Tild hit me with the following song meme.
It doesn’t matter what genre they are, whether they have words, or even if they’re any good, but they must be songs you’re really enjoying right now. Post these instructions, the artists, and the songs in your blog. Then tag five other friends to see what they’re listening to. Comment a bit on WHY the piece is on the list; otherwise, the list has no context—it just exists in a vacuum.
Sorry, can’t follow the directions as I haven’t listened to much lately that wasn’t voted on by H.o.p. and I usually listen to albums. So I threw on some Telemann as I couldn’t find the Vivaldi I wanted to throw on, but I didn’t want that so I tried Corelli and several others and finally went to the only Vivaldi we have anymore which is the “4 Seasons” (isn’t that pitiful, need to buff up the classical) which I don’t care much for but the balance of instruments in it was what I was looking for tonight and it has some lovely violin. But it’s too peppy. (Actually, the Adagio of the Summer Concerto is pretty funny and I’m enjoying that. Sweetness combined with gossipy high drama.) No, I’m putting on some Albioni. That’s it. Better. Kind of.
But you see it’s mixed up with music from an art program of H.o.p.’s and the whirr of the air filter and the drone of the refrigerator so I can’t even hear it.
I don’t know what I want to hear. Just not enjoying listening to anything right now. I’d thought baroque would fit the bill tonight but it doesn’t. What I want is Yo Yo Ma doing Vivaldi, which I don’t have and which I prefer so far to other intepretations of Vivaldi which (to me) trumps Vivaldi’s timelessness as Yo Yo Ma purges the bustling silks of the court and other pretentions. So ultimately I turn to Yo Yo Ma doing Bach.
I’m not passing along the meme to anyone as I failed totally at it. I’m just not very good with memes.
It’s been a bad tech day today so powers of concentration aren’t there to think about much. Power outages over and over. My monitor died. Will get another one tomorrow. Marty came home complaining of power outages at the studio mucking with things there as well despite back-up batteries.
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