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Comment on Icons of the Gowanus by Alan

Alan — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 13:26:01 +0000

Thank O’Reilly! My piece was a clumsy attempt to do that. But thank you for reading. More Gowanus images at the artist’s site: http://www.elizabethoreilly.com/paintings.html

Comment on Icons of the Gowanus by Mike Alix or Michel René Alix

Mike Alix or Michel René Alix — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 12:55:41 +0000

Your wordpiece on the O’Reilly landscape was well put together, and I agree with you that her landscape (the one shown) is visually refreshing.

Who said mimetic art (art that copies reality) was dead? Thanks for your little contribution to civilization.

Comment on In Honor of Prince Cantemir – Lou Harrison by Alan

Alan — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:08:03 +0000

I haven’t heard the whole Savall album, but what I have heard is wonderful.

Keep those posts coming!

-AS

Comment on In Honor of Prince Cantemir – Lou Harrison by Studiolum

Studiolum — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 13:40:44 +0000

A beautiful recording. Do you know Jordi Savall’s double Istanbul CD, based on Dimitrie Cantemir’s compositions?

Great thanks for your kind words on Río Wang!

Tamás Sajó / Studiolum, Budapest

Comment on Pushkin’s Little Tragedies by Mozart & Salieri | frallemand

Mozart & Salieri | frallemand — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 19:57:23 +0000

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Comment on On Reciting Ancient Greek by Alan

Alan — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 01:28:30 +0000

Thanks, Nancy! I hope to do some better ones soon. These are getting a little long in the tooth.

Comment on On Reciting Ancient Greek by nbm

nbm — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 01:10:41 +0000

Very enjoyable recitation, Alan!

Comment on Scene from Faust by Alan

Alan — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 12:59:44 +0000

PDF now available for downloading. Click on link above.

Comment on Historical pronunciation, Shakespearean division by Alan

Alan — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 15:20:45 +0000

Paul,

Thanks, this is interesting. Clearly there was a range of pronunciations partly depending on social class. The problem is that these differences don’t always carry the same associations today, and may even carry opposite ones, eg the “rine” pronunciation of “rain” sounds Cockney or Australian rather than “courtly” or “cultivated” to us.

Comment on Historical pronunciation, Shakespearean division by Paul Johnston

Paul Johnston — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 07:26:23 +0000

There was apparently class differentiation in pronunciation in Shakespeare’s time–the grammarians at the time comment on it. There are also differences between the grammarians’ models, with some being apparently more conservative, keeping more in common with Middle English, and others innovative. (By and large, Crystal’s OP is a fairly innovative one, and is closest to pronunciation systems designed for foreign learners of English–probably cultivated speech, but not too “courtly”). For a conservative speaker of the time, rain would sound like “rine”, and Kate like “cat” with a long vowel; an innovative one would say “reign” and “keht”. Why not use a really innovative model–say based on Hodges (1633)–for your lower class characters; Gil (1621) says they innovate and he hates the sound. The courtly speakers can use a more conservative OP. And to me, OP sounds quite Southwest England or Newfoundland with a tinge of Irish thrown in.