Biophilia and Films Watched Recently

I was watching last night via You Tube , Bjork's Biophilia Live. If you have the time , about one and a half hour, i recommend watching it. I was thrilled, Here it is -

During the week so far i have watched DD's of -

An American Werewolf In London
Elektra
The Season Of The Witch

The first one is a horror based black comedy. Elektra , with Jennifer Garner (formerly in Alias) is based on the Marvel comics character, and the latter film is based around the Crusades with a possessed young lady and stars Nicholas Cage.

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (Composer)

As a celebrated, cultured person in the early 20th century, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875--1912) stood out as an international figure capable of bridging racial and social divides. Nowhere was this more valued than in the United States, where people of African descent were striving to gain equal access to education and opportunity in the decades following Reconstruction. To well-meaning people of all races and classes in America, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor symbolized a bright future, in which, above all, everyone would be recognized for their accomplishments.

Coleridge-Taylor exerted an important influence on the post-Reconstruction social politics of America as represented by such prominent African-Americans as W. E. B. Du Bois, Booker T. Washington, Paul Laurence Dunbar, numerous critics in black American newspapers, and composers and musicians from ragtime to classical.

Here is his Ballade For Orchestra Opus 33.

Commissioned in 1898 by the Three Choirs Festival of Britain thanks to pressure from Edward Elgar, the Ballade for orchestra Op.33 represents an important early milestone for the English composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912). It's a work full of wonderful high-spirits, passion and warmth. Above all it's a harbinger of what might come, given time and opportunity. It is played here by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Grant Llewellyn.

FRIENDZY - Please share.

Originally posted by elven_ranger at FRIENDZY - Please share.

After a discussion today on the dreaded facebook of doom, I decided to open up a friendzy.

Please invite / share this post to anyone who might be interested.

Look through the comments, and contact people whom you think sound interesting as LJ friends.
Post a nice intro about yourself in the comments too, and see who gets in touch...

Please respect that some people may not be the kind of person you like, but as long as they arent harming anyone, they have a right to be here too. :D

Friendzy

Originally posted by serendipitou5 at Friendzy

I really miss all of the interaction that we used to have from LJ. I have seen other people do these and always thought they were a great idea. I have an awesome friends list and I think a lot of you would really hit it off. So, let's do a friendzy! Post here if you are looking for friends and then share the link to the post in your journal. Hopefully everyone will meet some great new friends.

1. Comment with a brief introduction about yourself, what you typically post about, what kinds of LJ friends you're looking to add, etc.

2. Link to this post (even if you personally are not looking for new LJ friends).

3. Ask your friends to link to it, too!

The more the merrier!

Für Elise

I fancy a bit of Ludwig van Beethoven right now.

"Für Elise" (For Elise) is the popular name of one of Ludwig van Beethoven's (1770-1827) most popular compositions.

The Bagatelle in A minor (WoO 59 and Bia 515) for solo piano, marked poco moto, dated 27 April 1810. The original autographed manuscript has been lost and the piece itself was not published until 1865.

It is not certain who "Elise" was. Some scholars have suggested she was Beethoven's fifth mistress, while others have suggested that the discoverer of the piece, Ludwig Nohl, may have transcribed the title incorrectly and the original work may have been named "Für Therese",

Been A Frabjous Day

I listened to some Beethoven today starting with the famous "For Elise" tune and then onto the Fifth and Sixth Symphonies. I deferred some visits to Monday as -

a/ i did not have enough money to do it all
b/ will have said money on Monday and
c/ it had rained again and i did not feel like going out.

So listening to the radio , relaxing to music and doing a bit of reading, was the order of the day. Hoovering day will be Sunday.

I also watched the sixth episode of The Librarians , where all the fairy tale characters come to life in less than benign ways due to a magical old book, and then later , switching over to one of the movie channels, Tim Burton's excellent version of Alice In Wonderland.

So here is that Cheshire cat scene where Alice first meets him -