[sunniskeptic]

W. A. Mozart - Serenade For Winds; K 361; 3rd Movement

This post has been edited by Fatema-the-resplendent: 29 January 2012 - 12:03 PM

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This post has been edited by Know-The-Ledge: 28 January 2012 - 02:17 PM

[sunniskeptic]

Mozart, Magic Flute (die Zauberflute) , aria: The Queen of the Night sung by Diana Damrau.

This amazes me every time I hear it as to what is possible with the human voice. Wow!

This post has been edited by Know-The-Ledge: 28 January 2012 - 02:16 PM

[Know-the-Ledge]

My belt loosens slowly.
Reminders of you stay fresh
in murky ponds of suffocating tadpoles.
Wake me in the morning,
when the sun shines again.
It's frightening when all I know
falls apart.
And all I know is you.
Hunger squeezes me tighter.
My soul sags with exhaustion.
Ashtrays fill with sleepless nights.
Weeping intensifies my anxiety.
Can tomorrow come without you...
here today?
The cheap chandelier falls on my face.
The rose filled lamp explodes in my hands.
Pain is unrecognizable.
All I knew was you.
You.
My love.
You came as a dream
but you left as a nightmare

[Know-the-Ledge]

I caught a
glimpse of myself
as I opened my
car door
yesterday

a face
I don't really
know
stared back at me

it looked eighty

bitter eyes
sharp lines in my
skin

a boy raped of his
innocence
I suppose

you know it's been
millions of years
since I've talked to you

I feel like you
died

let me feel the snow again
before I had to
sever you
from my side

let me hold your hand
the simplest things that
haunt me

let me pretend that
I don't really know the
truth

or better yet

let me
remember
the boy
under my skin
you
took away

[Know-the-Ledge]

Silence builds an awful wreckage of a boy
It feeds on loneliness and creates a void
Gray shadows haunt and torment and torture
A young adult is stricken and destroyed

There is no sound of laughter or happiness here
The little one has thrown in the towel today
Somber, melancholy moods decay the soul
It is futile to hope and dream and pray

Emptiness builds a home in this man
In this boy, this child where hollows have bred
A deepening sea of nowhereness consumes
And eats away at every connecting thread

Confusion feeds like a savage inside him,
Leaving nothing considered worthy remains
Destined to walk through life less ordinary
Alone, exiled, different and disdained.

[Know-the-Ledge]

Motzart is awful yara lal I'll flick through them at some point again and see if I like, but motzart is far too upbeat for me, not depressing enough.

[The-Mughal-Sister]

sunniskeptic, on 28 January 2012 - 02:14 PM, said:

Mozart, Magic Flute (die Zauberflute) , aria: The Queen of the Night sung by Diana Damrau.

This amazes me every time I hear it as to what is possible with the human voice. Wow!

She just burst my ear drums not to mention the speakers of my laptop!

I was enjoying the softer and often depressing sounds of the violins this woman is high on something!

Uff! My ears are ringing now.

......and brothers cheer up, you well are a depressing lot! lol

This post has been edited by The-Mughal-Sister: 29 January 2012 - 02:35 AM

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Lovely poems KTL. Your own?

TMS - come on, you have to be amazed by the control of her voice, its range and pitch -- and sweetness. She sings like a song-bird through the scales!

[sunniskeptic]

BTW can one of you tell me how to embed youtube videos directly into my posts? It doesn't seem to work for me--is it only a mod privilege?

[sunniskeptic]

Just to prove that the high culture of the Muslims also use to produce musical masterpieces -- here is a classical thumri/ghazal sung by Birju Maharaj set in the time of Wajid Ali Shah, the last ruler of Avadh (Oudh) from the masterpiece of cinema, Shatranj Ke Khiladi

Notice also the great classical kathak dance which was a fusion of Indian and Persian dances by the Muslims.

This post has been edited by The-Mughal-Sister: 30 January 2012 - 11:23 PM

[Fatema-the-resplendent]

sunniskeptic, on 29 January 2012 - 03:46 AM, said:

BTW can one of you tell me how to embed youtube videos directly into my posts? It doesn't seem to work for me--is it only a mod privilege?

It's really simple, go to the video on you tube you want to upload then copy the address from the bar at the top^ and paste it onto the page where you are replying. The video should appear on it. I've corrected all your posts and embedded the video into it.

That is the easiest term of explanation, hope you got it!!

BTW, you guys are very impressive with your classical music, reminds me of the lonely man rendition.

This post has been edited by Fatema-the-resplendent: 29 January 2012 - 12:04 PM

[Fatema-the-resplendent]

The following song, in trying trying to keep to the Musical element of this thread-has one of my favourite musical tempo's.

The song itself is dark and an all time favourite. I will post the words so you guys can give a meaning to what this song is about-it's very complex.



I spy something that begins with s...

On candystripe legs the spiderman comes,
Softly through the shadow of the evening sun,
Stealing past the windows of the blissfully dead,
Looking for the victim shivering in bed,
Searching out fear in the gathering gloom and suddenly!
A movement in the corner of the room!
And there is nothing I can do,
When I realize with fright,
That the spiderman is having me for dinner tonight!

Quietly he laughs and shaking his head,
Creeps closer now, closer to the foot of the bed,
And softer than shadow and quicker than flies,
His arms are around me and his tongue in my eyes,
"Be still be calm be quiet now my precious boy,
Don't struggle like that or I will only love you more,
For it's much too late to get away or turn on the light,
The spiderman is having you for dinner tonight".

And I feel like I'm being eaten,
By a thousand million shivering furry holes,
And I know that in the morning I will wake up,
In the shivering cold,
And the spiderman is always hungry...

[hidayah227]

The-Mughal-Sister, on 26 January 2012 - 12:08 AM, said:

Interesting thread.

I would like to add one piece of music which has always stuck in my head and now I've realized it has a title, 'A Time For 'Us', and some foreign guy with a complicated name to pronounce, composed the tune.

Let me know if I can join the cool classical club, cos it's feel cold out here whilst you guys are discussing violins lol

Ahhh. This one brings back some good memories. Back in the days i think it was Simon Bates on Radio 1 telling a really sad story about someone who's struggled on through life etc. etc. with this Romeo & Juliet tune playing in the background.

[sunniskeptic]

thanks :-)

Tchaikovsky, Swan Lake Waltz

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=at4TBN2iMA0

I saw the Bolshoi live at Covent Garden last year twice...and though it was expensive...it was worth every penny,
The other ballet company to see is the Kirov aka Mariinsky Ballet from St Petersburg...

[sunniskeptic]

Fatema-the-resplendent, on 29 January 2012 - 12:01 PM, said:

It's really simple, go to the video on you tube you want to upload then copy the address from the bar at the top^ and paste it onto the page where you are replying. The video should appear on it. I've corrected all your posts and embedded the video into it.

That is the easiest term of explanation, hope you got it!!

BTW, you guys are very impressive with your classical music, reminds me of the lonely man rendition.

got it at last! Thanks FTR!

[sunniskeptic]

Well not all of Mozart is 'too upbeat!' and why must music be depressing all the time?

Try this little compilation of Mozart from the movie Amadeus. Mozart's wife takes some of his music to his great rival and court musician Salieri and the music plays in the background
as he looks through each manuscript. All the emotions...

[sunniskeptic]

FTR: About Diana Damrau and the Mozart aria which 'burst your ear-drums'! -- sorry about that! But if you now go and re-listen to it...you will be amazed by
what is possible with the human voice. It is, imho, the greatest of all instruments and this aria from Mozart displays it --well, inimitably.

No wonder Rumi said,

In the rhythm of music is a Secret
If I were to disclose it--it would destroy the world.

Imam Ghazali writes that the reason people are attracted to a good voice and music is because it is a reminder of our time
before Creation, as souls before the Divine Command 'Am I not your Lord?' (Alastu...)

Well, for me, such music is 'divine'. I asked this question earlier in this thread--and I am not being facetious but it is clear
that many of us here like/love classical Western music but how do we square that with the mainstream Sunni opinion that music is 'haram'?

Let us mix music samples with intellectual discussion.

This isn't classical but it is amazing nevertheless:

BB King (the blues!) live in Kinshasha, Africa in 1974 with his electric guitar, 'Lucille' and singing Sweet Sixteen. The pain in his voice, the facial expressions,
the emotion...the music...wow!

[sunniskeptic]

Back to Classic! Tchaikovsky, Swan Lake (Overture) -- quite haunting and beautifully sad...KTL I think you will like it! Its one of my favourites.

[sunniskeptic]

and everyone must have heard this--so so lonely and sad. You need to be alone at night and thinking of life gone by...

Eric Satie, Gymnodie Number 1