Sometimes, in the interests of zest for life,
we must beautifully go bonkers.
we must beautifully go bonkers.
Beautifully Going Bonkers with Soprano Barbara Hannigan
“The piece that raised this concert to an unforgettable climax was Mysteries of the Macabre, an arrangement of three soprano arias from György Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre made by Elgar Howarth, who conducted the opera’s premiere in 1978. Dressed in dark wig, leather coat, fishnets and PVC, like a cross between Berg’s Lulu and Madonna, Barbara Hannigan both sang and directed in a tour de force of performance and vocal brilliance. It was just as well that it finished the evening: nothing played afterwards could have lived up to it.” Guardian, 02 December 2010
God of Exuberance,
Do you ever go bonkers? Do you ever grow weary of self-righteous smugness and sanitized purity, especially among men in power?
Do you ever feel a little transgressive, like you need to break down boundaries in music, in art, in society, in life?
Life is not meant to be embalmed, says the philosopher Whitehehead. Is this true?
If so, I worry that we humans have fallen into self-emballment. We call it sanity but it drives me crazy. I’m feeling annoyed, unbalanced, crackbrained, and offensive?
Maybe Jesus felt this way when he turned over the tables in the temple or healed on the sabbath.
In the house of love, is there room for bonkerdom? Do you find it beautiful, too?
I thought so. I love you.
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