Comments on: Rachmaninoff’s Vespers http://patterico.com/2006/11/12/rachmaninoffs-vespers/ Harangues that just make sense Tue, 02 Dec 2008 14:24:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Pansy http://patterico.com/2006/11/12/rachmaninoffs-vespers/#comment-107146 Pansy Tue, 14 Nov 2006 20:27:04 +0000 http://patterico.com/2006/11/12/5380/rachmaninoffs-vespers/#comment-107146 Tchaikovsky's Liturgy of Saint John Chrysostom is also splendid, and little known here . Bulgarian lyturgical music is out of this world too, and almost impossible to find in the West. There so much beauty out there, in the Orthodox East, that Americans know little about. Tchaikovsky’s Liturgy of Saint John Chrysostom
is also splendid, and little known here .
Bulgarian lyturgical music is out of this world too, and almost impossible to find in the West.

There so much beauty out there, in the Orthodox East, that Americans know little about.

]]> By: DRJ http://patterico.com/2006/11/12/rachmaninoffs-vespers/#comment-106176 DRJ Mon, 13 Nov 2006 04:46:17 +0000 http://patterico.com/2006/11/12/5380/rachmaninoffs-vespers/#comment-106176 Life is very, very good. Life is very, very good.

]]> By: nk http://patterico.com/2006/11/12/rachmaninoffs-vespers/#comment-106132 nk Mon, 13 Nov 2006 02:38:50 +0000 http://patterico.com/2006/11/12/5380/rachmaninoffs-vespers/#comment-106132 We just came back from the Barnum & Bailey "Wriggling" Brothers Circus. We had front row, center of the ring seats. We were given celebrity passes, put into "magic boats" and were part of the show for a time. You're right, Patterico. Life is good. Or as Bruce Springsteen sang, "It ain't no sin to be glad you're alive". We just came back from the Barnum & Bailey “Wriggling” Brothers Circus. We had front row, center of the ring seats. We were given celebrity passes, put into “magic boats” and were part of the show for a time. You’re right, Patterico. Life is good. Or as Bruce Springsteen sang, “It ain’t no sin to be glad you’re alive”.

]]> By: Alan Cole http://patterico.com/2006/11/12/rachmaninoffs-vespers/#comment-106042 Alan Cole Sun, 12 Nov 2006 23:05:47 +0000 http://patterico.com/2006/11/12/5380/rachmaninoffs-vespers/#comment-106042 Truly, that music is beautiful. Right after you mentioned it in The Pontifications last summer, I sprang for a (half.com) CD recording -- same performance as the 1 mentioned in your July 31 Pontification. I suspect hearing that music in live performance will be a transforming experience -- unless the sound is just so sweet that it transports you off to dreamland with its transcendent power. -- Alan Cole, McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA. Truly, that music is beautiful. Right after you mentioned it in The Pontifications last summer, I sprang for a (half.com) CD recording — same performance as the 1 mentioned in your July 31 Pontification. I suspect hearing that music in live performance will be a transforming experience — unless the sound is just so sweet that it transports you off to dreamland with its transcendent power.

– Alan Cole, McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.

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