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chopin
by doreen peri
2002 March 31
"When one does a thing, it appears good, otherwise one would not write it. Only later comes reflection, and one discards or accepts the thing. Time is the best censor, and patience a most excellent teacher. "-
Frederick Chopin
Listening to Rondo in C Major Op. 72/27 for two pianos
i am inspired to write something prolific but i cannot since the music is now controlling my heart and my pen can't compete
more... Chopin's last written words
by doreen peri
2002 March 31
"As this cough will choke me, I implore you to have my body opened, so that I may not be buried alive." -
Chopin's last written words
no-one takes any notice ..... he said
by doreen peri
2002 March 31
"You can enjoy yourself, get bored, laugh, cry, do anything you like, and no-one takes any notice because thousands here are doing exactly the same...You find here the greatest splendor, the greatest filthiness, the greatest virtue, the greatest vice..They really are a queer lot here! As soon as it gets dark all you hear is street-vendors shouting out the titles of the latest pamphlets, and you can often buy three or four sheets of printed rubbish for a few sous, with titles such as 'How to Get and Keep a Lover', or 'Priests in Love', or 'Romance of the Archbishop of Paris and the Duchesse de Beery', and a thousand similar obscenities, often very wittily put together. Honestly, one can't be surprised at the way of making a few pennies that they think up. I must tell you that there is terrible poverty here and little money about. You meet with crowds of beggars with menacing looks on their faces..."
All quotes taken from Chopin's Letters, Dover Books
i tell my piano
by doreen peri
2002 March 31
"It is dreadful when something weighs on your mind, not to have a soul to unburden yourself to. You know what I mean. I tell my piano the things I used to tell you."
-Chopin
Sometimes I can only .......
by doreen peri
2002 March 31
"Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano!"
-FChopin
that's my game
by Billectric
2002 March 31
i'm gonna sell pamphlets on the street!
bang the ivories
by litnrod11
2002 March 31
Yeah, I love Chopin too
I love to read the letters of historic figures
Mozart's are amazing and Napolean's totally creack me up
especially the ones to Josephine
All these quotes are great!
by Billectric
2002 March 31
Thanks. Quite inspirational.
Chopin
by litnrod11
2002 March 31
was actually the world's first rock star
women threw their panties on the stage etc
doreen Chopin sounds like action composer........
by WIREMAN
2002 March 31
...gotta check him out.....kinda a debussy fan ..but hell I always need to broaden my horizons...and didn't he write the prelude that's in the movie "Portrait of Dorian Gray?"
beauty must appeal to the senses... Debussy
by doreen peri
2002 March 31
"Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insinuate itself into us without any effort on our own part. Take Leonardo da Vinci; take Mozart: these are the great artists."
- Claude Debussy
and you know how much i love debussy..... claire de lune makes me swoon... LOL
i am listening to..
by doreen peri
2002 March 31
mozart's 25th symphony now
sometimes it's a classical day ..... and a blues night....
i LOVE him!!!!
my heart the part
of Mozart symphonically
caressed with the best
of the coming together
of sounds, so complete
the mysteries of his entreat
and i am awed by the pure
enthrall of him,
no walls up,
only open dors
as i rise from my seat
and applaud,
"MORE! MORE!"
.......
ok... time for some stevie ray.... LOL!!!
*grin
bill....
by doreen peri
2002 March 31
... and thanks for reading them
it's been a cleansing sorta sunday..... classical music and....
dusting and LAUNDRY!
hehe
*grin
recital piece
by doreen peri
2002 March 31
played debussy's "reverie" once at a recital when i was 12 i think
something like that....
i've lost track of Time but all i know is gonna put on Arabesque now....
thanks mark.....
ahhhhhh there it is!!!
stevie ray will have to wait..
patience-my piano instructor
by Illuminara
2002 March 31
As you quoted from Chopin:
"Time is the best censor, and patience a most excellent teacher. "
I learned a Waltz of his:
A Minor
Grande Valse brillante
and now a more challenging
Nocturne in F Minor
what a genius composure
what beautiful music
what hell to one trying
to learn to fly
as the angel wrote
What is
by litnrod11
2002 March 31
your hell but a picture of heaven?
dEBUSSY RULES.....
by WIREMAN
2002 March 31
.........DOREEN
I wrote a paper on Debussy
by Billectric
2002 March 31
in college and the professor said it was a poor thesis, but I know I was RIGHT.
and i'm sure you were...
by doreen peri
2002 March 31
... some professors have a terrible bedside manner
i'll never forget the bitch who told me i shouldn't be in that dance class......i wasn't cut out for it....and made me change my major just to have access to the upper level classes
i showed her!!!! LOL
send me your thesis... if you still have it.. i'd love to read it......
oh and i read your previous reply... i'll be looking for your pomes... this is cool!! doreenperi@aol.com
i love this! thank you
I don't have the thesis but
by Billectric
2002 March 31
it may have been too simplistic for the old tart. It was something about modal and how instaed of going G - C - D - G, and coming back to rest on the G, modal music might go G - C - D - C - F - C or whatever, but I didn't say it just like that, of course, Maybe I should have . . .
a
by Illuminara
2002 March 31
polaroid
of paradise