Classically trained musician. Music teacher. Geek. Los Angeles. Moo. http://moseslei.net.
Other interests, in which I do not quite specialize: theatre (repertory), jazz, cooking (esp. Chinese food), poetry, Radiohead.
Recently noded:
- Candide (thing)
- Glitter and Be Gay
- Number (thing) (musical)
- Prologue to Through the Looking Glass (updated 13 March 2004)
- Dr. Pangloss
So, folks, I appreciate all the attention that Glitter and Be Gay gets, but you might also try reading Number (thing). It gets ignored because it has a node title without the word "Gay" in it.
I am working on:
- classical music - outline in scratch pad
- Chorale - half a draft in scratch pad
I am intending to work on new writeups for:
I may be filling these as-yet-uncreated/empty nodes:
- I Feel Pretty (the song from West Side Story)
- L'histoire du Soldat (the Stravinsky music theatre piece)
- Classically trained musician
- I Hate Music (the song cycle by Leonard Bernstein)
- Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology
I am thinking about working on:
- possibly Musicians duet better
- Trouble in Tahiti
- Interlochen Arts Camp
- theatrical music
- The trumpet shall sound (from Messiah)
- Number the Stars (novel by Lois Lowry)
- comfort women
Difficult projects that I may try to tackle later:
- Leonard Bernstein, adding information about his work and associations with homosexuality and the word "gay"
- Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4
- Taiwan if maybe one of these days I'm up for it...
- Something relating Felix Mendelssohn, Richard Wagner, and anti-Semitism
- Common practice period (common practice tonality)
- perhaps David Oistrakh, if I have time
- Bach Sonatas and Partitas for violin solo
- Der Tod und das Mädchen (the quartet in D minor by Schubert)
- Schubert Cello Quintet
- Trout Quintet
As you may have noticed, my first major writeup was Candide. There are lots of things about Candide that are interesting but I haven't yet found a way to fit into a writeup:
- The thing with how everyone dies multiple times but comes back to life again (with no explanation given)
- A complete list of numbers (edit 1/22: okay, this is probably impossible and not going to happen, esp. because this guy does such a better job of it.)
- A better mention of the secondary characters: Dr. Pangloss, Maximillian, Paquette
- The differences between the Hellman and Wheeler books, and how that influences discussions of Candide as a whole; also, differences from Voltaire's Candide, or Optimism
Suggestions most welcome.