Mayday Serendipity

Hey it is the first of May, you know what begins today.

So this work seems appropriate.

Enjoy, no matter how you celebrate today, Jack

Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune (L. 86), known in English as Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, is a symphonic poem for orchestra by Claude Debussy, approximately 10 minutes in duration. It was composed in 1894 and first performed in Paris on 22 December 1894.

The composition was inspired by the poem L’après-midi d’un faune by Stéphane Mallarmé. It is one of Debussy’s most famous works and is considered a turning point in the history of Western art music. Pierre Boulez considered the score to be the beginning of modern music, observing that “the flute of the faun brought new breath to the art of music.

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A translation of the French poem that inspired Debussy

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39 thoughts on “Mayday Serendipity”

  2. The Crazy Woman
    by Gwendolyn Brooks

     

    I shall not sing a May song.
    A May song should be gay.
    I’ll wait until November
    And sing a song of gray.

  3. The 2022 White House Correspondents’ Dinner at the Washington Hilton was one for the books as President Joe Biden and comedian Trevor Noah, who was the featured entertainer this year, both poked fun at the Republican Party, former President Donald Trump, the pandemic and the press.

  6. looks like nancy & co. had other plans last night

    wapo:

    House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) made an unannounced visit to Kyiv with Democratic lawmakers, meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the first official congressional delegation to Ukraine since the Russian invasion. Pelosi pledged support for Ukraine, telling Zelensky that “our commitment is to be there for you until the fight is done.”
    Pelosi, the highest-ranking U.S. official to visit Kyiv during the war, walked the streets of Ukraine’s capital with House lawmakers, including Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam B. Schiff (Calif.), Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Gregory W. Meeks (N.Y.) and Rules Committee Chairman Jim McGovern (Mass.). The delegation, met Zelensky on Saturday evening local time, and has now left Ukraine for Poland. The trip had not been announced before Zelensky shared visuals on Sunday. “Thank you for helping to protect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of our state!” he wrote on Twitter.

    https://www.cnn.com/europe/live-news/russia-ukraine-war-news-05-01-22/h_b1721920844a1b71d6e6fbcaa5480aa1

    “We are visiting you to say thank you for your fight for freedom, that we’re on a frontier of freedom and that your fight is a fight for everyone,” Pelosi said to Zelensky in the clip. “And so our commitment is to be there for you until the fight is done.”
    The trip to Kyiv by Pelosi, who is second in line to succeed the president, signals a significant measure of commitment to supporting Ukraine from the most senior level of US leadership.
    “Our Congressional Delegation had the solemn opportunity and extraordinary honor of meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other top Ukrainian officials in Kyiv,” according to the news release.
    “Our delegation conveyed our respect and gratitude to President Zelenskyy for his leadership and our admiration of the Ukrainian people for their courage in the fight against Russia’s oppression.”  
    Pelosi was joined by several other senior members of Congress, including Gregory Meeks of New York, the chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, and Adam Schiff of California, the chairman of the Intelligence Committee.
    “When we return to the United States, we will do so further informed, deeply inspired and ready to do what is needed to help the Ukrainian people as they defend democracy for their nation and for the world,” the release ends. 

  8. We celebrated May Day, until the gqp got their drawers wedged into their rears and declared we were celebrating communism.  At least for my family it is Vappu day.

  9. BB, use to be may 1st was time to dance around the maypole or march in labor day parades or for a young man’s fancies to stray …

     

  10. I don’t know if I want a bunch of virgins tying their ribbons to my maypole.

  12. volodymyr sure gets around these days. he must do an interview with outside media every day in addition to his daily message to the ukrainian people. this is different from the one scott pelley did with him a couple of weeks ago.

  13. I guess if you don’t want young nymphs dancing around your maypole or playing your flute then you can join the communist and have a serious celebration of hard honest workers, who don’t have time for such nonsense.
    Jack

  16. Saw  a story about the logistics  from Dover AFB .  Loading 3,000 155 mm rounds on a private 747  cargo plane.  It’s on the ground in Poland now. (?)
    We are about to see what those Russians know about radar controlled  counter battery fire. 
    First time they’ve come up against that  ever. 
    Much talk about the May 9th  festivities  in Red Square ,  IE what will Putin do ? 
    My question  is what will President “Z” do ? 
     
     

  17. Watched  Dr.  Lucy Worsely’s  program on the fall of the Romanoff’s  last night.  She ends with Putin bringing them back to Russian myth , because of the idea of empire.  On May 9th Lenin’s tomb is covered up. 
     
    He doesn’t want to be Stalin , he wants to  be Czar .
     
    Then this morning CBS ran a story about  how the war has split the the Orthodox Church. 
    Turns out that old man in Moscow running that branch may have been KGB , and may be worth a Billion dollars. 
    Gas Powered Gangsters. 
     
     
     

  18. The James Webb Space Telescope is fully aligned and ready to observe the universe

    https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/28/world/james-webb-space-telescope-alignment-scn/index.html

    There is pressure to change the name , because of what  Webb thought and did back in the  60’s .   
     
    But Webb saved NASA when congress was ready to pull it’s plug. 
     
     
    That’s why it got it’s name. 
     
    Here’s the  issue –
     

    New Revelations Raise Pressure on NASA to Rename the James Webb Space Telescope
    E-mailed exchanges show the space agency’s internal struggle to address pleas to change the controversial name of its latest, greatest observatory

     
    https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-revelations-raise-pressure-on-nasa-to-rename-the-james-webb-space-telescope/

     

     
     

  20. Immigrants  –
     
    The CEO  of that company that makes those  tank killer drones is from Afghanistan.  He watched Russian helos being shot out of the sky by “Stingers”. 

  21. I  just wrote  yet another deep insight into the state of our world,  and right on que this site ate it. 
    Clearly the universe is trying to tell me something.
     
    A. I need to hone my thinking or –
     
    B. I’m full of horse shit
     
    I fear the “B” is at work.  

  23. There is a quote  from Hitler on the eve of  Operation Barbarosa , where he thought  the whole rotten mess would collapse.  If he kicked in the door. 
    Putin kicked  Ukraine’s door , and the whole rotten mess is about to collapse. 
    The Russian Bear  is headed for the Antique  Roadshow. 
     
    And if he does something really stupid. We’ll kill him in a heartbeat.  And everyone around him. 
    Every morning these  ducks should wake up with their  GPS  readings  sent from Langley, VA. 
    Get in the Bears head. 
     
    Pull his teeth , make him scared, fill his mind with fear.  
     
     

  25. I completely agree with Craig from a couple of days ago.  Waiting out the armed conflict in Ukrain no longer seems like the best option
    there will be nothing left and all the people will be living else where 

  28. Guts –
    In the end , and I see it from here,  life  is a matter of guts.
     
    Not brains , or luck but guts,  and the heart to carry on. 
    All living things  hold this in common. 
     
    Life has guts. 
     

  31. As  a lover  of the past , I am rather -sick of rich people buying up all of it. 
     
    This  one they can’t buy.

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