He could hear laughing, familiar voices calling his name. "Adam, Adam, Papa, Papa come it's about to start!' He saw them in a bright clearing, his beloved Eve, his sons it was like nothing had changed. Smiling faces surrounded them, it seemed to be some kind of festival. Eve smiled taking his hand, leading him to a dancing circle. They stood hand in hand beginning to move and hop in circles with the group, laughter all around them.
He seemed to be in a trace from where you were standing. You watch horrified as he jumps, and twirls into the roots, brambles and thorns around him. Each one cutting into his bare skin, his feet quickly being shredded by the sharp rocks underneath them. You run down calling his name, crying for him to stop, but it doesn't reach his ears. Soon you can't get any closer, the thorns are too thick.
He huffs and puffs, his legs and feet feel like they're on fire, Eve is still looking into his eyes laughing and leading him on. He can't stop, the pulls of the others inside the circle are too strong. The laughter grows as he's spun faster and faster. Soon everything in front of him is just a blur, he sees nothing but blob like shapes as the laughter fills his ears. A shadowy figure emerges grabbing him and pushing him back.
He collapses onto the ground body adorned with so many cuts, the blood dripping down looks almost like a cloak, his feet painted red. he can only look up and try to catch his breath, the laughter still echoing in his mind...ROO's laughter.
im currently listening to jotas and it makes me so mad that you search 'jota aragonesa' on youtube and all you get is la jota de la dolores, which is a zarzuela made up of all of the aragonese stereotypes that you can imagine, calling us stupid simpletons and hard-headed, all while being plagued with spanish nationalism. and the songs werent even composed by aragonese musicians
The Violinist takes a bow once the ending to the song she plays fades out. , "Thank you, thank you!" Ismael says, laughing as the pixies and her one single audience claps and dances about, "I'll be here all week!" More like she's not going anywhere for as long as the Stars will have her!
"I'm glad you enjoyed the music." When she straightens herself up, she's placing the violin down carefully,
"Hey, but you really can dance! You wanna do a duet kinda thing with me with another song?"
OTD in Music History: Composer and concert pianist Pantaleon Enrique Joaquin Granados Campina (1867 - 1916) -- better known as Enrique Granados -- drowns in the frigid waters of the English Channel, after his passenger ferry is torpedoed by a German U-boat as part of Germany's WWI policy of unrestricted submarine warfare.
One survivor reported that Granados actually made it into a lifeboat… but then heroically dived back into the water in a futile attempt to save his wife. Ironically, the part of the ferry that housed the Granados family never sunk; almost all of the passengers who were bunked in that section survived, except for Granados and his wife, who just happened to be strolling on the opposite side of the boat when it was hit. They left behind six children.
Granados is remembered today for his epic piano suite "Goyescas" (1911), a set of six difficult concert showpieces based on paintings by Francisco Goya (1746 -1828). “Goyescas” was an immediate hit, and Granados was encouraged to expand it into an opera, which premiered in New York in January 1916 and was very well received.
Based on the success of that premiere, Granados was then invited to perform a private piano recital for President Woodrow Wilson in Washington, DC. His acceptance of this honor delayed his planned return to Europe, thus placing him and his wife on the doomed ferry vessel. (The opera version of “Goyescas” is no longer performed.)
PICTURED: A 1903 autograph letter written by Granados to a friend on the stationary of his private music school -- the "Academia Granados" -- regarding musical matters.
That same year, Granados participated in a composition competition at the Madrid Royal Conservatory, submitting his "Allegro de concierto" (Op. 46) which earned the prize and catapulted him into musical stardom.
I have come to the conclusion that a lot of modern video games are suffering the same issues that modern movies do with their soundtracks:
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The exceptions seem to be from indies or the big corp "throwaway" titles, so I wonder if it's more the same of "must appeal to the masses" vs "tell a story" thing.