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DanaThomas posted an update 8 years, 5 months ago
In Vivaldi’s music there is a special vein of that melancholy that you can still feel today, when walking along the damp, deserted back lanes of Venice. By the composer’s time, the city had already lost its empire and was living on borrowed time. Perhaps in a few generations, such wonderful music will again be produced in the former “American Empire”…..
The Giza Forum (Legacy)
Closed Archive of The Old Forum
Their are moments in the ‘Stabat Mater’ which really evoke loss and grief in a particularly visceral way. Rene Jacobs made a gem of such a recording quite a few years ago which demonstrates Vivaldi’s art of the lament.
No one in America is capable of it… and I doubt it will happen…
Nostalgia
Nostalgia is a sentimentality for the past, typically for a period or place with happy personal associations.[1] The word nostalgia is learned formation of a Greek compound, consisting of νόστος (nóstos), meaning “homecoming”, a Homeric word, and ἄλγος (álgos), meaning “pain” or “ache”, and was coined by a 17th-century medical student to describe the anxieties displayed by Swiss mercenaries fighting away from home. Described as a medical condition—a form of melancholy—in the Early Modern period,[2] it became an important trope in Romanticism.[1
So, what is nostalgia for Early Musick ? Indeed, why should there be such a thing at all ? Is today’s music part of an “epistemological warfare” being waged upon our souls ?
The Four Seasons and Merika. . I’m with Joe on this one. The smart phone is not creating dopamine spurt outputs to the young , centered on the classic beauty and arts. It is cultivating robot , drone, ai, common core outputs smothering any breathe of creativity, individuality and emotion. Why center a post comment with such weight to the smart phone one asks… ? Maybe because the billionaire elite are totalitarian in their beliefs and interested in drinking the blood of youth not individuality , creativity and the arts. Neo this Neo that. It is infiltrated thru almost all pores. Ah the days of the Agora and it’s vivacious offerings. Missing for the present time. Trust ME I’ve googled it.
Let 50 years go by, and I’ll bet that addiction to mini screens (and large ones) will have become a thing of the past..