[MD] Music

[Marsha]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Heather Perella" <spiritualadirondack at yahoo.com>
To: <moq_discuss at moqtalk.org>
Sent: Friday, June 20, 2008 3:15 PM
Subject: Re: [MD] Music


> Marsha,
>
>     This is very enjoyable.  I'm listening to it while I do some work on 
> the computer.  Thank you.  I'm in the beginning, so, I'm still listening 
> to Act 1.
>
>
> http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18196087
>
>
> Wagner's "Rienzi"
>
>
> second try at camping this season,
> going for sure now,
> weather says ok,
> SA
>
>
>

SA,

I don't know Rienzi, and I cannot get it to play for me.  I was exposed to 
opera when I was a very little girl by my Grandmother.  I found it again one 
Sunday morning when I heard the Overture to Parsifal on the radio.  Wagner 
was supposedly not a very nice man.  But it's hard for me to believe that 
someone who could write such spectacular music could be very, very bad.  I 
love the music.  I love the stories.  I love the language (I don't speak 
German and never read the libretto.)  I love the singing.  It's all 
wonderful.   Lots of people find it difficult to enjoy Wagner, at least at 
first.  It can be an emotional roller coaster ride.  The Italian operas are 
also wonderful.  It's tough sometimes to make the time to listen to operas. 
I don't like to put them into the background.  I like to really listen with 
full attention, and that can be 3 to 5 hours.    .

I use music.  I made a cd with 19 versions of Rainbow Connection, from Willy 
Nelson to the Carpenters to a punk group to Kermit himself.  If I'm really 
down (It doesn't happen often.) I will listen to this cd.  It's just 
impossible to stay upset when you're singing along with an imaginary frog. 
And it's such a perfect song.

Did you enjoy Rienzi?

Enjoy the camping.

Marsha