Music: "Två elegiska melodier" Edvard Grieg Locations: Buffalo Ridge, Rice County Minnesota Camera: Canon GL-1 Editing software: Final Cut Pro, Adobe After Effects Compression software: Apple Compressor
This footage is VERY beautiful on a DVD. The losses from compressing to MP4 and then to a Flash file by Youtube have taken their toll.
Hope you folks can still enjoy it and understand why some of us are such fans of windpower. "Remember the I35W bridge--who needs terrorists when there are Republicans"
I'm thinking I may have used the wrong title. Why would it be called "two" melodies when it is clearly just one?
Anyway--I just love the melody. Pure 19th century Nordic romanticism. When I was 16, I was in a choir that sang this tune to words written by someone other than Grieg. It was perhaps the only number that choir did well.
Anyone here know the real story about this melody? I would certainly like to get it right after all these years. "Remember the I35W bridge--who needs terrorists when there are Republicans"
Source: Complete list of Griegs works at the Grieg Museum Troldhaugen (in norwegian). It is Op34, so scroll down a bit.
I discover the mp3 file I was using was recorded by the Stockholm Philharmonic (which explains the Swedish spelling). The word Våren is included in parenthesis so I assumed it was not part of the name but some Nordic musical notation.
I also remember the choral version I learned was called "The Last Spring" but since I always assume such texts are either bad translations or written by someone other than the composer, it was not useful information.
I find this sort of confusion quite embarrassing. My grandfather who immigrated from Sweden was fluent in four languages (Swedish, Polish, German, English). He had four years of formal education. I, with a university degree, can barely navigate in one language.
But what is not in question is that Grieg's little tune is so beautiful it can make grown men weep.
Thanks again. "Remember the I35W bridge--who needs terrorists when there are Republicans"
Polish? That is impressive. German and English are fairly easy for a swede, being germanic languages and all. But polish, yeah that is impressive.
What is true is that his language skills were first used in union organizing activities and later in Minnesota to help organize agricultural coops. I never found out if could ever write in Polish, but he could whip a crowd into a political frenzy in Polish. That may not fit the classic definition of "fluent" but it is close enough for me. His neighbor claimed he had a noticeable Swedish accent when he spoke Polish but that no one had trouble understanding him. "Remember the I35W bridge--who needs terrorists when there are Republicans"
A thought: more upbeat music than Grieg may make it more attractive on dkos? Our knowledge has surpassed our wisdom. --Charu Saxena.
--Sigh--
That had never crossed my mind.
We Nordics are a damn serious bunch. Last night, some friends and I were toasting the memory Ingmar Bergman. We agreed that he was historically important, a careful craftsman, an inspired intellect, and a treasure to the Nordic people. BUT...There were also suggestions that his topics were a bit frivolous. Read that again. Some Scandinavian Americans were suggesting that the director of Persona could have improved his moviemaking if only he had been MORE serious.
And no, we have NOT been fitting in very well during the age of Bush the Dim.
So what would you suggest? "Remember the I35W bridge--who needs terrorists when there are Republicans"
jes' kidding
being on die-lup, i can't see the video, so it's hard to say.
is there a link to the mp3 of the grieg? that i'd love to hear, even if it will be half an hour to d/load! The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it. Chinese Proverb.
