For John Lennon, Aretha Franklin and Elizabeth Edwards: Brahms: How lovely is thy dwelling place.

[CTyankee]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZcxpl30NOw

May it give you peace as it does me...

[UndertheOcean]

1. lovely

[DemocratSinceBirth]

2. Aretha Franklin Passed Away

?

[malaise]

3. No but the prognosis is not good

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x9728222

[tekisui]

5. It was announced today that she has pancreatic cancer.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

6. I Know But Shouldn't We Wait Before Mourning Her

~

[dixiegrrrrl]

7. ohhh...NOT good.

I had not heard.
Damn.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. This is so beautiful...

It reminds me that for all our wicked ways, and tumult in our world, there is still much that is good and beautiful!

We can make a place that is wonderful, and Brahms did just that...

Thank you for posting...

Recommended.

[CTyankee]

12. Art always saves you, it has been said...and I believe it...thank you, Peggy...

I know you understand...

[NC_Nurse]

8. And my Mom. She passed away one week ago.

Very beautiful. Thank you.

[CTyankee]

10. My husband played it for me when I returned, crushed, from my brother's funeral service.

He died very suddenly in Texas. I had not the time to see him before he died...I was in complete emotional morass.

I am so sorry for your mother. I wish you peace and understanding...it is so HARD...

[NC_Nurse]

15. Thank you, it is hard even though we knew it was coming.

[malaise]

19. Losing parents is heartbreaking

but losing a sibling is worse.

[CTyankee]

23. Thanks. It was a terrible shock and I got the news in a terrible way.

I felt like I had been pushed in front of an oncoming truck...

After my husband played the REquiem I asked him to play it again. I was sitting on our back porch, looking out at the back yard...beautiful, leafy and green in the late June afternoon...and the shock lifted...a moment of understanding came, certainly not complete but enough to help me go on...

[no_hypocrisy]

11. I'm very sorry for your loss.

Mothers leave a hole in your heart when they leave.

[NC_Nurse]

Indeed. Thanks for the thoughts.

[malaise]

18. Deepest sympathy

:grouphug:

[Dappleganger]

32. Big hugs to you.

:hug:

[Lint Head]

9. I am in tears.

Thank you.

[blondeatlast]

13. Amoment of beauty and sanity for us all. May God be with Aretha

in her journey.

I'm crying with joy and sadness now and it feels so good, actually.

Thank you.

[CTyankee]

14. This is such a beautiful piece...I play it when I am down...

when a dear family member died suddenly last May I was in shock and grief for a long time. I played this to help me get out of it because I knew I had to. It was difficult but I managed. I cannot tell you how much Brahms has meant in my life...

[Coventina]

16. Hi CTyankee, thanks for this! I'm listening with tears. My 87 year old

grandmother (who, for the moment is in good health aside from her eyesight) has already picked this out for her funeral.

It is a heavenly piece of music.

Off topic, but I was wondering if you had ever posted the answers to your art challenge a few weeks ago? I was just wondering how poorly I did.

:hi:

on edit: Otto Klemplerer was one of the greatest conductors of the 20th century, imho.

[CTyankee]

17. I did but I don't still have it. I'll try to reconstruct it here:

I do remember that # 1 was Chagall by Irving Penn. I think #2 was Cy Twombly by Rauschenberg, the woman is Berthe Morisot by Manet, the artist with the birds is Matisse by Cartier-Bresson, it is Giacometti with the hand by Gordon Parks, and the last one is Brancusi (self portrait).

I have to take this opportunity to tell you that I have obtained one of the books you recommended that I read on modern art: "The ARt of the Avant-gardes" by Edwards and Wood. It is fabulous. I am learning so much and thank you! It is like taking one of those art courses you absolutely LOVE, only I have to do it on my own...oh, well...

I have a good one for this Friday's afternoon challenge question if you're game...

[Coventina]

20. Oh! So glad to hear that! I LOVE that book as well, I use it as a textbook

when I teach early 20th century art.

My favorite parts of the book are the Introduction, Chapters 1-3, Chapters 5-8 and 10-14 (so almost the whole book, LOL!).

The stuff on Cubism and semiotics is simply mind-blowing. I could almost feel my brain growing when I read that section for the first time..

on edit: oops, left out the important word of "brain" from the last sentence!

:dunce:

[CTyankee]

21. I'm making my way thru it front to back. I'm in Expressionism now.

The Introduction was great. I have learned so much of the background and history of this important era. I see that it is one of a series...I am interested in getting the other books thru my public library inter-library system. Hopefully, they will be available after I read this one.

[Coventina]

22. I own 3 of the 4. I don't have "Themes in Contemporary Art"

"Varieties of Modernism" is also very good.
Although I own "Frameworks for Modern Art" I haven't had a chance to read it yet. I bought it simply because I loved the other two so much.

Keep me posted on your progress through the book, I'd love to hear a non-student perspective. Most of my students complain about it as being too difficult to understand. It definitely is brain-stretching stuff.

[CTyankee]

25. Have them try "Cezanne's Doubt" by Merleau-Ponty....that'll put their brains

in intensive care. It's a difficult, but absolutely wonderful, exegesis on Cezanne's "way of seeing." Really an extraordinary essay...

I'll be happy to keep you posted. I am a lifelong Liberal Studies student, having gone back to school in late life for my M.A.L.S. only 12 years ago, graduating in 2003. I'm not finished yet with my learning process...and art is now my passion...

[Coventina]

26. ooo! I'll have to read that. It sounds great! Thanks!

:thumbsup:

And my future students thank you as well!

:evilgrin:

[CTyankee]

28. You can get it on google. A real "think piece." Important.

[Coventina]

29. Found and bookmarked! (Too late to start reading tonight)

Thanks!

:pals:

[CTyankee]

30. Yep, I have to read it again...it's "chewy." I have the highlighting pen out...

[DemoTex]

24. To which I add Bach's "Actus Tragicus BWV 106"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyP-rsStojM

[CTyankee]

27. Thank you! It is a piece I don't know...I love this discovery...

what are the circumstances of Bach's writing it?

[DemoTex]

31. I've always loved "Actus Tragicus"

And I thought it was written at the death of a dear family member of Bach. Wikipededia says differently. I do not really know.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottes_Zeit_ist_die_allerbeste_Zeit,_BWV_106

On edit: But your Brahms selection is the pluperfectmentiussimmo! Thanks. Wonderful.