Thursday, April 24, 2008

I found the most amazing music today. It's classical. Context:

Today in Tolkien class we were talking about Tolkien's creation myth. In Genesis, God creates by speaking. Fiat. In Tolkien's myth, the Ainulindalë, God creates through music. He raises his hand and a heavenly chorus begins, and the little sub-deities that he created see the vision of the Earth and then create it from the Big God (Ilùvatar)'s vision. My prof then said, these are the kinds of things I think would have influenced Tolkien.
1. Beethoven's 9th. Does anything really need to be said about it?
2. This:


Honestly, it's so good. It also resembles Hatikva a lot. But its amazing and grandiose and beautiful. Check it out.

So, today after class I downloaded a lot of classical music. After my last class of the week today at 4:30, I couldn't nap so I decided to drink. So I drank a lot of rum and beer (which is not K for P) and listened to Beethoven's 9th and wrote. It was SO GREAT. DO it.

Also, i hope you went to see Islands at UCLA tonight Lina.

1 comment:

fette said...

beautiful indeed. how is this not hatikva?