Combining public and personal perceptions. (Peter Dizozza)
Friday, July 07, 2023
Lambs Songwriters Salon March 20, 2023 - Like a Bridge Over Troubled Water
Song by
Paul Simon Bridge Over Troubled Water
Coren highlighted it was not a love song but a song of friendship, of a friend who is there for you.
Three Verses more and more elevated to the level of God (Art Garfunkel) singing to us
The regular irregularity of it is in the groups of 8 followed by one group of 4 -- I'll take your (4)|Part, and I will ease your (4)|Mind.
Sage Buchalter Kind to Me
Jason Trachtenberg: Look At This Amazing Set-Up
Coren Rhodes - Dodger's Dilemma (after Punky's Dilemma)
Stephen Friedland (Brute Force) - Let's Put Them All Together Now
Name of Song presenter: James Walker Reid,
Name of Song: “Little Star”
Peter Dizozza To a Mallow Marsh
Susan Horowitz, aka Dr. Sue
Name of Song: “Rainbow to Oz”
Name of Musical: Rainbow to Oz www.drsue.com/rainbow
The Title of Paul Simon's third solo album, following his five as Simon and Garfunkel, is Still Crazy After All These Years. I question that title as a declaration. Paul Simon was crazy with Garfunkel. His emotional volatility became less apparent to me thereafter, and I further suggest that it made for a long happy life for both of them. From a therapist's point of view the two of them were better off apart, but look at the difference in the material. What I am suggesting with my own love of melodrama is that their collaboration produced sparks, which I missed after the breakup. Paul Simon will always be a radical songwriter but his gentleness offsets his complexity with a soothing spell. I find myself blissfully productive with his music in the background.
Perhaps even before David Byrne, Paul Simon is responsible for the introduction to the pop world of World Music.
The inspiration he draws from it results in new material created within the musical energies of other cultures.
Another factor in his music is lyrical. He creates music with words.
The song, Love Me Like a Rock is A direct example of a ground floor creation on top of a style of writing. As usual he achieves that song with three versus gaining momentum. The size of the singer increases, the third verse being that he is President.
He is producing a song about the Rock of Ages. Is it an original idea to say that one's mother loves one like a rock? The possible parallel song of David Byrne is called Pull Me Up, where, even after he is up the people who love him? pull him up.
These songs are slightly histrionic. I guess a parallel with David Byrne launches us into the history of histrionics. Unlike David Byrne whose histrionics is built in, the source of Paul Simon's histrionics is Art Garfunkel.
Art Garfunkel sang like he meant it.
Paul Simon does mean to sing what he sings.
Ivan the Terrible behaves reasonably under the circumstances of the intrigue surrounding him
Eisenstein spread throughout the 90 minutes of his Ivan the Terrible Part 2 a single instance of conflict between members of Ivan's own family, disapproving his beholding of himself to his people, the populace, though the people's call for him is the reason he is Tsar. He verbalizes respect for his family and orders that no one take action against them. Rather he turns the action they take against him into their own punishment. And much of this occurs in color, agfa color taken from the Germans, though processed with Russian chemistry. It is a red oddity segment with song and dance music by Prokofiev. It follows the religious black and white chorus of a pageant chastising the ruler of Russia for placing himself above a God that would constrict his dedication to the people. He appears to behave erratically, but he really is alone and needs to maintain his position, which is, after all, given to him by the people. He is a public servant.
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