Scherzando
Jul. 28th, 2021 12:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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I could've sworn I once said something on here about Charles-Valentin Alkan probably not having actually been killed by a falling Talmud, and also Tori Amos for some reason, but I can't find it for the life of me ... and for years and years I couldn't for the life of me find this, after I lost access to the Naxos streaming service, having neglected to record its name and serial number, before finally coming up with it on the youtubes tonight:
If that ain't the most awesome piece of music I've ever heard that was written by someone I just as easily might never have heard of, on an instrument I have never otherwise heard of, I sure don't know what is.
Well, while I'm here--the fact that Canada now has a governor-general who speaks Inuktitut but not French, and that apparently no one outside of Quebec thinks it's a problem that she doesn't speak French (but plenty of people outside of Quebec seem to think it's a problem if anyone thinks it's a problem that she doesn't speak one of our colonial languages), reminds me of something I had thought of saying something about here after the second-last concert B. and I went to before COVID, namely Anna McGarrigle's noting that the CNE grounds in Toronto, on which she and the whole McGarrigle/Wainwright crew were playing, are on the site of some French fort. It struck me that that used to be, not very long ago, a kind of characteristic lefty move in Canada (and especially for anglo Quebeckers), to admonish the anglos for their obliviousness to the historical French presence--but nowadays it comes across as indigenous-erasing arch-colonialism.
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Currently at Belmont Lake: 15.8. High today: 24.6.
If that ain't the most awesome piece of music I've ever heard that was written by someone I just as easily might never have heard of, on an instrument I have never otherwise heard of, I sure don't know what is.
Well, while I'm here--the fact that Canada now has a governor-general who speaks Inuktitut but not French, and that apparently no one outside of Quebec thinks it's a problem that she doesn't speak French (but plenty of people outside of Quebec seem to think it's a problem if anyone thinks it's a problem that she doesn't speak one of our colonial languages), reminds me of something I had thought of saying something about here after the second-last concert B. and I went to before COVID, namely Anna McGarrigle's noting that the CNE grounds in Toronto, on which she and the whole McGarrigle/Wainwright crew were playing, are on the site of some French fort. It struck me that that used to be, not very long ago, a kind of characteristic lefty move in Canada (and especially for anglo Quebeckers), to admonish the anglos for their obliviousness to the historical French presence--but nowadays it comes across as indigenous-erasing arch-colonialism.
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Currently at Belmont Lake: 15.8. High today: 24.6.
