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A new choral season has begun and this year, for me, it will be starting with Fauré’s Automne.
This is a smooth and cool piece. Written in 12/8 this tune has a more than a few rhythmical curve-balls written into the libretto. Good times.
French Text
Automne au ciel brumeux, aux horizons navrants.
Aux rapides couchants, aux aurores pâlies,
Je regarde couler, comme l’eau du torrent,
Tes jours faits de mélancolie.
Sur l’aile des regrets mes esprits emportés,
-Comme s’il se pouvait que notre âge renaisse!-
Parcourent, en rêvant, les coteaux enchantés,
Où jadis sourit ma jeunesse!
Je sens, au clair soleil du souvenir vainqueur,
Refleurir en bouquet les roses déliées,
Et monter à mes yeux des larmes, qu’en mon cœur,
Mes vingt ans avaient oubliées!
English Text:
Autumn, time of misty skies and heart-breaking horizons,
of rapid sunsets and pale dawns,
I watch your melancholy days
flow past like a torrent.
My thoughts borne off on the wings of regret
(as if our time could ever be relived!)
dreamingly wander the enchanted slopes
where my youth once used to smile.
In the bright sunlight of triumphant memory
I feel the scattered roses reblooming in bouquets;
and tears well up in my eyes, tears which my heart
at twenty had already forgotten!
“I felt that the [TNG] writers and producers could not escape from their own essential rigidity in their attitudes to women. They were continually featured as sexual objects, as softer, weaker, and therefore – it always seemed to me—second-class individuals. And because I believed and still do that the show represents what our underlying philosophies are, it doubly irritated me that in that area I thought we were failing.There is a kind of boys’ club about Star Trek, do you understand? It’s in the air all around the show, in the producers, in the front office, in the writers’ building. Our actresses were not finding sympathetic ears for the things they had to say, and I think at times they simply got exhausted by the battle.”
Worth the reblog for the infographic alone, but also has great linkage. DWR approved. :)
We’re having a nasty confluence of sorts here, a heatwave combined with the smoke from forest fires in three of the cardinal directions. This is definitely a ‘first world’ complaint as the people with real problems like having your house consumed by wildfire are hundreds of kilometres away.
Professor google has come up with lists that cant be summarized like this:
1. Close blinds
2. Use Fan
3. Don’t use heat generating stuff
4. Keep your AC in the shade
5. Plant Trees
6. Turn on AC
Well, we don’t have AC and the tree solution is incoming next year, but it is kinda sucky right now.
Our current plan is to close the house during the day and then once the sun isn’t high anymore (around 9pm) we open all the things and let the cool air(?) in. It works moderately well, but if anyone has some whiz-bang advice, now is the time to share. :)
Greetings and good day fair readership!
I have the very good fortune of being able to travel to Iceland on a trip with my choir. Thus, my regular blogular activities shall not be pursued by myself. However, the rest of the DWR team is stepping up to fill the gap. The Intransigent One, Mystrox and Bleatmop will take the mantle of convivial hosting in my absence so expect minimal disruption in the coming week. :)
I endeavor to do my best representing Alberta’s amateur choral community. Take care everyone, and play nice with the other admins here on DWR.
Arbourist out.
Waterfalls – Apparently they are a popular venue in Iceland. If I have internet access, I’ll be posting some hopefully boffo pictures of my own.
Know your troll, an informative look at the variety of Canadian dudes who still don’t get it. :/
Canada’s first notable instance of a ”FHRTIP” episode has become an incendiary topic on social media and comments sections after one of the participants in the incident, Shawn Simoe, was fired from his job at Hydro One, Ontario’s primary energy supplier. Significantly, Hydro One is currently a public enterprise, which probably has a lot to do with the specific clauses or codes of conduct in Simoe’s contract that made his dismissal both legal and justifiable (and is the same reason why his salary was a matter of public record).
BUT, as we all know, reason has very little place on the internet, and especially in the ongoing battle against persecution that straight white men face everyday from Feminists/Women/Mass Media/The World At Large. So they’ve taken to comments sections and social media to express their displeasure in this flagrant abuse of their right to free speech. No matter how trivial the…
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Just another gentle reminder to those who believe we are totally post Feminism…
Possible feminist spotted.
My post yesterday about #HowToSpotAFeminist— which is still going — didn’t even begin to scratch the surface of the ugliness and absurdity of the hashtag.
So here are some more brilliant insights from the antifeminist squad, including blatant transphobia, rape jokes, shout-outs to Elliot Rodger, several honest-to-goodness “we hunted the mammoths,” and a truly astounding lack of self-awareness.
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