19 August 2005

- Friday Shuffle -

California Girls (Beach Boys)
Express Yourself (Madonna)
I Must Have That Man (Billie Holiday)
Pink on the Inside (Sarah Hickman)
The Name of the Game (Abba)
Two-Faced Woman (India Adams, The Band Wagon)
Every Little Thing She Does (The Police)
Paradise Hotel (Eliza Gilkyson)
Boplicity (Miles Davis)
Beethoven, op. 135, III

Daybreak

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Here [in Fidelio] and nowhere else music becomes a rosy dawn, militant religious, the dawning of a new day so audible that it seems more than simply hope. It shines forth as the pure work of Man, as one which had not appeared in the world surrounding Beethoven, a world that existed irrespective of men. Thus music as a whole stands at the farther limits of humanity, but at those limits where humanity, with new langauge and haloed by the call to achieved intensity, to the attained world of "we," is first taking shape. And this ordering in our musical expression means a house, indeed a crystal, but one derived from our future freedom: a star, but one that will be a new Earth.

—Ernst Bloch
The Principle of Hope