The main theme from Ennio Morriconne's brilliant score to the 1985 film...
This will be my last blog post.
When I wrote recently that this blog had another seven years of life in it I was trying to convince myself that it was true. It was in fact a little bit of self delusion.
With almost 3,000 posts to date I have accomplished what I set out to do which was to heal myself and in the process share some of the struggle I had been through with others on the chance they might find some value in my words. After seven years of writing, my life still isn't perfect; no one's is. But I have discovered a path forward completely free of the trappings which society would have had me adopt so I could fit in.
Over the last 25 years of my life I have turned over every stone I could find while exploring this topic and in the process realized that we haven't even begun to scratch the surface of this deeply complex subject. What I have ultimately learned is that my instincts have more value than what someone who isn't gender dysphoric writes about me. We are …
When I wrote recently that this blog had another seven years of life in it I was trying to convince myself that it was true. It was in fact a little bit of self delusion.
With almost 3,000 posts to date I have accomplished what I set out to do which was to heal myself and in the process share some of the struggle I had been through with others on the chance they might find some value in my words. After seven years of writing, my life still isn't perfect; no one's is. But I have discovered a path forward completely free of the trappings which society would have had me adopt so I could fit in.
Over the last 25 years of my life I have turned over every stone I could find while exploring this topic and in the process realized that we haven't even begun to scratch the surface of this deeply complex subject. What I have ultimately learned is that my instincts have more value than what someone who isn't gender dysphoric writes about me. We are …
As an oboe player, I thank you! I never tire of hearing it played so beautifully.
ReplyDeleteMorricone proving once again that movie scores are the "classical music" of our time.
Its awesome isn't it Halle...
DeleteIndeed some of the best modern classical compositions are cinematic scores.
DeleteInterestingly enough, some beautiful scores can also be found behind video games as well, something about which I would never have learned without chatting with my teenage nephew. Having long eschewed the pop music that has enraptured his siblings, he was explained that he actually did enjoy music, just more what he heard while gaminq. I was fascinated and asked him to play for me some of what he was referencing. It was beautiful. The particular game he showed me had a score behind it that reminded me of Dvorak, some of whose symphonies I played for him. Next thing I know, he was on YouTube looking for Dvorak and other composers the algorithms suggested for him. He didn't know that what he liked was actually a serious genre.
Also, have either of you listened to any EDM (eletronic dance music) or Dubstep? Genres of "those kids today," much of which makes my middle aged ears bleed, they actually deserve some recognition as modern classical music, in my opinion. Consider, for instance, work of Lindsey Sterling, who fell in love with the violin as a child in the 1980s, and who now has substantial fanbase of millennials and younger generations with pieces like the following:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoK0603D6fk
(Perhaps a ray of hope for Joanna, whose concerns about the degradation of pop music are no secret?) 😀
I am too transparent 😀😀
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