Folk Queue

let there be songs to fill the air

Thursday, April 12, 2012

Before It All Comes Tumbling Down

Arnie Gunderson on Ecoshock Radio 4/12/12

All the waste in a year
from a nuclear power plant
can be stored under a desk.
--Ronald Reagan

more quakes today
near Fukushima


pool near Boston contains more radioactive cesium than released by Fukushima, Chernobyl and all nuclear bomb tests combined

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Opera à la Mozart

Don Giovanni

RAOUL DUFY: HOMAGE TO MOZART

Cosi fan tutti

MARY CASSATT: THE OPERA

The Marriage of Figaro

Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back
and, instead of bleeding, he sings.
--Robert Benchley

The Magic Flute


An unalterable
and unquestioned law
of the musical world
required that
the German text
of French operas
sung by Swedish artists
should be translated
into Italian for
the clearer understanding
of English-speaking audiences.
--Edith Wharton


TOULOUSE-LAUTREC:
AT THE OPERA BALL

Monday, April 09, 2012

The Times They Are A-Changin' Very Slowly


WHIRLPOOL GALAXY


Bob Dylan's The Times They are a-Changin' slowed down considerably.