nightscape94

Is anyone else at all excited about this?  I absolutely love the summer olympics.  I have a mild love for the winter, but summer is where my heart is.  They aired a lot of the qualifying rounds in the States and I watched just about every minute I could.  I freaking sat on my couching, drank a beer, and watched the steeplechase prelims.

One more week.

Not terribly fond of the logo, though.

Not sure if any other JWFan folks are here tonight, but I just arrived and was pleasantly surprised to see Essay for Strings on the bill (although its mislabeled as Essay for Orchestra).  It wasn't listed on the website program. Sweet!  Never heard a Williams concert work live. Congrats to the orchestra for including it.

I'm trying to upload a photo of the program set but my cell phone coverage blows.

Tim

For all of the members of this board who are fans, or at least enjoyed one or more of his novels or other works, we have lost a great writer and a wonderful person in Kurt Vonnegut.  He was 84 and lived an incredibly interesting and long life.   I am sad today, but am happy that he had lived, and accomplished so much.  So it goes.



Tim

I'm not sure how successful something this would be, but I wanted to try to start a thread dealing with great poetry. I figure you can add one of your favorites, or even post your own poetry, just to show a creative side perhaps not allowed to you in ordinary, day-to-day posts.

It'll be great to discuss and analyse some poems as well.

So share what you have, either famous, underappreciated, rare, or original. Let's see what ya got!

I'll start with this poem by Philip Larkin:

Talking in Bed

Talking in bed ought to be easiest
Lying together there goes back so far
An emblem of two people being honest.

Yet more and more time passes silently.
Outside the wind's incomplete unrest
builds and disperses clouds about the sky.

And dark towns heap up on the horizon.
None of this cares for us. Nothing shows why
At this unique distance from isolation

It becomes still more difficult to find
Words at once true and kind
Or not untrue and not unkind.

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Tim

I am unable to locate this information, but can anyone tell me the actual name of the violinist to which these tragic events happened, which prompted Williams' to write this piece?  The work was expanded upon, formed into the Elegy, and performed at a memorial service for the death of two young children of a female violinist.  Do we know her name?

Thanks,
Tim