HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BOB DYLAN !
BOB DYLAN TURNS 72 TODAY.HE HAS DOMINATED THE WORLD OF MUSIC FOR OVER FIVE DECADES AND CHANCES ARE YOU MIGHT CATCH HIM ONSTAGE ON ALMOST ANYDAY SOMEWHERE IN THE STATES !
Dylan and Fatigue are strange bedfellows,so to say !
His energy level is simply astounding and this could be verified by the sheer numbers of shows Dylan performs year round and that’s been the case for countless years!
DYLAN’S MUSIC TOURS RIGHTLY NICKNAMED , ‘NEVER-ENDING TOURS’ !
The Most Defining Characteristic Of BOB DYLAN Is His Mastery Over LYRICS !
His Songwriting Is Just Poetry Composing!
Take the text of a song and you will quickly learn you are reading a poem !
Bookies Have, For Nearly A Decade, Been Putting Money On Dylan’s Chances of A Nobel In Literature !
Dylan Considers Himself First As A Poet and Not A Musician!
And, Just Imagine If A Poet Gives Music To His/Her Poems. . . .THE RESULT SHALL CERTAINLY BE DIVINE !
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To Celebrate Dylan’s 72nd Birthday, Let’s Enjoy Ten Of His Quotes :-
(1.) ”There is nothing so stable as change.”
(2.) ”Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.”
(3.) ”Swallow your pride, you will not die, it’s not poison !”
(4.) ”A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.”
(5.) ”If you try to be anyone but yourself, you will fail; if you are not true to your own heart, you will fail. Then again, there’s no success like failure !”
(6.) ”You can never be wise and be in love at the same time !”
(7.) ”No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky !”
(8.) ”People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.”
(9.) ”Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that’s exactly the way we want it to be !”
(10.) ”The future for me is already a thing of the past /-
You were my first love and you will be my last !/”
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MRITYUNJAY JHA
4F, ADARSH NAGAR
SAMASTIPUR
BIHAR
INDIA.
Pin Code : 848101.
+91 9334411390.
BICENTENARY OF RICHARD WAGNER,THE LEGENDARY COMPOSER! #Wagner200.
BICENTENARY OF RICHARD WAGNER,THE LEGENDARY COMPOSER! #Wagner200.
#wagner200 !
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(1.) ”I write music with an exclamation point !”
(2.) ”Joy is not in things; it is in us.”
(3.) ”I am convinced that there are universal currents of Divine Thought vibrating the earth everywhere and that any who can feel these vibrations is inspired.”
(4.) ”I believe in God, Mozart and Beethoven.”
(5.) ”The oldest, truest, most beautiful
organ of music, the origin to
which alone our music owes its
being, is the human voice.”
Richard Wagner.
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T.S.ELIOT was one of the most vocal fans of Wagner’s Music.
MARK TWAIN ,in his inimitable wit, quipped that he had liked Wagner’s Music because it sounded better than it actually was!
OSCAR WILDE, in his notoriously witty way,said that he had a great liking of Wagner’s because of its sheer loudness that allowed one to chat while the music went on and never be caught by any of what one was doing !
Many Voices And Many Responses !
Neitzsche was the bitterest critic of Wagner’s Operas !
What still important is that Richard Wagner’s despite being full of craziness of sorts, has no match even 200yrs after his birth and 130yrs after his death!
Richard Wagner Was Truly A Genius And Artist Of The Highest Order ! He fused many art forms unto his music : poetry, story, romance, myth n legends, folk themes, politics, drama. . . . .et.al and the resultant product was THE SIGNATURE WAGNER !
Born on May 22, 1813 in Leipzig,Germany ,Wagner remained least interested in usual academics and had been removed from schools a couple of times,yet his inclinations towards music had started to form a shape and he would come up with his first composition at 16 !
His earlier learnings in music took place in Dresden–the city that he kept coming from time to time all through his life of 69yrs. !
Highly influenced by MOZART and BEETHOVEN, Wagner had displayed a great deal of perseverance and developed his own brand of EPIC OPERAS –a rather long piece of operas that were and still are quite demanding to the performers as well as the audiences!
His lengthiest Opera,a work in four parts,called THE RING CYCLE was of 16hrs. At a stretch !!
Wagner’s era was the hightime of German Romanticism and that had bearings upon his some of the most popular pieces like TRESTINE & ISOLDE !
‘TANNHAUSER’ , ‘THE RIDE OF VALKYRIES’ , ‘SIEGFRIED’ are two of his often conducted works globally!
A man whose personal life was no less sensational, Wagner had in him all the romantic spirits ranging from numerous affairs,marriages to revolutionary zeal , political exile. . .n so on !He took active part in the 1848 revolution and had displayed a rather extreme political view that led him to a couple of years’ exile during which he visited Russia, Ukrain, Italy n France!
But, RICHARD WAGNER HAD A DEEP SEATED HATRED FOR THE JEWS AND THAT ONE TRAIT OF ‘ANTI-SEMITISM’ HAD MADE HIM A PERENNIAL TARGET OF CRITICISM AND AN IDEAL FOR HITLER AND HIS IDEOLOGY OF NAZISM!HITLER USED TO PLAY WAGNER’S REGULARLY AT THE THIRD REICH !
Israel doesn’t allow Wagner’s music !
Today there are many musical extravagenza going on around the globe pouring tribute to Wagner on what would be his bicentenary!
PLAY A SCORE OR TWO EASILY AVAILABLE ON YOU TUBE AND GETY OURSELF DRUNK IN WAGNER’S MUSIC !
HAPPY BIRTHDAY,WAGNER !
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MRITYUNJAY JHA
4F, ADARSH NAGAR
SAMASTIPUR
BIHAR
INDIA.
848101.
(+91) 9334411390.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ALEXANDER POPE !
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ALEXANDER POPE !
ALEXANDER POPE, English Poet n
Critic Famous For His Satirical
Works Like ‘THE RAPE OF THE LOCK’ ,
‘AN ESSAY ON CRITICISM’ , ‘AN ESSAY
ON MAN’ , ‘THE DUNCIAD’ , Was Born
This Day On May 21 , 1688 In
London !
Pope Is One Of The Most Quoted
English Authors of All Time. . .Only
Shakespeare, Tennyson n (may be)
Wilde Are Ahead of him !
Pope Is Credited With The
Popularization of HEROIC COUPLET
and SATIRE IN VERSE FORM!
His Deep Understanding of The
18th-Cent. English Society Lent A
Greater Perspective In Exposing
The Follies Plus Foibles, Pomp n
Show That Were Inherent In The
Wealthy Class Of English Society !
Alexander Pope Also Translated
HOMER’S Masterpieces,TH E ILLIAD
n THE ODYSSEY And This Was One
of His Great Contributions To The
Cause of English Literature!
Pope Was A Catholic and Had To
Bear A Great Deal of
Discriminations Perpetuated by
The Govt. Of The Day.He Had To Live
Beyond The Normative 10miles
Boundary of London or /and
Westminster And Thus He Lived
Near The Windsor Forrest ,Which
Was Later On Immortalised
Through His Works!
His Influence Was Varied In Its
Extent As Some Subsequent
Authors Like Byron Held Pope In
Great Esteem, Whereas Others Like
Wordsworth Had Virtually No
Appreciations Claiming Pope As
The Author of Decadent Verse!
Still Pope’s Works Are World
Classics In The Genre of Satires !
HAPPY BIRTHDAY,ALEXAN DER
POPE !
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MRITYUNJAY JHA
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