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Happy belated birthday from me, too, dear tim. You are a gentle, caring and lovable soul and I - like so many others - thank you for sharing your work here ❤️

Indeed this shows your empathy but it is also so well-ordered. I'm not sure why you write "The problem is me and how I look at things" - everyone has their unique perspective, and it should be valued (if it's not healthy, one should try to change something, of course, and even when I write "but often it is just different", this seems like too much because in a way, we are all less different when we think).

Thank you for answering so fast, @Thorn Wilde That helps - it's some time ago that I read Genesis and I wasn't able to find it on the internet. The second meaning - never heard of it. Interesting! And I just wanted to know an appoximate date, so 1986 is helpful. This is definitely something I wouldn't have discovered without this website, so thank you again for presenting it here. Have a nice evening

Sorry, I can't resist - not by Orff but Carmina Burana; also an interesting text, of course:

Wonderful, Thorn ❤️ Thank you!! I love both the poem (for which I need a translation, of course) and the music. The poem seems to describe the stillness which exists in the snow and in nature, but it is not like a dead silence but makes the two lovers feel their closeness all the more (?), and there is also the wind and the fire. If I may ask: Is there a special meaning to "Jacob's ladders"? And could you tell me when the poem and the music (by Egil Monn-Iversen, right?) were written?

Wonderful!! I see that I have much to learn about poetry... and even with not much time one can - and must - always pause for a moment to read a gem like this And thank you for introducing me to the poetry of Oliver Wendell Holmes.

When I read that Domenico Zipoli died in Argentina in 1726, I thought of someone else: William Hamilton Bird might have been born some years later than Zipoli died, but he also wrote compositions for the harpsichord and traveled to the other end of the world, so to speak - in his case, India. That's where the structural parallels between these two men end, though, because he was interested in Indian music and integrated this influence in his 1789 "The Oriental Miscellany" (whereas Zipoli seems to have "only" imported European music to America). I like Jane Chapman's CD from 2015 very much

Ohhh - thank you. I haven't heard of him until now, and what an interesting person he is - another Domenico from the 1680ies with a love for keys. His pieces don't sound as hard to play as some of Scarlatti's sonatas are. Cristofori's piano certainly sounds wonderful and we are very lucky that it can still be heard. For me, it sounds mainly like an uncommonly strong clavichord with a homogenuous quality of tone. And of course I see the logic in playing these pieces on this contemporary instrument; I don't know if the composer knew of it but he might well have tried to play his compo

I loved the rhythm, too. Especially the last stanza is surprising and leaves much to dwell upon... But even the thoughts about the outward signs of the man's older age are so exceptional, so to the point - they are signs one has seen onself but has never been able to put together like this.

Totally not too obtuse... but thank you @Mikiesboy for the description-explanation because I was wondering whether I grasped the meaning correctly

Hi again, all of you. I had the most funny and nice experience in the last hours: When I was here in the DiC earlier, I was on a train, even an interregional train (they usually have Wifi in Germany now), about 3 hours from home and had a longer journey behind me. When I looked up from my computer and looked at the face of a person who was going through the wagon, I was confused at first and then realized it was a friend of my husband and me! We had a nice conversation for the rest of our journey, he was coming directly from the other direction than I had come, and we met in in a train ho

Me too Well, I've only read the first four of the vampire chronicles and three of her other books but Interview with the Vampire is still one of my favourite books ever.

Um, yeah... that answers my question, at least mostly - sorry But I guess I was just so happy to read that you know his books.