HeyJaredCastalia
Song and commentary inspired by Goethe's words, "All passing things are but a simile".
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Castalia 381 (opens the original)
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Dear Friends,I’m so happy to share with you…Moment Musical Op. 94, #3 (D 780)by Franz Peter Schubert (1797 — 1828)performed by Ishmael Wallace, pianistIt is café music; what else is it? It is a fan which opens and closes… shutters which open and close… a heart which opens and remains open.In bars 7 to 8, hear the alto:<a class="image-link image2" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WuSY!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-
Castalia 380 (opens the original)
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Dear Friends,I’m so happy to share with you…Moment Musical Op. 94, #2 (D 780)by Franz Peter Schubert (1797 — 1828)performed by Ishmael Wallace, pianistA man ventures out upon the heath and returns. A ship ventures out upon the sea and returns. One is gone an afternoon; the other, many years. It is the same pattern, but the time scale is not the same. So it is here: we hear the movement out to far, strange places, and return; again the movement out and return. But this movement out and back over
Castalia 379 (opens the original)
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Dear Friends,I’m so happy to offer you…A Full Heart for pianocomposed and performed by Ishmael WallaceOne’s heart may be blackened, orcs and Nazgûl seem to be everywhere, yet in an instant light break through, the greater world break through. One finds oneself unable to say anything but “Thank you, Father!”This piece is from 2021, from a series of album leaves composed that year. May it be a blessing for you, as it was for me!Thank you so much.With every good wish,Ishmael<p class="butt
Castalia (opens the original)
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Dear Friends,Tenant farmers displaced to make room for sheep: when I wrote of this last week, I had in mind neighbors displaced for a campus.This is something I witnessed in New York; now, I begin to find light in it, and am happy to share this light with you.More to Life20 years and half the globe away from these events, thoughts of them turn over, turn over in his mind. The thoughts move like little fish, his body cold and rigid. It is midway in the night, he believes — but as the thoughts sli
Castalia 378 (opens the original)
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Dear Friends,I’m so happy to share with you…Orpheus on the Mountain…complaining that the Gods of Erebus were pitiless, at last he wandered back, until he came to lofty Rhodope and Haemus, beaten by the strong north wind…(from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Book 10; translation by Brookes More)It is often said that he was killed by the Maenads<a class="footnote-anchor" href="#footnote-1" id="footnote-anchor-1"
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