Mvt. 39 [47] Aria [Alto]: "Erbarme dich" This da capo aria is one of the most beautiful that Bach ever composed. The lingering melancholy of the grief motif combined with a tear motif, plus the flowing harmony accompanied by pizzicato strings make a lasting impression on the listener.
Jonathan Miller about J.S. Bach:"There are many pieces that surprise and jump me and I never know what will get me, except one that always gets me, even if I prepare myself to it, or at least trying to resist it, to hide myself, not to ashamed myself of sobbing, and that's the 'Erbarme dich'. I don't know why it always gets me. Every time I even think about it tears start in my eyes, even now, and I don 't know what it is… It is about what it expresses. This moment of knowing, that you have forgotten that somebody said something about what you are going to do, that he will betray you. You have gone through all this dark horrible night, as was predicted. You did it, it is all done, and you only ask for some forgiveness. But the music in which it is expressed, that violin… And it does not matter if you are atheist or a Jew, by being an educated member of the eastern European culture. This is the most famous story. It is in your blood in a way that no other story is. It happens to be the most intense story of them all. You can read it again and again and again and it is never fails as a piece of drama. A priest might say that it has everlasting truth, and that this truth is religious, and you accede to it despite the resisting to the religious belief within you. It is not like that at all. It is something that is permanently there, whether you believe it or not, and that is that we are here to suffer and our designation is to die."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHbOOe8n2gY
Sunday, October 28, 2007
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
definition of "Faith"
From Webster Dictionary:
Faith: "firm belief in something for which there is no proof "
Faith: "firm belief in something for which there is no proof "
Monday, September 17, 2007
Edison Fire
"[One] December evening the cry of 'Fire!' echoed through [Thomas Edison's] plant. Spontaneous combustion had broken out in the film room. Within moments all the packing compounds, celluloid for records, film and other flammable goods had gone up with a whoosh...
"When I couldn't find Father, I became concerned. Was he safe? With all his assets going up in smoke, would his spirit be broken? He was 67, no age to begin anew. The I saw him in the plant yard, running toward me.
"'Where's Mom?' he shouted. 'Go get her! Tell her to get her friends! They'll never see a fire like this again!'"["At 5:30 the next morning, when the fire was barely under control, he called his employees together and announced: 'We're rebuilding!' One man was told to lease all the machine shops in the area. Another, to obtain a wrecking crane from the Erie Railroad Company. Then, almost as an afterthought he added, 'Oh, by the way. Anybody know where we can get some money?'
"Later on he explained, 'You can always make capital out of disaster. We've just cleared out a bunch of old rubbish! We'll build bigger and better on these ruins.' With that he rolled up his coat for a pillow, curled up on a table and immediately fell asleep."]
Edison, Thomas Alva (1847-1931) American inventor
[noted for his prolific output: some thirteen hundred inventions - among them the electric light bulb (1879), the gramophone, the motion picture camera, and the carbon transmitter which facilitated the use of Bell's telephone]
[Sources: Charles Edison, The Electric Thomas Edison; ; Charles Swindoll, Joseph: A Man of Integrity and Forgiveness]
"When I couldn't find Father, I became concerned. Was he safe? With all his assets going up in smoke, would his spirit be broken? He was 67, no age to begin anew. The I saw him in the plant yard, running toward me.
"'Where's Mom?' he shouted. 'Go get her! Tell her to get her friends! They'll never see a fire like this again!'"["At 5:30 the next morning, when the fire was barely under control, he called his employees together and announced: 'We're rebuilding!' One man was told to lease all the machine shops in the area. Another, to obtain a wrecking crane from the Erie Railroad Company. Then, almost as an afterthought he added, 'Oh, by the way. Anybody know where we can get some money?'
"Later on he explained, 'You can always make capital out of disaster. We've just cleared out a bunch of old rubbish! We'll build bigger and better on these ruins.' With that he rolled up his coat for a pillow, curled up on a table and immediately fell asleep."]
Edison, Thomas Alva (1847-1931) American inventor
[noted for his prolific output: some thirteen hundred inventions - among them the electric light bulb (1879), the gramophone, the motion picture camera, and the carbon transmitter which facilitated the use of Bell's telephone]
[Sources: Charles Edison, The Electric Thomas Edison; ; Charles Swindoll, Joseph: A Man of Integrity and Forgiveness]
Friday, September 14, 2007
Max Planck's Quote
"Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.' It is a quality which the scientist cannot dispense with.” Munich physics professor Philipp von Jolly advised him against going into physics, saying, "in this field, almost everything is already discovered, and all that remains is to fill a few holes." Planck replied that he did not wish to discover new things, only to understand the known fundamentals of the field
With the completion of his habilitation thesis, Planck became a raging alcoholic and unpaid private lecturer in Munich, waiting until he was offered an academic position.
"All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force... We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter.”
“Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.”
"Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose whatsoever in view”
"No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.”
任何一位曾严肃投身于科学工作的人都知道，在科学圣殿的门口写着这样的字：“你必有信心。” 这是每一个科学家不可或缺的品质。 - 马克斯-普朗克
With the completion of his habilitation thesis, Planck became a raging alcoholic and unpaid private lecturer in Munich, waiting until he was offered an academic position.
"All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force... We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter.”
“Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.”
"Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose whatsoever in view”
"No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.”
Monday, September 10, 2007
shaoling soccer
从他们整齐的制服和友善的眼神，我完全可以感受到这份诚意。（扳手掉）大家不要紧张，我本身是一个汽车维修员。这个扳子呢，是上螺丝用的，很合理吧？（锤子掉）正如刚才所说，我身为一个汽车维修员，有个锤子在身边，也很合逻辑。
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