
Espionage (Casey Creel)
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Sounding board for an opera-going language teacher. I'm a 35 year-old teacher living in Switzerland. I used to sing in a choir here in Zürich, where I live with my husband, who is a Ph.D student. Espionage is a blog about teaching, language, music, writing, reading and ideas; living in a crowded and noisy world; being an expert layperson.
Espionage (Casey Creel)
3y ago
Strapazieren im Passgang
Von den nicht bereiteten Strömen spräche
doch des Faschings schmähend ansteckender Strick.
Im Saale tütet Abfallstück
der alte Winzer von der Spielfläche
ein, sind die rauen Berge zu dürr
für seinesgleichen dortiges Streben. Nur
ohnmächtig schaudert des zornigen Greises
Schweifen über den Korridor:
Alter, so'ne Wirtschaft duldet keine Crisis.
Überall regt sich Halbbildung, Gräben,
alles will sie mit Darben beheben.
An Volumen fehlts im Gehirn.
Sie nimmt beschmutzte Männchen dafür.
Kehre dich um, vom miesen Dröhnen
nach dem Staat zurückzusehnen!
Aus dem hohlen Verstan ..read more
Espionage (Casey Creel)
5y ago
In the past two articles I wrote on Bach's Johannespassion, I referred to the dual role of the choir (Part 1 and Part 2). "The pain that accompanies the joy, borne of Christ's suffering, becomes our own pain, the people's pain, the choir's pain, as the choir plays the part of Christ's followers and indeed all humankind." "The choir itself has two roles -- to sing to God as Christians, and to reenact the passion as a mob, as Jews." "I find the structure of the work fascinating in the way it moves back and forth between different characters, arias, recitative and the chimerical choir."The choir ..read more