wild how there’s like a million songs about heartbreak but only one about the blue canary in the outlet by the lightswitch, who watches over you
Sapphic af
(The Countess and Susanna in “The Marriage Of Figaro” by Mozart)
Concerto No. 6 In F Minor For Harpsichord & Strings (”Berlin”), CW C73, T.301/4
I. Allegro Di Molto
II. Andante
III. Prestissimo
By Composer Johann Christian Bach
Performed By The Hanover Band Featuring Anthony Halstead (Harpsichordist)
Extremely important news:
the Original 1980 French concept album of Les Misérables
Fucking stately, and also fucking glam rock, and just, fucks???
memory-for-trifles replied to your post
🔥
(That’s my lighter)
She gets it.
If you want more!!!! (of course you do), I have hand-selected some other highlights!!
’La journée est finie’ - alors, this francophone patter~
’Mon prince est en chemin’ - okay the flute opening of this is haunting
’La devise du cabaretier’ - oh cabaretier like cabaret babe! well creating a gamine burlesque to French ‘Master of the House’ Immediately. in like a little lord outfit? come on. now taking applications for my Madame Thenardier💋
’Donnez, donnez’ - stripped of the 'Oy, Guv'nor!’ precociousness that has characterized Gavroche in every English Les Mis?, original French flavor is all scrawny raw tween anger and this rules toootally
’Demain’ - it’s fine I cried it’s fine! I love this album. “Comment faire…!”
Extremely important news:
the Original 1980 French concept album of Les Misérables
Fucking stately, and also fucking glam rock, and just, fucks???
I used to joke that the reason I had to leave professional theater was because they found out I knew nothing about Les Mis. This was relevant at the time as everyone at the theater I worked at did find this out when the trailer for the Tom Hooper film came out, and ROUNDED on me.
And I am here to tell you that this is apparently still true, as somehow in the last ten years I forgot and have just relearned that the musical was written by these French fellows named Claude-Michel Schönberg & Alain Boublil and not ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER. How did I get this into my head! How was the thought "god this hardly even sounds like Andrew Lloyd Webber!" not a BIGGER CLUE. I am insensible, AND, insensible.
In good news though the incidentally rather French stuffing I just made with chestnuts and Brussels sprouts and a French ~batard~ loaf turned out exceptional. You stew the chestnuts in milk and stock and then use that to moisten the bread; positively infused.
spaceoperetta replied to your post
as an aside, I'm always happy to be your musical theater resource
Please, I seem to need a Virgil! My musical theater knowledge is so so highly specific, and also at times it seems a figment of my imagination.
This case of the Phantom Webber (ahahaha) is especially ridiculous because I definitely knew Les Misérables was not him when I did actually wind up seeing that movie back in 2012, and then watched some concert film or other, do not recall which any more (25th anniversary??). Maybe my sister’s and my three-year-running tradition of watching Cats 2019 at Christmas has just irrevocably broken the Hooper/Webber quadrant of my brain, and also the rest of it surely.
pineapple-split replied to your post
Les Mis is that thing where I’m like “I’d probably really love this and go feral over it” but I’ve actually never taken the time to listen/watch. Also, wow that stuffing sounds so good!!!
OR read! It is a piece of culture with just so many avenues to know which to begin with, like me and Moomins.
And oh man it's this. I did go a little rogue in spots, made a few substitutions and deletions, which probably just shows that it is a very good base for adaptation! (But you definitely do not need to parboil your Brussels for this, just proceed to tossing your cleaned and sliced halves in some oil and roasting for ~15 min.)
fursasaida replied to your post
like, I recognize that it’s true that Les Mis doesn’t sound like Webber per se, but also, it has the same baseline level of bombast as a lot of his stuff, and HONESTLY I think it was not an unreasonable misconception (is it one I fall into when I’m not really thinking about it? how dare you ask a lady such a question sir good day)
If we’re doing this I would like to take this opportunity to propose that the most Sondheim song in Les Misérables, meanwhile, is ‘Master of the House’
I used to joke that the reason I had to leave professional theater was because they found out I knew nothing about Les Mis. This was relevant at the time as everyone at the theater I worked at did find this out when the trailer for the Tom Hooper film came out, and ROUNDED on me.
And I am here to tell you that this is apparently still true, as somehow in the last ten years I forgot and have just relearned that the musical was written by these French fellows named Claude-Michel Schönberg & Alain Boublil and not ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER. How did I get this into my head! How was the thought "god this hardly even sounds like Andrew Lloyd Webber!" not a BIGGER CLUE. I am insensible, AND, insensible.
In good news though the incidentally rather French stuffing I just made with chestnuts and Brussels sprouts and a French ~batard~ loaf turned out exceptional. You stew the chestnuts in milk and stock and then use that to moisten the bread; positively infused.
spaceoperetta replied to your post
as an aside, I’m always happy to be your musical theater resource
Please, I seem to need a Virgil! My musical theater knowledge is so so highly specific, and also at times it seems a figment of my imagination.
This case of the Phantom Webber (ahahaha) is especially ridiculous because I definitely knew Les Misérables was not him when I did actually wind up seeing that movie back in 2012, and then watched some concert film or other, do not recall which any more (25th anniversary??). Maybe my sister’s and my three-year-running tradition of watching Cats 2019 at Christmas has just irrevocably broken the Hooper/Webber quadrant of my brain, and also the rest of it surely.
pineapple-split replied to your post
Les Mis is that thing where I’m like “I’d probably really love this and go feral over it” but I’ve actually never taken the time to listen/watch. Also, wow that stuffing sounds so good!!!
OR read! It is a piece of culture with just so many avenues to know which to begin with, like me and Moomins.
And oh man it’s this. I did go a little rogue in spots, made a few substitutions and deletions, which probably just shows that it is a very good base for adaptation! (But you definitely do not need to parboil your Brussels for this, just proceed to tossing your cleaned and sliced halves in some oil and roasting for ~15 min.)