#jaqueline-du-pre

[beyourselfchulanmaria]

Listen to 回憶如風 Memories like the wind II, a playlist by chu-lan-maria on #SoundCloud

生命由具有最高意義的、罕見的、單一時刻和無數的音程組成，在這些中場休息時刻，間歇的暗影充其量在我們周圍盤旋。 愛、春天、每一個優美的旋律，群山、月亮、大海，所有一切都只有一次真心傾訴：即使它永遠不再說了。 因為許多人根本沒有這些音程片段，他們自己只是現實生活交響樂中的間歇和休止符。

Life consists of rare single moments of the highest significance and innumerable intervals in which at best the shadows of those moments hover around us. Love, spring, every beautiful melody, the mountain, the moon, the sea, everything speaks only once truly to the heart: even if it never comes to speak. For many men do not have those moments at all and are themselves intervals and pauses in the symphony of real life.

─ Friedrich Nietzsche 尼采 (1844-1900) 德國的哲學家、詩人、文化批評家、古典語言學家和作曲家。💕

(PS. I don’t own any music and songs right, I just make the playlist for listening easily and enjoy all musicians your works and love to share it only. all copyright belongs to musician & singer. If you want me do delete yours from the playlist, please tell me then I will do it. Blessings! Thanks! Lan~*)

🪷 Ichiro Tsuruta 鶴田一郎

庭園にて 2020

(花園裡 /In the garden) 🪷

[6ebe]

Hate the tiktokification of le cygne by Saint-saëns like do you guys even know that’s the goat 😞

[casaannabel]

[misscrawfords]

3, 35 and 40 for the book ask :)

3. Already answered!

35. What do you think of Ebooks?

Mixed feelings. I much prefer physical copies of books. However, I am a book borrower not a book buyer and my library is extremely slow at getting new books, especially more obscure books not originally published in the UK, if it gets them at all. And then there's a really long waiting list. So I see online there's a new diverse romance come out I want to read - chances of my library getting anytime soon are practically nil. I started borrowing or buying ebooks which are cheaper and reading on my phone - not a lot but enough that I finally bought a Kindle last month. Do I feel good supporting Amazon? No. But it did seem like the best way to be able to read certain books and I was getting tired of reading a lot on my phone - a Kindle has better visibility. I can also see the benefits when travelling. Don't worry though - 90% of what I read is still paperbacks. If I had a choice I'd always go for that.

40. Has there ever been a book you wish you could un-read?

Yes, actually. Two spring to mind, both from my childhood. The first was a totally age-appropriate story about a boy, possibly called Luke, whose brother had leukemia. It was one of those children/YA (I guess it would be Middle Grade these days) books with a Worthy Theme that Kids Might Relate To to Help Them With Difficult Stuff. Not my sort of book even then but for some reason I got hold of it. It really, really upset me. I started becoming terrified of getting cancer, of someone I loved getting cancer, of dying, of loved ones dying...

The second was a biography of the cellist Jaqueline du Pre that my uncle bought me as a present when I was 10. My uncle has a habit of misjudging presents but I didn't know that and while this wasn't a kid's book, I guess it looked innocuous enough. This may seem totally different to the above book but it really isn't. Du Pre developed the condition of MS and the biography went into detail about her condition and its effect on her life including her sex life (which I found morbidly fascinating without really understanding it) and eventually her decline and death. Like the above book, this absolutely grabbed me and obsessed me and scared me.

Basically, I cannot engage with fiction that deals with terminal illness, especially cancer. I just can't. I can't watch medical dramas - I can't even deal with Call the Midwife! To this day I will not read any book that has this kind of plotline or theme. All through my teenage years, I refused to read any book that didn't have a happy ending. It was only when studying Greek forced me to engage with Greek tragedy that I started to let in a couple of "sad stories". Even now I will always take happy endings over sad ones, I avoid angst and I never touch misery porn stories. I can deal with the genre of Tragedy (as in Greek or Shakespeare) because it is not so much sad as inevitable, if you get the difference. Chekhov is on a very thin line. In real life too I find terminal illness, hospitals, doctors really awful, more than is normal, I think. A lot of my friends at school wanted to become doctors - I would do literally any other career. It's my nightmare. Whether my horror of these things came before these two books or not I don't know, but I do remember they had a really profound and negative effect on me and I really wish I hadn't read them at that point in my life.

[nothing-but-paisley]

People I’d like to get to know better

Tagged by @atomic0range (thank you for the tag!!)

Last song: Elgar cello concerto in E minor, op. 85 performed by Jaqueline du Pre. I like classical/ambient music or post rock when I work because lyrics distract me

Favorite color: black or black and white for clothes. I love pretty much all deep, richly saturated colors, especially reds, teals, and orange/golds.

Currently watching: the new season of Fargo. It's pretty fun!

Last movie / show: May December. Deeply campy, tragicomic. Persona meets Valley of the Dolls vibes. Still not really sure what to make of it.

Spicy / savory / sweet: Savory and Spicy! I have the opposite of a sweet tooth lol. I have to cut out like 25% of the sugar whenever I make cookies or something.

Last thing you googled: The fragrance notes in Lolita Lempicka perfume to add to my upsettingly complicated perfume fetish spreadsheet.

I think everyone has been tagged now, but please participate if you feel the urge 🖤

[fuck-you-upmusicbracket]

If I could submit some additional tragedy to the Elgar Cello Concerto: this particular performance was by Jaqueline Du Pre who has a fascinating but sad story and who popularized this song. She was a child prodigy who has some of the most gorgeous recordings. She was a world sensation and traveling and performing at 20 and she had a romance with a still very famous pianist and conductor, Barenboim. But when she was around 25 years old, her playing began to decline and she was diagnosed with MS. She shortly thereafter lost her ability to play because of a lack of sensation in her fingers and died when she was only 42.

^^^^

[zoeflake]

Jaqueline Du Pre - Jacqueline's Tears (Jacques Offenbach)

[schu-pinn]

Rest in peace Jaqueline du Pré, a cello goddess

[apdistractions]

Jaqueline Du Pre

[lifetimeinafist]

Jaqueline du Pré playing the Dvoràk Cello Concerto so hard she breaks a string a few bars into the final movement. 

[humongousfanhologram]

Jaqueline Du Pre - Jacqueline's Tears (Jacques Offenbach)

[yomolly]

who are your favorite musical influences?

I have a LOT but the short list would be Tchaikovsky, Leslie Gore, Jaqueline du Pre, Connie Francis, Dodie, The Supremes, Sufjan Stevens, Yoyo Ma, Taylor Swift, Fleetwood Mac, Bach, Joni Mitchell, The musical Once, Sonny & Cher, Vampire Weekend, The Moldy Peaches, Julia Kent, Sixpence None The Richer, Carole King, Yann Tiersen. Diane Warren, Harry Styles and The Weepies.

[nairaadel]

اسم المقطوعة الأصلي les larmes de jacqueline

ودي مفروض النسخة بتاعت التشيلو مع الأوركسترا..

المهم أن دي واحدة من أقرب المقطوعات إلى قلبي، وكل ما بفقد قدرتي على البكاء بحب اسمعها جدا، لأن الموسيقى عندها القدرة على التعبير عن أدق تفاصيل مشاعرنا بدون كلام.. وأعتقد لأجل تلك المقطوعة كُتِبت تلك الكلمات لعمنا حداد

" لا عندي دموع أعيط

ولا عندي جناح أطير..

في قلبي ثُقل الجبل ..ورِقة العصافير"

وأنا الليلة لا أجد أبلغ من تلك المقطوعة وتلك الأبيات لوصفي.

[thelostdreamsthings]

Jaqueline Du Pre - Jacqueline's Tears (Jacques Offenbach)