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23rd
18-wheelers
menuet
- there are two schools in playing the classical guitar
- one is based on shaping, forming and building each single tone as a labour of love
- the other is based on one-dimensional, plain tones, hidden by flashy skills
memorial
- enigmatic, moody, lush, elegiac, murmuring, warm, lyrical
(part 1)
- questing, mellow, serene, beautiful, hushed, resonant
(part 2)
- philosophical, eerie, intimate, haunting, meditative, pensive.
(part 3)
us classics
- An american genius. Don’t look for rhythmic or harmonic content. It’s all about sounds hovering in space, a sense of dissolution, a music of immersion, taking an eternal bath, without beginning or end, heavily influenced by painters as Mark Rothko.
- One of the most important american composers. Look for pulse, patterns, and gradual processes: experience music like „placing your feet in the sand by the oceans’s edge and watching, feeling, listening to the waves as they gradually bury them.“
- The american neo-romantic composer, born in West Chester, Pennsylvania. Wrote a piece about Knoxville (a summer evening in the back yard with the whole family assembled, as seen through the eyes of a small child). Less daring, not exactly trying to push the envelope, kind of pornographic in it's total focus on emotional response. This piece is assumed to be the "saddest classical" work ever. It was played at the funerals of US presidents FDR and JFK, as well as at those of Princess Grace and Rainier III, Prince of Monac, used in 9/11 tv memorials, and as the main theme in the movie Platoon.
trinity
ecumenism
- A priest, a minister, and a rabbi were all sitting at a table, finishing dinner and discussing theology. Suddenly an angel appeared before them. "I have been sent to grant each of you one wish," he said. "Who will go first?
- A rabbi and a priest get into a car accident and it's a bad one. Both cars are totally demolished but amazingly neither of the clerics is hurt. After they crawl out of their cars, the rabbi sees the priest's collar and says:
- Three churches - Baptist, Methodist, and Presbyterian - worked together to sponsor a community-wide revival. After the revival had concluded, the three pastors were discussing the results with one another. The Methodist minister said:
sacred sunday
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