Fun idea, Karen! Really well done in Photoshop!

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Mary

Hi Mary
Don't know how much you have seen , But there is a lot here and the videos are great did you see the children singing.lots of information on light houses, gosple singing about the light house. Mary I can go so many ways with this just to day I put a return stamp on my letter and it had light houses on it,so they are all over. did you read where in the early days when they did not have light house they build bone fires. in the high rocks to warm ships.please if you get a chance to don't miss any of it .it is not just light house but lots of things informing us.

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“Hvorfor, o sig, Gud, hvorfor!”

June 5, 2010 at 7:09 pm | Posted in Music, Opera, Television, youtube | Leave a Comment

At the Lighthouse Trivia: Teenage!Marie used to watch this clip over and over in her teenage room, while writing in her diary about boys she liked and how worried she was about her upcoming history exam:

It’s “Vissi d’arte” from an old Danish television version of Tosca which, sadly, has never been released on DVD. The clip was featured on TV once in the year 2000 or 2001, and I managed to record it on my VCR and, yes, almost wore out the tape subsequently from watching it.

I still think it’s a great “Vissi d’arte”, worthy of international recognition, if you can overlook the fact that it’s in Danish – back in the 1960s, it was still the norm in Denmark to perform all operas in translated versions. Lone Koppel is a beautiful Tosca with a powerful voice, I like her toned-down interpretation of the part, and we also get a glimpse of Ib Hansen who portrayed Scarpia in this version (teaching us that Scarpia is a 1 sugar cube/no creamer kind of guy at 1:37!).

And I have to say that I actually also kind of like the translation. Sure, the aria is translated a little too freely, and it seems kind of weird to me that they’ve failed to include Tosca’s declaration that she has “lived for art, lived for love”. And of course it’s a good thing that operas are now being produced in their original language – anything else would be ridiculous in the globalized world d’aujor d’hui. But there is something powerful about hearing this heartbreaking aria in my own native tongue, I can’t deny that. The “Hvorfor” (“Why”) seems especially moving to me, and I like it that it’s this word that Tosca gets to sing when she sings her high note, in stead of the usual “signor!”.

Here is a translated version of the translated aria:

Life generously brought me happiness
I let all things living into my heart
Whenever it was possible for me
I soothed people’s pain
Often I was driven to you, o Lord,
I laid flowers down at your feet,
Mercifully you heard my prayes,
You were always kind to me then.
My soul is sick to death
O save me, God, from this dread
Why, my God, have I deserved this punishment?
I will give everything I have to madonna’s honour
So that my pious songs may carry lost souls to heaven
In this hour of pain
Why, o tell me, God, why!
Why this punishment, my God? Why?

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Click on this website: heradioblog.marthastewart.com/ 2009/12/move-o... to see a short video on how they made the lighthouse and close-up photos of different parts of the lighthouse.

Then click on the return to last page button up by the brower to return here.

I Love this painting! It is so typical of Keith's work,....illuminating and yet reflective too!
Beautiful Beautiful Beautiful!

Thanks!

Steve Hall