tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post5396214490164372512..comments2024-03-19T07:48:54.021-06:00Comments on Gus Van Horn: Friday HodgepodgeGus Van Hornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05126749051688217781noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-91805254860394983612021-04-13T06:54:24.450-06:002021-04-13T06:54:24.450-06:00For the curious: Here's Lee's bio.For the curious: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Oboe_Lee" rel="nofollow">Here</a>'s Lee's bio.Gus Van Hornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05126749051688217781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-28656937535237675462021-04-12T22:07:33.574-06:002021-04-12T22:07:33.574-06:00Yo, Gus, this is a curiosity (though a well-writte...Yo, Gus, <i>this</i> is a curiosity (though a well-written one) that has just been released, a <a href="https://thomasoboelee.bandcamp.com/album/de-mundi-systemate-2021" rel="nofollow">setting</a> for tenor and piano of portions of Newton's <i>Principia</i>, retaining the original Latin. (Next he needs to do the <i>Optics</i> so those poor chaps without Latin can enjoy it.) The composer, Thomas Oboe Lee, is a talented Chinese-Brazilian-American fellow who writes large amounts of music (all recorded and released on Bandcamp, many in performances by music students at his university) in one of the modern styles I like best.Snedcatnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-71423336450297847522021-04-10T17:40:43.865-06:002021-04-10T17:40:43.865-06:00Thanks for the links and the bit of history about ...Thanks for the links and the bit of history about Guam.<br /><br />Will be enjoying the links a bit later. It's Mexican night and the food has arrived...Gus Van Hornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05126749051688217781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-34396020390050117302021-04-10T13:45:05.797-06:002021-04-10T13:45:05.797-06:00Yo, Gus, a couple of recent interesting things I&#...Yo, Gus, a couple of recent interesting things I've encountered. First, <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/newdivinecomedy/la-divina-commedia-the-new-manuscript" rel="nofollow">this</a> is a Kickstarter campaign for a hand-lettered and fully illustrated edition of Dante's <i>Divine Comedy</i> just in time for the 700th anniversary of his death. Quite attractive!<br /><br />Second, it's not as good as some of their other offerings, but the OC ska group Half Past Two that I told you about before has started a series of acoustic covers every Friday for a month, and the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogrqlNwE8Bw" rel="nofollow">first one</a> is enjoyable (I like the range of instruments the guitarist uses).<br /><br />Finally, Guam has its own <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIeBxm7xMm8" rel="nofollow">anthem</a>, in both English and Chamorro versions (the English came first). It's interesting to see how much Spanish vocabulary there is in Chamorro (not surprising considering that they were a Spanish colony for two centuries before the Spanish-American War), but the grammar and most of the basic vocabulary remains largely Austronesian. (One curiosity resulting from Spanish colonization is that during World War II, the Japanese sought to secure the obedience of the former Spanish colonies it captured by taking strong control of the hierarchy based in Manila, which Guam and other islands were subordinate to, using the more deliquescently spined of the Japanese Catholic clergy. It <a href="https://www.guampedia.com/father-jesus-baza-duenas-2/" rel="nofollow">didn't really work</a>. (As one example, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKT7-3-Z9CQ&t=148s" rel="nofollow">this</a> is a song you might just possibly have heard because Pete Seeger sang it; Guamanians used to sing the earlier version in English as a protest against Japanese occupation, while that link is to the version celebrating the return of the US. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0pvLFGAyEo&t=2s" rel="nofollow">This</a> is a more recent version protesting other things.)Snedcatnoreply@blogger.com