Resurrection of the blog? Well, we are starting the new month with a post. Resurrection of wargaming? Perhaps, keep your fingers crossed. But mainly it's because I have been to see a performance of Mahler's Symphony No 2, (known as the Resurrection, although Gustav had a bit of a bee in his bonnet about the life everlasting and kept returning to the theme) and very fine it was. It was very loud too, there were eight percussionists; one can't complain about getting one's money's worth.
The piece is about ninety minutes long, so I won't include a video. Instead here's Ashton, Gardner and Dyke:
Fun fact of the day - apart from that the band actually had four members - concerns the B side of the single in the US, which was entitled 'I'm Your Spiritual Breadman'. I know, but it was the sixties. In any event, it featured two guest guitarists: Sir Cedric Clayton and George O'Hara Smith, pseudonyms for Clapton and Harrison. Sadly, and despite that added firepower, it's not very good.
Had to Google translate that quote , The Good Soldier is my literary hero , long rambling book - but I like the hero's attitude .
ReplyDeleteI read it many years ago, but re-reading it makes me think that the first version had been edited. It was certainly much shorter.
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