Friday, September 27, 2013

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

QUOTE:
“The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies 
  and his life just to make sure that one note follows another... and leaves us with the feeling that 
  something is right in the world." 
AUTHOR: Leonard Bernstein
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“Artists devote their lives to the creation of beauty for the rest of us to enjoy.”









COMPOSER
VAUGHAN-WILLIAMS


Sinfonia Antartica


Vaughan Williams provided the music for the film Scott of the Antarctic in 1947, and was so inspired by the subject that he incorporated much of the music into a symphony he called Sinfonia Antartica ("Antarctic Symphony") his seventh Symphony.


Prelude: 
Andante maestoso 
To suffer woes which hope thinks infinite,
To forgive wrongs darker than death or night,
To defy power which seems omnipotent,
Neither to change, nor falter, nor repent:
This … is to be
Good, great and joyous, beautiful and free,
This is alone life, joy, empire and victory.
Shelley: Prometheus Unbound

Scherzo: 
Moderato 
There go the ships
and there is that Leviathan
whom thou hast made to take his pastime therein.
Psalm 104

Landscape: 
Lento 
Ye ice falls! Ye that from the mountain’s brow
Adown enormous ravines slope amain—
Torrents, methinks, that heard a mighty voice,
And stopped at once amid their maddest plunge!
Motionless torrents! Silent cataracts!
Coleridge: Hymn before Sunrise, in the Vale of Chamouni

Intermezzo: 
Andante sostenuto 
Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime
Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
Donne: The Sun Rising

Epilogue: 
Alla marcia, moderato
 (nontroppo allegro) 
I do not regret this journey; we took risks, we
knew we took them, things have come out against
us, therefore we have no cause for complaint.
 Captain Scott’s last journal



TODAY WAS PARENT CONFERENCE DAY

AND NO STUDENTS WERE PRESENT