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I saw Paradise

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I have been to Paradise tonight. I have rejoiced like a Walhalla generating Gods. Really. I have listened to Aldo Ciccolini at the Salle Pleyel, Saint-Saens Concerto number Four for Piano and Orchestra. Listening to that has been like flying - like a dream of a deep deep sllep, bur colored, peaceful and clear. This man has conceived and performed with such a masculine attitude and a formidable control . everything was clearest and sliding like oil in the mayonnaise. He was like swinging on the notes... Ho ascoltato Aldo Ciccolini alla Salle Pleyel stasera. Non mi era mai successo di ascoltare un concerto così, tanto più che io conosco bene Aldo, il suo modo di prendere la musica, come pensa le cose prima e mentre le suona, e quindi potevo solo intuire, dal muto prodotto finito, il pensiero e la vita che vi era maturata dietro. Il Quarto Concerto di Saint Saens è di una difficoltà tecnica spaventosa, ma nulla era rimasto dello sforzo tecnico. Lo sforzo tecnico era stato sciacq...
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Drunkenness and truth

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Drunkenness . Withdrawal of awareness. Lowering barriers. Yesterday night, a Friday night of course, in a warm Northern city full of ghosts, I wandered on buses and buses together with a drunk man. We were heading home. His colleague had tried to put hands on my hips, unsuccessfully - I had seen flows of coppery spirit flow in their throats - they smelled of strawberry as there was red bull in them. Strawberry and liquorice: Jaegermeister . He was already a bit high, but in control - he lost awareness in 11 minutes by drinking extremely fast and taking others' drinks. I guess that you compensate the tolerance of alcohol with the heightened ability to swallow fast - so you can get drunk anyway. I could not swallow a pint of water in 15 seconds, as he did with beer, shots and spirits. The volume of the music was high, he tried to get two pints of beer after the bar closed. He pissed on the street, graciously, while I was throwing away one of them. His irides were a bit ...
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Elisir d'Amore - ROH 23/11/2012

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Elisir d'Amore at the Royal Opera House - Covent Garden tonight. Godd singers, good orchestra- above all Donizetti is a great composer. Some remarks on the interpreters and the production Roberto Alagna was never in the time - always weigthing on the poor orchestra, and acting as the childish field worker of his personnage - overly long notes (we are not in Neapolitan song!), stupid messing up with the conductor at the end, whom he made wear his farmer's hat...! Aleksandra Kursak Adina has an incredible easiness in complex and rapid note sequences, and normally una buona intonaziona, ma, stranamente, sulle note lunghe è sempre crescente - disturba abbastanza. Dulcamara molto bravo, preciso, a tempo, n personaggio non di spicco ma molto giusto nel suo ruolo di bonaccione truffatore. Coro straordinario, soprattutto femminile, nel secondo atto quando "zitto, zitto" rivela che Nemorino è diventato ricco. Come sempre, con l'opera buffa italiana i produttori r...
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