tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post1728570971747971031..comments2024-03-20T16:46:13.343-04:00Comments on Marly Youmans / The Palace at 2:00 a.m. / poems, stories, novels: Another poem at Autumn SkyMarly Youmanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-71026012377681586382016-12-05T09:14:54.157-05:002016-12-05T09:14:54.157-05:00Very kind of you to attribute the runny nose to mu...Very kind of you to attribute the runny nose to musical passion! Less embarrassing than bursting into tears, I suppose...<br /><br />Oh, Rutter I like, too.<br /><br />I have a good friend who sometimes sings with Glimmerglass Opera who has the same problem, always reining in her voice to sing in choir. Otherwise it would be a solo with murmuring in the background. <br /><br />Ah, the Wednesday Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-24852915884852798782016-12-05T09:08:02.683-05:002016-12-05T09:08:02.683-05:00I must be too. Love Britten and Tavener.
Why hav...I must be too. Love Britten and Tavener. <br /><br />Why haven't you sent it out (sheer curiosity. Not that I don't have plenty in The Heap!)Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-16040179485582350272016-12-05T08:28:52.793-05:002016-12-05T08:28:52.793-05:00V favours Michael Head, as I mentioned, also Bob C...V favours Michael Head, as I mentioned, also Bob Chilcott and John Rutter. However V's relationship with choirs is rather tenuous: her voice is simply too powerful and choral singing tends to frustrate her. Also, her daughters insist that she doesn't sing when they accompany her to services at Hereford Cathedral. For the same reason.<br /><br />I think a runny nose is probably indicative Roderick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-14696680428744868882016-12-05T02:27:43.840-05:002016-12-05T02:27:43.840-05:00Does Janacek count? He died in 1928. My third nove...Does Janacek count? He died in 1928. My third novel, Blest Redeemer, which is about secular redemeption and has not yet been submitted to agents, reaches its moral climax in a performance of the Glagolitic Mass. I'm a huge Janacek fan, esp. the two quartets.<br /><br />I'm also a great fan of Britten's Spring Symphony which is choral. Have lisened to Walton's Belshazzar's Roderick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-87956191141704516392016-12-04T02:26:45.565-05:002016-12-04T02:26:45.565-05:00Oh, who does V like among contemporary composers f...Oh, who does V like among contemporary composers for choral music? (And who do you, if you do?)Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-10068612421377813772016-12-04T02:20:34.094-05:002016-12-04T02:20:34.094-05:00Those lines are lovely, though I find that I immed...Those lines are lovely, though I find that I immediately think of Wyatt's "They flee from me." I was listening to Dowland on Pandora radio in your honor, but now the laundry is done and it is 2:20, so I must tumble into bed. So good night, Roderick Robinson aka George the marmalade cat. <br /><br />I do think that singing Dowland could make a person ecstatic--I found being in a Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-3511727910933109742016-12-04T02:14:01.963-05:002016-12-04T02:14:01.963-05:00I hadn't allowed for you being up to the same ...I hadn't allowed for you being up to the same kind of tricks as I am - ie, communing with the computer when all the other members of the household are decently abed. <br /><br />Time Stands Still doesn't have the best lyrics but arguably has the best of Dowland's tunes. I've sung it solidly since being given the score at last Monday's lesson and when V opens the door to me Roderick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-88544130364158752152016-12-03T10:07:46.032-05:002016-12-03T10:07:46.032-05:00I'm not fond of deadlines--of not doing exactl...I'm not fond of deadlines--of not doing exactly as I wish with my writing--but now and then they happen. I prefer a big, lovely expanse of tedium but seldom get any.<br /><br />"Blubbering gratitude." My, what a pleased tormentor you were! I am amused to think of you on the other end of the phone line, being kind and gracious. I tend to find that the letting-down of the other party Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-90464227580911510642016-12-03T02:35:23.502-05:002016-12-03T02:35:23.502-05:00Deadlines. Do you ineluctably float up against the...Deadlines. Do you ineluctably float up against them like a cat presented with a table-leg? On reflection has some of your best work occurred within earshot of time's wingéd chariot? Me they've always terrified. I'm inclined to hand in my article two weeks early.<br /><br />And then there was the moment when I crossed the fence, became the commissioner of written stuff, aware that the Roderick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-78134581533601403502016-11-30T12:00:49.484-05:002016-11-30T12:00:49.484-05:00No, I would never make such a claim, though I have...No, I would never make such a claim, though I have been in a choir several times and learned to be a better singer than before. But I believe that poetry should approach song--not be song but lean toward it.<br /><br />Ah, I wondered what was up....Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-55051116539587792182016-11-30T11:17:49.454-05:002016-11-30T11:17:49.454-05:00Are you also a musician, Marly? Your poetry sings ...Are you also a musician, Marly? Your poetry sings in a special way that seems to me to be the voice of a musician. <br />BTW, my blog has a slightly new address and name. Errors within Blogger caused erasure, and I was forced to reconfigure everything.<br />http://beyond221bbakerstreetredux.blogspot.com/2016/11/the-triumph-of-caesar-by-steven-saylor.html<br />RTDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17113953356514605424noreply@blogger.com