Comments on: Scars from Home

By: Jamie

Jamie — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 13:40:09 +0000

Ok. So I will do some carol recording investigation to see who that countertenor is…

By: MT Connell

MT Connell — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 02:08:33 +0000

If you haven’t read Margaret Visser’s Much Depends on Dinner, do — a terrific book. And she had an article in Granta about fifteen or so years ago re: offal.

By: Bo

Bo — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 10:21:44 +0000

That was lovely. Knowing nothing much about music I find what you say incredibly illuminating, every time.

Hm. I think it probably is ‘clene’ as the adj. ‘pure’ following the noun in poetic word order. That rings right to my medieval ear.

By: careen

careen — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 05:58:00 +0000

Nico- the sound isn’t working – it it my computer-box? I always enjoy the way your sound-clips move through my studio like a friend laughing-
thank you for writing as you do- I had a small gong go off in my head as you explained part of how you hear music textures- I’d never head it explained in language I could understand, even as i work in the arts myself…
best to you and your dear ones- C

By: maura

maura — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 01:02:14 +0000

seems like the heart of the argument going on over there is about the role of director. people have had the same arguments about shakespeare, etc. whatever, the way it’s presented on stage doesn’t change the fact that it’s shakespeare or wagner or whatever.

By: Amanda Mae

Amanda Mae — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 19:09:07 +0000

I had an unrelated question, who sang on New Tidings and New Things? Is that you? I tried to rummy up the information but was unsuccessful.

Nico repsonds: it’s Helgi Hrafn Jonsson.

By: Sam

Sam — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 18:56:55 +0000

Where’s Adam lay y bounden?
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6504966601327900817

By: T H O M A S

T H O M A S — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:34:53 +0000

Return to kingdoms secret and far,
Caspar, Melchior, Balthasar,
Ride through the desert, retrace the night
Leaving the star’s imperial light.
-Ursula Vaughan Williams

What does it all mean? Xmas is indeed upon us.

By: r

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 04:35:15 +0000

Thanks! There’s naught about which to be vague, when the sun is rising and the deer running.

By: r

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 03:45:03 +0000

Which King’s College Choir, Cambridge, recording is that, of The Holly and the Ivy? I’ve been blundering around on iTunes, in my uninitiated way, and I can’t seem to find the same one.

Nico responds: I think it’s not on iTunes. I’m pretty sure it’s from the Ledger years, but also from a compilation. Sorry to be vague.

By: charles sullivan

charles sullivan — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 18:11:21 +0000

thank you for introducing me to new music via your always intriguing blogs. i love kyte.

By: Valerie

Valerie — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 17:55:49 +0000

Ooh, I love that recording of the “Seven Joys”. Hmmm, I’ve been waiting until Advent to get out my beloved Christmas recordings… why not start now?

By: Dan Johnson

Dan Johnson — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 01:21:02 +0000

Did you listen to that episode RadioLab where Oliver Sacks talked about how when he lived in L.A., he used to eat kidneys for dinner every night, until one week instead of buying two pounds of kidneys he accidentally bought 22 lbs of kidneys, and then he attempted to eat kidneys for breakfast, lunch and dinner, until he got physically ill, and now he can’t eat kidneys anymore?

Also, I hate you for making me read that RING discussion. It made me incredibly sad. New Jersey’s own Pope of Classical Music really hasn’t been to a concert in twenty years?? What in the hell is he always complaining about, then!

By: A.C. Douglas

A.C. Douglas — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 01:18:48 +0000

Allow me to point out just for the record, and in as un-nasty and un-ugly a way as possible that the Chéreau _Ring_ was produced not “a couple years ago,” but 32 years ago at no less than the Bayreuth Festival itself as its centennial celebration of the first complete performance of Wagner’s great tetralogy in 1876, and by virtue of that Eurotrash production at that most prestigious of festivals which festival was founded by Wagner himself for the express purpose of mounting the _Ring_, opened the gates to a virtual flood of outrageous Eurotrash productions of Wagner’s operas worldwide, very much including at the Bayreuth Festival itself.

For those of us who, unlike yourself, do care about such things, this is no small or inconsequential matter, and well worth waxing nasty about when nastily provoked.

Un-nastily yours,

ACD

Dear AC: Thanks for your note. And yes, “a couple of years ago” â€“ sorry. Actually, the mistake is because I only saw that thing a couple of years ago. And I think the whole argument is great â€“ it seems like an argument very much worth having. I’m also thrilled to see that opera can still elicit such strong reactions from people â€” N

By: Daniel Wolf

Daniel Wolf — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 19:13:04 +0000

And this, too:

please write as much about food as you like. I divide the universe of composers into two groups: the first consists of those who both like food & can cook and the second consists of those who can’t compose.