Daring Rocket» night http://daringrocket.com a lot goes on forever Sat, 31 Jul 2010 07:46:35 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Walpurgisnacht http://daringrocket.com/2010/04/walpurgisnacht http://daringrocket.com/2010/04/walpurgisnacht#comments Sat, 01 May 2010 03:05:01 +0000 george http://daringrocket.com/?p=2609 Walpurgisnacht

Stefan Eggeler (1922)

Walpurgisnacht

Stefan Eggeler (1922)

Walpurgisnacht

Stefan Eggeler (1922)

Walpurgisnacht

Stefan Eggeler (1922)

Tonight is Walpurgisnacht, and these illustrations are from Gustav Meyrink’s Walpurgisnacht. The Times reviewed it thusly:

It is 1917. Europe is torn apart by war, Russia in the grip of revolution, the Austro-Hungarian Empire on the brink of collapse. It is Walpurgisnacht, springtime pagan festival of unbridled desire. In this volcanic atmosphere, in a Prague of splendor and decay, the rabble prepare to storm the hilltop castle, and Dr Thaddaeus Halberd, once the court physician, mourns his lost youth. Phantasmagorical prose, energetically translated, marvelously evokes past and present, personal and political, a devastated world.

Yes, it has been one of those weeks.

/via A Journey Round My Skull

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J. S. Bach, “Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit.” Sonatina, BWV 106 (Actus tragicus)

Transcribed for four hands by György Kurtág.
Performed on upright piano by Márta Kurtág and György Kurtág

[Via Alex Ross]

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