Saturday, September 30, 2006
Monday, September 25, 2006
Sea Fair Quadrivium
I'm still scanning and digitizing some of my old analog art; at this time I'm presenting it pretty much as is, though I can imagine amazing potential for a lot of this stuff!
Sea Fair Quadrivium
Sea Fair Quadrivium
Wednesday, September 20, 2006
Monday, September 18, 2006
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Friday, March 17, 2006
The Desert, the Cross and Easter
Screen capture: Desert Sonoran Easter, ground zero
Pascal daybreak: Lepus sits tamed at Orion hunter's feet
evoking the kairos past when
Noah's God hung his weapon bow
high in the sky, surrendering disarmed
Divine capitulation to creation
for earth to claim covenant
Desert dawn's eastered hues quietly course throughout creation
equal desert's constant colors
Friday's cross seemed desolate
but from mortality's tree
on Sunday's morn bursts forth the Tree of Life:
earth all-living breathes again!
© Leah Chang
Check out this related blog from Good Friday, 2005.
Pascal daybreak: Lepus sits tamed at Orion hunter's feet
evoking the kairos past when
Noah's God hung his weapon bow
high in the sky, surrendering disarmed
Divine capitulation to creation
for earth to claim covenant
Desert dawn's eastered hues quietly course throughout creation
equal desert's constant colors
Friday's cross seemed desolate
but from mortality's tree
on Sunday's morn bursts forth the Tree of Life:
earth all-living breathes again!
© Leah Chang
Check out this related blog from Good Friday, 2005.
Saturday, June 18, 2005
Beethoven Piano Sonatas
Lately I've been working on the Beethoven cycle again, and since online storage is so useful I've decided to keep track of the sonatas and discrete movements I've learned and gradually add commentary to each sonata. The sonatas I can play are bold indigo; if you're wondering at what level I play the Indigo Sonatas, they're either at public performance level or will be there as soon as I have them scheduled for a live gig.
[update] As it turned out, I've indigoed only the sonata number and opus number rather than going through and indigoing all the separate movements; for most of the sonatas I play all the movements, anyway.
No. 1 in F minor, Opus 2 no 1 | 1796
Dedicated to Joseph Haydn
1.Allegro
2.Adagio
3.Menuetto & Trio : Allegretto
4.Prestissimo
No. 2 in A major, Opus 2 no 2 | 1796
Dedicated to Joseph Haydn
1.Allegro vivace
2.Largo appassionato
3.Scherzo & Trio : Allegretto
4.Rondo : Grazioso
No. 3 in C major, Opus 2 no 3 | 1796
Dedicated to Joseph Haydn
1.Allegro con brio
2.Adagio
3.Scherzo & Trio : Allegro
4.Allegro assai
No. 4 in E flat major, Opus 7 | 1797
Dedicated to Countess Babette von Keglevics
1.Allegro molto e con brio
2.Largo, con gran espressione
3.Allegro
4.Rondo : Poco allegretto e grazioso
No. 5 in C minor, Opus 10 no 1
Dedicated to Countess Anne Margarete von Browne
1.Molto allegro e con brio
2.Adagio molto
3.Finale : Prestissimo
No. 6 in F major, Opus 10 no 2
Dedicated to Countess Anne Margarete von Browne
1.Allegro
2.Allegretto
3.Presto
No. 7 in D major, Opus 10 no 3
Dedicated to Countess Anne Margarete von Browne
1.Presto
2.Largo e mesto
3.Menuetto & Trio : Allegro
4.Rondo : Allegro
No. 8 in C minor, Opus 13 | 1799 "Pathétique"
Dedicated to Prince Carl von Lichnowsky
1.Grave - Allegro di molto con brio
2.Adagio cantabile
3.Rondo : Allegro
No. 9 in E major, Opus 14 no 1
Dedicated to Baroness Josefine von Braun
1.Allegro
2.Allegretto
3.Rondo : Allegro commodo
No. 10 in G major, Opus 14 no 2
Dedicated to Baroness Josefine von Braun
1.Allegro
2.Andante
3.Scherzo : Allegro assai
No. 11 in B flat major, Opus 22 | 1800
Dedicated to Count Johann Georg von Browne
1.Allegro con brio
2.Adagio con molto espressione
3.Menuetto
4.Rondo : Allegretto
No. 12 in A flat major, Opus 26
Dedicated to Prince Carl von Lichnowsky
1.Andante con variazioni
2.Scherzo & Trio : Allegro molto
3.Marcia funebra sulla morte d'un eroe
4.Allegro
No. 13 in E flat major, Opus 27 no 1
Dedicated to Princess Josephine von Liechenstein
1.Andante - Allegro
2.Allegro molto e vivace
3.Adagio con espressione
4.Allegro vivace - Presto
No. 14 in C sharp minor, Opus 27 no 2 | 1801 "Moonlight"
Dedicated to Countess Giuletta Giucciardi
1.Adagio sostenuto
2.Allegretto & Trio
3.Presto agitato
No. 15 in D major, Opus 28 "Pastorale"
Dedicated to Joseph Edlen von Sonnenfels
1.Allegro
2.Andante
3.Scherzo & Trio : Allegro vivace
4.Rondo : Allegro ma non troppo
No. 16 in G major, Opus 31 no 1 | 1802
1.Allegro vivace
2.Adagio grazioso
3.Rondo : Allegretto
No. 17 in D minor, Opus 31 no 2 | 1802 "Tempest"
1.Largo - Allegro
2.Adagio
3.Allegretto
No. 18 in E flat major, Opus 31 no 3 | 1802
1.Allegro
2.Scherzo : Allegretto vivace
3.Menuetto & Trio : Moderato e grazioso
4.Presto con fuoco
No. 19 in G minor, Opus 49 no 1 | 1792?
1.Andante
2.Rondo : Allegro
No. 20 in G major, Opus 49 no 2 | 1792?
1.Allegro ma non troppo
2.Tempo di menuetto
No. 21 in C major, Opus 53 | 1803 "Waldstein"
1.Allegro con brio
2.Introduzione : Molto Adagio
3.Rondo : Allegretto moderato - Prestissimo
No. 22 in F major, Opus 54 | 1804
1.In tempo d'un menuetto
2.Allegretto
No. 23 in F minor, Opus 57 | 1805 "Appassionata"
1.Allegro assai
2.Andante con moto
3.Allegro ma non troppo
No. 24 in F sharp major, Opus 78 | 1809
1.Adagio cantabile - Allegro ma non troppo
2.Allegro vivace
No. 25 in G major, Opus 79 | 1809
1.Presto alla tedesca
2.Andante
3.Vivace
No. 26 in E flat major, Opus 81a | 1809 "Les Adieux"
1.Adagio - Allegro
2.Andante espressivo
3.Vivacissimamente
No. 27 in E minor, Opus 90 | 1814
1.Mit Lebhaftigkeit und durchaus mit Empfindung und Ausdruck
2.Nicht zu geschwind und sehr singbar vorzutragen
No. 28 in A major, Opus 101 | 1816
1.Etwas lebhaft und mit der innigsten Empfindung
2.Lebhaft. Marschmaessig
3.Langsam und sehnsuchtsvoll - Geschwind, doch nicht zu sehr, und mit Entschlossenheit
No. 29 in B flat major, Opus 106 | 1818 "Hammerklavier"
1.Allegro
2.Scherzo : Assai vivace
3.Adagio sostenuto, appassionato e con molto sentimento
4.Largo - Allegro risoluto
No. 30 in E major, Opus 109
1.Vivace, ma non troppo - Adagio espressivo
2.Prestissimo
3.Andante, molto cantabile ed espressivo
No. 31 in A flat major, Opus 110
1.Moderato cantabile, molto espressivo
2.Allegro molto
3.Adagio, ma non troppo - Fuga : Allegro, ma non troppo
No. 32 in C minor, Opus 111
1.Maestoso - Allegro con brio ed appassionato
2.Arietta : Adagio molto, semplice e cantabile
Tuesday, March 29, 2005
The River Is Here!
1. Down the mountain the river flows
And it brings refreshing wherever it goes
Through the valleys and over the fields
The river is rushing and the river is here.
And all who touch it can be revived
And those who linger on this river’s shore
Will come back thirsting for more of the Lord.
3. Up to the mountain we have to go
To find the presence of the Lord
Along the banks of the river we run
We dance with laughter giving praise to the Son!
Chorus
4. Down the mountain the river flows
And it brings refreshing wherever it goes
Through the valleys and over the fields
The river is rushing and the river is here.
Chorus
Tag
And we rejoice for the river is here!
And it brings refreshing wherever it goes
Through the valleys and over the fields
The river is rushing and the river is here.
Chorus:2. The river of God is teeming with life
The river of God sets our feet a-dancing
The river of God fills our hearts with cheer
The river of God fills our mouths with laughter
And we rejoice for the river is here!
And all who touch it can be revived
And those who linger on this river’s shore
Will come back thirsting for more of the Lord.
3. Up to the mountain we have to go
To find the presence of the Lord
Along the banks of the river we run
We dance with laughter giving praise to the Son!
Chorus
4. Down the mountain the river flows
And it brings refreshing wherever it goes
Through the valleys and over the fields
The river is rushing and the river is here.
Chorus
Tag
And we rejoice for the river is here!
Saturday, March 05, 2005
love after love
From my fall 2002 management class, this poem - by the 1992 Nobel Laureate in Literature - says it all!
Love After Love
The time will come
when, with elation,
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror,
and each will smile at the other's welcome,
and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was yourself.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you
all your life, whom you ignored
for another who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,
the photographs, the desperate notes;
peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.
~~Derek Walcott
Love After Love
The time will come
when, with elation,
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror,
and each will smile at the other's welcome,
and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was yourself.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you
all your life, whom you ignored
for another who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,
the photographs, the desperate notes;
peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.
~~Derek Walcott
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