Dear Zazie, Here is today’s Lovers’ Chronicle from Mac Tag dedicated to his muse. Follow us on twitter @cowboycoleridge. Who did you see today? Did you see the one? Rhett
The Lovers’ Chronicle
Dear Muse,
dream on…
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as in every pretty face
mere reflections of you
always stop to notice
in every shape and form
the images that seize
content to follow
this imagination
wherever it may lead
try to imagine
another other
way to be
but temptation
no longer pulls
as it did
so welcome
to this vision
glad you are here
saddle up
and enjoy the ride
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“Time may get longer
or shorter—such is time.
Always inconsistent,
but imagine
hope getting closer.”
imagine,
oh i imagine…
your eyes, your smile
and your hands
i so enjoyed
sketchin’ your hands
hands that quelled
my waywardness
imagine…
the passion sown
the crescendos reaped
imagine you say
it is all i do
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Saw Her Today
He saw her today
But she was not near
Yet, he saw her
He saw her everywhere
Every pretty face
A reflection of her
Every beautiful woman
A mere reflection of her
He always stopped to notice
Beauty in all it’s shapes and forms
Whether a beautiful woman,
A painting, an aria,
A rose, a sonnet
Or the stars at night;
He stopped to wonder
At the beauty before him
Admirin’ whatever form
Beauty took to seize and grip
His attention, he would smile,
For his mind would grasp the beauty
And his thoughts would turn to her
The various images
Of her that he cherished
Would dance through his mind
Then his thoughts would turn to the hope
That he held in his heart
That kept him goin’
That he would see her again
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The Song of the Day is “Saw Her Today” by The Stairs.
Euridice painting by Pólya Tibor
On this day in 1600 – Jacopo Peri’s Euridice receives its première performance in Florence, signifying the beginning of the Baroque period. Euridice (also Erudice or Eurydice) is an opera with additional music by Giulio Caccini. It is the earliest surviving opera, Peri’s earlier Dafne being lost. (Caccini wrote his own “Euridice” even as he supplied music to Peri’s opera, published this version before Peri’s was performed, in 1600, and got it staged two years later.) The libretto by Ottavio Rinuccini is based on books X and XI of Ovid’s Metamorphoses which recount the story of the legendary musician Orpheus and his wife Euridice. The opera was first performed at the Palazzo Pitti with Peri himself singing the role of Orfeo. Peri’s Euridice tells the story of the musician Orpheus and Euridice from Greek Mythology. According to myth, Orpheus was a great musician who journeyed to the underworld to plead with the gods to revive his wife Euridice after she had been fatally injured.
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Today is the birthday of Jenny Lind (Johanna Maria Lind; Stockholm, 6 October 1820 – 2 November 1887 Wynd’s Point, Herefordshire); opera singer, often called the “Swedish Nightingale”. One of the most highly regarded singers of the 19th century, she performed in soprano roles in opera in Sweden and across Europe, and undertook a popular concert tour of the United States beginning in 1850. She was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music from 1840.
Lind became famous after her performance in Der Freischütz in Sweden in 1838. Within a few years, she had suffered vocal damage, but the singing teacher Manuel García saved her voice. She was in great demand in opera roles throughout Sweden and northern Europe during the 1840s, and was closely associated with Felix Mendelssohn. After two acclaimed seasons in London, she announced her retirement from opera at the age of 29.
In 1850, Lind went to America at the invitation of the showman P. T. Barnum. She gave 93 large-scale concerts for him and then continued to tour under her own management. She earned more than $350,000 from these concerts, donating the proceeds to charities, principally the endowment of free schools in Sweden. With her new husband, Otto Goldschmidt, she returned to Europe in 1852, where she had three children and gave occasional concerts over the next two decades, settling in England in 1855. From 1882, for some years, she was a professor of singing at the Royal College of Music in London.
And today is the birthday of Frank Sutcliffe (Francis Meadow Sutcliffe; 6 October 1853 Headingley, Leeds, England – 31 May 1941 Sleights, North Yorkshire, England); pioneering photographic artist whose work presented an enduring record of life in the seaside town of Whitby, England, and surrounding areas, in the late Victorian era and early 20th century. His documentation of the Victorian and Edwardian periods in Whitby, led him to be labelled as the “pictorial Boswell of Whitby.
He married Eliza Weatherill Duck, the daughter of a local bootmaker, on 1 January 1875 and had a son and three daughters at his home in Sleights. He was buried in Aislaby churchyard.
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Portrait of Polly Swallow, c. 1889
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