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ate music and high literary quality the work begins with a joyful chorus with orchestra of trumpet and strings as is typical of bach s early works the trumpet parts are mostly fanfares the chorus reacts with suitably homophonic music a simple fugue comprises the middle section of the work the only recitative in the piece is an arioso setting of the passage from john for the bass this leads into more fanfares from the trumpets accompanying the pomposo writing of the solo bass the idea of the heavenly wind permeates the tenor aria with its smoothly running violin part and gently expressive vocal line without a doubt the high point of the cantata is the intricate heavenly duet for soprano and alto with oboe obbligato the complex metaphors and high literary quality of this marvelous text are paralleled by the detailed and elaborate voice parts woven into this texture is a highly ornamented version of the great luther chorale komm heiliger geist a beautiful setting of wie schön leuchtet der morgenstern with a high descant first violin part ends the cantata craig smith today s performance is from a recording by the monteverdi choir and the english baroque soloists under the direction of john eliot gardiner enjoy photo 2020 by a roy hilbinger posted by roy at 7 50 am no comments labels bach music photography video saturday may 30 2020 shippensburg in bloom shippensburg has entered full summer mode gardens are flourishing the roses around town are all in full bloom porch planters are overflowing with color and the hanging flower baskets are up on king st i went for a walk around town this morning to take it all in red red roses on king st a porch planter on king st a rhododendron in the garden at the widow piper s tavern petunias in one of the king st hanging baskets begonias in one of the king st hanging baskets english ivy climbing the king st bridge over branch creek 2020 by a roy hilbinger posted by roy at 2 17 pm no comments labels flowers norman bird sanctuary pennsylvania photography shippensburg summer friday may 29 2020 feels like summer it s still only may but it s feeling like july i took a walk in the dykeman spring nature park this morning to beat the worst of today s heat and humidity i shot flowers in the wetland which are still only spring flowers it may feel like july but the summer asters and the day lilies haven t made their appearance yet and then i went up on the meadow to show you how high the hay is getting and also the sky which today was definitely a summer sky the multiflora roses were definitely scenting the air today looks like there s going to be a bumper crop of blackberries this year daisy fleabane the hay is getting deep looking north from the top of the meadow looking across the meadow from the southern leg of the meadow trail 2020 by a roy hilbinger posted by roy at 4 16 pm no comments labels dykeman spring nature park nature photography summer wednesday may 27 2020 small world i went for a walk on the rail trail this morning and ended up spending a lot of time in a bank of multiflora roses observing nature in miniature in that single bank i ended up counting five orchard orb weaver spiders in their webs these are my favorite small critters in the woods a small green dot to the naked eye and a rainbow observed up close i also found a multicolored asian ladybug munching on the leaves of those roses come take a look walking along the rail trail leucauge venusta the colorful orchard orb weaver the same venusta escaping my camera harmonia axyridis the multicolored asian ladybug a small section of that large bank of multiflora roses 2020 by a roy hilbinger posted by roy at 4 13 pm no comments labels flowers insects macro world nature photography rail trail tuesday may 26 2020 a little ramble i did a brief ramble in the dykeman spring nature park this morning getting it in before the heat settled in for the day we re getting in to the 80s this afternoon but while i was in the park it was in the mid 70s with a pleasant breeze blowing lots of flowers a song sparrow and a painted turtle sunning on a rock in the north duck pond were the chief subjects today plus a panoramic shot of the pond from my favorite bench under the kentucky coffee tree it was all very laid back the multiflora roses are adding their sweet scent throughout the park this painted turtle actually let me get quite close my favorite view in the park daisy fleabane along the trail in the wetland a song sparrow singing away yellow wood sorrel along the trail in the wetland 2020 by a roy hilbinger posted by roy at 2 25 pm no comments labels animals dykeman spring nature park flowers nature photography summer monday may 25 2020 creek branch creek middle spring creek from downtown shippensburg to bard rd out in the country followed by the perfect music for following creeks spring water at jerry s run by malcolm dalglish photos 2020 by a roy hilbinger posted by roy at 4 32 pm 1 comment labels creek pennsylvania photography shippensburg video memorial day today in the us we memorialize those who have been claimed by war it s usually celebrated as a great patriotic event with martial songs and chest thumping nationalism all about the glory of dying for your country what egregious nonsense as any battle scarred veteran can tell you war isn t glorious it s a gory bloody loud hell of a meat grinder and the meat being ground is the young of the nation fed into it by old men who hold grudges or who see a profit to be made win or lose i ve always said that if the fat old men who declared wars actually had to fight in them we d have world peace overnight here are some potent quotes about the reality of war and i can t help but wonder now willie mcbride do all those who lie here know why they died did you really believe them when they told you the cause did you really believe that this war would end wars well the suffering the sorrow the glory the shame the killing the dying it was all done in vain for willie mcbride it all happened again and again and again and again and again eric bogle no man s land either war is finished or we are herman wouk war and remembrance war may sometimes be a necessary evil but no matter how necessary it is always an evil never a good we will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other s children jimmy carter nobel lecture december 10 2002 i hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can only as one who has seen its brutality its stupidity dwight d eisenhower speech january 10 1946 if civilization has an opposite it is war of these two things you have either one or the other not both ursula k leguin the left hand of darkness probably the greatest antiwar poem ever written is dulce et decorum est by wilfred owen an oxford scholar and poet who enlisted at the beginning of wwi and who was killed just one week before the armistice which ended it during the war he wrote his poems in the letters he sent home and as the conflict continued he used these poems to vent his anger and cynicism at the futility the barbarity and the stupidity of it all dulce et decorum est could just as well have been titled the lie the lie in question being the quote from the roman poet horace that is fed to soldiers in time of war dulce et decorum est pro patria mori the english translation is it is sweet and proper to die for one s country obviously owen disagreed and i m with him dulce et decorum est wilfred owen bent double like old beggars under sacks knock kneed coughing like hags we cursed through sludge till on the haunting flares we turned our backs and toward our distant rest began to trudge men marched asleep many had lost their boots but limped on blood shod all went lame all blind drunk with fatigue deaf even to the hoots of gas shells dropping softly behind gas gas quick boys an ecstasy of fumbling fitting the clumsy helmets just in time but someone still was yelling out and stumbling and flound ring like a man in fire or lime dim through the misty panes and thick green light as under a green sea i saw him drowning in all my dreams before my helpless sight he plunges at me guttering choking drowning if in some smothering dreams you too could pace behind the wagon that we flung him in and watch the white eyes writhing in his face his hanging face like a devil s sick of sin if you could hear at every jolt the blood come gargling from the froth corrupted lungs obsceneas cancer bitter as the cud of vile incurable sores on innocent tongues my friend you would not tell with such high zest to children ardent for some desperate glory the old lie dulce et decorum est pro patria mori today we lament the deaths of young people killed by adherence to an anachronism and pledge to end the scourge that killed them here are two songs that lament the deaths of soldiers eric bogle s no man s land and mark knopfler s brothers in arms photo 2009 by a roy hilbinger posted by roy at 2 27 pm no comments labels history holidays philosophical musings photography social issues video sunday may 24 2020 this week s sunday walk in the park so this weekend is the unofficial start of the summer season being memorial day weekend but you wouldn t know it it s overcast and gloomy threatening rain and cooler than the seasonal average but it s certainly lush enough for summer and there are plenty of may flowers in full bloom this morning s weekly walk in the dykeman spring nature park was proof of that stork s bill blooming along the dykeman walkingtrail yellow flag in the marsh by the ball fields here comes peter cottontail hoppin down the dykeman trail after 10 years i still haven t figured out what this plant is a female redwinged blackbird keeping a wary eye on me by the north duck pond blackberry blossoms up on the meadow 2020 by a roy hilbinger posted by roy at 4 46 pm no comments labels animals birds dykeman spring nature park flowers nature photography summer sunday bach sunday after ascension exaudi approaching storm bach wrote two cantatas for the sixth sunday after easter and i ve chosen the first one bwv 44 sie werden euch in den bann tun they will turn you out from 1724 this is still drawing from jesus farewell to the disciples in the 15th and 16th chapters of john and this week the reading emphasizes the trials and tribulations the disciples will experience from now on here s what the late craig smith and ryan turner of emmanuel music have to say about this cantata sie werden euch in den bann tun i bwv 44 is the first of two settings of the quotation forming the text of the first two movements of this cantata the other being the opening movement of bwv 183 in bwv 44 bach sets the first two lines of text as a tenor bass duet followed without break by a turba chorus somewhat surprisingly in bwv 183 he presents it quite minimally as an accompanied recitative the theme of this cantata is principally one of heresy false teaching and the combating of these abominable doctrines in john 16 jesus prophesies the persecution of his disciples by those who know not god or himself there is a tough almost hard bitten quality about bwv 44 the clangorous hectoring tenor bass duet with two obbligato oboes runs directly into an even more frenetic little chorus filled with paranoia and fear notice how bach creates a menacing chromatic texture of sustained notes underpinned by unexpected harmonies on the text wer euch tötet whosoever murders you the alto aria with obbligato oboe yields a hint of release in the gloom and agitation with an almost catatonic dread the chorale for tenor and continuo is one of the strangest harmonizations in all of bach this central chorale is so forward looking that it seems almost to pre empt harmonies of the twentieth century as julian mincham notes there seems little doubt that the byzantine bass line represents the difficult road and the human effort needed to travel and surmount the narrow pathway of torment to heaven the turning point in the cantata comes in the bass recitative encouraging the individual to prevail the soprano aria weakly tries to emerge from the gloom with a brighter tone and employment of ebullient skips that schweitzer calls bach s joy motive the middle section depicting the storms our troubled soul must weather triumphantly emerges in the smiling joy of the sun the final chorale is well known versions of it appearing in both the st matthew and st john passions this beautiful yet personal harmonization of innsbruck ich muss dich lassen is the only hint at a benediction in the piece craig smith with additions and edits by ryan turner for this week s sunday bach i ve chosen a special performance by the monteverdi choir and english baroque soloists under the direction of john eliot gardiner enjoy photo 2009 by a roy hilbinger posted by roy at 8 08 am 1 comment labels bach music photography video older posts home subscribe to posts atom about me roy shippensburg pennsylvania united states an old hippie still keeping the faith an amateur photographer musician poet and essayist view my complete profile where else on the www am i my photography portfolio still building my photography for sale lulu com my youtube slideshows followers daily quote there was something formless and perfect before the universe was born it is serene empty solitary unchanging infinite eternally present it is the mother of the universe for lack of a better name i call it the tao it flows through all things inside and outside and returns to the origin of all things the tao is great the universe is great earth is great man is great these are the four great powers man follows the earth earth follows the universe the universe follows the tao the tao follows only itself tao te ching chapter 25 translation by stephen mitchell the thrust home award given by the silver fox for meritorious blogging blog archive 2020 89 may 29 the sunday walk in the park sunday bach pentecost shippensburg in bloom feels like summer small world a little 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