so…..there have been a few wooly moments with wordpress so far….for some reason it needs me to validate my blog occasionally and will not allow off-line writing/editing until i hit a website and can “validate” myself……and don’t we all need validation ??? Sorry.
Not sure exactly where my interest in doors came from. i’ve always put the blame on this massive door at the first library i ever belonged to. The door was truly something from a castle (and honestly, that library, the Arthur Mann library in West Paris, Maine is known as “the castle”). Anyway, i have more than a few pictures of doors, a couple of which I will attach to this blog entry as a starter kit.
Today, I’m catching up on the woodpile, and spinning Wagner’s complete Ring of the Nibelungen from LP to digital (how-to lessons on this transfer process, complete with photos, will be forthcoming). I don’t know from whence the sudden Wagner interest comes (probably the usual serendipitous convergence of events….a friend has a bunch of LP’s, a recent bio of Sibelius notes his admiration and resentment of Wagner…things like that)….it’s not like I’m Teutonic or Aryan or any of that. Normally this collection would be suspect. I mean it’s a Time-Life collection of about 40 or so LP’s…..and I sometimes worry about the “least common denominator” aspect of Time-Life….but the editors seem to want to be taken seriously on this endeavor. There’s a massive set of informational booklets, and 3 LP’s of nothing but introductory “lessons” on the whole Wagnerian effort. They seem to feel this guy could be important? Yup. From my take on it, the fact that Sibelius and others felt that the concept of using music to present concepts of nationalism (in this case of Sibelius, nation-building) will make this an educational exploration of the uses/abuses of Music…..I will keep you posted (or blogged) or whatever…….the first thing will be today’s downloading and spinning of the “lesson plan”….what will it mean and why am i doing this ?? More later….in the meantime, a brief interlude of comfy photos
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