Posted in on certain arts, writings and performances, tagged music, opera, los angeles, la opera, season, composer on June 24, 2008 | No Comments »
I am a big fan of the Los Angeles opera and their upcoming 2008/2009 season is amazing. Hell, it’s breathtaking.
Just consider some of the operas coming up over the next twelve months:
Madame Butterfly, by Puccini; number one on the list the list of most performed operas in the US.
Carmen, by Bizet; in my opinion the [...]
Posted in on certain arts, writings and performances, travel and getaways, tagged bellagio, bellagio fountains, dance, display, fountains, las vegas, light, music, show, sound, time to say goodbye, water on June 21, 2008 | No Comments »
If you are ever in Las Vegas, do not miss this.
For an amazing video of the same thing from the hotel room on the 30th floor, click here.
Posted in personal, travel and getaways, uncategorized musings, tagged ambience, coffee shops, coffee-shop, food, greenwich village, hang out, latte, life, manhattan, music, new york on May 20, 2008 | No Comments »
What is it about coffee shops that make them so awesome?
Anyway, what I want to say is, if you ever happen to visit Greenwich village in southern Manhattan and feel like going to a coffee shop, try out Think Coffee. And I am not saying that because I am anti-Starbucks or anti-corporation — I am not — or in [...]
Posted in on certain arts, writings and performances, tagged babies, couch, couches, couple, couples, difference, gays, homosexuality, lesbians, life, love, movie, music, orientation, people, race, sharing, video on April 17, 2008 | No Comments »
Watch twenty couples on twenty couches in a video response to the question “What’s the difference”?
I think the idea was great and the execution was beautiful. My major peeve: too many laptops.
(Link via Instapundit)
Update: The music in the video is growing on me. I wish there was a ringtone version of it.
Posted in on certain arts, writings and performances, quote for the week, tagged Mozart, music, quote, schnabel on March 17, 2008 | No Comments »
“The sonatas of Mozart are unique: too easy for children, too difficult for adults. Children are given Mozart to play because of the quantity of notes; grown ups avoid him because of the quality of notes … Mozart is the most inaccessible of the great masters”
-Artur Schnabel
Posted in math, on certain arts, writings and performances, personal, tagged blog, blogging, grad student, graduate student, life, math, Mozart, music, personal, phd, research, student, student life on March 17, 2008 | No Comments »
I haven’t had much time to blog this weekend. Ideas for posts came and went. News broke, and got stale. I gave them all a haughty ignore and, with single minded devotion, concentrated on my L-functions.
One of the drawbacks of being a fourth year grad student is that you need to do a lot of research quickly enough [...]
Posted in on certain arts, writings and performances, tagged music, once, song, chill factor, hansard, glen hansard, soundtrack on February 29, 2008 | No Comments »
One of the best terms ever invented in a musical context is chill factor — the spine-tingling sensation caused by the effect of a song. And I can think of no better term to describe this stirring ballad from the movie “Once”.
Posted in on certain arts, writings and performances, tagged movie, music, pan's labyrinth on October 29, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The soundtrack of Pan’s Labyrinth has an transcendent, almost eternal quality that I cannot adequately describe. Every time I hear it, I feel elevated. It makes me sad and happy at the same time. If Long, long time ago does not give you goose-bumps, I don’t know what will.
And the film itself is one for the ages [...]
Posted in belles-lettres, imported-from-old-blog, on certain arts, writings and performances, personal, uncategorized musings, tagged reviews, dementor, music, Mozart, apprehension, poetry, belles-lettres, Salil Choudhury on July 10, 2005 | No Comments »
It is summer, and there’s not much to do. In other words, there is plenty of opportunity to feel sad.
I suppose it is a season of dementors. They glide into you and take control, and sometimes they do their job so well that you think you’ll never be happy again. But eventually they let you [...]
