• Sign up or login, and you'll have full access to opportunities of forum.

Uplifting Thoughts for the Isolated and Depressed in Times of Plague

Go to CruxDreams.com
Praefectus Praetorio said:
I beg your pardon, young lady! I take offense at you suggesting that I am, in any way, not the virile young stud that all the girls drool for! If you would like proof, I would be glad to demonstrate any time for you - if you think you can handle a REAL BIG man!
Click to expand...

I was joking ... ;)
 
A magnificent 'at home' performance by the Met of the greatest 'lock down' anthem of all time!


Va', pensiero, sull'ali dorate;
Va, ti posa sui clivi, sui colli,
ove olezzano tepide e molli
l'aure dolci del suolo natal!
Del Giordano le rive saluta,
di Sionne le torri atterrate…
Oh mia Patria sì bella e perduta!
O membranza sì cara e fatal!

Arpa d'or dei fatidici vati,
perché muta dal salice pendi?
Le memorie nel petto raccendi,
ci favella del tempo che fu!
O simile di Solima ai fati,
traggi un suono di crudo lamento;
o t'ispiri il Signore un concento
che ne infonda al patire virtù!

Fly, thought, on wings of gold,
go settle upon the slopes and the hills
where the sweet airs of our
native soil smell soft and mild!
Greet the banks of the river Jordan
and Zion's tumbled towers.
Oh, my country, so lovely and lost!
Oh remembrance so dear yet unhappy!

Golden harp of the prophetic wise men,
why hang so silently from the willows?
Rekindle the memories in our hearts,
tell us about the times gone by!
Remembering the fate of Jerusalem
play us a sad lament
or else be inspired by the Lord
to fortify us to endure our suffering!
 
Last edited:
Some more homesick slaves - but these ones are getting good exercise in their 10 minutes out of lockdown!


Borodin, Prince Igor - I think Polovstya was roughly what's now Kazakhstan, or part of it,
somewhere up the steppes :)
 
Eulalia said:
...
Borodin, Prince Igor - I think Polovstya was roughly what's now Kazakhstan, or part of it,
somewhere up the steppes :)
Click to expand...

The Russian Empire and its Asian surroundings were so incredibly large that it is again a good opportunity to show how well I can play with Wikipedia:

The Russian "Polovtsy" (Russian: Половецкие пляски, tr. Polovetskie plyaski) was the name given to the Kipchaks and Cumans by the Rus' people - hence the Polovtsian Dances at the end of act 2 of Alexander Borodin's opera Prince Igor.

Quotation from:
en.wikipedia.org

Kipchaks - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
 
Eulalia said:
watch it on YouTube, the comments are hilarious! :drums::jump:
Click to expand...

I think I know what you mean. No matter what the guy with this comment was smoking while watching the video, I would like to know what it was because then while smoking it, too, I could probably see through all the mysteries of the universe and beyond - and this might be really "uplifting":
Onur Ertuğrul:
- Elise touches her hair for 16 times. - In the 0:16, a red prism appears behind the guitar for the first time in the video. (keep that in mind); - The all duration of the video is 4:23, It means she touches her hair every 16,43 seconds on average; - In 1643, Isaac Newton was born; - When Newton is mentioned, one of the first things that comes to mind is Newton's prism experiment. Newton's prism also evokes pink floyd's "prism" album. You can see the "PULSE" album cover poster of Pink floyd many times on the right side of the room*. (*not dark side of the moon ehehe) - Pink floyd's "Pulse" album was released in 1995. It is also the year that Foo Fighter released their first album. The hair showed all the truths to feed my silly soul obsessed with finding worthless mysteries.
:rolleyes::eek::oops:
WOW ! I mean even Double-WOW!
 
Silent_Water said:
The Russian Empire and its Asian surroundings were so incredibly large that it is again a good opportunity to show how well I can play with Wikipedia:

The Russian "Polovtsy" (Russian: Половецкие пляски, tr. Polovetskie plyaski) was the name given to the Kipchaks and Cumans by the Rus' people - hence the Polovtsian Dances at the end of act 2 of Alexander Borodin's opera Prince Igor.

Quotation from:
en.wikipedia.org

Kipchaks - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
Click to expand...
Thanks for that link - I do find those peoples of Central Asia fascinating. Borodin's music and the Moscow staging are very much europeanised, orientalist versions, but I think he studied seriously the traditional music and dances of those regions, and the costumes and choreography aren't totally divorced from the originals.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom