Leonard Cohen: Alexandra Leaving – with Sharon Robinson, great songs/interpretation

Leonard Cohen: Alexandra Leaving – with Sharon Robinson

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Leonard Cohen – Alexandra Leaving -The Book of longing_FotoSketcher_FotoSketcher (Click to enlarge)

As someone long prepared for the occasion;
In full command of every plan you wrecked—
Do not choose a coward’s explanation
that hides behind the cause and the effect,

You who were bewildered by a meaning,
whose code was broken, crucifix uncrossed—
Say goodbye to Alexandra leaving.
Then say goodbye to Alexandra lost.

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Leonard Cohen – The Book of Longing

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from  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/3655546/Poems-by-Leonard-Cohen.html

The book of longing

I can’t make the hills
The system is shot
I’m living on pills
For which I thank G-d
I followed the course
From chaos to art
Desire the horse
Depression the cart
I sailed like a swan
I sank like a rock
But time is long gone
Past my laughing stock
My page was too white
My ink was too thin
The day wouldn’t write
What the night pencilled in
My animal howls
My angel’s upset
But I’m not allowed
A trace of regret
For someone will use
What I couldn’t be
My heart will be hers
Impersonally
She’ll step on the path
She’ll see what I mean
My will cut in half
And freedom between
For less than a second
Our lives will collide
The endless suspended
The door open wide
Then she will be born
To someone like you
What no one has done
She’ll continue to do
I know she is coming
I know she will look
And that is the longing
And this is the book

Leonard Cohen, Ghent, Alexandra Leaving 15-8-2012, (from the Book of Longing)

Leonard Cohen Ghent, Alexandra Leaving 15-8-2012

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Sharon Robinson sings Alexandra leaving at the Leonard Cohen Ghent concert on August 15th 2012.

*****Please read the poem ‘Alexandra Leaving’     HERE

‘I could’ve included the poem in this post but I really wanted to give my audience a chance to first read the poem and then watch the video and listen to the marvelous interpretation by Sharon Robinson.’

– Ge0rge-B. 🙂

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ALEXANDRA LEAVING, from Leonard Cohen’s ‘T h e B o o k o f L o n g i n g’

ALEXANDRA LEAVING,
from Leonard Cohen‘s

T h e  B o o k  o f  L o n g i n g

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The song Alexandra Leaving on
Ten New Songs is based on this poem.

(based on The God Abandons Antony,
a poem by Constantine P. Cavafy)

Suddenly the night has grown colder.
Some deity preparing to depart.
Alexandra hoisted on his shoulder,
they slip between the sentries of your heart.

Upheld by the simplicities of pleasure,
they gain the light, they formlessly entwine;
and radiant beyond your widest measure
they fall among the voices and the wine.

lt’s not a trick, your senses all deceiving,
a fitful dream the morning will exhaust—
Say goodbye to Alexandra leaving,
Then say goodbye to Alexandra lost.

Even though she sleeps upon your satin.
Even though she wakes you with a kiss.
Do not say the moment was imagined,
Do not stoop to strategies like this.

As someone long prepared for this to happen,
Go firmly to the window. Drink it in.
Exquisite music, Alexandra laughing.
Your first commitments tangible again.

You who had the honor of her evening,
And by that honor had your own restored—
Say goodbye to Alexandra leaving.
Alexandra leaving with her lord.

As someone long prepared for the occasion;
In full command of every plan you wrecked—
Do not choose a coward’s explanation
that hides behind the cause and the effect,

You who were bewildered by a meaning,
whose code was broken, crucifix uncrossed—
Say goodbye to Alexandra leaving.
Then say goodbye to Alexandra lost.

Hydra, Greece
September 1999

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Wine, Women and Song – Johann Strauss Jr.

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Published on Jun 7, 2014

Vienna, the waltz and the Strauss family are inseparable entities. The waltzes of Johann Strauss, Sr. evoked the air of the Viennese countryside, beer gardens and wine from the latest harvest. Those of his eldest son, Johann Jr., at first had the same rhythmic vitality and brief melodies. After 1860, however, this would change. The younger Strauss infused the traditional waltz format and sound with a new vitality and sophistication that reflected the glittery, hedonistic spirit of nineteenth century imperial Vienna. He melded the rhythmic drive of his father’s works with the lyricism of Austrian dance music composer Joseph Lanner.

Strauss, Jr. (1825-1899), known especially for his waltzes, showed remarkable skills early in his childhood, despite his father’s opposition to any career in music. Johann, Sr. wanted him to become a banker, but the younger Strauss had his own ideas, taking violin lessons in secret from a player in his father’s orchestra. When Strauss was 17 his father left the family, thus allowing him to begin serious study without encumbrance. His mother, a good amateur violinist who had always encouraged him, remained supportive.

In 1844 he led his first concert and a year later formed his own ensemble, thereby competing with his father’s orchestra. He was also writing his own quadrilles, mazurkas, polkas, and waltzes for performance by his ensemble, even conducting works by his father, and receiving praise from the press. He was given the honorary position of Bandmaster of the 2nd Vienna Citizens’ Regiment (his father was bandmaster of the 1st regiment) in 1845, and in 1847 began composing for the Vienna Men’s Choral Association. Wine, Women and Song (Wein, Weib und Gesang), published in Vienna in 1869, is a choral waltz he composed for this Association for a performance of February 2, 1869, with text by Josef Weyl.

The real success of Strauss, Jr. began in 1849 after his father Johann Strauss, Sr. died. He then merged his father’s orchestra with his own and took up his father’s contracts. His career moved along smoothly for the next several years, but in 1853 he became seriously ill and turned over conducting duties to his younger brother, Josef, for six months. After his recovery he resumed fully both his conducting and his composing activities, eventually gaining the respect of such composers as Brahms, Wagner, and Verdi for his seemingly unlimited imagination for using melodies.

Strauss married singer Henriette “Jetty” Treffz in August 1862, and they settled in Hietzing, a municipal District of Vienna. Thereafter, she became his business manager and apparently a great inspiration, drawing him toward operetta, just as Viennese theater operators were becoming tired of the works of Jacques Offenbach. His first, Indigo und die vierzig Räuber, came in 1871, and his most famous, Die Fledermaus, was staged three years later with great success. Eine Nacht in Venedig (1883) and Der Zigeunerbaron (1885) were his only other international operetta well-known works.

In 1872, he traveled to the United States and led highly successful concerts in Boston and New York. For all the success that came in the 1870, there was also much grief: his mother and brother Josef died in 1870, and his wife died suddenly of a heart attack in 1878. Her death devastated him, and the suddenly helpless composer unwisely married the much-younger actress Angelika Dittrich, six weeks later. The marriage lasted only four years, though it may have saved the composer from personal disaster in the months following his wife’s death.

Strauss, Jr., a Roman Catholic, left the church and had to give up his Austrian citizenship to marry Adele Deutsch in 1887, owing to the Church’s unwillingness to recognize his divorce. His new wife, with whom he had lived for a long period before their marriage, seemed to inspire him much like his first wife. In his last years, Johann Strauss remained quite productive and active. He was working on a ballet, Cinderella, when he developed a respiratory ailment which grew into pneumonia. He died on June 3, 1899.

Wine, Women and Song, Op.333
Performed by the Budapest Strauss Ensemble
Istvan Bogar, Conductor

BEETHOVEN Piano Trio No.7 ‘Archduke’ – E.Gilels, L.Kogan, M.Rostropovich, 1956 , great compositions/performances

BEETHOVEN Piano Trio No.7 ‘Archduke’ – E.Gilels, L.Kogan, M.Rostropovich, 1956

Emilio Pessina

Ludwig van BEETHOVEN: Piano Trio No.7 in B-flat major, Op.97 “Archduke” (1811)
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12:46 / II. Scherzo. Allegro [11’35”]
24:22 / III. Andante cantabile ma però con moto [12’06”]
36:28 / IV. Allegro moderato [6’56”]
Emil Gilels, piano
Leonid Kogan, violin
Mstislav Rostropovich, cello
(rec: Moscow, 1956)
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today’s picture: Abdication of Hawaiian Queen Liliuokalani

Abdication of Hawaiian Queen Liliuokalani

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Hawaii’s Queen Liliuokalani stepped down from the throne on January 24, 1893, to avoid any bloodshed and to pardon her supporters who had been jailed by the Provisional Government, which had asked her to abdicate. After becoming queen in 1891, Liliuokalani fought against making Hawaii a part of the United States, making her unpopular among those Hawaiians who felt they had more to gain from annexation. She believed in ‘Hawaii

Queen Liliuokalani license (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

for Hawaiians,’ and conceded less to foreign businesses and governments than her predecessors had. Five years later the U.S. Congress annexed Hawaii–without a vote from the Hawaiian people.

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Saint of the Day for Sunday, January 25th, 2015 : St. Peter Thomas

Saint of the Day for Sunday, January 25th, 2015

St. Peter Thomas

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Thinking of a song: Bob Dylan – I Pity The Poor Immigrant Great song and lyrics

I Pity the Poor Immigrant

Bob Dylan – Topic

Published on Nov 8, 2014

I Pity the Poor Immigrant

English: Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C. closeup view of vocalists Joan Baez and Bob Dylan., 08/28/1963 Español: Bob Dylan con Joan Baez en la Marcha por los Derechos Civiles en Washington, D.C. (1963) Italiano: Joan Baez e Bob Dylan durante la marcia per i diritti civili a Washington, 28 agosto 1963 Polski: Bob Dylan i Joan Baez w 1963 Deutsch: Joan Baez und Bob Dylan beim Marsch auf Washington am 28. August 1963 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Bob Dylan / Bob Dylan

℗ Originally released 1967. All rights reserved by Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment

Released on: 1967-12-27

Associated Performer, Composer, Harmonica,

English: Portrait of Allen Ginsberg and Bob Dylan by Elsa Dorfman (1975) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Lyricist, Piano, Vocal: Bob Dylan / Bob Dylan
Producer: Bob Johnston
Drums: Kenny Buttrey
Bass: Charles McCoy

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I Pity The Poor Immigrant Lyrics

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“I Pity The Poor Immigrant” is track #7 on the album John Wesley Harding. It was written by Bob Dylan.

I pity the poor immigrant
Who wishes he would’ve stayed home
Who uses all his power to do evil
But in the end is always left so alone

That man whom with his fingers cheats
And who lies with every breath
Who passionately hates his life
And likewise, fears his death

I pity the poor immigrant
Whose strength is spent in vain
Whose heaven is like Ironsides
Whose tears are like rain

Who eats but is not satisfied
Who hears but does not see
Who falls in love with wealth itself
And turns his back on me

I pity the poor immigrant
Who tramples through the mud
Who fills his mouth with laughing
And who builds his town with blood

Whose visions in the final end
Must shatter like the glass
I pity the poor immigrant
When his gladness comes to pass

Songwriters
Bob Dylan

Published by
DWARF MUSIC  (1968, 1996)

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Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous.

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today’s holiday: Festival of the Cow (2015)

Festival of the Cow (2015)

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today’s birthday: Virginia Woolf (1882) Watch “the Lighthouse” here

Virginia Woolf (1882)

A successful innovator in the form of the novel, Woolf was a significant force in 20th-century fiction. As a novelist, her chief concern was to represent the flow of ordinary experience, and she accomplished this by placing greatest emphasis not on plot or characterization but on her characters’ consciousness. Her books include Mrs. Dalloway, Jacob’s Room, and To the Lighthouse. Woolf struggled with bouts of depression and, fearing the onset of a breakdown, did what in 1941? More… Discuss
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this day in the yesteryear: Nellie Bly Goes Around the World (1890)

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Elizabeth Jane Cochran—better known by her pen name, Nellie Bly—was a pioneering investigative reporter. She feigned insanity in order to be committed to the Women’s Lunatic Asylum on New York City’s Blackwell’s Island and expose the institution’s horrific and abusive treatment methods. In 1889, she embarked on a 24,899-mile (40,071-km) journey around the world inspired by the Jules Verne novel Around the World in Eighty Days. Her trip, however, was somewhat shorter. How long did it take? More… Discuss

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Film Noir

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Film noir is a style of film characterized by low-key lighting, bleak urban settings, and corrupt, cynical characters who find themselves entangled in the criminal underworld. This dark genre, which gave rise to the film archetypes of the hardboiled private detective and the femme fatale, was especially popular in Hollywood in the 1940s. Classic examples of film noir include The Maltese Falcon and The Big Sleep. Who first coined the term film noir, and what does it mean? More… Discuss

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