day walks in, back online

day walks in with head of flame
and a face grown centuries old.....

This is a piece i worked very hard on, for over a year actually.
There's a ton going on in this piece, and sometimes you might need
an x-ray ear to see through the thicket ,but i like to challenge my
ear's eye, and this piece certainly did that . For what it's worth,
the end is a reworking of Shakespeare's Orpheus , and the whole was
intended as a personal homage to nature mysticism and Charles
Ives ,one of my personal heroes .

http://zebox.com/daniel_anthony_stearns/

day walks in
(first song, top of the page)

ORPHEUS:

Orpheus with his lute made trees
And the mountain tops that freeze
Bow themselves when he did sing:
To his music plants and flowers
Ever sprung; as sun and showers
There had made a lasting spring.

Every thing that heard him play,
Even the billows of the sea,
Hung their heads and then lay by.
In sweet music is such art,
Killing care and grief of heart
Fall asleep, or hearing, die.

At 09:59 PM 1/11/2006, you wrote:
>day walks in with head of flame
>and a face grown centuries old.....
>
>This is a piece i worked very hard on, for over a year actually.
>There's a ton going on in this piece, and sometimes you might need
>an x-ray ear to see through the thicket ,but i like to challenge my
>ear's eye, and this piece certainly did that . For what it's worth,
>the end is a reworking of Shakespeare's Orpheus , and the whole was
>intended as a personal homage to nature mysticism and Charles
>Ives ,one of my personal heroes .
>
>http://zebox.com/daniel_anthony_stearns/

Hey Dan,

How is this different than the previous version?

>ORPHEUS:
>
>
>Orpheus with his lute made trees
>And the mountain tops that freeze
> Bow themselves when he did sing:
>To his music plants and flowers
>Ever sprung; as sun and showers
> There had made a lasting spring.
>
>Every thing that heard him play,
>Even the billows of the sea,
> Hung their heads and then lay by.
>In sweet music is such art,
> Killing care and grief of heart
> Fall asleep, or hearing, die.

Shakespeare?

-Carl

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, "daniel_anthony_stearns"
<daniel_anthony_stearns@y...> wrote:

> This is a piece i worked very hard on, for over a year actually.
> There's a ton going on in this piece, and sometimes you might need
> an x-ray ear to see through the thicket ,but i like to challenge my
> ear's eye, and this piece certainly did that .

I think it would be nice if this page explained some of that, and gave
short descriptions of the pieces. Didn't you have a page at one time
which did?

it's the same version ,just it's been offline for over a
year .hey ,hope the maximum supercool love vibe is treating you
well ,it truly is a wonderful thing ,congratulations a\gain !

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, Carl Lumma <ekin@l...> wrote:
>
> At 09:59 PM 1/11/2006, you wrote:
> >day walks in with head of flame
> >and a face grown centuries old.....
> >
> >This is a piece i worked very hard on, for over a year actually.
> >There's a ton going on in this piece, and sometimes you might
need
> >an x-ray ear to see through the thicket ,but i like to challenge
my
> >ear's eye, and this piece certainly did that . For what it's
worth,
> >the end is a reworking of Shakespeare's Orpheus , and the whole
was
> >intended as a personal homage to nature mysticism and Charles
> >Ives ,one of my personal heroes .
> >
> >http://zebox.com/daniel_anthony_stearns/
>
> Hey Dan,
>
> How is this different than the previous version?
>
> >ORPHEUS:
> >
> >
> >Orpheus with his lute made trees
> >And the mountain tops that freeze
> > Bow themselves when he did sing:
> >To his music plants and flowers
> >Ever sprung; as sun and showers
> > There had made a lasting spring.
> >
> >Every thing that heard him play,
> >Even the billows of the sea,
> > Hung their heads and then lay by.
> >In sweet music is such art,
> > Killing care and grief of heart
> > Fall asleep, or hearing, die.
>
> Shakespeare?
>
> -Carl
>

you're probably right , but i only have so much space, and i take a
lot of stuff up and down, so sometimes i get lazy with those kinds of
things I guess

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, "Gene Ward Smith"
<gwsmith@s...> wrote:
>
> --- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, "daniel_anthony_stearns"
> <daniel_anthony_stearns@y...> wrote:
>
> > This is a piece i worked very hard on, for over a year actually.
> > There's a ton going on in this piece, and sometimes you might need
> > an x-ray ear to see through the thicket ,but i like to challenge
my
> > ear's eye, and this piece certainly did that .
>
> I think it would be nice if this page explained some of that, and
gave
> short descriptions of the pieces. Didn't you have a page at one time
> which did?
>

On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 "daniel_anthony_stearns" wrote:
> day walks in with head of flame
> and a face grown centuries old.....

Who wrote those excellent words?

>
> This is a piece i worked very hard on, for over a year actually.

Adding a new layer almost every day? :-)

> There's a ton going on in this piece, ...

Only a ton?

> ... and sometimes you might
> need an x-ray ear to see through the thicket ,but i like to
> challenge my ear's eye, ...

Well put!

> ... and this piece certainly did that . For what it's worth,
> the end is a reworking of Shakespeare's Orpheus , and the
> whole was intended as a personal homage to nature mysticism
> and Charles Ives ,one of my personal heroes .
>
> http://zebox.com/daniel_anthony_stearns/

> ORPHEUS:
> Orpheus with his lute made trees
> And the mountain tops that freeze
> Bow themselves when he did sing:
> To his music plants and flowers
> Ever sprung; as sun and showers
> There had made a lasting spring.
>
> Every thing that heard him play,
> Even the billows of the sea,
> Hung their heads and then lay by.
> In sweet music is such art,
> Killing care and grief of heart
> Fall asleep, or hearing, die.

This is nothing _like_ what I imagined
the music of Orpheus himself to be. But
it surely is an "immersive experience", and
I can only lament that I was hearing it
from two desktop speakers, rather than
"in the round" in a theatre.

Are you planning to do a full "opus contra
naturam" opera of this some day?

Regards,
Yahya

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thanks for the listen and taking the time to comment yahya, I
appreciate it. The little poem at the top of that post was my ex-
wife's, she also sings on this piece.No, no opera ,but this piece is
part of a CD of related work . BTW ,my choice of the orpeus text was
a result of my lifelong interest in ,for lack of a better term,
nature mysticism . The closest thing i've found to my own
experiences are those of canoe outfitter Sigurd Olson :

http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/JMC/Olson/theology.htm

the important difference being that Olsen's personality and
disposition was such that he became an outdoorsman and a
conservationist ,and mine was such that i became a creative
artist.but the initial impetus and resulting world-view are eerily
similar . anyway, thaNks again. daniel

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, "Yahya Abdal-Aziz"
<yahya@m...> wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 "daniel_anthony_stearns" wrote:
> > day walks in with head of flame
> > and a face grown centuries old.....
>
> Who wrote those excellent words?
>
> >
> > This is a piece i worked very hard on, for over a year actually.
>
> Adding a new layer almost every day? :-)
>
>
> > There's a ton going on in this piece, ...
>
> Only a ton?
>
>
> > ... and sometimes you might
> > need an x-ray ear to see through the thicket ,but i like to
> > challenge my ear's eye, ...
>
> Well put!
>
>
> > ... and this piece certainly did that . For what it's worth,
> > the end is a reworking of Shakespeare's Orpheus , and the
> > whole was intended as a personal homage to nature mysticism
> > and Charles Ives ,one of my personal heroes .
> >
> > http://zebox.com/daniel_anthony_stearns/
>
> > ORPHEUS:
> > Orpheus with his lute made trees
> > And the mountain tops that freeze
> > Bow themselves when he did sing:
> > To his music plants and flowers
> > Ever sprung; as sun and showers
> > There had made a lasting spring.
> >
> > Every thing that heard him play,
> > Even the billows of the sea,
> > Hung their heads and then lay by.
> > In sweet music is such art,
> > Killing care and grief of heart
> > Fall asleep, or hearing, die.
>
>
> This is nothing _like_ what I imagined
> the music of Orpheus himself to be. But
> it surely is an "immersive experience", and
> I can only lament that I was hearing it
> from two desktop speakers, rather than
> "in the round" in a theatre.
>
> Are you planning to do a full "opus contra
> naturam" opera of this some day?
>
> Regards,
> Yahya
>
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> No virus found in this outgoing message.
> Checked by AVG Free Edition.
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