Le Belge @LeBelge@qoto.org

Just finished a superb #SciFi read: The Lathe of Heaven by #UrsulaKLeGuin. I can’t believe how prescient the descriptions are of the book’s world. We’re not at the same level of ecological devastation as described in Lathe, but I don’t imagine we’re far off. The only thing that was jarring about the book was its multiple references to a completely intact peak of Mount St. Helens. 🏔️ I highly recommend this one.

Figures made with TikZ are indeed the most beautiful. #LaTeX #TikZ

Beautiful Mass by #FrankMartin. Double choirs, with very modal texture resembling Gregorian chants but with a very complex harmony.
@classicalmusic
#ClassicalMusic
https://youtu.be/uZvPdHhleYM

“Remember to look up at the stars and now down at your feet.

Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.

And however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

It matters that you don’t just give up.”

– Professor Stephen Hawking

#astronomy #stars #science #space #life #hawking #calvinandhobbes

@jastsa @classicalmusic

I’ve assumed that in many cases it’s the extra-musical associations that arise from the combination of his German nationalism (the Meistersinger finale being locus classicus in this regard) and personal antisemitism, which is seen as adumbrating, if not influencing, that of the Nazis.

There are writers who go so far as to claim his operas enshrine these ideas; I’ve read, but not been convinced by, books to that effect by Paul Lawrence Rose and Marc A. Weiner.

Un des meilleurs livres que j’ai jamais lu. Terremer (Earthsea) et les personnages qui l’habitent est un univers complet, complexe, magnifique.
Je vous conseille très fortement cette édition intégrale car les textes d’Ursula Le Guin en préface et postface sont tout aussi intéressants que les romans et les nouvelles.
Notez quand même qu’avec 1800 pages et presque 1 kg il ne faut pas avoir mal au dos si vous lisez dans les transports.
#MyReadings #earthsea #ursulakleguin

#classicalmusic @classicalmusic

William #Byrd c. 1540 –1623
Ave verum corpus

Ensemble ZENE/Kele-Baujard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioBgfmzRLUE