Don't want to be a downer but yesterday I met my friend outside of her church in lower Manhattan. We were walking on the periphery of Battery Park and suddenly I was thrown onto the ground. Two Latin American migrants were fighting and had crashed into me. I wasn't hurt (only a slightly scraped knee) but the fight continued and another broke out. There were migrant children underfoot. Then a migrant woman attacked another with a baby on her back and overturned the cart of cut fruit and snacks she was selling.
Not sure but it appeared to be a pathetic turf war to control the sales spot. God help New York City. They brought in so many desperate people and just let them loose on the streets.
I also just saw that Pro-Palestinian protesters were arrested in Saint Patricks Cathedral for disturbing the Easter service.
Two incidents of desperate people making enemies of the locals, dare I say Indigenes? The difference would be in the level of consciousness. The fruit sellers would be oblivious to the political ramifications of their disturbance. The pro-Palestinians would be hyper conscious. They chose the time and place for maximum publicity. This reflects the blind side of liberal protest. It alienates both the immediate and mediated audiences. Do they really think their disruption of a different religion's important ceremony will shame Catholics into action that helps their cause? No, they're not thinking at all. Actually, let me take a step back. Who are these 3 perps? I'm assuming they're irate American Muslims, but given the shameless chutzpah, probably they're not.
The full show includes the smell, and feeling the music with the full body, and watching the faces of people who lower their guard for a few minutes, pierced by sentiment.
I've been thinking about this. I know, hard to believe.
For the past five hundred years, since Protestantism began according to official History, there was an artificial aesthetic separation between people.
One side took all the images and ornaments for itself, and the other side rejected it and focused on the individual.
Protestant worship demands more imagination and concentration because there are no tangible referents. Perhaps it's easier for people to avoid Christianity because of that extra effort that is demanded from the individual.
Catholic worship is very stratified and collective. There are many parts to it and many tasks for those who participate. The bulk of people don't participate much because they are supposed to be passive. I think this passivity is a new thing from the 1960s.
There is a weird mix nowadays, which is the catholicized version of protestant American sects that exist in Spain. These are mostly inspired by Latin American music. That's the Catholic influence: Hispanic people cannot do without the noise and the color everywhere. Austerity BAD!
The very few "true" protestants in Spain prefer to emulate the traditional and more intimate religious expressions that came from Europe. They do their own thing and no one sees.
Of the Orthodox I know they also like shiny things, but it seems they are like the Protestants in that they demand active participation from the mind of each individual that attends the worship. There is no collective without individuals coming together. I think the Catholics exclude most people because of the trend of the professionalization and compartmentalization of everything. Those are a 19 and a 20 letters-long words that should not even exist and are painful to write.
In Zaragoza, where I am, it hardly rains. Almost all processions were out. It rained on Tuesday and a little on Friday. But the Semana Santa here has less brass instruments than in Granada. However, the municipal band of music sometimes likes to make a musical joke. One year I heard that band playing "Blowin' in the wind" by Dylan, as an image of Jesus carrying his cross was passing, the shoulders of 20 people below. What has that song to do with Jesus? The sixties were so crazy, man!
Zaragoza? I must look this place up. Do you mean most processions were canceled even though it did not rain much? The deep state EU BETTER not be messing with Semana Santa, though of course they must be. Semana Santa must be a big problem for them. One of the reasons I am so enthusiastic about Semana Santa, it's so very anti modernity and anti-EU, anti- rationalist….I love it.
Now that you mention rationalism, yes, it has many problems and it has been the most criticized philosophy of all time, but the Spanish variant of rationalism is being completely ignored by the European academics. The famous philosopher Ortega wrote about it and called it theory of vital reason, or ratiovitalism. Which, like all other forms of rationalism is incomplete, but takes into account the critiques to that harsh ultra-materialist view of biology that was so common in British philosophy, which has been behind all the scientific fiascos.
The vitalism idea, which is another scientific and philosophical heresy, can be simply stated as the view that there is something else, and whatever it is it cannot be reduced to chemical reactions.
The union of rational metaphysics and this despised vitalist principle is essential to understand why Spain has never been nation of scientists and inventors, but of saints and poets.
And I add that this view spills over to all other Hispanic nations in the World.
Even then French are inspired by this philosophy, if we consider the views of Bechamp and Naessens' "somatid" theory.
I think it was optional to go out or to suspend the procession.
On thursday I wento to see one but they canceled because of the (light) rain, but other Brotherhood about 800 meters to the northeast from where I was decided to do the procession anyway. Here is a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qa1IrjPXp_Y
Around 06:55 the band plays the national anthem (a bit out of tune, but anyway). Most processions start and end with the national anthem, I don't know why. Perhaps because Zaragoza is a city with the main Military academy of Spain.
Of course, the globalists hate Semana Santa. They try to take over and supress anything that is popular and traditional. In "the new order of barbarians" the speaker comments that when they get the Catholic church the whole of Christianity would fall apart, because it's the biggest church. It's clearly a target, but it's resisting pretty well the commie Pope and all the other attacks.
Very interesting music! Right away I thought of the Spanish composer, Manuel De Falla (Three Cornered Hat) but then when the high trumpets entered it shifted into something very cinematic and oddly like marching band music which is because it's mostly brass (though I think I hear some saxophone in there) and percussion. So most film composers liberally poach from the great composers and it's often from the romantic period as I think they think that's more palatable for the collective. For instance the first Superman movie with Christopher Reeves, soundtrack by John Williams was 75% Death and Transfiguration by Richard Strauss. So who is this quasi modern sound borrowed from? I couldn't hear it at first then it struck me - Handel. The famous German baroque composer who made his fame and fortune in London (the only foreigner buried at Westminster!) and from his Royal Fireworks music. That's my take on this anyway, for what it's worth.
Thank you for this breakdown and interpretation, Rick. I was hoping for exactly this kind of interpretation. Handel, yes. Are there other brass instruments besides trumpets or is it all trumpets?
Oh yes. Definitely trombones and tubas or more likely sousaphones which are common in marching bands. And possibly a few euphoniums or small tenor tubas. But trumpets are predominant here. This music also made me think of that song Fleetwood Mac did many years ago from Tusk. I think it was called Dance which utilized a very large marching band.
I've seen saxophones and clarinets and even even oboes or bassoons.
It's possible that this music is new. It sounds very cinematic. The older style of music was a bit different.
There was a Russian composer from the 1920s whose name I can't remember. He is credited with being the main inspiration of all Hollywood style of music. Do you know his name? There is an argument that the music of Star Wars comes from that Russian guy, which is hilarious if you think about it: the musicians were anticipating the final movements of the Cold War long before the WWII started.
I didn't know that Williams was so brazenly copying music from that period, but it doesn't surprise me.
Thanks for that, I will investigate. But I've looked it up and I was wrong: it was a British composser not a Russian composser. Gustav Holst. The Planets suite from 1917. Everything in that symphony is Hollywood music. All the movies copy compasses from it. Cleopatra, Lawrence of Arabia, Gone with the Wind, Star Wars, Gladiator. It's shameless! LOL!
And "The Planets" sounds also like the music of the that Procession of Semana Santa in this post.
Yeah I'll buy that. John Williams, Hans Zimmer, Bernard Hermann and many others have copped tons of stuff from the Planets and then mildly rearranged it to make it their own. Good catch!
Thanks! There's another interesting story about Handel of which I learned recently - the apartment he lived in for most of his time in London was also the very same apartment where another musical superstar (and non Brit) lived about 250 years later - Jimi Hendrix!
Though religious ceremonies appeal to the senses and human spirit, it is our soul and divine spirit that needs nuturing. Rain or no rain.😀 In the Bible rain is associated with blessings coming from Him.
That's not a "proclamation". That's a Marxist Democrat campaign speech. Of course, Joe's speech writers had to write it down and publish it because Joe could've never gotten through all those "big words". 🙄
Speaking of Teresa (Pelerine), for some reason her substack has disappeared from my inbox and I'm unable to locate any of her posts. The last one I received from her was March 8 re: Candace Owens, but searching substack it seems that post and others have disappeared completely. No trace. What's up?
Since the posts arrived to me via email, I very rarely went to her substack so I'm not even sure what name she went under; are you able to click on her actual site? Substack's search is worthless.
Truthfully, I did not give the transgender day announcement much thought. I had been trying to figure out why March 31 was listed as Easter when my calendar also indicated that pass over began on April 22 at sundown. Easter always follows pass over (the second Sunday after pass over begins).
Yes I agree totally. Probably you're thinking of Sergei Prokofiev who's greatest cinematic score was Alexander Nevsky and also wrote a handful of other film scores including Lt. Kije, one of my favorite pieces ever! But also Shostakovich who was born a bit later did over 25 film scores - none of them really known here. He was influenced by Stravinsky who disliked Shostakovich immensely and Prokofiev. Bit of a sellout to Stalin's propaganda censorship.
Which one? Sellout. Shostakovich or Prokofiev or both. I always understood Prokofiev to be way more sellout. Whereas I was under the impression Shostakovich walked all kinds of lines, struck deals, but was not exactly a sellout, if one considers the impossible choices. No choices. I try to be a little bit understanding. Shostakovich was terrorized and terrified etc. We simply can not imagine the conditions they were under. No?
Yes sorry that wasn't very clear was it? Shostakovich was labeled a big sellout from the jump. Prokofiev fled Russia in 1917 right as the shit was hitting the fan and Stravinsky wasn't far behind him. Shostakovich never left and played ball with Stalin the whole time. Very compromised. Prokofiev got a pass because he fled to Paris, then the US (same as Stravinsky) and renounced Stalin and communism. There was a very interesting play about Shostakovich and his struggles and anguish of trying to be an artist and agreeing to censorship at the same time entitled, The Noise of Time by one of my favorite theater companies (based in London) Theatre de Complicite, which I was lucky enough to see at Lincoln Center about 20 years ago.
thank you for posting this. I was immersed in Semana Santa in 1963, an overwhelming, incredibly powerful, awe-inducing sensory and spiritual thrill. the night was so dark in Malaga, the candles so bright, the crowd so... like a bunch of bees. wine was drunk from leather bags... it was the greatest theater, hallucinatory, dreamy, gorgeous, and eerie in a profound way. no wonder I still put my faith in Our Lady.
For me, it's the music. Sacred music stands as a bastion against the cold banality of spiritually devoid 'Order'.
Thank you for sharing the depth of communal health.
Absolutely gorgeous ceremony and music.
Don't want to be a downer but yesterday I met my friend outside of her church in lower Manhattan. We were walking on the periphery of Battery Park and suddenly I was thrown onto the ground. Two Latin American migrants were fighting and had crashed into me. I wasn't hurt (only a slightly scraped knee) but the fight continued and another broke out. There were migrant children underfoot. Then a migrant woman attacked another with a baby on her back and overturned the cart of cut fruit and snacks she was selling.
Not sure but it appeared to be a pathetic turf war to control the sales spot. God help New York City. They brought in so many desperate people and just let them loose on the streets.
I also just saw that Pro-Palestinian protesters were arrested in Saint Patricks Cathedral for disturbing the Easter service.
https://youtu.be/ZDbuoJj_D6o?si=D_97dxpHH36iu9fc
Good heavens, Cosima, I'm so sorry. I'm glad you are alright, bit how awful. I hope you can get the event out of your nervous system.
Two incidents of desperate people making enemies of the locals, dare I say Indigenes? The difference would be in the level of consciousness. The fruit sellers would be oblivious to the political ramifications of their disturbance. The pro-Palestinians would be hyper conscious. They chose the time and place for maximum publicity. This reflects the blind side of liberal protest. It alienates both the immediate and mediated audiences. Do they really think their disruption of a different religion's important ceremony will shame Catholics into action that helps their cause? No, they're not thinking at all. Actually, let me take a step back. Who are these 3 perps? I'm assuming they're irate American Muslims, but given the shameless chutzpah, probably they're not.
Yes, it's beautiful.
The full show includes the smell, and feeling the music with the full body, and watching the faces of people who lower their guard for a few minutes, pierced by sentiment.
I've been thinking about this. I know, hard to believe.
For the past five hundred years, since Protestantism began according to official History, there was an artificial aesthetic separation between people.
One side took all the images and ornaments for itself, and the other side rejected it and focused on the individual.
Protestant worship demands more imagination and concentration because there are no tangible referents. Perhaps it's easier for people to avoid Christianity because of that extra effort that is demanded from the individual.
Catholic worship is very stratified and collective. There are many parts to it and many tasks for those who participate. The bulk of people don't participate much because they are supposed to be passive. I think this passivity is a new thing from the 1960s.
There is a weird mix nowadays, which is the catholicized version of protestant American sects that exist in Spain. These are mostly inspired by Latin American music. That's the Catholic influence: Hispanic people cannot do without the noise and the color everywhere. Austerity BAD!
The very few "true" protestants in Spain prefer to emulate the traditional and more intimate religious expressions that came from Europe. They do their own thing and no one sees.
Of the Orthodox I know they also like shiny things, but it seems they are like the Protestants in that they demand active participation from the mind of each individual that attends the worship. There is no collective without individuals coming together. I think the Catholics exclude most people because of the trend of the professionalization and compartmentalization of everything. Those are a 19 and a 20 letters-long words that should not even exist and are painful to write.
In Zaragoza, where I am, it hardly rains. Almost all processions were out. It rained on Tuesday and a little on Friday. But the Semana Santa here has less brass instruments than in Granada. However, the municipal band of music sometimes likes to make a musical joke. One year I heard that band playing "Blowin' in the wind" by Dylan, as an image of Jesus carrying his cross was passing, the shoulders of 20 people below. What has that song to do with Jesus? The sixties were so crazy, man!
Zaragoza? I must look this place up. Do you mean most processions were canceled even though it did not rain much? The deep state EU BETTER not be messing with Semana Santa, though of course they must be. Semana Santa must be a big problem for them. One of the reasons I am so enthusiastic about Semana Santa, it's so very anti modernity and anti-EU, anti- rationalist….I love it.
Now that you mention rationalism, yes, it has many problems and it has been the most criticized philosophy of all time, but the Spanish variant of rationalism is being completely ignored by the European academics. The famous philosopher Ortega wrote about it and called it theory of vital reason, or ratiovitalism. Which, like all other forms of rationalism is incomplete, but takes into account the critiques to that harsh ultra-materialist view of biology that was so common in British philosophy, which has been behind all the scientific fiascos.
The vitalism idea, which is another scientific and philosophical heresy, can be simply stated as the view that there is something else, and whatever it is it cannot be reduced to chemical reactions.
The union of rational metaphysics and this despised vitalist principle is essential to understand why Spain has never been nation of scientists and inventors, but of saints and poets.
And I add that this view spills over to all other Hispanic nations in the World.
Even then French are inspired by this philosophy, if we consider the views of Bechamp and Naessens' "somatid" theory.
I think it was optional to go out or to suspend the procession.
On thursday I wento to see one but they canceled because of the (light) rain, but other Brotherhood about 800 meters to the northeast from where I was decided to do the procession anyway. Here is a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qa1IrjPXp_Y
Around 06:55 the band plays the national anthem (a bit out of tune, but anyway). Most processions start and end with the national anthem, I don't know why. Perhaps because Zaragoza is a city with the main Military academy of Spain.
Of course, the globalists hate Semana Santa. They try to take over and supress anything that is popular and traditional. In "the new order of barbarians" the speaker comments that when they get the Catholic church the whole of Christianity would fall apart, because it's the biggest church. It's clearly a target, but it's resisting pretty well the commie Pope and all the other attacks.
Very interesting music! Right away I thought of the Spanish composer, Manuel De Falla (Three Cornered Hat) but then when the high trumpets entered it shifted into something very cinematic and oddly like marching band music which is because it's mostly brass (though I think I hear some saxophone in there) and percussion. So most film composers liberally poach from the great composers and it's often from the romantic period as I think they think that's more palatable for the collective. For instance the first Superman movie with Christopher Reeves, soundtrack by John Williams was 75% Death and Transfiguration by Richard Strauss. So who is this quasi modern sound borrowed from? I couldn't hear it at first then it struck me - Handel. The famous German baroque composer who made his fame and fortune in London (the only foreigner buried at Westminster!) and from his Royal Fireworks music. That's my take on this anyway, for what it's worth.
Thank you for this breakdown and interpretation, Rick. I was hoping for exactly this kind of interpretation. Handel, yes. Are there other brass instruments besides trumpets or is it all trumpets?
Oh yes. Definitely trombones and tubas or more likely sousaphones which are common in marching bands. And possibly a few euphoniums or small tenor tubas. But trumpets are predominant here. This music also made me think of that song Fleetwood Mac did many years ago from Tusk. I think it was called Dance which utilized a very large marching band.
I've seen saxophones and clarinets and even even oboes or bassoons.
It's possible that this music is new. It sounds very cinematic. The older style of music was a bit different.
There was a Russian composer from the 1920s whose name I can't remember. He is credited with being the main inspiration of all Hollywood style of music. Do you know his name? There is an argument that the music of Star Wars comes from that Russian guy, which is hilarious if you think about it: the musicians were anticipating the final movements of the Cold War long before the WWII started.
I didn't know that Williams was so brazenly copying music from that period, but it doesn't surprise me.
Could be Dunaevsky, the most tuneful of Stalin´s composers; his Soviet film scores were unforgettable. It all loops back to the Pale, Ukraine, Kharkov, even Odessa. http://odessareview.com/isaak-dunayevsky-red-mozart-soviet-cinema/
Thanks for that, I will investigate. But I've looked it up and I was wrong: it was a British composser not a Russian composser. Gustav Holst. The Planets suite from 1917. Everything in that symphony is Hollywood music. All the movies copy compasses from it. Cleopatra, Lawrence of Arabia, Gone with the Wind, Star Wars, Gladiator. It's shameless! LOL!
And "The Planets" sounds also like the music of the that Procession of Semana Santa in this post.
It's quite something. youtu.be/Isic2Z2e2xs
I insist, it would have been funnier if the composser of all Hollywood scores was a Russian.
Yeah I'll buy that. John Williams, Hans Zimmer, Bernard Hermann and many others have copped tons of stuff from the Planets and then mildly rearranged it to make it their own. Good catch!
Yes, astute analysis. I heard that too. I like how you unpack the layers of influences.
Thanks! There's another interesting story about Handel of which I learned recently - the apartment he lived in for most of his time in London was also the very same apartment where another musical superstar (and non Brit) lived about 250 years later - Jimi Hendrix!
Though religious ceremonies appeal to the senses and human spirit, it is our soul and divine spirit that needs nuturing. Rain or no rain.😀 In the Bible rain is associated with blessings coming from Him.
Thank you for sending the beautiful vibrations. Started here and ended with Stairway to Heaven. Bliss.
That's not a "proclamation". That's a Marxist Democrat campaign speech. Of course, Joe's speech writers had to write it down and publish it because Joe could've never gotten through all those "big words". 🙄
Speaking of Teresa (Pelerine), for some reason her substack has disappeared from my inbox and I'm unable to locate any of her posts. The last one I received from her was March 8 re: Candace Owens, but searching substack it seems that post and others have disappeared completely. No trace. What's up?
I guess the depressing reality is that they are cutting into certain Substacks with this kind of interference. Can you re-subscribe?
I'm missing her too!
Since the posts arrived to me via email, I very rarely went to her substack so I'm not even sure what name she went under; are you able to click on her actual site? Substack's search is worthless.
She seems to have disappeared.
Has substack kicked her out?
No response from pelerine.substack.com
I knew I was missing something.
I hope she's fine.
That's it; thanks for confirming. I hope she's okay too.
She is ok, I will alert her to these comments. and let me go have a look...
First the sacred and now the profane: It's kind of like Mardi Gras in Rio . . . . . . . only different :- )
I could definitely see where it would not be as enjoyable if it was raining.
Truthfully, I did not give the transgender day announcement much thought. I had been trying to figure out why March 31 was listed as Easter when my calendar also indicated that pass over began on April 22 at sundown. Easter always follows pass over (the second Sunday after pass over begins).
Yes I agree totally. Probably you're thinking of Sergei Prokofiev who's greatest cinematic score was Alexander Nevsky and also wrote a handful of other film scores including Lt. Kije, one of my favorite pieces ever! But also Shostakovich who was born a bit later did over 25 film scores - none of them really known here. He was influenced by Stravinsky who disliked Shostakovich immensely and Prokofiev. Bit of a sellout to Stalin's propaganda censorship.
Which one? Sellout. Shostakovich or Prokofiev or both. I always understood Prokofiev to be way more sellout. Whereas I was under the impression Shostakovich walked all kinds of lines, struck deals, but was not exactly a sellout, if one considers the impossible choices. No choices. I try to be a little bit understanding. Shostakovich was terrorized and terrified etc. We simply can not imagine the conditions they were under. No?
Yes sorry that wasn't very clear was it? Shostakovich was labeled a big sellout from the jump. Prokofiev fled Russia in 1917 right as the shit was hitting the fan and Stravinsky wasn't far behind him. Shostakovich never left and played ball with Stalin the whole time. Very compromised. Prokofiev got a pass because he fled to Paris, then the US (same as Stravinsky) and renounced Stalin and communism. There was a very interesting play about Shostakovich and his struggles and anguish of trying to be an artist and agreeing to censorship at the same time entitled, The Noise of Time by one of my favorite theater companies (based in London) Theatre de Complicite, which I was lucky enough to see at Lincoln Center about 20 years ago.
thank you for posting this. I was immersed in Semana Santa in 1963, an overwhelming, incredibly powerful, awe-inducing sensory and spiritual thrill. the night was so dark in Malaga, the candles so bright, the crowd so... like a bunch of bees. wine was drunk from leather bags... it was the greatest theater, hallucinatory, dreamy, gorgeous, and eerie in a profound way. no wonder I still put my faith in Our Lady.