Today’s Rhapsody is Alan Hovhaness‘ third Armenian Rhapsody, Fantastic Waltz, for two pianos
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Recently one of my regular Sunday afternoon activities has been to bike down the Burke-Gilman Trail and check out the Markets in Fremont and Ballard.
I’m finding myself enjoying the Ballard Farmer’s Market the most. I like all of the Farmer’s Markets in Seattle but set in the middle of historic old Ballard this one feels like traditional market day in a european town. (something they make a point of putting in their advertising) It is a fantastic place to go people watching.
Based on that it is almost embarrassing that it only occurred to me to bring my sketchbook there for the first time last week.
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With all of the other storylines going on I’m embarrassed to say I neglected the 2012 election entirely. I’m happy to Report that President Elizabeth R. Dudley won her second term in a landslide.
In today’s Rhapsody we finish off Hugo Alfven‘s selection of Swedish Rhapsodies with his third, the Andante (Dalecarlian rhapsody) Op.47. I rather like this one the beginning has a nice slow almost subliminal quality that reminds me very much of Wagner‘s overture to Das Rheingold.
Feel free to go back and enjoy the Midsummer Rhapsody and the Uppsala Rhapsody
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uFuN3D3xhI&feature=share&list=PL66E7242453F9E91D
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Today’s sketch is from the Seattle Asian Art Museum’s collection. It is an earthenware horse from the Tang Dynasty
(618-907)
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Well I just got the first trick or treater of the night. (Well technically my second but I’m not sure if the first one counts as the first one was my next door neighbor’s daughter and they were heading out at 4:30)
I’ve always loved Halloween. Me and my friends used to plan our trick or treating routes with a precision that would rival modern campaigns. When my dad put a moratorium on trick or treating when I was thirteen I moved my creative energies into helping and later running the haunted house at the Providence Athenaeum‘s annual Halloween party (The last year I did it I was even paid for it)
Regretably while I like being in the mood I haven’t really observed the holiday to make matters worse I really haven’t gotten that many trick or treaters which surprised me since I live on a fairly well populated street that is a fairly busy arterial (I assume it’s why I get three denominations of evangelists on a regular basis) Any way I’d observe all of the rituals but for them most part it was just an excuse to buy bulk candy. Last year was different. I had put up a Jack o Lantern out and much to my surprise I suddenly started getting a steady stream of trick or treaters. It hit me that it wasn’t a case of the tradition of trick or treating was dying out (it probably still is but that’s a different story) It was a case of the Jack O Lantern being a signal saying this guy is in on it come knock on the door.”
So anyway here I am again with a damn good Pumpkin and hoping for a repeat. (I better since I bought way too much candy for my usual binge.)
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