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On Sunday synesthesia came alone.
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Morning unbearable heat and waiting on the door of the Royal Palace while dazzled foam puppets to giving kids greater and sword-shaped balloons. The last day of an exhibition that has gone largely unnoticed after more than three months but whose educational and informative and makes it only so important. And besides, what can I say. Just to see once again the Moncloa Puteal [see photo] (and I do not make silly jokes), the National Archaeological Museum, with such high relief that invite you to get inside of them is worth the visit. It is these samples which one comes out happy that you have used a lot. Those that I qualify for my domestic consumption gap fillers or seas of ignorance. Desasnadoras, come on. I admit that before going I had no idea what led to the protection and patronage real (regional) development of science and the arts, the systematization of the methods and the beginning of the cataloging and collecting the eighteenth-century Spain.
Try, republicanotes as most of you, make an effort to abstract of this wretched century mentality back to the early eighteenth existing. Habsburg Charles II dies and after the civil war, yet another call this time of succession, establishing in Spain the Bourbon dynasty in the hands of Felipe V of Anjou French. Ya, I know. A Vds. not like at all the kings but what was at that time. Still take to reach the first Republic, I would not be so impatient. At least those brought to the skin of a bull air of modernity about what he had played the last Austrian head crowned.
The Court will fill first French and later with the arrival of Elizabeth Farnese, Italian. And with them comes into our country (not just for them because fortunately a man of learning existed in the peninsula, but at least largely) love and enthusiasm for knowledge, namely the different sciences , collecting, the arts, the desire to discover. In short, the Enlightenment. Spain attaches to the carriage of modernity, which coming from where it is coming soon. And above all, as good sponsors and new owners, brought money to the impoverished coffers of the Kingdom of Spain.
And with Illustration quickly and momentum arise and then the Royal Library, the Royal Academy of History, Science, of the Numismatic Fine Arts, etc. etc. Then came the first serious attempts throughout Europe for cataloging and collecting. And you will here the hand of enlightened men as the Marquis de la Ensenada, or the Valdeflores, Ponz, Cean Bermudez ... And emerge early Greco-Roman collections in Naples, fueled by Carlos, King of the Two Sicilies. And later, on the peninsula, the first expeditions to bring to light, catalog, systematically study the Greek ruins, Phoenician, Roman, Iberian, following the Ruta de la Plata or the ancient Roman roads. Do not forget that all these collections are the seeds of the National Library, the Museo del Prado, the National Archaeological Museum, the American and others who make up the phenomenal body English museum (another thing is the state in which it is) . Will be followed by travel to the Viceroyalty of New Spain with the systematic excavations of the ruins of Palenque, crucial in the study of Mayan civilization. And the revival of the Arab taste for Egyptian planes Juan de Villanueva Hebrew rise buildings ... Sponsorships arise everywhere, expeditions, studies, geography, botany, ancient numismatics. And all under the auspices of Felipe V, Fernando VI, Carlos III and Carlos IV. A member of the royal family as the Infante Don Gabriel, exquisite classical education will be an excellent translator of Sallust. Throughout the eighteenth century, taking as its focus the Royal Palace there was a genuine revival of the ancient world, considered a model of civilization, good taste and better governance.
Carlos III will still be king of the Two Sicilies which make a major contribution to global archaeological studies sponsoring the discovery and study of Pompeii and Herculaneum, where work Winckelmann and with the help of his friend Raphael Mengs bohemian whom the king sent from Italy after settling in Madrid and as king of Spain. At time of his son Charles IV will be held in the country the first steps in Europe's historic heritage, archaeological and artistic ...
I seem to be listening to them grumble at bajini as you read these lines but reconózcanme that cultural policy that kept the first Bourbons in this country was quite successful. Another thing is what started to make his descendants as they left the French influence and "hispanicised" a muchito. But that is another story and XIX English experts have this blog and visitors, as they stuck to walk more shirts I can chew.
But the visit was not only intended to learning, but the enjoyment. And there were parts that I assure you it gave me. Since some plaster casts of famous classical sculptures, make for Velázquez sent Italy to the citadel of Austria Philip IV, to currencies, treaties, manuscripts, furniture, studies, drawings, ceramics Arabs, Mayan and Greek, to reach certain splendid pieces for me. Besides the aforementioned Puteal de la Moncloa century AD, they mention two splendid self-portraits of Raphael Mengs, one of which is owned by the House of Alba. And besides, a Goya, a splendid head of a lost Roman sculpture (I also remember the AD and found in Málaga), a boar Iberian Archaeology, a breathtaking outdoor statue of Trajan Italic and Greek krater at the time of Phidias (middle of V century BC).
In short, the morning was splendid. Learning, enjoyment, good company (Sundays ever I go with my sister) ... And now is when a saint might wonder what is the title and what music happy home with all this ...
Well sorry to disappoint in that regard synesthesia because this time was provided by the accident that created an unexpected gift made by my companion. And the gift was a splendid Eighth Mahler symphony Thousand, led by one of my fetishes directors: Sir Simon Rattle. We are more or less the same fifth and I tried to keep track since I was a youngster. I've even been lucky enough to hear live. And I missed the ear from the start. That boy has become one of the best directors are currently at the forefront at this time of the Berlin Philharmonic and committed to collaborative projects as well as interesting and successful as the Youth Orchestra System of Venezuela.
will not bore you much with the work, but let me tell you something about it and forgive me, but I'm going to foist the words of its author and above the tongue of barbarians:
"Ich habe eben meine VIII, vollendet-es ist das größte, WAS ich bis jetzt gemacht [...] Denken Sie sich, dass das Universum und zu zu tönen klingen beginnt. Is nich mehr sind menschliche Stimmen, sondern Sonnen und Planeten, welche kresein ... "
(Letter from Mahler to his friend Willem Mengelberg, conductor)
"I just finished my eighth-is the greatest thing I've done so far [...] Imagine that the universe starts to resonate and tinkling. They are no longer human voices, but planets and suns in rotation ... " Trad.: The more Germanic (or you, me). Watermarks and accuracies to consult the Germanic less , which she did who knows.
know do not know if the author took only a few weeks in the middle of composing a sudden attack of inspiration and enrichment. It was the summer of 1906. Interestingly he started working on it, his symphony more optimistic and cheerful when he had released the most pessimistic of all black and the Sixth.
is called the Thousand because it requires at least 120 musicians in the orchestra, eight vocal soloists, double choir and a children's choir. The truth is that for quite some time was considered the worst of the German work (already nothing good reputation in general) and branded without doubt megalomaniac. It is a symphony to use. Just two movements. Is almost entirely vocal. And if some consider their Earth Song a cycle of orchestral songs with symphonic dimensions, one could say that the Eighth is, however, a symphony in which voices are used as instruments , in the words of author. Contrary to the sentimental nature of most of the symphonies of Mahler, this Thousand try to be objective and universal. The composer himself said of her that " both its content and its style is completely different from my other works "and had been composed as a gift the entire nation." It really has been defined by some as a great oratory that surrounds the text of Goethe. Finally, I would say that first auditions of this work did write to the author Thomas Mann on " else I know, as I'm concerned, that will better embody more reflective and high our time." And, it seems, I knew it well.
So far, very extracted sui generis Some data provided by Colin Matthews on the Eighth in the booklet accompanying the disc, together with others of my own. Contrary to the smallest standard narrative seriously, do not tell them who is getting one because I take advantage of wisdom and others and staying fable.
Coordination music today, theme and text is so far-fetched, in fact, can not speak of synesthesia, but goop vulgar, if not a heresy to call Don Gustavo goop. And I'm imagining what I will say ... Another alemanote ... Yes, something happens ... Another alemanote. But this time is accompanied by a charming English redness (I can not complain because) and accompanying Mil. So I of you I would not be too much with the illustrious town square octopus augur and fall in the semifinals. Listen and see how all the reservations they happen. Also by this time I only pity of you and them "punished" with the last five parts of the second movement. Magnanimous Countess is today thanks to all this talk of cuts and illustrious fellow aristocrats.
Vds. Have good and warm nights.
G. Mahler (1860-1911). Symphony No. 8 in E flat major, Symphony of a Thousand . I überwächst Er uns schon (Boys Choir) II Komm! Hebe dich zu Sparen Höhern! (Mater Gloriosa and Chorus) III blicket auf zum Retterblick (Doctor Marianus and Chorus) Alles vergänglich IV (Chorus mystic) V Alles vergänglich (Chorus mystic) . Symphony Orchestra City of Birmingham. Dir: Simon Rattle. Symphony Chorus City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus London Youth Choir City of Birmingham, Children's Choir of Toronto. Juliane Banse (soprano: Mater Gloriosa), Jon Villars (tenor, Doctor Marianus). EMI, 2005
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