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Molly Lamb Bobak‘s painting is featured with permission from La Galerie Walter Klinkhoff, Montreal
Sorry, I did not deliver yesterday’s paper.
I was busy writing on Germaine Guèvremont. I liked Guèvremont’s Survenant more reading it this time than I did when I taught it. I now see new dimensions: bucolic. No telephone posts. No wires. It was another world.
After the great ice storm, the 1990s, the worst in recorded history, Hydro-Québec chose the expensive option. Given climatic changes, they prepared for the worst. However, we now have a lot of very thick wires.
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One can no longer embed the video featuring Rubens pictures. However, one can click on the link I have put at the bottom of this page. Just click on Peter Paul Rubens.
It is such a beautiful presentation. A gift from God to us mortals.
The music is Vivaldi’s music, his Concerto for Two Flutes, Op. 47, No. 2, Largo. Vivaldi was a priest who had red hair: he was the Red Priest. The largo. Usually the second movement of a concerto is a slow tempo. Here we have a largo, which is a slow tempo. The third or last movement has a faster tempo. The musicians who are performing Vivaldi’s music are the Arcangelos Chamber Ensemble and the video was assembled to help people concentrate.
Concentrate. For some, maybe. But not quite if you go into a spell of ecstasy because the music is heavenly. Music is very powerful and can therefore be therapeutic, etc. I concentrate, but on the music and the pictures.
The fusion of art and music in the privacy of one’s home is one of the internet’s finest features.
As a former university teacher, I enjoy preparing informative blogs. It takes time and effort, especially when you have problems operating machines. I used to leave the doors to my house unlocked for fear I would not be able to get back in. Keys do not always work very well. So think of me using a computer.
The effort. Do not worry. What about those persons who cannot afford to attend a university or those persons, sometimes older persons, who want to remember.
Enjoy.
© Micheline Walker 25 June 2012 WordPress Peter Paul Rubens (click on Peter Paul Rubens to see and hear the video)