving comes to food at the sound of one word. Hope.
Listen to the emotions that music convey. A cry for help. A celebration. An outlet for our pain instead of letting it leak from our bodies like water leaks from a faucet.
Without music, there would be no life. No hope. No reminder that we are only human. Blood is what flows through our veins, but music is the life blood of our souls.
Emotions are a playlist stuck on a shuffling repeat. Some are a sweet symphony, reminding you of the joys in life. Others are a bitter song, pulling memories from the past to remind us we are only human.
A piano, a guitar, a violin, can all be tuned. Broken strings can be replaced. But when life tries to un-tune our hearts, if it succeeds, there is no tunement or replacement.
Some of us willingly participate in the cacophony of Life's symphony, but the rest of us find any reason and excuse to escape the out-of-tune notes. These are the artists.
The artists have the ability to change the score. Authors, sculptors, painters, artists. They all play a new sound in life. And only a few members can harbor this talent.
Emotions are a playlist stuck on a shuffling repeat. Some are a sweet symphony, reminding you of the joys in life. Others are a bitter song, pulling memories from the past to remind us we are only human. __________________________________________________________ Here is the second poem. This one came shortly after the first while I was listening to some intense orchestra music that nearly made me cry and I realized how powerful music is.
Ahh there are these two lines in simple symphony's third movement that hit me so hard when I play them and it's all because of the metaphor my director told us. I really think she was one of my favorite teachers
This has been a busy year for significant musical anniversaries. We've just celebrated the 200th Anniversary of Verdi's birth, earlier this year we had Wagner's similar anniversary, and next month (hard as it is to believe) it will be a hundred years since the birth of Benjamin Britten.
Our musical group marked both Wagner and Verdi with a day dedicated to the composer's music, and we'll do the same again in November. Meanwhile, the record companies have been busy issuing and re-issuing recordings of music by all three. Good old BIS (it should already be obvious that I hold this record label in the highest regard) have not been idle in this respect, and have just released this new recording of works for string orchestra by Britten. What is it about English composers and string music?! They seem to have a wonderful affinity for string writing (think of Vaughan Williams and his Tallis Variations or Edward Elgar's magnificent Introduction and Allegro), and Britten is no exception.
The main work on this new recording is the Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge, there's also the wonderful Lachrymae (for viola and strings), and the extraordinarily precocious Simple Symphony which Britten built around childhood compositions from the years 1923-26 (that is, when he was between 10 and 13 years old!). Each movement has an alliterative title (Boisterous Bourée, Playful Pizzicato, Sentimental Sarabande and Frolicsome Finale).
I've chosen the Playful Pizzicato, which is a personal favourite (I'm a sucker for pizzicato). I was rather taken aback when I listened to this performance for the first time, never having heard the contrasting middle section taken at such a slow speed before. It quickly grew on me, though, and the transition back to the basic tempo is masterly.
